Evaluation

One of the things I think worked was our staging on stage, I think it worked well because there were always different levels being used.
There was always someone either sat on the floor or stood up and there was always people sat on a sofa and even people laid on top of the back of the sofa.
I think it worked because it always meant there was someone new happening and it always gave the audience something to look at. I do think that I could have got up a little bit more in our performance because I feel like I was sat down for too long. I think I could have got up when Maria got pushed next to me to show that I really don't want to be near her.

I also think we used our tones of voice well. For example, when Jake is patronising Katina he says "I didn't sleep with her you dopey cow!", he changed his voice from a high pitch, defensive tone to a slow, sarcastic tone.
Also when I'm sat on the sofa and Maria falls onto Jake my voice goes from a low, not in the mood tone to a shouting, aggressive tone.
I think this worked well as it shows what each of our characters are feeling through our voices, it's especially important because the audience at the back of the hall may not have been able to see our facial expressions so by using our voices to match our moods the audience at the back of the hall would have been able to understand what each of us are feeling. However, I think what we could have done to improve this is project a little bit more just so then the audience could have heard us a little better, but I don't think our projection was too bad.

I quite like the fact that our performance was on upper stage and we had the front half of the stage blacked out, because it showed that we were in a cramped, confined space- which we were in. This helped us a lot too because it limited the amount of space we could use to show the audience where we are.

One of the things we didn't do too well is show the audience we were on a ship, for all they know it could have been in a hotel room. So I think we could have shown we were on a ship by maybe acting a little nauseous and believing we were on a ship.
However we did show that we were in a really little room, which helped us.

In rehearsals we worked in the music booth to show us how much space we would have had if we really were in a little boat cabin. However this did come to a problem as we were not using our voices properly- not projecting- so we had to keep reminding ourselves that we have to talk a lot louder so that the audience can hear us when we did our big performance.

I liked that Michelle's character was drunk all the way through our piece and made the situation more awkward than it had to have been, however I think what could have improved was when her character first comes in and throws up she should have made the throwing up part last a little longer because drunken sick keeps coming up, you don't usually just throw up the once.

I thought it was really good when Greta's character started taking the Crystal Meth because it gave the audience an insight into her characters life and showed them what she does in her life and it shows her reaction to other character's reactions to her lifestyle.
It's annoying that she had to do it on the floor though as the audience at the back may not have been able to see what she was doing or her reaction to everything that we were saying to her. But I think she still did a great job, especially when she stood up and looked at all of the audience just after she did the Meth. I think she did great at that bit because she kept a straight face- even though the whole of the audience was laughing and she acted how someone would just after Crystals, she was doing the gerning and playing with her nose a lot but not too much.

I think at the end of our performance when the alarms are going off and Beccy-(Michelle) is knocked out on the floor with Maria and I are surrounding her trying to help her and Jake-(Harry) is trying to find a way to get out of the cabin because he's scared is pretty good because it ends of a cliffhanger so the audience are left not knowing what's happening to any of us. I also like how we changed the lights to a blueish colour so there's more of an erey feel for the audience and with all of us shouting, lost and confused just makes it more tense.
However if we made that little bit last a little longer and had a bit more to say than that would have been a lot better, because the audience would think there'd be an answer to why the alarms are going off.