Self Tape- National theatre connections

Self-tapes-National theatre connections

The self tapes:

Skins:

Desks:

Evaluation of my performance:

This is my first time doing self tapes ever. I was a bit worried that I wouldn't know how to do one, but I took in all the points that my teacher gave me and added them in to make a good looking self tape. I ensured to have a clear background, I used an LID ring light as I didn't have any good natural lighting, I made sure that the camera was at eye level, I left space above and below my head and I made sure that there was nothing else in the background behind me. 

Skin- This character is very different to what I have done before. She is kind off psychotic. Shes in a group of a gang, and shes not afraid of others. Shes violent and harsh to other people. She treats the other characters like garbage. In this show she's name calling and beats a lot of the other characters up. She even ends up killing a dog. Now going back to how I think the self tape went. I think that the set up was over all good. Now the acting. Since I haven't done anything like this before I believe that I did a good job. I feel as if I could have used my eyes a little bit more during this. I could have made them to make me look a bit creepier and psychotic. I could have also used a bit more movement for this character, maybe with the hands. 

Desk- This character is very different to Skin. They are innocent and kindhearted, they would want anything bad to happen to anyone. This character out of all the show is the most similar to Charlie Bucket, the last character I played in a show. This made me believe that I would be able to play him the best out of all the other characters in the show. Since I have done a similar character, I believe that i could have done better for this self tape. I could have shown a lot more emotion with my face and with the tone of my voice. Next time I will ensure to add and analyse it. Another thing that I didn't like was the gap em-between the first two lines, "Apathy, it sounds like some weird disease. Us, down here, on the ground.". I wasn't sure how to say these lines, as I'm pretty sure from reading the script the first line is said to a character called Blister, then the second line said to a character called Antler. Since I was meant to be talking to two characters I tried to change my tone a little bit and also look another direction but I'm not sure if it was a mistake. 

Feedback:

Skin- I could have used a little more craziness in my eyes

Desk- It looked a little odd when I turned my head to talk to another character