Fourth Production Meeting and Strengths and Weaknesses (PPP + Jazz/Contemporary Technique) - 03/12/15

Fourth Production Meeting Overview:

At the beginning of todays lesson, we had a production meeting. In this lesson, we spoke about all the  tasks we have completed and all the tasks we're yet to complete. At the very beginning of the meeting, we had five minutes in our groups to discuss what we had been doing. Myself and the rest of the Marketing team got together and started to discuss this. One of the people in the group explained to the rest of us how they had organised there to be a cake sale in the main reception on January 11th. This is a good idea as we will be raising money and promoting our show. At the same time, we will also be doing a raffle, of which the main winner will win two tickets to see our show. We then tried to come up with other ideas of fundraising. We did not have much luck with ideas, however some people later on in the class came up with other ideas. We then got asked by Julia to create a poster for the show, so as a group we decided to each create one. Then we would pick the best three and put them around the school and then the best one as our programme cover. We also got asked to create a programme template and then make some official ones. She also told us to consider whether we wanted people to pay for our programme or not.
Afterwards we then got into a large circle and each group discussed what they had been doing and planned to do. Overall, this production meeting was successful as we discussed everything we needed to do and the deadlines we have to complete them.

Strengths and Weaknesses

In todays lesson, we had Julia. We mainly concentrated on Lucy and Blaze's routine for the show. At the very end of the lesson, Josie came in and we rang the 'hunting for the witches' piece. Overall, this lesson was very productive as we learnt more of the routines and cleaned up others. Both routines have elements of Jazz, Contemporary and Urban. None of my strengths and weaknesses from my previous lesson have changed, so I will discuss them again and why they're there this week.

Strengths:

• My first strength, which was in my previous blog post, is my determination. This is because no matter what happened during each routine, I carried on pushing myself to do the best of ability. I also made sure that no matter what had happened outside of lessons, it did not effect my ability to work with other people. To continue to have this as a strength, I will always push myself and be determined to do whatever it takes to improve.
• My second strength, which was somewhat a strength of mine this lesson, was my stamina. Although I found some routines difficult to keep my stamina up in, the majority of the time, I was able to. I know my stamina will never be my greatest strength, however I will continuously push myself to make it one of my strengths. To continue to improve this and have this as one of my strengths in lessons, I will try to dance full out throughout all rehearsals to insure it improves dramatically before the show. 

Weaknesses:

• My first and only weakness that I noticed this lesson was my spacing. I believe this was an issue today as occasionally I would not find my place in formations. This is an issue as I need to be able to find my place, without looking at others to find my place. Also, sometimes I would come out of my space, which would make formations look awkward. To improve this, I will consider where I need to be in all my formations.