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Myth and Ritual: Journal Entry

The brainstorming section was a collective group work with a combination of all of our ideas imputed. Although I wasn’t here for the first class, my peers came up with the basic ideas of the characters and overall structure and I gave more ideas during the process of choreography/movement and character traits in the piece. The first step that we had to do was come up with the setting of our scene which was in the arctic. Then the three gods were built upon that idea especially the ice god. After that the story was easier to form with the conflict and ending. We quickly decided that we wanted three acts in this performance with the first one being the birth of the ice god, the fight, and rebirth of the earth god. I think I mostly took on a director role in this process so I usually take part in little pieces in every aspect. I think my main contribution is the choreography in the third act where Isabell and I created and blocked the scene. With the help of Ms.Hill we came up with the ideas for the entire song as well as using the chairs as props and Sadeem as the Earth god. I didn’t have much experience with lighting or costume but I could think of choreography and blocking for the stage. Once we had our sheet with our roles on it we quickly got onto our jobs. But overall, I think everyone helped in every aspect of the performance because although some people may be in charge for something, everyone’s opinion was heard and changes were made. For example, although I don’t understand the background of lighting, I can give some small tips on where the spotlight is and the colors to match with the themes. This story was about the birth of the evil ice god and her attempt to bully tribal members to take over the world. This plan was soon interfered by the fire god because they fought. The ice god lost the fight but fire god used up all his strength to defeat ice god which resulted in his death too. With the ashes of the two gods, new life was created by the rebirth of the earth god. The tribal members return back to life with the earth god and the earth god creates world peace. I think I put in as much effort as I could for this performance although I didn’t have much of a “personality-ic” role. This was a bit harder to play as we didn’t have any dialogue and only used movement to express emotion. I think the duet dance between Isabell and I turned out looking beautiful although some timing was off because of the organization of movement. I don’t think any of our “mistakes” that happened onstage affected the quality of our show because even though I watched this performance over and over again, on the day of the show it was still amusing to watch.

Physical Theatre: Masks

September 15, 2022 / Coral / 0 Comments

Today we explored how to treat a mask and did some improv performances with the mask on. We did one about sleeping, to explore our bodies, a short saying goodbye performance, and then a nature journey.

Chair Duet Reflection 1

September 7, 2022 / Coral / 0 Comments

In physical theatre class today we did a few chair diets with my classmates, I was paired up with Hannah, Eric then Isabell. With my duet with Hannah, we didn’t have much story, but we did seem like we were friends in the performance. Our movements were close together which showed that we had a close relationship. For the performance Eric and I choreographed, there was more physical contact, which meant that we had more body commitment. This duet was easy to choreograph since we could connect the moves together with each other so the choreography came together itself. It was a bit harder for Hannah at first because it was our first choreography but it got easier gradually with more practice. I noticed that it was hard for me to think of movements for these dances without music since music is usually my inspiration for dance.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone

May 24, 2022 / Coral / 0 Comments

Title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone

Author: J.K. Rowling

Page#: 223

Response: Harry Potter is a ten-year-old orphan who lives with the Dursleys, Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and cousin Dudley in London. Harry is basically bullied by the Dursleys. Harry is surprised to find a letter sent to him in the cabinet beneath the stairs one day. He discovered his parent were a wizard and a witch, were killed by Voldemort, and Harry got the lightning-bolt scar on his forehead. Students are assigned to one of four houses upon entrance at school: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin. Harry is placed in Gryffindor and develops friendships with two other members of the house, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, throughout his exciting first year at Hogwarts. A three-headed dog guarding a trapdoor is discovered. Harry gradually realizes that Professor Snape, who teaches Potions, despises him and is attempting to seize whatever is hidden under the trapdoor. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are concerned that the Philosopher’s Stone is in harm, and after defeating many protection charms, Harry arrives at the room where the Stone is kept and is surprised to see Professor Quirrell there. Quirrell is unable to get the Stone from the Mirror of Erised and make Harry to attempt it. Harry got the stone and Voldemort, that has his face on the back of Quirrell’s head. Voldemort explains that he has been sharing Quirrell’s body until he can get to the Stone and revive, and the two fight for the Stone until Harry passes out. He wakes up in the hospital, discovering that Dumbledore has saved him, the Stone is to be destroyed, and Voldemort has escaped.

Mood Boards: Translating the Mood Boards Into Space Final Design

May 19, 2022 / Coral / 0 Comments

Bird’s eye view

Front View:

This design incorporates elements of each design into one to create this final design. The location is in a thrust theatre and in the beginning, the actor has trapped in the cage again which is surrounded by sound waves. The lighting will be focused on the cage so the rest of the stage is unseen by the audience. The actor finds the key and is able to leave the cage and come into “the real world” where the cyclorama opens and they are inside the actor’s mind and they come out of the cage and they matured and see the four boxes that hold loud objects and they may start to open and random times to trigger the phobia. The actor will become more and more anxious about the noises and the speaker will also repeat the words that the actors so that the actor will be affected by their own voice like in their head.

