{"id":211,"date":"2021-10-17T19:25:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/?page_id=211"},"modified":"2021-10-19T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T09:20:41","slug":"mock-performance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/mock-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just one week before the night of the live performance, we are here with a full mock performance in preparation. Laid out exactly how we plan to have things go on the night, this is a brilliant opportunity to feel the lights and get accustomed to that experience of performing live music on stage to a sizable audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mock Performance 1\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c9hd8LBJwMU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Mock Performance Tape (00:50-17:05)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the obvious blip in &#8220;Californication&#8221;, I am quite happy with our musical competency, I thought we gave off a really solid showing and everyone executed their objectives very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the music, I am introducing the whole show as the first speaker, I felt like I coped with this pressure reasonably well as I didn&#8217;t feel a great amount of anxiety whilst I was stood with the microphone. I stuck to the script relatively well and hit all the important points that I needed to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right away, &#8220;Californication&#8221; went off the rails when our guest singer Millie lost her place in the song, I can&#8217;t blame her for this as she doesn&#8217;t know the song well enough and we should&#8217;ve enlisted the help of someone who knows the song better. I listen to the singer for my cue of when to play what I need to, and other band members listen to others for theirs, we all got lost and it lead to a poor start for us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I am the speaking member of our band, I need to be fully on top of what I&#8217;m saying to deliver it with confidence and clarity. At times when I was speaking an audience member would speak back and I would engage with them, really this can&#8217;t happen on the night.  It would distract me from the script I have in my head and lead to a slower, more broken-up speech. Course mates will be at the back so they shouldn&#8217;t engage with me during this part. I also need to make sure I am actually speaking into the microphone properly, I drifted away from it slightly and I wasn&#8217;t able to be heard, I should keep this in mind when speaking so the audience can hear me clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performance-wise, we could all do a bit more to look confident and mobile, at times it really looked like we didn&#8217;t want to be up there. We should try and keep our heads up where possible, looking into the audience, maybe even interacting with other bandmates somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one week before the night of the live performance, we are here with a full mock performance in preparation. Laid out exactly how we plan to have things go on the night, this is a brilliant opportunity to feel the lights and get accustomed to that experience of performing live music on stage to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/mock-performance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mock Performance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}