My skills can offer the group.

When we were put into groups we had to thinks about what we could contribute in a group performance. I feel i am a very strong actor and would be able to support other people on stage. I also looked through the PLTS's and thought about which ones i suited i felt i was deffinatly a team worker because i can possitivly contribute to the group identify problems and find solutions. I also think i am a creative thinker and can use this in many ways such as helping write scrips make posters and things like that.

Health and Safety

Before we performed our group performance we had to look at health and safety. We were given handouts from our teacher they were both extracts from books. One was Desighning for the Theatre by Francis Reid The first paragragh is on Fire regulations which mainly talks about how the metirials we use are the biggest fire hazard. However our piece doesnt have anything that could be a hazard exept a wooden guitar. The second paragragh states "the floor is liable to have snaking cables, various levels and even opening and closing holes" which is very helpfull if your using them however we arent but it does however help us know that while keeping the stage area safe we can use it in interesting ways. The third paragragh is on stability and it talk about the set not just been definatly safe but making shore the actors are confident in the safety of the set they should be able to feel safe and balanced on the set. It then goes on to talk about movement which essentially is the same thing that we can move about the stage safely with a good balance. This isn't a problem for us as we are always on one flat level. Next it speaks of Costume freadom which says "a set that allows freedom of movement is not enough: that freedom must be extended to the costumes" which we had done rather well in normal clothing. We were also given another handout from a book Practical theatre edited by Salley Mackey. The first page spoke about the legal requirements and legislation applicable to performing art. However we didn't have to worry about this as our piece isn't a proffesional production. It also gives a list of the things you have to asses and take into consideration when doing a live performance. However some of them didn't really apply to us here are the ones that did.
.Means of acces and escape-we have a fire exit in the drama studio at the back bihind were the audience will be
.Sight lines- we have made shore that the audience are going to be seated  and in rows so they can see right.
.The staging arrangements-we are going to make shore our stage is a decent distance away from the audience because some scenes move forward allot.
It then goes on to talk about the safety of the audience and states "The safety of the audience is paramount" which made me think allot more about how we arrange the audience  this is another reason we moved the set back allot more.

Performance review

After looking back at my performance and workshop on our DVD recording and i was really happy with how it went. The spacing of the piece that we had around the stage was extremely good as we spread it out well the physical theatre piece worked well and we were able to move around freely in the space. The group performed well as a team all remembering lines so we all new our ques however i could of projected my voice allot better and made my lines have more effect.

Review of my performance in the group

After our performance of our T.I.E pieces we were given hand outs to review how we worked throught the unit as a group by looking though the two PLTS'S of effective participator and group worker. Throughout the unit we had to discuss and resolve problems myself i reccomended that we take a look at one of our scenes thurther so we sat down and had a meeting on it. i did notice other members in my group disscusing in detail about weather to use a guitar in the piece of music or not. Also when we were doing physical theatre at first i wasn't comfrtable with it as i hadn't done it before however another area of effective participator is to present a persuasive case for action and Fran really did this when she showed me it wasn't all about dance. Another branch of efective participator is to propose practical ways forward once as a group we noticed that our second scene wasn't working so we once again sat together and broke the scene down piece by piece which made it allot easier to sort out. Also as an effective participator i had to try and identify improvements. And after our first run though i reado through our review notes and noticed that our piece laked allot of stuff that teaches the audiences so i said we needed to add some. People in my group also noticed that our physical theatre piece wasnt that good she then took it away and improved it. The handouts also mentioned that to be an effective participator you have to influence others, and balance diverse views. I did in the piece by not trying to make one parent more angry or mean than the other as i thought the views of parents divorcing was biased into the mother usualy been the victim. Due to the fact that the piece was to influence others to see how the children can be victims in divorce. I also had to look at myself throught the ideas of been a team worker in my group i thought that our group worked very well together as a team during and planning the performance. One part of been a team worker is to collaborate with other towards common goals. I did this when writing the script as wel all felt that if we crowded around one computer as actors in the company and edited my origional script because we wanted to make the lines more accurate to the characters. Also i looked at where i reached agreements, managing discussions to achieve results. At one point we wanted our peice to have our song we made performed live at the end but the person who was going to do it was very talented but lacked confidence which meant i had to sit with him and support him to reach an a greement for him to do it.tobe a team worker occationally  you have to adapt behaveiour to suit different roles and situations, including leadership roles. I did this near to the deadline day when i felt asif the group were starting to overehearse our piece and i had to dapt in too ways one in leadership when telling the group we were rehearsing too much and i had to calm down as the lack of rest was stressing me out and i was getting frustrated. I also noticed how another group member had become allot more sensible and egar to rehearse which i noticed and decided to try and do myself. Also i had to show fairness and consideration to others. Which i did when a group member who was our director in the company i tried to be fair and listen to all her instructions. As a team worker the handout also said i had to take responsibility i did this right at the begging of the process when i decided i wanted to be the playwrite in the company and make the first draft. Another group member took responsibility when he personally went home and mixed the music for the piece together. The final thing i had to review about myself as a team worked was weather i had provide constructive support and feedback to others. I did this with the first draft of the poster that was made on colour schemes and arrangments because i thought it should have been darker. 

