evaluation Blood wedding Thursdays group

The day had begin in a rush since I was late to college we  to had met up in the theatre to run a dress rehearsal before the performance but most of us were running late  .    The first thing I done was starting on my hair , I had thought wearing it nice and wavy would be a good idea cause it's makes my hair look more nice and out going .  Which  links to the play ; were suppose to be at a wedding . Not too long after doing my hair and putting on my costume the audience had arrived for our performance .  I had to stay mainly in the changing room so that they wouldn't hear me walking behind stage with my heels on . In the changing rooms there were speakers there that were connected to the theatre which help me keep track of where we were in the play and when I had to go on .  

COSTUME ;  

The costume I had on today was like a long maxi dress with silver sequence around the neck area . This dress was the most suitable for the play out of the few I had chosen before .  

 For example  the dress above is  an idea of what I had in mind before  which was too revealing and  I felt  as if it was inappropriate for the play .   But also for the character because her husband isolates her and doesn't  give her any love or attention . Which is why I felt like dressing very plain and ordinary would make more sense  as to why I don't get attention from him because of the way I dress .  Everyone else in the play was dressed very modern we had the servant dressed in a black and white dress with her hair tied up .    This dress was chosen by the costume designs both Sara  and DZyire who done a very good job because the costume suited her role very well . 

 For the mother she was dressed in a nice burgundy dress with a little bit of sequence around the neck area , Which was very fancy and modern for the play . This dress was worn by both Jessica and. Rebecca  who played the role as the mother

 Both husband  Leonardo and the father were dressed very smart in there suit and ties . Which fits the setting of the play  very well because they are at a wedding so they dress up smart .   We had difficulties finding a pair of smart shoes for Remal who plays the role as Leonardo. But we had told him wearing a plain black shoes would be okay to wear and wouldn't  draw attention  from the audience .

 The dress Dyzire had wore as the bride was very cute and looked very old  fashion and traditional . Which I felt fit the play very well other than Sara dress for the  bride .   Was very modern the style of the dress was a lot more detailed which I did think look nice . But felt as if it was too much for the play and character . 

  For the three woodcutter  were dressed in a checcard  shirt jeans and some boots to go along with it .  the woodcutters didn't have much of a  big role in the play but had all play they're role correctly.

HAIR AND MAKE UP ; 

The  hair and make up  was run by Maya and Deirdre .  Make up was mainly  done by Maya again since as Deirdre didn't know how to do it properly .Maya contoured Jacobs face and use hair spray in his hair and added baby powder to make it grey since as he was playing the  role as the father again .                                                                                                                                                                     . She  then done the same thing she done to Rebecca  to Jessica the day before which was contouring her face and adding baby powder so she can also have grey hair .    For the servant and the guest she added blusher to there faces she kept it mutual since as they didn't have a big role in the play .   The brides had a nice smokey eyes and a nude lipstick . Which was also Mutual  because they're dresses   had drawn  a lot of attention . 

PROPS ; 

   The props were managed by Jessica and Darcey , they were given this role during our production .  And had come up with all props for The show .    The props we mainly used during the performance were chairs and whine glasses for the guests at the wedding . 

The glasses were also useful in a scene were I offered Leonardo a glass of lemon.

We had also had used a knitting kit Yasmin had brought it from home for Rebecca and Jessica to use as the mother for the opening scene . 

 We had a few traditional fans that were bought in by Jessica, then we had a mirror and a brush .   Which  was useful within the scene where the servant is brushing the brides hair .  We had fake axes for the woodcutters and  a knife for Obafemi in the ending scene to appears upstage to represent death . 

     

LIGHTING;  

The lighting for the performance was pretty much the same for every scene . The main colour that stood out  was the  red with tropical colours in the back ground .  We had a spotlight on Obafemi towards the ending . And during the dance we had a red background but a shallow spotlight on the bride and the bride groom .   I was disappointed   with the lights we were given  for our performance , we had Rebecca and Remal in charge of the lightning's and had come up with some brilliant ideas . But there ideas were thrown aside and  over taken by robs ideas .       However we  then had the  three woodcutter  on stage we had a special type of lighting  which showed an outline of trees in a wood .  The lighting is very similar to the one below  i felt like this was one of the best lighting used throughout the play because it had a lot of detail towards it an gave the audience  a clear image there were in the woods .     

