Grade 10, Stagecraft

Stagecraft Process Journal – I used to think/Now I think

Maggie

Scenic Constructions

  • I got to learn how different props or flats are built.
  • I have learned that in scenic design, big tools are required, but small tools are also used to build different things.
  • I have noticed that when working in teams, everyone has to contribute so that when putting the different pieces together it could seem like it’s a thing not like putting random things together.
  • I have learned that when working on a scenic project, perfection is not very important, the audience sometimes can’t even see the tiny mistake from a distance.
  • I have learned that problem-solving skills are really important in scenic constructions, sometimes things may not come out as required, so problem-solving skills can make sure everything fits.
  • I have learned that time management is very important, where we need to finish the required product in time.

 

YOU as an artist and a theatre maker

  • I got more opportunities on working with different kinds of tools to build, such as the different saws, drills, different lengths of nails.
  • Through the painting of flats, I have learned different techniques, spattering, stumbling, and more, these techniques are not often been introduced in art classes, which I found is something good to learn.

 

Theatre and Theatre Production

  • Theatre production is something that requires lots of collaboration and communication, this helps how everything fits within the theme.
  • In theatre production, every role is important, each role is like a piece of a puzzle, a missing piece of the puzzle will lead to incompletion. So when working on a production, means everyone should put in full effort.
  • Theatre production is not only what happens on stage, smell sounds also matter.
  • When putting every part of the production together, makes the story alive.

 

Grade 10, Stagecraft

Stagecraft Process Journal – Backstage Roles SLAM

Maggie

Lighting Designer

  • Manipulate stage lightings to defines the way the audience perceive the stage/actors
  • Work with director, scenic designers, costume designer
  • Take theatre lighting course
  • Working condition is vary, travel with the
  • Improve technical skills, work under pressure, communication skills
  • Wore roller skaters in old days

 

Scenic Designers

  • Line, color, texture, form, space, movement, shape
  • Ensuring visual concepts for production and stage environment
  • Sketching ideas scene by scene
  • Producing scale models
  • Read scrips and discuss ideas with the director
  • Work with costume, make up, prop and lighting
  • Passion, the experience of art techniques, imagination creativity, presenting ideas, capture of details, problem-solving, interpreting designs, visualize ideas and turn them into reality, communication, collaboration, understanding camera and lighting usages.
  • Might travel attend meeting, mostly work at studio and office
  • To create a visual concept

 

Sound Designer

  • The art and practice of creating soundtracks for a variety of needs
  • Responsible for an audience’s audio journey through a production
  • Make decisions about what an audience hears when they watch a piece of the theater
  • Create sound effect to help establish a sense of place or time to help create a mood or atmosphere
  • Artistly creative
  • Knowledge of film theater, music productions and audio engineering
  • Familiar to carious type genre of sound

 

Costume Design

  • Plan and design the layout and structure of the costume
  • Create and made the costume tailored to the actor and play
  • Research, shop, fit
  • Work with lighting and scenic designers
  • Artistic/creative ability
  • Work at office, to meet deadlines
  • Move to run errands

 

 

Grade 10, Stagecraft

Stagecraft Process Journal – Flat Painting

Maggie

During the stagecraft class, we have build up a flat and painted it into marble.

On this flat, there are lots of different kinds of techniques of painting.

Three technique:

Scumbling:

This is the color for the background which is the brown and green color is. We kind of blind the color together in order to have this texture.

Spattering:

These are the dots that we see on the flat. We add water to the pain and uses brushes to spat the dots on.

Vening:

This is the part that brings this flat to a marble, which is the white lines and the black lines on the flat. The white ones we used feathers to portray. We put the feather into the paint and put the paint feather on the flat follow a similar direction and drag it. For the black lines we use cloth strips instead of feathers, and it is similar as feathers.

 

Process of Painting:

  1. We first put on a base coat which is gray.

2. We start to scumbling with darker brown, lighter brown, kind of yellow-white and green.

3. We did spattering on the flat, with gray and black.

4. Then we start veining with feather and cloth and with white and black paint.

5. Then at the very last, we put on the last layer of spattering.

 

What did you do well? What do you proud of?

In our group, we actually did a really great job on the painting of the flat. During the painting process, we kind of think that we have overused the color, and it is too stand out. For example the scumbling, we thought we might have the color too much, but when we have put on other things it kind of looks good. And also we thought that when we are doing the veining, the black line was too over. But it turns out to be pretty good, and it is one of the most stand-out parts of this flat. For this flat the part I like the most is the black lines, it is very stand out and clear when we are standing away to observe.

 

What would you do to improve in the future?

Something that I think that we need to improve is that I notice there is a group that has a white line very standout, and I thought that looks good if our group could also do. So, maybe next time I will like to put a little more white paint on the flat when we are doing veining.