Reflection+on+Performance

Name: Eseta

In the space below write a brief description of your performance, including details on your use of voice, gesture, space and body to help convey your character. If you were playing more than one character choose one to focus on.

Character: Hero 'Much Ado About Nothing'

I thought that my performance of Hero was very good. The use of voice. In the first part of the scene I was planning something with Margaret and Ursula, I was planning a little plot in order for my cousin Beatrice to fall in love with another man called Benedick. When I was planning it my voice had to be at a normal speed and a normal tempo also a normail volume. I had to keep it at medium volume because of the situation I was in. As it went on, I had to speak louder in the second part of the scene in order for Beatrice to hear what I was saying. For my gesture, I had to do little gestures to my best friend Ursula in order for her to know where I was going. So I had to make little gestures to Ursula in order for her to follow me and play along in what I was doing. I also had to do gestures for some lines, for example: 'If tall a lance ill headed' for that line of dialogue I had to put two of my hands up in the air and act as if I was tall. The space that I had around me and around the characters was a very small one. The reason for this was because I always had to be next to Ursula in order to pretend that we were having a normal conversation about Beatrice, when really we knew that Beatrice was there all along. My body movement for the character Hero had to be very posh. Everywhere I walked I'll walk one foot in front of the other and always have my head up, swaying my hips from side to side. This conveyed my character very well and told everyone that i was like a high achieving office woman who is always willing to get the job done. Over all, I thought I did a great job with the performance. It went very well.