  MUSIC ;    
The music for the play was mainly the same song through out  the entire play , we had used the same instrumental   for  the opening of the performance and the end  . The only different song we used within the performance was the song for the dance , which I really liked the song  it was very catchy and was easy to dance  too.     the name of the song was  Gipsy kings -djobi djoba  . 





The box office which is basically outside  where the guest come later on in the evening was decorated with some pepper lights  a painting saying blood wedding and a picture of the cast .  The box office was seen by family members and friends that had visited in the evening .

The play we performed in the evening was terrible we had made a lot of noise back stage which  wasn't suppose to happened since as we practice that during rehearsals especially for the girls who were wearing hills were told to walk on tippy toes behind stage to prevent noise .  And to top it off we had Sara back stage  who was crying because she had gone on stage with her dress back to front .  this had cause some actors  coming on stage late because they were too busy trying to comfort Sara and Yamine .  the dance was very messy and I had forgotten my  lines where  i had to talk to the bridegroom after  the dance .  there was also a lot of laughing going on stage which caused the audience to laugh along with us .    after we had done our performance we had to shorten our brake and work on our peace , Rob was very disappointed in the work we had progress and wanted to improve it with us . our final performance in the evening was one of the best everything went good   there was no mistake no laughing on stage and no noise behind stage .    The dance had gone really good and had change since as I was the wife  I had to dance with Remal which went really good .
                                                                                                                                                                                                   How i think   played   my role  Ihonestly believe Iplayed my role amazingly, all the hard  work and practice had played off  . I had began to show a lot of hatred and suspicion towards my husband  which I found difficult at first because I didn't understand why. And also because the person  I  had to hate I didn't actually hate them or have anything against them . Which is were the drama comes in I had to empathies and imagine I was talking to someone I had hate , which had really worked because my attitude had picked up more  towards him .    My  overall though and opinion were  very impressed  by  how   I performed on Thursday compared to how I was on Wednesday.  I  had gain a lot of confidence compared  Wednesday. Were   was  very nervous on stage and  i had forgotten my lines ,  which  is why I  was very disappointed in my self because I had practice a lot and was upset by the out come.

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Wednesday performance day ( blood wedding)

We started college earlier today so that we could get majority of the work we have left in our play done . We manage to go through both Thursday's and Wednesday's group .  The first group we done first were the Wednesday group we  ran through that group very fast and  easy we had a little mistakes but was very good compared to other rehearsals we've had in the past . The way the scene  are set up are very easy for the actors . The lighting  they've Selected for the scenes were mainly red , which symbolize the colour blood in the name of the play blood wedding . But also was wrong because we were given roles within our production and Rebecca and Remal were in charge of the lighting and most of the lighting they have chose for they're play wasn't used within the  play.    But within the scenes the red stands for more than one theme for example love hatred  or even maybe happy since as we have the same colour in the dance so may also stand for happy .     

Me and Remal who plays Leonardo my husband we were able to run through the hole play from top to bottom .  We both have learnt majority of our lines but the scene we would need  more working on the most would be the scene where we are heading of to the wedding , I couldn't remember my lines correctly . We then done the scene that needs most working on which  was  when were  about to begin the dance . This scene needs a lot of work and every one needs to be focus because multiple of times during rehearsals we are never on stage at the right time that was set . This mistake also happened during our performance but most actors played it off as if it was suppose to happen so that the audience would realize .

