Stage combat performance

Character Descriptions:

First character - The first character is Jessica, who finds fun in bullying the nerd of the school, Jane. She's filthy rich and lives in a huge mansion as an only child. Jessica is incredibly bratty and spoiled, who always has to get her way. Jessica detests Jane and is always bullying her for fun and to embarrass Jane in front of the whole school.Jessica has always made Jane feel horrible about herself by embarrassing her and spreading embarrassing rumors about her.

Second Character - The second character is Jane, she has been bullied for many years by Jessica her bully, she is also shy and has no friends, she is always lonely and is always shy to see or talk to anyone.She has been bullied for many years and is aching fro her revenge aginst her bully for many years.Jessica has been harassing Jane consistently and Jane has always been embarrassed and everyone makes fun of her for many years.Jessica always spread rumors about Jane which makes feel horrible about herself, Jane finally decided to stand up for Jessica so that she never bullies her again.

The Plot:

What happens in our performance is a simple scene between a popular girl in school and a nerd in the same school.The name of the popular girl is Jessica and the nerd is called Jane.In the beginning, the popular girl comes in with a new outfit. The nerd is then in the same room.The nerd then does not compliment the popular girl (Jessica) on her outfit, unlike the other people. So then the nerd is bullied by the popular girl.The popular girl then is enraged due to the reason that the nerd didn't compliment her and ignoring her outfit.The nerd is then enraged for beating her up and is tired of her being bullied.She then rages and proves the popular girl wrong by blocking all her beats.She then gains revenge over being bullied continuously and beats the popular girl up.

What do I think the performance will be like:

For our coming performance, I think that we might do quite well as we have practiced a lot and we were also able to fully memorize our script and our steps for the performance.A reason I thin we might do well as in all of our practices we were able to do all our steps correctly and also in the correct order without many struggles during our rehearsal.A second reason I think we might do well is that most of the steps that we completed seemed quite realistic and that we were also able to correctly do the knaps without many struggles and also we were able to use our acting techniques so that we would  be able to be our character .

Reflection

For this task I worked with a fellow student called Salma from the class.We had two characters, a bully, and a victim, our plot was the victim finally stand up for herself and to finally get revenge for all those years.Also, our performance was serious and not a comedy.After I have performed I feel like me and my partner has done very well for the task and that we were also able to successfully complete it.The first reason I believe we had done well is that we were able to do all the steps in the correct order, we were able to successfully complete all the steps and were also able to memorize them well enough that we did not forget any of the steps.Other than that I believe that most of our steps seemed realistic and actually seemed done with good technique.Another thing is that our knaps were done well that made the steps seem quite realistic  and also it made the quality of our performance even better.Meanwhile, we also practiced many times and we also practiced memorizing the steps so that we would be able to excel the steps and the knaps too.Another thing is that I believe that our acting skills were good in terms of our characters as we also practiced together a lot to be able to improve our acting and to also be able to be  our character instead of acting the character by practicing.

In this performance, me and my partner  have used several different techniques to perform the different steps and the plot we have planned.Some of the techniques we have used  are knaps, creativity, melodramatic movements , sound effects, facial expressions, hand gestures and whole-body gestures.For the knaps, we used this in the performance so that we can make the steps more realistic.For the creativity, we used it so that we would be able to create the plot.For the melodramatic movements, we used this technique so that we could exaggerate the effects after we slapped or punched.For the sound effects, we used it to act out the sound of pain as an effect of the steps that we did.For the facial expressions, we used that technique so that we could act the effects of the hits so that it seemed more realistic.For the hand gestures, we used them to make our hits and steps more realistic.For the whole body gestures, we used them to make the performance more realistic.

For the performance even though I think we did well but, I still think that they are some points that we could have improved on to make the performance even better.First of all, I think that next time we should try to make it comedy so then it would be easier for us to make a better and more creative plot.Second of all, I think that something we can improve is that maybe we can also improve on exaggerating the effects of the hits more  so that it would make the steps more realistic and the quality of the performance better.

