Evaluation

Evaluation

I believe that my final major project was a great experience for myself but also have improved in certain areas. Such as myself and the director could have communicated much more and started working in the theatre many weeks before the show rather than short period of time which was a bit stressful but I managed because I knew what I had to do as a production student. On the other hand, the communication with myself and the Level 2 Performing Arts student was a success alongside with our meetings as discussed about the production also asking me for advice for the production, as I was a Level 2 Performing Arts student in the previous year and I had experience in order to deal and work with the Level 2 students, besides that we discussed mostly about the lighting, sound, costumes, hair and makeup etc. They felt comfortable around me and came forward to me as I could relate to them most of the time and I wanted their production to be a success and making their show come life with their ideas together which is what I wanted to do. In order, that myself and director to have better communication; there could have been a meeting as soon as the Level 2 students were assigned to their final project and being in the rehearsals more too, also running through the scripts together for tech work as well and in the future I shall prevent from having poor communication and I shall use these great communication skills I mentioned in the future because the production would run much better for myself as a production arts student and the director. However, during the production of the final show the director kept demanding me what to do even though that was pressuring, my mindset was opposite as I knew what I was doing and the reason this happened because due the poor communication between me and the director and the director herself was stressed about the production too, as she wanted the show to go well but besides that I have experience with the Gio console and sound since I have been in the gallery multiple times and this is apart of my course too so of course I’ll have experience and adapted my skills throughout the course. Therefore, I believe the director definitely underestimated my skills as I am a student but this was my area of work so I hundred percent know what I am doing and the director has every right to discuss about the lights, sound etc for ideas and run through these together but apart from telling me what to do.On the other hand, Nin played a big part in the gallery since he has 30 and more years of experience and definitely showed me an easier to use the Gio console to control the lights, and this is called ’10 definable motorized playback faders’ which I haven’t used this before but I knew about this technique but he showed me how to use this technique and record this onto the cue for the show during the rehearsals and I normally use the ‘fader wing’ most of the time as I was shown to use the ‘fader wing’ which is an easier way too but in my opinion both techniques are easy and beneficial but optional and I shall use the ’10 definable motorized playback faders’ because I believe it’s very useful for myself rather than using ‘fader wing’. In addition, there were ideas I had that would have portrayed the production much better, for example setting a stage for the royal characters to portray as they are higher and overpowering everyone which is true or used a red for the murder of the king to represent death also blood alongside with fake blood if needed also a green or blue wash showing that the battle is based outside rather than using a general wash which doesn’t make sense at all.  Throughout my final project I learnt some new skills in the workshop because of Adam’s final project for ‘Little shop of horrors’ and I helped him create his prop as he was creating a car for his production and I was shown how to demolish an old prop and create into another prop also using other props to create this into one big prop which was interesting. Overall, my final project there was pros and cons but I could have improved such as increase my confidence towards the director because this could have prevented many things and putting myself out there as in rather than waiting for my teacher and director to make plans, I shall do these myself and input my ideas much more as in speaking out but next year this shall not happen again and I shall improve and this advice to myself into accountable. Furthermore, in the future I would like to work with the Level 3 Performing Arts or Dance Musical Theatre because both have much enthusiasm. And the reason I would like to work with the Level 3 Performing Arts because I have worked with them before but as soon as it comes to rehearsal and working with the production team there is just great professionalism which gets the tech work sorted and also behind the stage well e.g. costumes, hair and makeup will be sorted in time. Another reason why I would work with the Dance Musical Theatre because the interest that I have in dance and musical theatre is so highly because I am a dancer also during my spare time I tend to watch musical theatre, therefore would be relate to them and have great ideas for their performance become a dream or magical. Finally, for UAL Production Arts Level 3 Extended Diploma I shall bring all the skills and experiences I have experience onto Year 2 and hoping to learn more skills for the further future.