Totally
Over you Evaluation
Storyline
Totally over you
Is about a 1 group of girls in love and going out with another group of boys
who are all friends. The girls one day think that having a boyfriend would
interfere with them becoming famous so they decide to dump them. The group of
boys are angry and one of the younger boys gives them an idea to pretend to be
pop stars and they will come running back to them but the boys won’t make it
easy for them. So they get a pretend agent and manager. Then the girls hear
from a homeless boy who is really the little friend that he can tell the future
and he see’s their ex boyfriends will become pop stars, they can’t believe.
The first
‘pretend’ concert they have they write a song called totally over you
describing the girls who are there watching waiting for the show to finish so
they can to talk to them. The girls are hurt by the lyrics and after the show
the boys tell them that they want nothing to do with them and that they are
over them.
The girls beg them
an at the end the boys forgive them but when they tell the girls it was a joke,
they are shocked and very upset but later they understand that it was all their
fault and it was a lesson learnt. In the end they all get back together.
Evaluation
As a whole the
musical the school performed was really good, as the story line was very well
written as it was something students could relate to, the language and
scenarios used were school based, and the problems that came across were
everyday problems like young love relationships, relationships between friends
and having dreams and aspirations. Even though their storyline was really good
it was quite basic and predictable.
The costumes used
were really good and realistic, especially the set design, they used the same
set design throughout the whole play which was consistent and since the stage
was used for the main songs and when the band were playing it showed the
audience its main purpose was to show that the boys were playing on a mains
stage and that it was a scene change, however it would have been better if they
created more set designs just to make it more clear and more engaging for the
audience.
They used several
props on stage which really added to their characters as it helped the audience
understand each character individually.
I was sat to one
side of the performance so I could hear a lot of chattering and movement of
equipment, to minimise as much noise they should have had props ready on the
nearest side instead of taking things across or backstage to the other side.
At times it was
quite hard to hear some characters, as their voices were really quiet compared
to the characters with head mikes. They used the curtains to their advantage,
which was good for the audience as it made us wonder what was going to happen
next it also made it clearer when there was going to be a scene change.
The way they broke
into the songs was brilliant, as it went really well with the scene beforehand
as the characters wanted to express their feelings, especially the enthusiasm
they put in it, however I think they should have done more dance numbers as a
whole cast as its one of the main conventions of a musical, their last song
they did sing together but there wasn’t much movement between themselves and
every amazing musical needs to end with a big dance and singing number.
War Horse
Storyline
The play Warhorse
is about a poor family, a husband and wife and a son, who live on a ranch. One
night the father is out with his son and father is drunk around the corner they
see an auction where there are selling a baby horse and he sees his enemy (his
brother) and they both begin to compete for that horse. Purposely his brother
lets him win because he knows he would waste his money as he is drunk and he
buys the horse with the money he was meant to send to pay the mortgage.
They leave the boy
in charge of the horse and he names him Joey. The boy becomes incredibly
attached to horse and the other way round they do everything together. After
many problems that slowly get solved in the play half way through the play the
dad sells the horse to the army for the war without telling the boy, once the
boy finds out it’s too late to buy him back but the general promises that he
would look after Joey.
Weeks later a
letter is sent to the boy, and family that the general is dead and everyone
else believes Joey is too, but the boy knows he’s alive. One night he escapes
to join the war and find him. At the end both horse and man are reunited for a
beautiful ending.
The Evaluation
The most amazing
thing about war horse that will stay with me and I think everyone in the
audience is the wooden horses, the detail, and realistic sizes were incredible,
especially how the actors manipulated the wooden horses to make them come to
life.
The storyline at
first sounded a bit tedious but from the minute the play began it was so
amazing to see how the main character bonded with Joey (horse), their acting
was so realistic and made the audience feel their connection. They should have
added more humour because the plot overall was quite serious and sad so by
maybe adding elements of humour at the beginning would have made the play
better.
The sound effects
used to create the thunder and the sound of bombs, alarms and sirens through
the scene where there is a war was really effective as it engaged the reader
and allowed us to feel like we were actually there, especially when there were
gun shots
The scene changes
were clear, even though at times to get all the props on stage and the horses
did take time but as they were in character throughout it, it wasn’t that
noticeable and just look like part of the play.
The drama
techniques used like when the whole cast on stage would freeze and there would
be a crosscut, they stayed in their positions for quite some time yet they
still held their position.
However the play
did go on for quite a while, and it became quite complicated which maybe had
you at times getting distracted but the sound effects definitely kept the
audience hooked throughout.
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