The role I played on Wednesday  was the third girl I didn't have much of a role I mainly had three lines   which I  had forgotten  throughout my performance on both evening and afternoon because I had become nervous on stage .  I found in difficult to look up towards the audience and had kept my head down majority of the performance .  How I felt after that performance was dreadful I felt disappointed in myself because I took more time out learning the role as the wife more than the third girl .  I thought I would be able to learn my lines on time and play my role good but failed my  expectations and had not done as planned , this had me very upset because my parents and siblings were out there in the audience watching me fail .   How I plan to not make the same mistake is to learn my lines and make sure I know them by heart  and to become more confidence on stage and be more in character rather than being myself worrying about what the audience would think if I do or say something silly .

  The dance I found  went very good we all was on time and had played it off  that we was at a wedding and had showed the audience we were having a good time . We had to keep a smile on our face and do a bit of freestyle if you wasn't paired  up with a partner .

 

 The time management were a bit messy there were times actors came on stage at the wrong time and some were even late .  this kept going on within most of our performances . the main one was were Obafemi  had a role to come on stage behind the bride and Leonardo   to represent death but he kept going on stage early and the audience found it funny because of the face he was pulling whilst holding the  knife .  And it had look strange because the spotlight wasn't there due to the time he had appeared on stage   which cause no  illusion so it was very obvious he was at the wrong place at the wrong time .   The lack of promotion for the show in the afternoon was very poor there wasn't really much of an audience out there other than a few family member's including mine  I felt like we should of promoted the play a bit more and probably  change the timing  so that it could be more earlier and more student would of rather coming.   The organization for the play was very good from where we be gone we started off terrible but it slowly become better as we had Jessica and Darcy    who were in charge of the props helping  organizing  props needed for the performance .

LIGHTING ;    The lighting for the performance was pretty much the same throughout the hole performance  we had a red colour in the background throughout the play . I felt like this was there mainly to represent death love and war that goes on during the play .  For the dance we had tropical colours for example pink red and  orange ,  these colours were very bright which drawn  a lot of attention toward  the audience to let them know we are celebrating .  We also then had a little spotlight on the bride and the groom   while they were dancing  this was because they were the main actors during the performance .    We also had a spotlight on Obafemi  towards the  ending to symbolize death towards him and Leonardo .

My favorite lighting used for our performance was for the woodcutters when they were on stage  , they had a green gloomy back ground with an outline of trees to make it look they were actually In  the woods  .   This was one of the best lighting used since as I was disappointed I  the lighting used for the permanence  since as they didn't use the one planned .   Which was suppose to be Rebbeca and  Remal ideas because they were in charge of lighting  for our production . They had come up with really good ideas for the performance but they have been thrown aside and were over taken by Rob and jacks ideas .   The ending scene were we all had to appear on stage for  Jessica's who was playing the mother today and the brides monologue , we had to stand   as they both say there monologue . The lighting for the ending scene had looked for powerful it had said a lot  for the hole play .

   For each scene that changes we had a black out so that we could change up the setting off the scenes in time without being notice by the audience .

MUSIC ;   

  

The music for the play was mainly the same song through out  the entire play , we had used the same instrumental   for  the opening of the performance and the end  . The only different song we used within the performance was the song for the dance , which i really liked the song  it was very catchy and was easy to dance  too.     the name of the song was  Gipsy kings -djobi djoba  . 

COSTUME ;   The costume  I wore today was a traditional red skirt  that was very long and fluffy   I had a red rose in my hair which most other girls had in .  I also wore shiny silver heels with a plain black top .

 The costume the bride  wore today who was played by Dzyire was  nice white traditional dress with a few little details .

  The dress the mother wore who was  played by Rebecca   was a nice burgundy dress with some sequence around the neck area

  The groom Leonardo and the father were all dresses the same which was very smart in suites and ties .

  For the servant she was dressed in a black and white dress which looked very good for her character  we then had her hair tied which looked really good all together

 The tree woodcutters were in checcard shirts jeans ans some boots with axes in there hands so it was clear to the audience who they were

  HAIR AND MAKE UP:

We had to be in different dressing rooms and we had to change Into our costumes and have Maya do our hair and make up , the make up  I had today was very cute it would a light shade of red with a brown out line to blend it  the make up the father had was to make him look older and have wrinkles so she contoured him and Rebecca's face who were both playing a older character in the play , she also added some grey hair spray so that it can help the audience know they are old . 

