Devising Evaluation

Group Work
Getting things done
I found that as a group we worked well together once we had started putting a scene or a movement piece together. I feel like that we struggled to start because I feel like that we liked to discuss what we are going to do. If we were going to do another devising piece, I feel like we need to be more active and just get up and try something and if it doesn't work scrap it and try something else. But once we started, because we had a similar idea of the piece we wanted to create, we got things done quickly. We may of been able to maybe to try another scene if we were more active as we had the same idea but wasted time discussing ideas rather than trying them. I did like the fact that we did workshop a lot of ideas like the different staging to make sure we did it the best possible way we could do it. It was also difficult to devise when we did have members of our group away but now looking back at this I felt like we were relying on there being a full group which isn't always guaranteed and ended up wasting time because of this.

Research
I feel like that we did good research and made each piece very realistic to how each problem of the aspect of women's rights was presented. I feel like because we also used quotes that were used in real life, it improved our dialogue compared to previous devised pieces. Also, because we used a lot of realistic events, it made it more believable and audience could relate to each scene as they would of heard of each of our problems as they are very well known. I think it helped that we looked into each of our scenes into more detail out of lesson and then coming in to see how we could then incorporate this into our piece.

Group arguments
I felt like the group as a whole took offence to when either their idea was rejected or when something wasn't done their way. I feel like in devising pieces, there are always going to be arguments on people preferring other ideas but I felt like some people sometimes gave off an angry tone and this lead to people being offended leading to bigger arguments. I feel like this was unintentional and was thinking of the devising piece and wanted to be good but I feel like this could of prevented a lot of falling outs and gave us more time to work on the actual piece. Because of this, a lot of people got fed up of what could come across as moaning and retaliated (including me) which just made the argument worse. I feel like next time, things should be said in a calm and controlled voice to prevent this fro  happening.

Performance
I think that the performance went very well. I think acting wise, everybody knew what they were doing and nobody went wrong or confused anybody else. I think that we were very prepared and ready for the performance. The technical problem we had was that the speaker turned itself off meaning the audio for the clip for Emily being hit by the horse, the audio the video for "In the jungle" and the music for the signs weren't played. This did make it a bit awkward but I don't think many of audience members noticed this and I think the group did well to improvise this.