Reviews

Abi's group: What makes it a good piece of T.I.E. ?
at first i didn't feel as if i was learning anything to be honest but when it got to the kind of talk show part i thought that was very good and help full to make you learn something as it got the audience involved.
Did they work well as a group?
I thought overall the group worked well together they seemed to know there lines and were aware of space and what people were doing around them because of this the pace of the drama was good. However Abi was a very very key role in all parts of the play even tho the people around her performed well and took allot of pressure off her.
What conventions did they use to engage the audience?
They used the storyteller thing very well and it was interesting to watch how it made the story flow they also used the forum theatre in an interesting way which was very different and interesting to see.

Imogen's group: What makes this a good piece of T.I.E. ?
I think the way Beth's character spoke of her life with anarecsia and what she went through you learnt allot about it and how people deal with it.
Did they work well as a group? it seemed like they all new there lines very well and supported eachover well on stage the pace was good and worked well.
What conventions did they use to engage the audience? they had allot of moments when they spoke to the audience and the board that was i think the mirror that had writing on it was unusual but creative and worked well.

First review

We had Mrs Woffinden watch our first few scenes of our piece and gave us feedback about how we could improve each scene. She said that scene 1 was very well rhearsed and powerfull. I was really happy with her saying it was powerfull as we tried our best to make the audience connect with the play. She mentioned to us that the use of Sebs monolouge was very good and our freezeframes and transitons between them really helped the pace of the drama I found this brilliant because the pace of a performance is always one of the most important things. She said that Scene 2 was great due to an effective use of physical theatre that showed the highs and lows of the parents relationship however if someone speaks during the drama there must be a certain pause so its clear what was said. She said our one problem was that the piece wasnt informative enough and we had to go back and do more research and try to add that into our drama.

Drama rehearsals

The first thing we did in the morning was have a meeting within the group about how we thought we could improve what we had done so far. We took minuits throught the meeting and found that seb didn't feel comfortable speaking through the physical theatre parts and said as an alternative he would make a music track to fit all the different changes of emotion. However so he could do this we had to time the piece so he could get the music changes just right. Personally i liked the idea of giving it music in the background as it would be origional and hopefully interesting to watch. Next we decided that the best thing to do was to move forward in the play and start a new scene. At first our idea was to do a scene while the troubled couple are in a counceling session after been convinced by there son. However the fact we only have three actors in the group made it very difficult as seb who plays the child would have to become the counceler and we didnt like that. Also throughout the scene it was very compact and there wasnt much movement movement in the scene we tried adding thought tracking but nothing seemed to work. So we changed the scene into the child trying to talk to the parent so we could play around with it been more open because personally i think that open drama thats more spaced out is allot better. The piece is only short so we decided that it would be good if we left the piece on a cliff hanger so we could address how they felt that it ended . our last scene was my faveruite as it had the song we wrote in music in it. there were no complecations in this scene and were proud that we had the play finished. After this in the last few lessons we simply perfected everything we had done and got it as smooth as possible.