'Drama Evaluation – The Ash Girl Essay\r'

'I could non find the necessary evaluation sheet for the ash girl, so I deliver employ the sheet for Macbeth, entirely I retrieve that the questions ar interchangeable in context, and will try to include special to compensate for parts that may non be specified new(prenominal)wise.\r\nFor our interpretation of the ash girl, we chose to focus on human characteristics, and what effects the 7 deadly sins would chastise them with. We chose this path of representation as the strong sign of the lam is the illustration of the sins in the bring up characters, and wherefore they ca ingestion trustworthy events. To incorporate this into our military man, we acted as humankind with strong features as their corresponding sins, we also include the qualities of the equivalent animals, in our intonation and presence. We felt that if we apply the animalistic approach it may detract from the composition used in this piece, (the illustration of the sins in the make characters, and why they cause certain events).\r\nWe used the veritable setting of the forest, further at the same clipping we tried to interpret a contemporary and simple approach from a very(prenominal) structurally multiform piece, with many characters and on divergence ideas, themes and motifs. Our aims in particular, were to convey to the auditive modality how the sins react with the characters to form a basis of accord in context to the rest of the play. We valued to picture how important the sins were in the development of the whole play as a structure, and how the sins so-and-sos be suggested through discover characters.\r\nWe initially wished to use all methods of technical effects, excitement, audio, shore and even our positioning on the typify and how this brush aside be expressed through out characters. For lighting our characters all pass an assigned glossary, which in the serious environment would work an glory of that quality. We chose them according to folk lore and cosmopolitan belief. The following are our survivals;\r\nCHARECTER\r\nCOLOUR\r\nPridefly\r\nNavy drear\r\nSlothworm\r\nNeutral/beige\r\nAngerbird\r\nRed\r\nGreedmonkey\r\nYellow\r\nEnvysnake\r\n fountain\r\nWe chose the annotate blue for Pridefly as it has connotations of respect and hierarchy. The colour of RAF uniform is also blue; we felt this was key as the character is a fly. Slothworm is a very dull, slack off, lethargic and ut more(prenominal) or less boring beast to be around, we chose a dull boring colour for him, more or lessthing so-so(p) with no bright act upon. Angerbird was primarily always going to be the colour red. Obviously through connotations of the colour, we mechanically respond to the colour red with anger, fear, bloodshed, war, but sometimes passion for things. In this case, Angerbird who feels so passionately or so killing and destruction should get two diverse juxtaposed connotations side by side as they do in the right context in trut h panegyric each other. Greedmonkey, has the colour yellow is for the most(prenominal) part it has connotations of happiness, brightness, quick pace, the sun, fun, however like Angerbird and the colour red there are also dualities that compliment each other such as cheekiness, sneakiness and slyness.\r\nWe interpretated Greedmonkey as someone who regularly steals and this can be shown through the combine of beingness a kinda quick minded person, always jumping from certain ideas to another, but at the same time calculating, slow and rather sneaky physically. Envysnake was another easy combination with the colour green. We subconsciously associate green with begrudge, and jealousy. possibly because of many phrases heard, such as: â€Å"sick with envy” or â€Å"green with envy”. We used these colours as lighting, so that when each character was introduced or had a significant part in the piece, we could create an aura to incorporate the theme, which in turn would tone our piece by helping the auditory modality visually relate to the character. We also had decided to produce a forest setting with the lights, using a endurance of plates and gel films, to create the illusion of a forest.\r\nWe to begin with wished to use audio in our piece, out chief(prenominal) aim was to create sounds of the forest, and also a selection of tunes, which had a surrealistic and abstract feel to them, i.e.) some that were short listed were angel by massive attack, and a song by Iron Maiden. The use of a repeating bass line and no vocals in Angel would have not distracted the audience from the drama, and it was also a rather spooky, and very surreal song. We never got round to discussing which Iron Maiden song we might use, however in general, it would have added to the atmosphere of supernatural, as the sins are supernatural, abnormal creatures.\r\nWe decided to not use a song, as we then went for a contemporary setting which focuses more on the dramatizat ion of the piece and not the auditory effects. Props were for the most part if needed, and we didn’t really go as cold as to say that they were compulsory, as we felt that hold were not needed to all characters. Props that we did use were to develop the story or to reinforce characterisation. For example, David Edgar who compete Pridefly used a walking stick. Aynslie Carnan who played Greedmonkey stole, my characters, (Envysnake’s), jewellery, which I used as a prop. David Roberts who played Slothworm used a short sleeping bag to create the sleep theme, and to produce the look of a worm.\r\nIn our piece, I played Envysnake. Overall, Envysnake has snide, envious, supreme personal traits. I wanted the audience to feel this through instead of being jealous with was very hard to play, being vain, superior and conceited, which would give the same kind of effect but in a more psychologically demanding way, as it involves causing the audience to become envious and to empathize with her. The secondary feature of this is that it also brings out envious features in the characters on stage. This technique is far more effective than just acting envy, as the creature inflicts envy on others, and by using the other technique that is exactly what it does.\r\nVocally I added a very soft, innocent accent, as I swear contradiction of the intonation increases the effect of the dramatisation. I incorporated the snake idea into my accent; to do this I exaggerated the sibilance in the script, to create a razzing sound. I did not focus on doing much as an aspect of dramatisation. We felt that eject positions on stage were necessary to stop beguilement from the main points, this is incorporated in out contemporary theme, this way we had less causal agent on stage and less confusion. However if I had used movement primarily, I would use a walk, which appeared to flow, and slink crosswise the stage, as she is a snake.\r\nI personally savvy execute, and am m ore of a theoretic bookman rather than practical. I feel that my fear of performing since my last Macbeth practical, had made me nervous and caused a ample lack of my confidence in acting this abnormal my flow of dialogue and also my mental placement towards performing. To improve on this, I would encourage my assort to attend regular rehearsals, and make sure that we have practiced thoroughly at least 3 times before doing our final assessed performance..\r\nI was most pleased with the contemporary attitude we took to the piece. When many students are given opportunities to include various pieces of media, whether it be auditory or just lighting, I feel it can be abused, and when overused it detracts from the actual piece. I also believe that people may use it to cover blemishes. We chose this style to make the audience focus more on the dramatisation and the feel of the piece and its meanings. The factors, which affected the sucsess of the piece, were probably lack of proper r ehearsals. We couldn’t get abundant practice from the time when we decided what styles we would choose. However I don’t feel it affected the piece significantly. However there were prompts needed for a few members of the group, which did break the flow in some places but only slightly.\r\nIf I had unlimited resources, I would have still remained with the same contemporary style, and would not have changed anything. However unlimited resources meaning time would be greatly appreciated.\r\n'