2015 Talent Quest – Bald Hills State School
Audition Process: Assessment Criteria
Entertainment Value + Individual performance skills + Team work and preparedness = 15 stars maximum score
What the judges are looking for:
Good performers do this…
Entertainment
1. …look at the audience
Value
2. …can be heard by all
 out of five
3. …have clear gestures
stars
4. …move with purpose
5. …are front of stage
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6. …perform popular things
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7. …do it their own way
8. …check what the judges like
Individual
1. …use skills they are good at already
performance
2. …concentrate on doing their best
skills
3. …keep time with the music
4. …stay in tune
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5. …can be seen and heard
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Team work
and
preparedness
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…stay in time with other people and music
…are doing it for the audience
…check each other with glances
…their equipment works
…use the whole performance space
…keep trying until they get it right
…ask others for feedback to improve
Poor performers do this…
…look at the floor
…can’t really be heard
…gestures are hidden
…move vaguely
…retreat to the back of the stage
…perform hard-to-understand things
…copy others
...do what they like
…persist with things that are too hard
…blame others
…are out of time
…go out of tune
…can’t be seen or heard
…are out of time with others and music
…are doing it for themselves
…do their own thing
…equipment fails
…stay in one little spot
…give up in the middle of the act
…just want to do it their way