 The make up the father had was to make him look older and have wrinkles so she contoured him and Rebecca's face who were both playing a older character in the play , she also added some grey hair spray so that it can help the audience know they are old .  DZyire who was the bride today had light make up on with a rose in her hair which all girls had other than the servant ; she wasn't really apart of  the wedding .    Remal and Obafemi who was playing Leonardo and the bridegroom  didn't have make up on but we're both dressed in suits 

  

SET DESIGN ;

  The set design for our performance  was set up for easy so that we would be

able to switch into different scenes .  We had a table full of  champagne glasses a  bottle which was always kept on stage for the guest , We had the opening scene with the chairs and a table with a bowl of grapes  there .  This was for the scene with the mother and son .   

 

 PROPS ;

The props we had  for our performance were mainly chairs we had some for the opening scene  and on the table for the guest.  We had a  two traditional fans that were bought in by Jessica   These were used by the brides and the mother during the performance .   Jessica  and Darcey had also ordered   a fake baby for Lauren  who played the wife , and Remal  because they have a child together in the play .   They got some apple juice for when Lauren had to give Remal some lemonade  and also a bunch for the bride .

 

The weakness for our play would have to be timing and lines which were missed by a few characters, which was because most were never and had forgotten a few lines .  there were also moments were we had actors coming on stage late or even a bit to early but  due to the amount of team work we put in we work together and help each other out by empathizing on stage .  The lighting on the stage set was changed and I was disappointed . In that because  of the role both me and Rebecca had she was in charge of lighting and I was the production manager. I had talk with her and the ideas she had come up with were brilliant it would of fitted the play very well but her ideas were thrown aside and were taken over by robs  which I didn't like much .  The lack of promotion was terrible I  expected a lot  more people in the afternoon but was let then by the amount that attended. there were a few family and friends including mine , which is another thing I was upset about  .   is that my family came to watch me play a small role and wasn't able to see me play the wife .     one thing  I could change within the hole process is the amount of time we got to practice in the theatre  I wish we were able to get a bit more time so we can space out how we are going to be set out on stage . My personal weakness within the performance would be performing which I found pretty  weird  but   I  became very nervous on stage due to the amount of people that was in the audience .    My strength within the play were  staying on stage whilst I messed up my lines and played it out as if I  was done talking . but in the future   I would want to work on my confidence and project my voice more while am on stage

Performance blood wedding ( Wednesday group )

