Thursday Evaluation

Today was the day we were preforming our living gallery pieces, alongside our big performance. as we were rehearsing all day for our main performance we were given half an hour at the end to work on our living galleries. unfortunately my partner and I were unable to print off optical illusions to be put around the room, so we decided that we would focus more on our physical movement and how we connect to portray our message across. when rehearsing we started off facing each other and because the light were off and there was light shining on us we clocked our shadows and we brought in an idea of using our shadows as well as physical movement to connect with the audience. we eventually created a 2 minute motif that we would repeat as our whole piece.

what went well...

I felt that our piece was a success and we were confident with our movements and the message we were giving off, surprisingly the times we were not facing each other we were in time with our movements. there were no mistakes that were made and I felt that my partner and I were completely focussed throughout, even when performing my partner and I felt a connection between us which echoed through the room and made our living gallery more stronger.

Even better if...

It would of been better if there were optical illusions all around so the audience members would have more to look at,I felt like it would  of been more intriguing to watch and the audience would of clasped the idea of what we were showing quicker. I would of also made our physical motif longer but because we didn't have a lot of time to have make it, it was quite short. The voice recording wasn't that loud because we weren't able to get a speaker so we played it through a laptop, but then again it came to our advantage because it was more engrossing because you could hear the sound of the water when we were putting it on our faces and the gentle drips of it when it left our faces.

Audience comments/ reactions
My partner and I were given back a lot of positive comments, commenting on our shadow use and how it pulled them in to want to know more about what we were portraying, there were more comments on physical movement saying how they saw our commitment and saw how focussed we were and they were able to understand our message and there was one comment about our recording saying that the poem we were reading was beautiful and it really connected with what we were doing and emphasised/ strengthened our performance.