Mood Boards: Translating the Mood Board Into Space Rough Design

May 19, 2022 / Coral / 0 Comments

Design #1:

This set is located in the black box with the audience sitting in the front area of the room. The design revolves around surrounding the actor being trapped in an area that is shaped like sound waves like in a jail cell. There is a key leading out of this cage that the actor can use to open to “the real world” to more loud sounds that the actor has to hear. The speaker will be repeating what the actor is saying and this could be pre-recorded but it makes the audience think that it is repeating after the actor. This is because people who suffer from acousticophobia are scared of their own voice when they speak and in their heads as well. This could be that this is the mental state in the actor’s mind is stressed out and the actor is panicking under such loud noises. The items that are within the glass containers will randomly start playing loud sounds so that the actor finds a way to stop it through the buttons. But the sounds can progressively get worse and start playing at the same time which activates the phobia.

Design #2:

This set is located on a thrust stage with the audience sitting on the two sides and front area of the theatre. The design includes various dangling items like the music note swing and the ladder on the thrust. Each block holds an item that creates a sound like the alarm clock, radio, speaker, and microphone, and the speaker in the corner also plays sudden loud noises that will trigger the actors’ acousticophobia. The cyclorama in the back is of a TV white noise image that could be colorful because they could be trapped inside a TV and the actor cannot find his way out. The only way leading out is the dangling ladders that are shaped like sound waves that will produce sound when you climb on them. The actor has to overcome their fear to escape this place up the ladders out of the TV.

Acousticophobia Mood Board: Analysis

May 10, 2022 / Coral / 0 Comments

The main colors I see are all rainbow colors because I think the sound has a deep connection with colors and in my mood board you can see that it is made up of a lot of fun colors. The sound waves also use the rainbow to emphasize so I think sound can be connected with color. The main symbols I see are the waves of sound, when sound is recorded down, it is in the format of sound waves and that may look like many lines connected with each other creating the sound. The louder the sound is the longer the lines are. The images in this mood board are images of loud noises or other sounds that may bother someone with acousticophobia. The texture that I see on the mood board is a smooth texture because I feel the sounds flowing in my body like a smooth wave. There are some people on this mood board because a section of this phobia is hearing. yourself talking and other people may influence that through yelling or screaming. The location of these areas is widespread since sounds come from all around the world so this may make it difficult for people with acousticophobia. The emotions that people could feel when they see these images are enjoyable or unenjoyable since some people enjoy the presence of sound while other people may not. The movement of these images is mainly the movement of soundwaves and the sound traveling through the atmosphere around us.

Scenic Design Practice: Sketching Space

May 3, 2022 / Coral / 0 Comments

Ground plan/Birdseye view and Front Elevation Bedroom Sketches

Choose a room in your house: Bedroom, living room, kitchen. Use the same room for both drawings. We want to see the room from two different views

I will be drawing from the point of view of my bed in my room, this area is where I spend most of my time for online classes, entertainment, and resting.

Ground plan/birdseye view

Front Elevation

Scenic Design Vocabulary

May 3, 2022 / Coral / 0 Comments

Scenic Design – The aspect of production that gives a sense of space or location. Can be realistic or symbolic. Aids in creating atmosphere

Mood Board (Concept) – A poster that contains imagery that will help focus’s the design or conceptual weight of a piece of theatre

Thumbnail Sketch – A quick sketch or drawing that becomes the starting point for a design

Stage Configuration – The layout of the stage in the theatre you are producing in the play

Ground plan/ Birds Eye View – The top down look of the design. Gives you an idea of WHERE things are on the stage

Elevation – the front look of the design. Gives you an idea of what you will see when you are looking at the stage

Flat – A scenic piece that is used to build doorways or walls. Light, flexible, and can be built to order

Sight Lines – The view of an audience onto the stage. Sight Lines are taken from many different seats to see what they see

Masking/Masking Flats – Flats or curtains designed to hide the elements of the stage we don’t want the audience to see

Abstract Devlin Questions

May 2, 2022 / Coral / 0 Comments

Inquiry

At the start of the episode, Es commented that her practice over the years has been to follow the path of inquiry and then find collaborators who are willing to share their paths with her. What does this mean to you?

I think this means that you have the recognization of others so you can develop more ideas with them. This means that she is constantly improving herself with others and working with more and more people. By doing this, you set more goals along the way. For me, it means to get creative ideas from anything and applying it on the stage

Ingredients

During the episode, Es stated 5 ingredients of stage design. (and perhaps photography). What are the ingredients?

Ingredient 1: Space

Ingredient 2: Light

Ingredient 3: Darkness

Ingredient 4: Scale

Ingredient 5: Time

Pick ONE ingredient and describe or explain what it means according to Es.

For light, she used the example of the colored windows that an artist, designed for over ten years. The light peered through the colors into the building and that made it look very cool. But, from looking from the outside, the windows were just black which I thought was really cool.

Communicating

For the “Watch The Throne” tour featuring Kanye West and Jay-Z, Es questioned what the word Throne meant to the artists. For them, Throne was being on top and then having to fight to stay on top — in other words, the Throne meant the tension between power and vulnerability. Can you describe how she created a design that communicated the ‘tension between power and vulnerability”?

In Kanye and Jay-Z’s tour, their throne on stage was tall in height which meant that they were very powerful. But at the same time, because they were very high above others, they were vulnerable to falling off. This design created a tension between power and vulnerability which means if you have power, you can lose it easily as well. Kanye and Jay-Z were examples of people who had a lot of power but were vulnerable to entertainment and could fall at any moment which caused the tension between power and vulnerability.

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein