Pre Run-
- Hospital scene:
When watching myself back in the hospital scene I have noticed a coupe areas in which there is space for improvement for example I need to work on my naturalism and the way the I carry my body language and facial expressions through my character. I noticed that I was smiling in this scene when in reality if I was really going to tell someone about a bombing I would mos likely not be smiling so I need to ensure that when we film these scenes for real I change my facial expressions and concentrate and making it look as realistic and authentic as possible.
- Party Scene:
Upon evaluating this scene I think that I need to further work on my character development on Ethel and really adding her background to her character to give my performance more depth and layers to it. I think that I need to focus more also of remaining in character because I noticed accent I use for ‘Ethels’ voice was slipping in and out and this makes for a difficult time being able to believe the character and the realism it carries across to thee audience. I think that ii also need to focus on my body language and ow I carry my self whilst sitting and having a conversation
- Ration Fashion Scene:
Upon watching my self back in this scene I think that I need to focus on my professionalism during this scene and being professional as if I was really presenting a tv show, I think that I need to do this whilst still remaining bubbly and energetic making it fun for the audience to watch. However I feel that the energy I have been giving is very entertaining and interesting to watch
- Boarder Control Scene:
Final Run-
- Border Control Scene: Thinking back to this scene I think that I slightly buckled under the pressure of this scene as the change in pronunciation and accent really threw me off. in combination with the natural environment and weather being as cold as it was. We were all freezing cold and distracted further by having a cold body temperature. This made for a big distraction but I feel like I managed to compose myself and perform a few good takes. I think that I became more comfortable with this scene the more takes we shot and more comfortable in the character I was portraying. I don’t think that I was very comfortable with the accent but I tried to give it the best that I had however for future productions/ performances I feel that taking more time and effort into focusing on a particular accent would help e go a long way and additional research on the particular accent for example YouTube or acting books. However once I had started to become more comfortable and settled with the situation and environment/ weather conditions I relaxed more into it used better body language and facial expressions to more exaggerate the character.
- Hospital Scene: I think that this scene went well although I only had a small part to perform. However due to the amount of times that we had to shoot this scene it became very repetitive, I also struggled with a height issue as my scene partners were both sitting in the scene and I had to walk in and the sort of crouch down to ‘Elizabeth’s’ level whilst having a conversation with her, however by crouching I was able to solve a technical camera problem so that cameras were not having to be re-adjusted. I enjoyed being in character for this scene as ‘Ethel’ and I feel like I was able to explore this character more and give more to my facial expressions and body language as this is my character for both the hospital and party scenes. I think that I explored this character more than I did for ‘sassy Silvia’ and the guard from the border patrol scene because this was my ‘main character’ and by doing this and having a background and detailed knowledge about ‘Ethels’ life and upbringing it really helped me to give a more authentic and realistic performance whilst trying to embody and capture a real lady from the WW2 era.
- Ration Fashion Scene: I really enjoyed filming this scene and I feel like I did a good job of embodying a very perky, happy-go-lucky0 tv presenter of the time. I believe that the nerves got to us a little between my self and my co actor so the first couple of takes were a bit choppy. We kept messing up our lines or forgetting what we were meant to say next, however once we became more comfortable with this scene I think it went quite well and smoothly. I enjoyed playing this over the top, enthusiastic and sarcastic persona and being able to be over eccentric and excitable. I think that I did a good of presenting a realistic and believable performance whilst having fun with it. However during this scene I struggled with my costume choices as my shoes were high heeled and I had to put a lot of focus into standing still and not falling over and I feel like this may have taken away from my performance somewhat. There was one point during our performance in which I almost broke character when something went wrong and one of the actors/ models had a prop fall out of her hair however I managed to pull my self back and compose myself allowing us to continue with filming the scene.
- Party Scene: I think that by the time we got to filming this scene to company morale had significantly gone down due to the stresses of the day and pressure to get it film and wrap the day up due t0 time constraints. However I feel that I despite these problems I was able to give a realistic and authentic performance. I really enjoyed portraying this character and using a upperclass accent portraying that my character came from quite a high up family and/or background. I think that my body language and facial expressions were very authentic and realistic for the audience. Although we had some mic problems due to being one mic short and then also mics moving and the sounds becoming muffled or hard to hear, however I think that despite these issues we were able to do a few clean.