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1. What has this group done well? I think we did well in setting the scene and carrying out the mood of the scene. 2. What, if anything, is confusing about this scene? Why the couch is used as a wall. 3. Describe the emotion of the characters/plot. They are scared and they want to act strong. 4. Describe the relationship between the characters. They are partners in crime. 5. What else could this group have done to improve? If we could perform off-script. 1. What has this group done well? They set the mood right, and their actions were good. 2. What, if anything, is confusing about this scene? What drug are they on? 3. Describe the emotion of the characters/plot. They are very tense and very scared. 4. Describe the relationship between the characters. They are either drug friends or drug brothers. 5. What else could this group have done to improve? If they can do it off-script. 1. What has this group done well? They did their performance very patiently. 2. What, if anything, is c...

Reflection no 2

1. Our stimulus is rhythm zero, basically, rhythm zero is about an artist sitting in the middle of the stage and have the audience hurt her with the material that she prepared. 2. Having someone sitting in the middle of the stage and be controlled by good and evil. 3. We need props, so we got props, we don't like the story, so we changed the story. 4. We pretty much found three stories in our own life, and we grind them together and tadaaaaaa, it's a middle-middle-middle and middle play! Pretty cool right. 5. We have a bunch of characters since there are three stories. There might be room for growth, but now, our number one goal is to put the story together. 6. Lighting! Lighting and Sound are the two most important elements in tech, and they will be used multiple times because we don't have that many lines. 7. Mainly teenagers, because we want them to know that life can be really hard, it can be extremely hopeless, but if you don't try, you will never know ...

reflection

We just finished our section for observing new ideas, and we got our inspiration. Our group started working on the play and the arrangement. On Friday, we tried out the staging and what the actors want to do, there might not have been a lot of progress but we all got inspired, even as a tech, I got more ideas on how I want the lightings to work. It is very important because we don't have any lines, so I need to use lightings to tell the story. We missed Ruth for two classes, but the rest of the group has come up with more ideas so that's pretty good, and we've written down a lot of ideas and even started making a table as a script. I, Chloe, and Pac were testing some scenes on Friday, and we found out a lot of disadvantages for the script, and especially because Ruth wasn't here, it's hard for us to test out all the scenes. They write down the motion or the staging, and on the side, I write down the change of lighting, so when Ruth gets back, it'll be easy for h...

reflect on Monday session

1. We started our class with writing down words and a sentence on a piece of card and put it on the ground. Then we walk around and choose a card and we have to express the word with movements. Then we would get into groups of two, and we have to act out a scene that's related to the word on the card. After that, it gets really interesting. All of the groups joined together and we made a whole play out of the fragments from each of our previous movements, and the ending was really dynamic, and it was really fun. I learned that sometimes group work can be easier if we can just tear them up into little pieces and when we perfected all the little fragments, we can put them together and the work can be very surprising. 2. The first person will imagine an object, an object that can be physically controlled or touched, then the first person must do some movement to tell the other teammates what the object is, and then when the time is up, the second person in the team must go up there...

Notes for the book

Caroline: Everyone can take a moment, Write performance instead of writing text. What can you do, stage, the setting's write plot? Around that capture potential of space Favorite moment: Gesture, not text React in a natural way to senses Experimentation key to moment work, see what works. Helena: Props moment, suitcase, pillow, flour sifter - manipulating props in different ways can achieve different meanings, emotions, scenes/plots. Moments can lead to 'writing performance' in the scene "Get our hands dirty" = experiment "A-ha moment" = moment of recognition "Discursive power" = act of speaking on stage "Giving titles" = name them to remember Costume moment: wedding dress, boa, red dress. Create emotion, an element of surprise, direct attention to do something specific on stage. Maddie Lighting; create mood, shaped space, direct eye, time of day - Compliment the nar...

ISTA review

     This trip to Newyork was such a great experience for me, we've watched two awesome plays and learned so much from the workshop.      I had a lot of awesome experience in ISTA, we've discovered a lot of new ways to proceed theatre. One thing that was really memorable was an activity we did on the second day in the workshop. We need to walk around the room and when the teacher speaks out a word that's a part of human body, we need to quickly find someone and have that part of the body stick together and keep walking. We are allowed to have more than two people sticking together, so it's normal to see a bunch of people stuck together and it can be hilarious. Further on, the teacher will stop calling out body parts, and we are allowed to seek for people by ourselves and sometimes people are just really confused.      We have started a little Chinese theatre workshop going on the second day at ISTA. We've learned how a lot of movements and ...

Stimulus Idea

Ideas for stimulus in theatre. Find a picture and a poem, within 5 minutes, try to create a short show that's somehow similar to the picture and has at least one line of a poem used in the show.