The dress run

The Dress rehearsal unfortunatley didn't go as well as expected. The performance felt 'bitty' and it was commented that as performers we looked lonley on stage and that we weren't using the space in the way it shoudl have been for the nature of our show. We also felt down hearted whilst peforming which came through to the audience, as soon as one scene didn't work we began to feel somewhat embarrassed by the rest of our material. When talking through it at the end with our lecturer he told us that we seemed to have lost faith in our material and we immiediety understood what he meant as our material had seemed flat as we had become, in a sense, ashamed of what we had created when there was no need to be, we needed to get our confidence back.

Adding in the lights sound and music I feel changed our piece quite radically, not in terms with content but in terms with the amount of conviction that was suddenly in our acting. They add so much more to the action going on stage and aided the scenes. I feel that adding it in is quite an important part to the devising process as it hightlights things that perhaps don't work within the dynamic of the piece when it used to work well as an individual piece. Everything coming together shows you how far you have come yet I am glad we have thought about lighting, video and sound throughout the process as I feel that we have managed to utalise everything somewhat successfully due to us working alongside technology, instead of adding everything in a rushed panick at then end.