This week (19th - 23rd March) we worked on our Designers Research Project
Bring on the research!!
In terms of blogging this week has been pretty darn dull. We sat down on Monday and began to research out two set designers (who are Edward Gordon Craig and Josef Svoboda). I decided to do my project as a blog instead of the usual on paper in a portfolio I wanted to be different. Blogs also allow you to add multimedia in that otherwise would not be available on paper (music/video). If anyone would like a look at the blog which is currently under construction Finished here it is:
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All week we have been gathering information on our intended people,
somethings are extremely interesting especially when I started to look at Josef Svoboda's work with
technology, lighting and set design. He was a really innovative person, using
technology to create cutting edge stage designs such as his really pretty PILLAR OF LIGHT! That's it for class work this
week and probably the next few weeks, so keep your eye on that blog listed
above.
For our final lesson on friday we watched the Year 13's
final Theatre Performance and Production Presentation (TPPP) which was kind of
scary in a way since that is us in pretty much a year from now. There were two
in total, one standard level TPPP (20 minutes) and one higher level TPPP (30
Minutes) both were different from each other both were well presented. I felt myself more drawn into the higher level TPPP however the student naturally had to go more in depth than the standard level student had to so that is most likely the reason, content wise they seemed just as good as each others give or take. All 4 of us are higher level theatre students, and we have done everything together so far as an ensemble. So it will be interesting to see how by the end of these two years, how our perceptions of Theatre compare to each others, because I'm sure it'll be different in all 4 cases!
Both TPPP's gave me plenty of ideas of what I should maybe start to put towards my final TPPP in
Year 13, but for now I'm focused more upon our upcoming end of year Theatre
exam, so as of right now I'll keep my mind set on my Set Design Research Project which I
think will majorly help me on how to structure our upcoming Research
Investigation (RI).
I had a meeting with Mr. Fearnehough about what to do for my Extended Essay this week on Wednesday (21st March) and we talked about my idea(s). Which is / was something along the lines of Asian theatres and masks. We got talking about how I need something that interests me more than just 'interesting for Extended Essay' and I could see where he is coming from. I mean I am always interested to see different perspectives of theatre instead of the narrow minded western view. But it got me think, could I do a whole EE (Extended Essay) on this? Does it REALLY interest me? What can I do? By the end of the day I was so confused. My head was swimming with ideas, good and bad ones of what to do. So I went into metal mind-mapping mode trying to figure out what I could do and what would interest me and another BIG thing was run a workshop on. I went through many ideas, types of theatre ranging from Panto to Butoh. Technical ranging from pyrotechnics to make-up. Here is a mind-map of what I did:
I then whittled it down to a few possibilities and started to think of workshops I could run, the 3 categories I came up with were Comedy since I've always loved comedy and been fascinated by it how people deliver the line, where the jokes come from, and how to get a whole room of different backgrounds and histories to laugh at the same joke. Technical, since for me being backstage and what happens back there is just as important to me as being on stage and performing to people, I've been back stage and worked there and know how it works and what happens. I've always been more interested in the back than the front of the stage since it is what happens back stage that makes the performance, I then started thinking, maybe projection, lighting, sound. All these ideas whizzing around. My final category that I though of was perspective, as mentioned before its amazing how narrow minded theatre can be sometimes and I just love leaning about all types of theatre and how other people perceive it. So now I am at a dilemma. WHERE DO I GO NOW! I'll have to go away over the next week or few and have a major think. Here is a more refined more thought out but still frustrating mind-map (click for larger view):
I had a meeting with Mr. Fearnehough about what to do for my Extended Essay this week on Wednesday (21st March) and we talked about my idea(s). Which is / was something along the lines of Asian theatres and masks. We got talking about how I need something that interests me more than just 'interesting for Extended Essay' and I could see where he is coming from. I mean I am always interested to see different perspectives of theatre instead of the narrow minded western view. But it got me think, could I do a whole EE (Extended Essay) on this? Does it REALLY interest me? What can I do? By the end of the day I was so confused. My head was swimming with ideas, good and bad ones of what to do. So I went into metal mind-mapping mode trying to figure out what I could do and what would interest me and another BIG thing was run a workshop on. I went through many ideas, types of theatre ranging from Panto to Butoh. Technical ranging from pyrotechnics to make-up. Here is a mind-map of what I did:
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| Idea Splurge |
I then whittled it down to a few possibilities and started to think of workshops I could run, the 3 categories I came up with were Comedy since I've always loved comedy and been fascinated by it how people deliver the line, where the jokes come from, and how to get a whole room of different backgrounds and histories to laugh at the same joke. Technical, since for me being backstage and what happens back there is just as important to me as being on stage and performing to people, I've been back stage and worked there and know how it works and what happens. I've always been more interested in the back than the front of the stage since it is what happens back stage that makes the performance, I then started thinking, maybe projection, lighting, sound. All these ideas whizzing around. My final category that I though of was perspective, as mentioned before its amazing how narrow minded theatre can be sometimes and I just love leaning about all types of theatre and how other people perceive it. So now I am at a dilemma. WHERE DO I GO NOW! I'll have to go away over the next week or few and have a major think. Here is a more refined more thought out but still frustrating mind-map (click for larger view):
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| More 'Refined' sorry about brightness! |
One final thing is that on the Sunday (25th March) Me and Georgia both went to the school production of the Odyssey, its all getting very tense at the moment since we are less than a week away from the Dress Rehearsal but still have barely worked with props, flats and scene changes. Georgia and I are Stage Managers (I being head and Georgia being my deputy/co) so it was pretty hectic for us too, trying to hear what's going on, on stage and what not. But lets see how it all turns out shall we? All in all, pretty much a repetitive week, not much to blog about really.
Just want to say have a great paternity leave Mr.
Fearnehough, hopefully you'll have a class to come back too :P
What do you mean by"you'll have a class to come back to"? :p
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