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Performance Day Review
June 10th 2016
GERTRUDE THE CAT
Libby

At the end of last term Mr Z and Ms Whelan’s class with Ms Fisher along side started talking about doing a performance day. Ms Fisher started talking about how we need to know how to do a performance and a workshop. She gave every one some work sheets to do. On those worksheets we had to write down what we were good at. Most of my answers were what I liked doing e.g: Photography, colouring and stop motion. I chose stop motion.

In my group was Morghan.

The rehearsals were a challenge because once we did the start we left it for ages until one day we decided to start doing it. The claymation girl (Sally) wouldn’t stand up so that was the hardest part about it.

We thought of the first little part and then Morghan and I just thought it along the way of filming it.

On Performance Day we removed all tables but not the chairs . We had to change in to our clothes but the bad part was that Morghan forgot her Performance clothes. We tested the reflector and it worked. Once the time came to perform my IPad didn’t want to connect to the computer and my group was first. So the other group that was in the room with us had to go first instead.

The workshop was terrible because we only had 3 minutes left so I couldn’t show them how to do the rest.

The performance after lunch was much better because we had the iPad set up and the work shop was longer which I liked.

What I would improve on next time is that I should set up my IPad before the performance starts.

Overall I liked the performance.

 

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Performance Reveiw 2016

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imageBy the end of Term 1, Our class and Ms Whelan’s class decided to have a Fringe Festival, where everyone got into groups and had to come up with ideas for a performance they could do. In my group there was Ansia, Emily, Nisha, myself and Leonora, who sadly couldn’t make it on the day.
Our first idea was to do a Carpool Karaoke, but one day when we had to present in front of everyone, Leonora, Anisa and myself came up with a very risky idea, because Emily and Nisha were away we changed it to a dance. A Just Dance inspired dance routine. A big challenge that happened that night was we had a problem choosing the dance and song. After 3 hours, we finally chose the song- Love Myself by Hailee Steinfeild, and practised the dance so much, so we could remember every bit. We came up with a lot of our own moves because we wanted to make it ours.
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On June 10th we had Performance Day, “Yay!!”, a big problem that happened was I forgot my black t shirt, and my mum was a life saver, she had to pay $25, to get a taxi to come and bring it for the day. Our first performance was in the Hall, at 11:55, 7 people had booked to come and watch and we also had Ms Murphy’s class as well. All during it I was anxious and excited. With the second one at 2:15 we had Mrs Langton’s and half of the 5/6 class come to our performance. It was great fun except for the technical difficulties with the music.

We all had a great time with the workshop. Everyone wanted to learn more. It took them a long time to process every step, and when we finished early we asked everyone for feedback, and all of it was good, most of them said they loved every bit. After that Emily started playing the song Uptown Funk, and we all just did random dancing, when they were leaving we all got high fives, and we were more excited for the next one.

Performance Review 2016

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20160614-112304-1xecprx.jpg20160614-112258-1sqnqly.jpgPerformance Review, June 10th 2016m
-Salsa Squad-

Near the start of Term 2 our class and Ms Whelan’s class started to create our own Fringe Festival! We first had to choose people for groups and then we had to make a performance. The members in my group were Emily, Nisha, Skye, me- Anisa and Leonora- who couldn’t be there. We named our group… Salsa Squad! One of the challenges for my group was finding a performance, because we had decided to do a sort of carpool karaoke thing and it wasn’t really going anywhere and many of the days we needed to plan some of the group was away, so on a day that Emily and Nisha were away me, Leonora and Skye decided to change our performance to a Just Dance routine. After we decided the performance me and Leonora met up at Skye’s house to choose the song and to start off on the dance. Another challenge we faced was choosing the song and also tweaking the dance moves to make it ours, but we came over it. The song we chose was Love Myself by Hailee Stinefield.

We wanted our performance to be live and we wanted to use blocks for the dance so that our audience could see us better and we could use them for the finally. Performance Day was on the 10th of June 2016 and everyone was crazy!!! For our 2 performances we had 30 people in each! The first performance we did we had Ms Murphy’s class and they really enjoyed it, but in the second group of older kids there were 2 boys who I needed to separate but after a while they behaved.

Our workshops went well also we were able to teach both classes from the start of the dance and up to the end of the first chorus, it seemed like they all found the dance reasonably easy and I thought that it was a shame that we didn’t have enough time to teach them the whole dance which would have been fun!
Next time I think that we could improve on being more organised and more prepared because I think that we needed a bit more work on the dance and a few other things. But overall I enjoyed the whole thing and I think that we did a GREAT job on it.