If someone tells you cannot do, it does not mean you cannot do.

It means you cannot do it with

them. Taking parts in performing something on stage is not as easy as we see when we are the

spectators. In task 3, my friends and I are given task to perform a role play performance on two

novels which are The Jungle Book and Gulliver’s Travel. There are a lot of knowledge and

experience that we gained from the performance. Luckily, we managed to perform a good

performance with guidance from our beloved lecturer, Mr Chan Seong Long. The skills to perform

is vital to be a teacher since teaching itself is one type of performance. According to Rockoff

(2004), interesting teachers give bigger impact rather than interesting subject. In this piece of

writing, there are few things regarding my experience of performing. In producing a great

performance, emphasis of tone and intonation, process of producing role play and the

implementation of performance kit give big effect.

Firstly, the new thing that I master is the emphasis of tone and intonation to uplift the mood

of the character. According to McEwan (2003), with the guidance of my friend that used to

participate in any performance before, I improve myself by practising the right way to fix my

intonation to be more alive. It is quite challenging because my intonation is quite monotonous and

it is difficult for me to realign my voice. To improve my intonation, I practise talking and record it

to know how I sound. Paulston (1976) stated that those activities are effective enough to work on

somebody’s intonation. In the role play performance, one of my character is as The King. As a

lady, I need to act like how a real king behaves. I have to modify my voice to sound like a man to

make sure that people will not misunderstand me as a lady king.

Next, during the process of producing the role play, I learnt on how to works in group and

reorganize the script. In our group, we divide task to each pair to come out with simplified script

for the chapter they are doing. By doing this, I learn that we should not be selfish and need to

cooperate well with our teammates. A group of people that do things together have higher

potential than those who do things all by themselves (Ramsden, 1991). After finishing the script,
we proceed with our practice part. During the progress, we face some problems which is we do

not have a proper place to do our practice. Not only that, the practice session is also not smooth

at first since we do not memorise the script yet. So to solve this problem, we discussed with each

other and agreed to memorise as much as we can. According to Tanenbaum (2011), it is almost

impossible to produce a great performance if the actor and actress do not master the steps in the

role play.

Other than that, the implementation of performance kit plays a big role. Since each of us

have our own performance kit, we manage to come out with various type of kits. Not only that,

the performance kits help us to have better presentation of our role play. At first, we chose the

kits that we will use in the role play. In this part, I learnt to differentiate the important things that

we need to have when performing a role play. Due to this awareness, my group manage to come

out with good performance kit like boat, arrow and bow, hair and costume. According to Chang

(2005), props or performance kits are one of big factors that influence the storyline of a

performance. The usage of performance kits helps to uplift the mood of the story and also at the

same time attract the audience’s attention. By choosing the right performance kit, I can make the

role play become a great performance.

In conclusion, there are many thing and experience that I gained through this performance.

To produce a great performance, we need to master the emphasis of tone and intonation. Not

only that the process of producing role play also should be given attention because practice

makes perfect. I have no doubt that if my friends and I did not practise well, we will fail to perform

a good performance. Lastly, the implementation of performance kit gives big effect in a role play.

That means, if we use the correct performance kit we managed to attract the audience to watch

us.
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