Learning Outcome 4 - Be Able to Evaluate the Workshop Process In Light of Performance

Artistic and professional: production values; effectiveness; creativity; clarity of interpretation; execution of

vocal and/or instrumental performance skills; fulfilment of objectives; audience response; target setting;

working relationships; self-criticism; management of time and tasks

Vocational: eg target audience for work, potential for further development, nature of work and possible

markets, economic viability

Performance Evaluation

Artistic and Professional

I believe that the production aspect of our performance was up to quite a high standard. We managed to create a backdrop which was synced to our performance, play a long to a click track and we included various different genre influences, key changes and we also used synthesis.
The effectiveness of our synthesis was quite good because helped include sounds that you'd wouldn't usually get out of an ordinary instrument, this helped to broaden the instrumentation and make our songs sound a lot more busy and together as a pose to quiet and lost.

The use of the backdrop in sync with our playing was a very good idea because it made our performance seem so much more professional and it evoked many more emotions for the audience watching us. I believe using the backdrop in sync with our playing especially helped give off a sense of sympathy to the audience.

Listening back to the final performance I think that everyone could be heard clearly and effectively. This was achieved because I got asked to set up all of the equipment e.g. microphones, mixing desk, electric drum kit, pianos, speakers, synths and guitar amps. Because it was my responsibility to set up all of the live sound I also sound checked each band that played on the night to make sure that the levels were perfect and every one was heard equally. I also had to make sure that the mix between the front of house speakers, back of house speakers and the fold back speakers didn't drown each other out and weren't too loud or quiet.

After the performance I thought the audiences response wasn't too bad at all, we were the first group to play so I didn't expect a huge cheer but judging on the size of the audience I like to think that their response gave off the impression that they all enjoyed our performance thoroughly.

My group as a whole all worked together really well. Everybody had an input into our compositions and the way we performed them. We managed to practice outside of college time round each others houses and off of timetable in college, such as in lunch or free periods. This really helped us to build a good working relationship throughout the group. We had also created a Facebook page in order to organise meets and remind each other of work that we each had to do. This proved to be very handy if people had missed a practice and we had made changes to the song which they were unaware of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlgM90H-aBY

Above is a link to an unlisted video of our group doing an off timetable practice in the Easter holidays round Will's house (the drummer). Unfortunately three of the members of the group couldn't make it to the practice because of


To the left you can see a screenshot of the Facebook group we created in order to organise all of our meetings and changes to work. It was also used to post on videos we could use in our peace and conflict videos as a backdrop.You can also see that all of the members of the band are in the group which is good because it means that nobody was left out.

Our time management as a group overall was actually quite good, everybody responded to notifications and messages to meet up and practice very quickly which made it a lot easier to organise ourselves and build our ability to work as a team better. The only thing that I wasn't too happy about when it came to time management was the fact that we left the backdrop videos quite last minute. Although we managed to get them finished and synced up to our playing which was really good, it would have been better if we weren't so rushed doing it.

Overall I am relatively proud of my contribution towards this task within the group. I made an extra effort to show up to all of the practices, take on every bodies different suggestions and ideas and implement the suggestions and ideas into the different tasks. I would have liked to interact with certain members of the group more so that we could have given off an even better performance when it came to the night.

Vocational

I believe that the main target audience for our conflict song/performance was mainly aimed towards adults, possibly older because of some of the content we referred to in the backdrop videos. Although we did try to have some elements of modern day conflict e.g. student riots and army shooting game footage such as Call Of Duty.

I believe that this unit could have been done better if we had managed to develop the songs further, possibly by making the two songs blend together through modulating gradually into the correct keys. This way the performance would sound more professional and would add more artistic, complex aspects to the music to interest the audience further.