Workshop 4

In this session we watched each others duets. Here are a few:

Kim



This piece was effective in giving every audience member an individual experience. It's involving the audience as the audience feel a part of the piece. 
It uses visual poetry by expressing emotion without words which creates a more profound emotional impact. And it uses skills of the actor as Kim in entirely emotionally involved in the piece and convinces the audience in the truth of her performance. 
I was a little concerned that the audience might not know what to do and suggested that maybe a sign would be needed to explain what was required from the audience to make the most of the piece. I also thought that Kim might want to make her responses a little bigger to make it clearer and give a little more impact. 

Ivory and Josh

This piece effectively put across a message both visually and audibly. By using two different ways their piece became far more engaging if they'd just used one. One backed up the other.  

It uses visual poetry by using movement instead of words which created a more profound emotional impact. They created a dream world for the audience by wearing the masks as they made everything slightly more odd to watch which effected the audiences emotions and subconscious, just like dreams do. It used skills of the actor through the movement as they were completely committed to their performance and portrayed the truth in their piece to the audience.

I thought that they where using exaggeration of certain sections well but needed to make it bigger so it was more obvious to differentiate between the two and therefore be more effective. 

Will and Myles

This piece was interesting to watch for the difference in painting styles between the two of them. You felt the two different emotions between them.

The piece uses visual poetry through the art they are creating on the wall. It's a different way of getting the piece across and creating emotional impact. They also used skills of the actor by putting their entire being into the performance which put across the high emotion and truth of their piece.

During the piece I started to question whether they could actually see through the blindfold. This meant that the piece lacked truth and wan't as effective. If they're going to be blindfolded, they have to be properly blindfolded otherwise it just comes across as fake.