EVALUATION FMP

My level 2 music performance (titled) journey turned out to be an Up and Down experience, however, we managed to get through with it.

On the day of the performance we started off by doing a sound check, this slightly brought confusion as Part of the people in are band felt unprepared and felt like the sound check could be a time to redeem themselves. However there was no time at all for it was a sound check, this included in the song( rock star ) where there were 3 microphones that had BV-backing vocals) to give more harmonies, this allowed the song to be more energized and upbeat, this would encourage the audience to get involved.

As this was one of our first gigs on a setup stage we had to make a where of safety echoes, where there was a slight gap between the back wall and the drums so the drummers were told to be careful by the safety team. A long side that thought of safety an idea suggested was to have white tape around the edge of the platform we would be stepping on to get on stage, this was useful for when the lights turned down as it was a black stage the white outline of the tape will be easy to recognise and give people the chance to step on to the stage with confidence.

There were many risks when it came to the lighting one of them was the mind blowing (keyboard effect) this was caused by the shadows of the light and made it look like there were more keys to play, I mainly found it confusing when it came to the song (dollar) the As I was playing two keys, however I dealt with this problem by putting bright blue tape on the keys I needed to play as a reminder, to where I need to play my notes.

When it comes to proformas's any thing can happen that why rehearsals and sound checks are more than important for as an example of this was in our sound check we had a smoke machine that was on just so we could get comfortable with how it felt, however a lot of smoke was being let out and as result a that the fire alarm went off and had the whole college evacuated from the smoke,  in some ways that were a good situation as if that was to happen in the real gig, that really could of put everything at risk but most of all that musical connection with the audience, however, I strongly feel that part of that connection was lost due to the smoke machine being too much to the point I could not see , this was because I could not see the audience enough for me to present the emotional depth in the song and example of this was my solo performance, singing (Ordinary people - by John Legend) I strongly fell that that song can relate to many individuals who might be going through trials and tribulations, as that what people in there numbers go through.

Furthermore if there was one criticism that could be given would be the lack of promotion clearly due to the lack of promotion we had a small and if I'm honest a week audience, this should push us as performers and host of the gig to again try communicate and get them out there comforts zone, this was done wear it was the last song of our gig and it was the last to show what we had to offer as the lead singer I humbly ask the audience how that was doing if they enjoyed the night, and not really surprised by their reaction which came across with a low energy, I asked again trying to hype them up and their reaction was a little better but it worked we then played a well-known song called (happy- by Pharrell Williams) and as it is a well know song the audience would be energised and be loosened up.This Will definitely create a sense of achievement for the band as we were behind in rehearsal from 3 weeks ago, but slowly and confidential built us up.

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