Technique: learning to use arts language, conventions, styles. Working respectfully with props, instruments and other equipment. Making: To complete my storying journey I needed to use computer and video recording and editing software to be able to record and edit my Arts Making piece of work. As I recorded my video (many times!), I would watch the video afterward and take note of areas where I could improve, such as voice projection, better eye contact, telling my story succinctly and using communicative expression. As I reflected on each video and attempted another take, I saw that each time I was improving with the presentation of my story and I was learning techniques to better my arts performance for future arts making. …show more content…
Making: In the Arts Responding activity I used observation by viewing other past student’s videos of their story journey and I considered their different styles of performance and collected ideas on how I could improve the quality of my own performance when communicating my own journeying story to others.
Responding: In the Arts Responding activity it was necessary for me to attend to careful and considered looking, viewing and listening while watching the video I needed to respond to. I was able to list the different elements of drama and as I was watching the movie I could mentally attribute many of the elements of drama to the scenes that were being shown. As I was able to observe this it gave me many scenes from the movie to show examples from in my writing.
Reflect
Question, explain & evaluate your work. Making: In the Arts Making activity it was essential for me to constantly review and evaluate the work that I was presenting and question whether I could do it better with another video take. This was important in improving the quality of my performance in my journey story piece and producing a piece of work that would engage the …show more content…
While I was telling my story, I was very aware that the audience I was speaking to was aimed at primary school aged children. I made sure that the terminology that I used in my story was appropriate for younger children to be able to comprehend and that the themes and ideas used in my story were able to be understood by primary school aged students. I also used my voice to create expression in the story and hand actions as I was describing different scenes in my story to keep children interested and engaged in my