Improv Performance Review

On Friday night, I went to the improv performance. I was very impressed with how all of the actors were able to think on their feet. I really enjoyed this performance because the audience was very involved with the performances regarding the setting, the characters names and their backgrounds. The performances were very funny and entertaining. One of the games that I liked the most was the blind dating game because it was really funny watching the performers act out the people that they were assigned to. One person was told to be a princess another was told to be a model and the other person was told to be a grandma. What made the performance more entertains was the crowd because the people there were into it and it made the improv a lot more interesting with people trying to act with them. Another one of the games was where the performers had to act out the scenes in 60 seconds then 30 seconds then 15 seconds and then 5 seconds. Watching this I realized how long 60 seconds really is on stage because I could tell that the performers were not sure what to act out. As the time kept going down the actors got funnier because they were trying to do the same performance in a lesser amount of time. By the time it was 5 seconds basically there was just a bunch of screaming and running back and forth on the stage. I didn't particularly like the last game where they had to get someone to get off the bench. I felt like it wasn't as good as the rest of the games and performance that were done before hand. If they would have thought of something else for the ending I think that the performance would have been even better

Group A link

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sm1i-IIUAR5L4ALJ9YL8Wyxsvk7onB3GWnIG_s2DnAc/edit?usp=sharing 

Essay Revision 400 words

There are many things in this essay that I can definately change some of them will be easier and some will be harder. Some of the easy things to change are my citations and a title. This is an easy ten points that I can get back. I also had no quotes so that will be some thing that I can definately add to my essay. I can definately work on my ending sentences to each paragraph they are weak sentences. I can go deeper into the Literary features and I definately want to make my thesis statement I can do a lot of things to my introduction like taking the analysis out of it, strengthen my thesis and background information. Quotes are something very important that I can put into my essay. I will find a quote from the book and I will insert it into the right part of the essay so that it flows and I will de more literary analysis to back up those quotes that I used. I also want to talk more about my performance and and what I think Tom would be thinking when certain lines are being said. For example, when Tom yells at Amanda, I want to quote that sentence from the book, explain why it is important, and then talk about my personal experience delivering that line and what I think Tom in the book is thinking. I also need to really work on my conclusion. I need to do a better job of wrapping up the essay. I can talk more about my performance tactics. I can improve my reflection on my performance.    I could also talk about the good parts of the performance that I felt were successful and I would also talk about the bad. I could talk about forgetting any lines, stage movements and other small errors and mistakes that are normally made during a performance. I can talk about the changing of my voice from when I am absolutely mad at Amanda and also when I talk to Laira. When I talk to Amanda most of the time I am yelling at her. And the times that I talk to Laura, I am not as upset or angry I talk a lot nicer to her than Amanda. I think that I will be able to make a lot of these changes for my final essay.

What what Makes a Performance Good

There are many things that make a performance good. One of those things is the actor themselves. They have to memorize and understand their lines in a way that is appealing and exciting to the audience. When somebody performs and there are these long pauses, it gets boring and you start to wonder if the actor knows their lines. Another thing that makes a performance good is the props. Setting the scene appropriately gives the performance that aspect of it actually happening. For example, the clock that was used was able to give that room feeling. I felt like somebody was actually in their living room pondering their life. Lighting is something else that is important because it adds on a dramatic feeling to the performance. Music also has the same effect. Some bad things to a performance would be not remembering your lines, props that don't belong, music that doesn't quite fit, and lighting that is eat her too bright, too dark or stays the same the entire performance.

Performance Link

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8CyvyUYraHQ