In terms of the unit, I think I have learned many different things that I now know and am also capable of doing very well without a lot of trouble or struggles.Other than that I think that I have done fairly well in the previous tasks and that I was capable of learning and excelling many movements during the unit.Also, I think tat I have much more knowledge than I did before and I have also learned my new skills that I believe I am now able to do very well.Another thing is that I believe that my skills have improved much more after this unit and that my knowledge about stage combat has increased a lot through this unit.

To conclude I think that we were successfully able to complete the task and that we were able to memorize  the steps and do them well in the performance.Other than that, I think that I was able to do extremely well in stage combat and we were also capable of doing the techniques very well consistently throughout the performance.Also, I think I have learned a lot during this unit and that it was extremely beneficial.However, for the performance, I think that we could improve on some points to be able to make the performance even better.

Melodrama quiz

Melodrama quiz answers:

1.Melodrama developed in the 19th century 

2.The reason it was called melodrama was it was a play that was accompanied by music hence its name Melo - for music or melody and drama

3.Melodrama was popular because all their plays had amazing settings, music, exaggerated acting and encouraged audience interaction which made it popular.

4.They there segments of a melodrama plot are:

• Provocation - the reason for a setting action to become a motion

• Pangs - when a good or innocent person suffers a punishment

• Penalty - a plot twist or an unexpected ending 

• The hero- he is supposed to be handsome, brave, honest and reliable

• The heroine-she is supposed to be beautiful, courageous, innocent and vulnerable

• The villain-he or she is supposed to be cunning, without morals, dishonest, cruel and evil

5.Some pf the conflicting themes they would explore were: Jusirce vs. revenge, honesty vs. dishonesty, inncoence vs. corruption

6.Most of the charcaters were mostly steriotypically made 

7.The three stock charcters I have chosen are: 

8.The first difference is that the faithful servant is uaully male and provides comic relief, does the dirty work and finds evodence against the villain while the maid servant does non of these and is a female.

9.An aside is when a charcater directky speaks to the audience ot reveal a seceret or a plan that is kept from the rest of the charcter to be able to drag the audience's attention away from any other action on the sateg on focus on the charcter's seceret, the aside should also giveaway the feeling of secerecy towards the audience.

Stange Combat Stage Slap

Reflection:
This week we started a new unit, this unit is about stage combat, this is when we imitate actual fights but we do not actual do them instead we replace the effects of the hits using knaps.A knap is when you perform an action with your hands to imitate the exact sound of a type of it like a slap, a punch, an uppercut etc.The first move in stage combat that we learned was a slap.We learned the slap by practicing in different speeds with a partner.To learn this slap I worked with Rania, what we did to learn this was that we would have a dialogue and then I would slap here and she would show the reaction by knapping and then putting the suitable facial expressions.The steps that we learned for a slap were that we first needed to stand in front of each other with a good amount of space between us to avoid any injuries in the performance of the hit.Next, we learned how to stand off center opposite each other, after that the slapper would have to inform the person being slapped their target and the slapper would have to target his eyes onto that area.We would then practice the slap with the knapping until we felt like we were able to do it correctly and that was how we were able to learn the stag slap.

In this task, I performed a freeze frame for the stage slap with my partner Rania.I believe we were successful in certain points, for example, I think that our dialogue was very good and that we spoke loudly and confidently and we were able to say our lines right.Another thing that I think was very good was that our slap, as commented by the audience seemed very realistic towards them and it seemed like it was an actual slap.However I believe that we were unsuccessful at one certain point, this point is that our knap was not as loud as it was supposed to be and not all the audience could hear it clearly and loudly.Overall I believe we did well in terms of most of the factors but maybe we could make our knap better next time.

I believe that next time maybe me and my partner we could improve on making our slap a little bit more realistic by maybe making the knap a little louder and maybe making the reaction a little bit more realistic instead of making it dramatic.Also, I believe we could raise up the heat in our dialogue to make the slap even more realistic than we did.I think that we could improve our whole performance next time to make it even better than this time, the way I believe we can achieve is that maybe we can practice our dialogue more and maybe we should first practice our slap slowly and then quickly so then it can look better in the performance, therefore we can also practice even more to improve the performance as a whole.To conclude I believe that we did well overall but maybe next time we can improve by practicing more next time and in terms of the image maybe we could have taken it in a different moment to make the quality of the freeze frame better.