Final Performance Reflection

My Performance
As I look back on my performance that I completed in class on Wednesday
afternoon, I take the time to reflect on my high and low points in the act.
Incorporating specific drama techniques is crucial in order to create a more
exciting piece. Some of the elements that we should focus on are; pace, rhythm,
volume, timing, special dimensions and relationships, movement, tension and
pauses.
Looking back on my performance with the intentions of self-reflection, I feel like I
used some of these themes to heighten my performance and others I brushed
past or didnt even cover.
One example of a strong use of an element would be pace. My monologue is
one in which I am on the phone and talking to my mother as I have just burnt up
her car. This performance requires a change in pace throughout the
performance because it is a phone call and a range of emotions must be
registered. These emotions vary from love to sadness, with denial and regret.
These emotions, we tend to change how we talk and how we act when talking to
others and when acting in front of, or to others.
These changes in emotions must be made clear, and to help separate the
emotions, a change in pace can occur. This pace can speed up when happy, and
slow down when sad. Additionally, this change in pace can be small and go
almost unnoticed, but the larger and faster the transition, the easier it is to
realise this change in emotions. This piece requires certain abrupt changes in
pace and I feel like I completed this to a satisfactory level.

Peer Performance
For my evaluation of a peer performance, I have chosen to look at Eve
Crawfords performance, from Ms Lambs class. Without knowing anything about
the script, setting, character, time or place, Eve seemed to play a character in
which you could clearly distinguish characteristics.
Eve performed exceptionally well and also incorporated elements of drama;
some more than others. One successful aspect of her performance was her
tension and volume. Her piece seemed to be telling a story and throughout her
story-telling, she varied the volume of her voice when needed to, and alongside
changed the volume of her voice, she paused when appropriate and slowed
down in order to create tension or suspense in the piece about what was going
to be said next. Eve appeared to play a higher class citizen who was bragging
about her new coat, and in doing so, it became evident to me that she was
pausing on key words, and placing dynamics onto specific words in order to
pass on a message to the audience.
One thing that I believe could be improved is her use of spatial relationship (and
with that a bit of movement). Her story was almost entirely told when sitting

down on a coach, and although that is acceptable, I feel that moving around the
set to signify a change in scene in her story would amplify her characters
intentions and ultimately her performance. By sanctioning off the stage into
possibly thirds, new stages are created and when moving between them, the
scenes, settings, and characters change as if being told by an on screen
narrator.