For CAS Week this year, I participated in being a Student Leader for the Year 8 Create series, specifically for creating a play in a week in collaboration with Faust. I was excited to share the little drama knowledge I had acquired over the years with the Year 8 students, probably rehearsing for their first ever play, and having only a week to create it.
It wasn't an easy experience. There were stressful times and times when I felt frustrated by the lack of focus by the students, but I learnt to deal with that and focus on the positive thoughts and the constructive feedback that I thought would help in making them better actors and the play better. My co-student leader and I decided to take voice workshops to help the students speak louder with clear diction when they were not in the auditorium rehearsing. This helped them on stage and saved the Director and Assistant Director time from teaching them the same things again.
This was a learning curve for me too, because I was part of the production team for the first time where I had to take care of sound and watch out for cues to see to it that the actors got their cues for sound. It was as nerve-racking as acting and very stressful too, but it gave me an opportunity to experience a different side of theatre, one that I was very interested in, and helped me also build on skills that I had learnt during the leader in Improv Club and test it over a one week, more strenuous period.
It wasn't an easy experience. There were stressful times and times when I felt frustrated by the lack of focus by the students, but I learnt to deal with that and focus on the positive thoughts and the constructive feedback that I thought would help in making them better actors and the play better. My co-student leader and I decided to take voice workshops to help the students speak louder with clear diction when they were not in the auditorium rehearsing. This helped them on stage and saved the Director and Assistant Director time from teaching them the same things again.
This was a learning curve for me too, because I was part of the production team for the first time where I had to take care of sound and watch out for cues to see to it that the actors got their cues for sound. It was as nerve-racking as acting and very stressful too, but it gave me an opportunity to experience a different side of theatre, one that I was very interested in, and helped me also build on skills that I had learnt during the leader in Improv Club and test it over a one week, more strenuous period.
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