Commedia dell'Arte Task 5 - Personal Evaluation of Performance Task 1 (Final)

Part 1: Performance Task 1 Self-Assessment

What choices did you make for your rough draft performance?

• I interacted with the audience more in my rough draft performance. I chose to go sneaking around the room, suspiciously look at the audience, act as if I was listening into some juicy gossip and at the end I chose to turn to the audience, look at them and use gestures with my finger against my lips to tell them to quite while I stole a "water bottle" and ended my performance that way. I used mischievous and suspicious expressions on my face. I didn't really use many levels but I did use a lot of pace because I basically kind of tip-toed across one side of the room to another. I used my walking to guide Brighella, my character.

How much time did you spend practicing fro your performance?

• I spent 3-5 minutes every 4 days to practice my character t school with some of my friends. I also stood in front of the mirror once or twice to look at the expressions and facial traits.

What specific feedback did you get  from your rough draft performance?

• I was told to interact more with the audience and I was told to show more mischief in my expressions. My tip-toe-esque, closed hips walk was really good according to the audience. I was also told to switch something instead of stealing the water bottle because my personality is more selfish than greedy. And I also some comedic facial expressions like acting appalled and I was told to show more facial expressions that would be visible the audience. 

How did you feel your final performance went?

• I think my final performance was honestly worse than my rough draft performance because I think that I lost the essence and gist of Brighella because my rough draft performance was so long ago. I think that my final performance needed a lot of the good elements from the rough draft performance and maybe could've used more improvisation.

What did you choose to change for your final performance?

• I chose add the squinting of my eyes and hide behind he trees because I thought it would look good. I also chose to out in the reading of papers so it looks "mischievous". But I think that didn't work.

What specific feedback did you get?

• I was told to add more mischief to my facial expressions and add more interactions. I was also old to incorporate different levels and show some different expressions of mischief on my face instead of one facial expression. I was told that my "squinty eyes" were good and so was looking through the paper and incorporating a imaginary character to make it more entertaining.

What would you score your performance out of 10 using the Criteria B descriptors? Explain Why.

• I would grade my performance a 5 out of 10 because I thought that I had all he concepts of the classical commedia character down, but the problem was that I couldn't incorporate all the traits of Brighella into the performance, so I understood the whole concept and was able to carry out a satisfactory performance judging from my feedback.

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Part 2: Performance Task 1 Peer Assessment 

Pick someone who's character is completely opposite than the one you chose. 

• I chose to evaluate Minnie's performance of the Doctor.

Evaluate their character based on what you know about the character. 

• Minnie's character focuses all the energy on the stomach/belly making that the distinguishable feature for the doctor and expression wise he has to be quite oblivious and clueless, basically the thing about the doctor is that he doesn't understand anything yet he has a lot of knowledge and he's basically funny. So I think that Minnie was able to show that in her performance and her facial expressions and use of space and audience interaction was very good.

How close did they come? What did you like about their performance? 

• I think Minnie was able to pull off the performance of the doctor almost perfectly because her interaction with the audience was great it was really funny and cute. I really liked the performance when she used the mumbling/gibberish aspect from commedia and was able to incorporate it into the performance, I think it was my favorite performance!

What do you think they could have improved from their performance?

•  She could've added a part to the performance where the doctor's clueless and more tragic side came out because he couldn't understand while Minnie's whole performance was more comedic and cute I think she should've added a part where the tragic and clueless side of the doctor came out. 

What score out of 10 would you give them using the Criteria B descriptors? Explain why.

• I think Minnie scored a 8 out 10 because she was consistent and interactive with her peformance, She also used gibberish/and or muttering which is a aspect of Commedia, that I no one expect for one more persohose to incorporate into their performances so I thought that was something good she took into account. Her interaction with the audience was very good because looked at us and rubbed her bell and gave some humor to it. She only missed the tragic side of the doctor, but other than that it was a very good performance.