Today we attended 'Thames View Primary and Infant School' to perform our BTEC Children's Theatre production of 'Fantastic Mr Fox'. The strongest part of my performance, in my opinion came when I became Mole. I was clearly able to show contrast in voice and posture between my 2 characters and was able to keep up my characteristics and stance throughout my performance even when I wasn't directly involved. My voice was clear and completely opposite to Boggis making it easy for the young children to notice the difference.
If I could make any improvements on my performance it would be my characterisation of Bunce. after looking back over my performance I appeared to lose my characteristics and my posture when I wasn't involved in a conversation. In order to improve my performance I could have engaged as the character of Boggis at all time whilst on the stage even when the focus was not directly on me..
However I believe my voice made up for a lot of my performance as Boggis. I was able to keep up the volume and voice the whole way though and was able to change it slightly to show emotion (E-G- when I was scared or when I was crying).
For Boggis I stood tall proving I was taller than Bunce trying to out do him. I had one hand on my belly and one on my back, giving the impression that I struggle with my weight. However for my Mole impression I got slightly lower and hunched my back a bit and squinted my eyes to give the impression I was blind. I decided to stick my front teeth out to give myself some animal characteristics. (As our audience were small Infant or Primary school students therefore I tried to make the most comparison between my characters as possible including posture, voice and facial expressions). For my boggis voice I attempted to use my throat more making my voice more rough and lower to give the impression of farmer like characteristics. However for mole I went slightly higher pitch and slightly more nasaly to increase the idea of a contrast.
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