reflection on stage slap

In our drama class we are learning various types of stage comebacks so far we have learned stage slap and now we are moving on to stage punch. Our teacher gave us an idea of what to make our short play about, the play the we had to do was about two people arguing the employee and the boss, Jenna chose to be the boss and I was the employee, we had and argument about me not doing my work ( in the play) and then i ended up slapping. We had to learn how to slap a perfect slap so the there will be no injuries. We first had to be far from each other but not too far, you can tell if you are fa enough if u put ur hand out and there should be a small gap between you hand and the other person. You then must give a sign to the other person so that they know that you are going to slap them and you can also look at the place where you are going to hit them on ( most people would aim at their cheek) Then you must stand of centre, that means that one of our legs must be i the middle of the other person leg ( still keep the distance). The most important part of this (apart from safety) is the reaction that you will have at the end, when you are slapping you need to make sure that you react when it is near your cheek, but when you are going to punch you react when it is slightly across your face to make it more realistic, but we both must react on certain reason. Then there is something called a knap, that is the sound that the person that will be getting slapped will make since we have no special features to support us. In the play that me and my partner Jenna were communicating and collaborating with each other so that it will be perfect play, we had to keep practicing so we won't mess it up. The successful part of our play was the dialogue and the way that Jenna reacted. However there were some unsuccessful parts like the snap sound when I was going to slap her, i feel that it could be a little more louder. If we ever do this again I feel that we could improve on making it more realistic and I we could improve on the free frame at the end to make it look more realistic and not fake. In conclusion i think that this was a good task to learn how to have an argument, and how to stage slap without hurting anyone, we have worked well together and both have learned a lot of things about stage comebacks. Under this there are some photos of what Jenna and while we were practicing our slaps and our freeze frames.

 This is when I was slapping Jenna and the camera was showing my reaction

This was still when I was slapping Jenna but with the camera showing her reaction