7B Drama: Given Topic Speeches from YIS Arts on Vimeo.

Taro’s speech was good, because he spoke in a clear voice and it was very easy to understand. His topic was interesting and he spoke with interest and his voice had a good tone. However, his facial expression could of been improved on.

I think my voice is clear and easy to understand. I talk in a decent volume, loud-enough for the audience to understand. My pitch is good, and easy to understand.

I need to improve my pace, because I rushed in certain parts, and made it harder to understand. I also need to speak clearer.

Charlie Chaplin and his girlfriend expressed there emotions via facial movements. Charlie Chaplin and his girlfriend exaggerated many expressions to express it to the audience.

Girlfriend: Charlie Chaplin’s girlfriend expressed her sadness by falling and then leaning on the rock. She also firmed up when Charlie Chaplin started talking to her.

Charlie Chaplin: Charlie Chaplin talked to his girlfriend when she saw she was sad. Charlie Chaplin firmed up his arms and then hit his chests.

7B Drama: Mime Door from YIS Arts on Vimeo.

In this video, Sean and I were trying to open a locked door. We solved it by forcing open the door and then knocking it over at the end. I think we were really good at acting like the door was closed, however I think I could of improved my acting when I was knocking over the door and when I fell.

I think we could use these skills in the future, as it will help us to make it look more realistic, but also make it look more interesting.

We were assigned to make a dance, and we were allowed to make any dance with any theme.
Our group decided to make one that is related to Medieval theme. We used ribbons as wands and we wanted to make a rhythmic dance.

Couple of weeks ago, we presented our Medieval dance. It was not our finished one, but all our ideas into a small one. We got lots of positive comments and very few negative ones. Our dance had rhythm, patterns and we were well organised. However, our dance was too short, and that was one of our negative comments.

We used the feedback given by our class and the teacher, and we changed and added parts we never thought of. For example, we added a more scary and “On-guard” introduction instead of starting the dance by a big “Woosh” created by the group. We used the idea given by the teacher to make a more Medieval feeling by adding more expressions at the beginning.

We also added a “Switching wand” scene. We did this by throwing our wands in the air and then catching your opponents wand. Then we would do it again to get our original wand back. Not only that, our original fighting scene was short and did not have a variety of moves. Instead, we added more moves and made it longer by fighting your opponent longer.

At the end, we agreed to do a final and big attack by spinning the ribbons then attacking each other. After we did that, we would throw our wands straight into the air, and then act dead.

I think we did a very good job, and I thought our dance was creative. However, I would of liked to make it longer.

My strengths would be the video of me performing “Statues”. I tried to make it as funny as I could and It sort worked. I spoke with a loud voice and used my whole body. My weaknesses would be in the other video. I was not really creative and I was not really reacting to the scene. I could improve by adapting to the scene and continue it.

The easy thing about this would be me doing statues. I was confident and knew what I was doing. The challenging thing would be me adapting to the scene.

6A Statues 2 from YIS Academics on Vimeo.

6A Spacejump 2 from YIS Academics on Vimeo.