It had finally come to the day we perform our peace to our appears and family .  The hole play went very smoothly and all lines were on time . The day started of by us starting our rehearsal lessons in the theatre with rob and jack the lighting technical.  We went through the play and were given notes back from rob to help us work on any mistakes that were made during rehearsals . The play was performed twice today and also tomorrow the same .  We first performed the play with some of the performing arts students then after was our family members or friends .  We had to be in different dressing rooms and we had to change Into our costumes and have Maya do our hair and make up , the make up  I had today was very cute it would a light shade of red with a brown out line to blend it  the make up the father had was to make him look older and have wrinkles so she contoured him and Rebecca's face who were both playing a older character in the play , she also added some grey hair spray so that it can help the audience know they are old .  DZyire who was the bride today had light make up on with a rose in her hair which all girls had other than the servant ; she wasn't really apart of  the wedding .    Remal and obafemi who was playing Leonardo and the bridegroom  didn't have make up on but we're both dressed in suits .  The costume Rebecca had who was the mother today was an old fashion dress which was burgundy . The bride who was DZyire today wore a light dress in the beginning of the play but after the play she had on a nice white dress . Lauren had on a long black dress and the beggar women had on a black dress web black wings . The woodcutters were dressed in plead shirts and jeans they had axes as a prop to use . The moon who was played by Alex wore a yellow sheet to symbolize  the moon and the servant who was played by Yasmin's was dress   Black and white . I had wore a tradition Spanish looking dress my silver heels and a black too who  a red rose on the side of my hair . The lighting of the play had begin with a plain white colour which was kinda doll because of the first scene which was with son and mother . For the. Dance we had a bright red light . When the woodcutters were on stage we had a green colour to let the audience know  they were in the woods and had also have a trace of trees on the floor and on the screen behind .  The thing I found tricky about the play was mainly being quite behind stage because I was wearing heels and they made an awful amount of noise .  My conclusion on the performance today was very good but didn't enjoy it much because I wasn't on stage as often compared to when I played the role as the wife.          The weakness for our play would have to be timing and lines which were missed by a few characters, which was because most were never and had forgotten a few lines .  there were also moments were we had actors coming on stage late or even a bit to early but  due to the amount of team work we put in we work together and help each other out by empathising on stage .  The lighting on the stage set was changed and i was disappointed . In that because  of the role both me and Rebecca had she was in charge of lighting and i was the production manager. i had talk with her and the ideas she had come up with were brilliant it would of fitted the play very well but her ideas were thrown aside and were taken over by robs  which i didn't like much .  The lack of promotion was terrible i expected a lot  more people in the afternoon but was let then by the amount that attended. there were a few family and friends including mine , which is another thing i was upset about  .   is that my family came to watch me play a small role and wasnt able to see me play the wife .     one thing i could change within the hole process is the amount of time we got to practice in the theatre  i wish we were able to get a bit more time so we can space out how we are going to be set out on stage . My personal weakness within the performance would be performing which i found pretty  weird  but  i became very nervous on stage due to the amount of people that was in the audience .    My strength within the play were  staying on stage whilst i messed up my lines and played it out as if i was done talking . but in the future  i would want to work on my confidence and project my voice more while am on stage .

Monday blood wedding rehearsals until 9

Monday evening we worked through the play , we mainly worked on our que for the play so we can prevent having a empty stage . The play so far seems to be coming together very well I've learnt my lines and learned how to play my role better .  As a class we helped each other out together  we rehearsal in a way as if we were performing we give feedback to one another and help work on any mistakes .  On Tuesday we had the hair and make up team who is run by Maya and deride .      We  had Maya bought in all the actors a preview of how the make up would look and what colours she would be using on each character . 

 

Robs lesson Tuesday10th ( unit 9 blood wedding )

We started the lesson by working on the Ending scene with the mother neighbour and the bride .  In this scene it is full of a lot of anger and tension between the bride and the mother . This is because the bride was the reason why the mothers son who was the bridegroom was killed by fighting with Leonardo

who was having an affair with the bride that had ran of with him .    This drops all the blame back down to the  bride and the mother has a go at her . The mother slaps the bride and they have a mini argument the neighbour try's to brake up  the altercation 

   We also worked on the scene  after the dance were  the bridegroom and the wife talks about the groom being happy with her cousin .   This scene was rehearsed by Lauren but while this was going on I was sitting down taking notes on how this was acted out .  

Tutorial lesson (Rebecca lesson last week Monday ) labels

During lesson we had two staffs come in to educate the class about safe sex and etc . We started off the lesson by doing a quick survey in pairs to circle what we thought was either true or false . We then went through the quiz together as a class and shared our opinion about the questions . Some were correct some wasn't the ones that weren't correct were explained to us by the teachers .  There was a question that was  asking " do you think it's right  for a 17 years old  to send a inappropriate video "   I personally thought it was wrong but didn't know the full consequence to what would happened if such thing was to take place . The teachers explained to us about the sex offenders list and how it can effect your future .  For example if you was trying to look for a job in future it would be difficult to find one because it will still be on your record  .     And   you wouldn't be able to work    be to work in mainly with children because of your situation .I honestly gained a lot out of the little discussion we had throughout the lesson and found it very useful .  We then spoke about sex and  pregnancy and diseases you can catch whilst having unsafe sex .  The first question that lead into a little debate into the lesson was  "do you think a girl could get pregnant whilst having sex while being on there period ?"   We all had our own individual thoughts but was still explained why and how this can happen ?   We then spoke about the disease put there for example AIDS chlamydiae  etc .  We then talked about how you can catch it and how you can prevent catching it . My conclusion of that lesson was very  good  and would like to have more in the future

