working with others evaluation

The working with others lasted for 6 weeks, 6 weeks of hard work! in these 6 weeks everyone had to perform to each other to see each others talents, pick covers to do together and write songs together. Everyones solo performance was really good, everyone was original with themselves, had their own style and performed really well. I feel as if my performance could have been better, yes i showed my performance talent and how i can express the song and use the stage, but to show off my singing the song was not right and i felt like i did not sing good enough and i could of sang a better song to show off my singing vocals. I was also very nervous when i do not usually get nervous and the nerves came through my vocals because when i sang i trembled and had trouble breathing so it did not sound very good. But overall all the performances were really good, the performances brought everyone together because everyone found out the talents and got people socialising and asking people about their talent and how long they have been doing it etc.. I realised that after the performances everyone was a bit more comfortable with each other and were feeling more confident with each other.
After the performances we all chose 2 songs to do a cover of, and those 2 songs were 'read all about it' by emile sande and 'i feel good' by james brown. We all were very happy about these songs, happy to work on them, some people got put into 'i feel good' including me' and others got put in to do 'read all about it', 'i feel good' was going good in rehersals every member in the band were energetic and feeling the song. 'read all about it' sounded really nice from the singers and i love the way the band played. Then came the song writing assignment, we all got seperated into small groups and every group got a colour my group got 'purple, my group were very shocked and confused because we did not know how to connect to the colour purple, we just sat there thinking hard. I have never written a song and never knew how to so i was just there very lost and did not know what to do, if i were to do this again i would try much harder and worked with my group better, lucky there was joe and emmanuel because they both have written their own songs before and are more expierienced, so joe played with the guitar and then something sounded nice and we all said 'yhhh lets do that' then i jumped onto the piano and played with him and harmonised with him, even though i have never played the piano before i feel like i got a good ear for music because i was playing about and it actually sounded really nice with the guitar joe was playing. Our song came up alright but i feel it could of been better if we put more effort into it. After all of that we talked as a group and chose another 2 songs to cover and we chose 'heart shaped box' by nirvana and 'ordinary people' by john legend so like we did before half of us got put into 'ordinary people' and the other half got put into 'heart shaped box' i got put into 'heart shaped box' this song is very heavy and has a depressing feel compared to other songs i have sang or performed, for the band they did not have a big problem they just had to re arrange instruments and make it their own but for all of the singers we did not know what to do because it was not really our style and we were not very happy with it, but we were positive and made it our own and made it suit our vocals and harmonised it really nicely. This was a good experience because we all worked together very well and the vibe and atmosphere between the band and the singers were strong and positive and it felt really good. So everyone worked on these songs but we had to choose the best 4 songs to perform in the induction performance we had to choose the 2 best covers and the 2 best colour songs, the 4 songs we decided to perform were 'read all about it', 'heart shaped box', 'green envy' (an original song), 'blue storm' (another original song) and 'ordinary people' that was the order of our set, the last 2 weeks before the induction performance we rehersed a lot and perfected it all, i feel like the rehersals were not very good because people were  not giving 100%, people were messing about and not listening to each other, even i feel like i did not do my best, because rehersals are really important in rehersals you need to give 100% and reaherse how you would perform in the actual performance so then in the actual performance it will be really strong and you will be confident, but because people were messing about and not giving 100% effort and full concentrating we could of done much better in the induction performance. i realised we all have to express ourselves and show energy on stage and show confidence because when you perform as a music artist you need to show your enjoying yourself or like you mean what your saying, i feel like people expecially the singers just stand there and sing and they look as if they are not too confident and scared, that is a big thing all of us need to work on! another important thing we all need to work on is connecting with each other on stage and connecting with the audience, i tried to tell people all of this advice but no one wanted to listen to me witch is another thing i feel was not good, people do not listen enough and just do what they want to much, we all need to compramise and work with each other and understand each other.

The induction performance went really well much better then rehersals and that is because there was an audience and the audience put our level up because we wanted to impress them, i feel like i did alright, i performed to my fullest, i connected to the audience, and donavon did really good, he performed to is fullest and really showed emotion through the song and you could feel his good energy and he just made the room shine. I tried to connect with the other singers or people from the band but it failed because people do not know how to connect on stage and i just felt like i was looking into space, that is something we all need to work on. But overall the performance went really well we all got good comments from the audience after the performance ended, in general there was a good energy.
So the whole working together project had its good and its bad, people worked good together but there was some moments where people messed around, did not want to listen to each other, were in their own world, but there was positive energy throughout the weeks and good support for each other, because people felt down and unconfident and we all helped each other and made those people feel more confident and more happier with themselves, everyone got a chance to shine and show off their talent and we all feel proud, it feels like we have done a good job but it also feels like there is a lot to work on.