Smart Targets Log - Body Language - I Wanna Rock (23/10/23)

 (22:40 - 26:00) 

This number is much longer than it is in the teen version of the show, however this has given me much more to think about particularly in the scene leading up to it. Drew is portrayed as being nervous while around Sherrie all while trying to act cool and calm around her, however as Sherrie asks more questions about what Drew wants to be he starts getting fidgety and develops a lot of tension in his shoulders until he finally starts singing and that tension breaks as he starts letting loose and being himself. When Sherrie breaks him out of his fantasy, he goes back to being tense and nervous and portrays this in how he carries his guitar and again in his physicality like his shoulders this works well as it shows that he's incredibly nervous to ask her out on a date. 

I will take aspects of this performance, particularly how that sense of nervous tension is held within the body and I will try and apply these to my performance. Through doing this I will be able to better convey to the audience Drew's feelings towards Sherrie and make them contrast more to his confidence when he becomes a rock star later in the show.