Advantages ;
- This was helpful for me as it gave me a general look into how a screen test work
- We were able to get around 20 and more people to do our screentest, including myself. I felt as this was beneficial as I learnt to get a better understanding of what I was looking for in my own artist.
- It was time efficient to have us in a line as it took approximately 10 minutes of class time in total
- Our teacher encouraged all of us to sing despite not being on screen which could have helped in easing some people's nerves being infront of a camera
Disadvantages ;
- Going through all 20 plus students meant some may have not gotten as much screentime as others thus I couldn't determine how well some students performed
- To some students who didn't know the song and the lyrics, it was obvious that they wouldnt be able perform as well as others who did. This may have been a factor to some people looking uncomfortable infront of the camera.
Reflection: It was overall quite a fun and lighthearted activity to do in class and became a nice break from the project work we've been doing however, I felt as though none of the people in this screen test really fit the image of the artist for my group. Furthermore, me and my team has already had people in mind prior to this screen test so we will be having a screen test for them instead.
Problem: Finding the person that fulfills all of our requirement was quite difficult as it was quite specific (such as having childhood footage related to performance, to be similar looking to our child actress, being comfortable being infront and singing to the camera.) thus it took a lot to find the right person that we all agreed on. Not only that, we weren't able to get her screen test on time to submit this project for school report grading due to our schedule with the actress not aligning.
Solution: We had asked her to record the screen test during a break period in school to get it done as quickly as possible.