Robs lesson blood wedding ( unit 9)

Throughout the  lesson we covered all scene , we ran through the play twice which was very helpful .  I had got a chance to go through scene where it's myself Leonardo wife and himself who's played as Remal We done scene we haven't rehearsed before and  I  found

 very confusing ; I couldn't remember when to be on stage and when to be off .    Also didn't know how to be position on stage , but I set myself a task to figure that out myself rather than asking . But on the other hand the rehearsals were good we all got a chance to get up and perform to the class and work on any mistakes .   We also had to switch  up our characters during the lesson because majority of the class has two characters . How we done this ? Was by changing it as we reach to a different scene .    This will help me not only for my performance but in the future when I do carry on my  time in drama  . My conclusion for today was very good  my main target would t to be off script by Friday 

thursday /lunch time rehearsal (unit 9 blood wedding )

 During drama we worked on the

 Majority of the scenes where most of the Characters are on stage . Lunch time rehearsals were run  by Lauren she  organized it very well    by noticing us in the performing arts group chat we have what app .  Throughout the rehearsals we worked into small groups any little scenes that needed work on .   Me  and Lauren who is playing the same role as me the wife of Leonardo . We  worked together to practice our lines since as Remal didn't attend the rehearsal .  We done this by taking turns playing the role as Leonardo whilst the others  plays the wife . This was very a very smart idea and become useful rather than waiting  till the day his in too work on our lines .  This helped us work on our script a lot more  because we gave each other feedback and I would give her advice on Anthing that may need improving  . I then helped her with the dance that had to be changed  ,  since as it didn't make sense the way we had  set it up we had certain characters dancing together . For example the bride and Leonardo who shouldn't be seen together in the play . So we decided to let the wife dance with Leonardo . Within the reahasal time she caught onto the dance pretty quick and learnt it the same day .    I found the dance kinda difficult to learn but caught onto the moves pretty easily .   How I learnt  the dance I practice 15. Minuites before the lesson was over and learnt the dance but I also had practice at home in my spare time and went I we it to make sure I knew each move correctly.

  The dance shown in the video  with Remal and Dzyire  was changed once we realize   which characters were dancing with who .    so  me and Lauren had to learn that dance a  week before our performance .

Rebeccas lesson (blood wedding unit 9)

Today In  tutorial I worked on the role I have been given which is the production manager . What is a production manger ? A production manger is someone who is a manager and that is basically in charge over everyone else in the production .  My aim today was to make sure everyone was on task and to give them deadlines to when any work set for them should be ready by the day .  I started the meeting of by making sure every individual  partners were okay with the work given and make sure they understood what was going on .  I had a talk with DZyire and Sara who are in charge of the costumes for the play and they seem very ahead with they're work they had a look in the theatre at the costumes they had and had come back to the class to give them feedback .

 I then had a brief talk to Rebecca who's paring up with Remal but wasn't in but she found all of her lights she should be using for the scenes and would be ready to show the class an idea of how it may look on Tuesday . I then went over to Yasmin and Jacob and talked to them about what they was doing and how they was going to get the work done and  Ect.      I then spoke to Obafemi and Jessica who's in charge of the sound  and they both came up with some good ideas for the songs that they've picked .  Then spoke with Deidre and Mauribah who both a have work to be done by Thursday the latest  

blood wedding research (unit9)

 Who wrote the play ?  Blood wedding was written by Federico  Garcia    it is a Spanish  tragedy it was written in 1932  and first performed in Madrid  in March 1933 and later that year in Buenos Aires.    Other plays that Federico  has written are