Evaluation: 
This is the final blog which will show all the work and effort everyone put in this term to work towards this one live performance infant of friends and family of the performers. I will also evaluate the performer throughout the rehearsals over the past couple of months leading up to this very important performance.

The Technical performance skills in drama for "School Song" were very important and meant that everyone had to make sure that they were at the top of their game in order to make sure the technical skills were good enough to make an amazing performance. I feel that in the performance our characterisation was really good as everyone was able to stay in character and make everything so real including having some very good facial expressions through out. I think that my facial expressions were really good because my face made me look like I was very scared and nervous. I feel like the other little kids portrayed this very well too because it helped me knowing that they were doing the same things as me. I feel that I could have had more language because my voice made me sound like a little kid but my body language did not really show my nervous and scared feelings. Although when the big kids make me jump I used my body language to show how scared I was which I though was very effective. I also think that the way the little kids interacted was very good but the way the little kids interacted with the big kids was not as good as what it could have been.

Technical performance skills in dance for "School Song" were very good in my opinion though out. I feel that the dancing that I did as a performer throughout the dance was very limited but I was still able to express my dancing in the best way I could in the performance. I made sure that when I was really scared I'd make all my movements sharp and when they made me jump I made my whole body go fridged so it looked like I was scared to move. When i rolled across the stage I made sure the move showed fluidity and a transition which could mean I was starting to follow what they were saying and the transition of breaking from the other little kids for the first time but after this i do a sharp head tilt to bring back my scared and nervous emotion which was really effective. Although towards the end of the dance I felt like everyone was unsure of what moves we did in the gap so some people did a move and some didn't which could be very confusing when watching it. I feel like after all the performing before the "School Song" performance helped me very much because it improved my stamina which meant I could keep singing, acting and dancing without worrying that I needed to stop because I was exhausted. I also feel we could have improved on our formation because we were quite messy and it did not look very good on the film especially when people were in the triangle.

Technical performance skills in singing for "School Song" were very important in this performance because we had to make sure we were singing in the right way the whole way through in order to have a good performance. In my opinion our projection through out the performance was very good because we were easily understood in the way we were saying the words and when the chorus started for “so you think you’re able” everything was very good and the words all sounded really good and fitted in. I feel like the articulation for the chorus was very well and that the letters really stood out when the little kids shouted them and showed that the warm up tongue twisters really was useful for the actual performance. I feel like I could improved on my tempo in the performance because I was not always in time with the music. This could have been prevented if we all worked with the piano more and kept rehearsing with him instead. I also feel I should have worked more on my singing in a higher range because the high notes did not sound very good.

I feel the use of the props was very good throughout because we passed the blocks really well and I feel like it was very effective because people were able to see the block letters at the right time when it was at an amazing fast-pace which suited the atmosphere of the performance. I feel like this was very useful because it separated the beginning from the end as the little kids and the big kids come together so much near the end.

I felt like the costume we had for the performance was very good because we had a clear separation between the big kids and the little kids as the little kids were really smart and looked like they were dressed in the way little kids would be on the first day of school, then the big kids had more of a messy look that made them seem like they do not care as much as the little kids. I feel this concept was clever because it meant that when they merged together there was a clear divide. Although I feel that it would have been really effective if the little kids pulled there ties of at the end to show their transition.

I thought that the health and safety was not very good because everyone's special awareness was not very good and it could have caused other people to bump into each other. During the performance I was pulled into the circle surrounded by the big kids and fell when they pulled me in but did not get hurt, but this could have been really bad if I fell. I also feel this could have been prevented if everyone was more careful when pulling us little kids into the circle. During rehearsals no one was hurt but they could have because of the blocks were being thrown around, therefore I felt everyone was very careful and being careful and alert at all times. Everyone also made sure they were wearing the right clothing in order not to hurt themselves, through taking off any jewellery and being not wearing any clothing that does not have any give. In my opinion we should have done more vocal warm ups as group because every lesson I felt my voice could have been better if I had warmed it properly but the warming for dance was alright because always made sure I stretched before the rehearsals.

I felt like throughout this experience my self discipline was very good because I made sure I was always there to make sure I was not missing anything and made sure even when we were not doing a proper warm up, that I would always warm up before.

The peer feedback that I had was very useful. They basically said that the acting we did was really good and made it seem like we were actually portraying this character. Although they said we needed to be louder and work on our formation.

The skills that I feel I need to improve on for the future are:
-Projection when singing as I was very quiet
-I need to make sure I know all the dance moves because some of the dance moves in the performance I was unsure about.
-I also need to improve my interactions with the other performers because it makes the atmosphere in which they perform better.