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.