Feedback

   It is always interesting to work on my and Marinda’s performing. I find myself always learn something from every practice, feel happy to hear good things about it and want to advance it all the time. After the first run through of our scenes, I am glad that so many people give me so many good advice.

Firstly, all the feedbacks talk about they can not hear the lines clearly. I should definitely talk louder. I think our story is set up very well and very creative, so it is a huge waste if the audiences get confused about the setting because of the voice. Like I see all days in our theater program, using a stage voice is one of the most important things. When I was reading one of my letters, I try to raise up my voice for a few second. It is too short for notched, but still, it gave my brave to speak out more. To speak louder can bring me into my character better and actually live on the stage.

To speak louder can also express more emotions of my character, which also everyone talks about. This performance is only our first run through in front of the class, but still, I should be more into the story. I understand that to read the script is not attracting to the audiences, and can not tell the story better. During our first scene, when my character, the father is arguing his decision with Marinda, I can definitely rise up the voice and shout out the lines. It will make a big impaction to audiences, like Peter Deng doing in our musical. There is a disagreement between the characters at scene 1, shout out the line like “You don’t understand!” can show more dominate of character.

The next is about our blocking, which both of us know even before our performance, that it will be our weak part. Because the main scene, which is adapted from Children of the sea, is writing letters between the characters. It does not have a lot actions in the original story. This is why we add the first scene, not only explain the setting but also gives us some chances to do more interactions. I know I spoke too much in monotone in the performance, so to practice with interactions will be our next step. The scene 1 can be like the bar scene of our musical, which I and Marinda can sit more closer, and face toward the audiences more. Then during the letter scene, I can sit on a chair, lie on the grand to show I am on a boat. Also, add some explanation about it to make it more clear to audiences. And also think more about actions that fit with lines, like the character talk about the sun on the sea, so to pretend sweating is definitely a great idea.

With more actions, speak loud and clear, we can show the advantage of our scene more. Like many people talks about that our scene has a very creative setting, which set up the place in North Korea. This brings us difficulties like explaining, but it shows a totally different perspective of the story. We also let the character grow up more, which they are married and have children. All those expensive from the original story make our story very original. For me, to act out such an attractive story is also an interesting experience.

After all, there is no way to do a good performance without endless practice. With all those feedbacks, I know what can I advance in the future. I learn many performance techniques from our winter musical, I just did not notice them before. So I will bring those experiences into the future practice and let my audience enjoy the performance.