Drama Reflection 1

My drama reflection1
During my Drama class, we have used communication, Social, Self-Management, Reflection Skills, and Creative thinking skills.I demonstrated communication skills by using Greek theater mask. My mask was showing happy expression. I have learned in my recent drama class that Greek mask was made to act out women and was over reacted for the far audiences that came to see the performance. So I have included long hair and fringes. I have made my mask from scratch. This is also related to creative thinking skills.

For my social skills, we've done quite few group works. One example is the oracle scene. It was a little difficult to do the chorus work as we all had to speak altogether at the complete same time. We all tried our best to make the performance as successful as possible.

Every time we do a performance, I made the reflection on blogger. I tried my best to do the performance on the day that I am writing about. This helped me to write down everything that I felt and my opinions. If I don't do it on the day there are more chances for me to forget what I felt. I completed my reflections and all my other tasks on time too. I think by doing this it has helped me improve my self-management skills.

I think I mangled to cover most of ATL skills, however the skill that I think I can improve is the social skills as I cannot contribute much of good ideas to my group.

frozen picture

My group mates are:
Mille
Mariam
Amir
Jonas
Maanya
Noor
and me.

Here're the pictures for our freeze framed act

time poem

Group.1
Amir
Adam
Mohammed
Criteria C: 6
Criteria D: 5

Group.2
Andrija
Mayukh
Azaan
Criteria C:6
Criteria D:4

Group.3
Jonas
Omar
Timur
Criteria C: 7
Criteria D:6

Group.4
Anju
Mille
Noor
Criteria C:8
Criteria D:7

Group.5
Jana
Maanya
Hana
Mariam
C:5
D:5

Greek theater mask

this is my Greek mask

video for the physical theater

Reflection on other group's performance

The groups that I think were successful was the following.

• Anju, Mille, Tanya's group.
• Azaan, Jonas Timur's group
• Andrija, Mayukh, Omar

I hunk these groups were successful because they acted out the frustrating emotion very well in their performance (which was the the theme). They both used box in many ways.

Groups that can be improved is the following. 

• Hana, Maanya Jana's group
• Nadia, Lara, Mariam's group

They both looked a little like dancing performance and didn't show any frustration action. Maanya's group, Maanya was telling them where to go and what to do through out the whole performance. Plus I couldn't really understand what the box was for. 

These were the other groups in the class. I would like to take the good parts of the other group's performance and use them in my performance next time.

Reflection for our first physical theatre performance the box

We did our very first physical theatre performance. My group mates are Adam.I, Mohammed, and me. We were supposed to do a physical theatre based on frustration, and should be related and use a box. It was a little difficult as this was my first day of doing this performance even though everyone else was on their second day to practice (as I was absent for last two lessons). Plus in this physical theatre you are not allowed to communicate with your group mate during the performance but you were allowed to have a song.

At first when my group mate told me what I am supposed to do, I was pretty scared because I had to roll off the box. For me, it was a little hard action as it was a group of boys and I am not good at doing all those energetic movements. We also decided which song to do; we chose to do the song by Micheal Jackson which was called 'beat it'

We were the first ones to performe the show. ( as our name of the song starts with b.) I actually didn't know when to start but the sign for me to start moving was when Mohammed laid on top of the box. As I only had one lesson to practice, I confused myself even during the show which actually was hard for me to decide what I am supposed to do next. I had to remember each step we did in the practice. That seemed for me to work. Things that I can improve is not to stay in the way that audience's view as I just blocked my teacher's view in the performance today. I think we could have had more angry expression to show the frustration that is our theme.

Overall, I think we have done our performance fine but as I popped into the group today that gave us harder situation to work with. But I still think that our very first physical performance went quite well  and was good practice for our future performances.