Jessica

After this shortfall of production we were named the ‘procrustinators’, not something I am usually labeled, so we decided to work hard to prove that we really are worth more than that.

During this time the yr 12 ensemble was performed as their final assessment. As well as this 6 girls from our class performed their solos. The yr 11 girls all lifted under the pressure, and performed at their best. As for the year 12s, they were absolutely inspirational. We were so flabbergasted by their performance, and knew that we had to improve our ensemble after seeing theirs.

So our ensemble group decided that we need to push ourselves, so we scraped the idea we had (not completely) and went with the new idea of using a narrator as a non-naturalistic technique (along with our placards). We now have a start which we didn’t have before and the beginning of a first scene. Heather is the narrator and explains the nature of the TV in different places around the world. Maddi is a French lady who despises football, Leah is a little child who only wants to watch Hi-5, and I am a bogan absolutely disguised by the performance of Carlton. We then move into the 1900’s scene in which Leah, Maddi and I are painting a car in pain as we have poor pay, and Heather is the manager pushing us along as the car is for the queen.

After todays lesson I feel better about our ideas and production of the performance. Thanks to Mr. Cash we can now complete a dramatic performance rather than a comic one.

Well done to Jess, Jaqui, Nadia, Laura and Felicity for their ensemble performance at Creative Arts.