Thursday, June 4, 2009
Gospel Choir Concert!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Sketches - Alice
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Exam Topics - Alice
Notes For Final
June 2, 2009
Intro to Design
Company Hierarchy and Static categories (Howard)
Metapatterns (Volk)
The Door (Aronson
Images versus Sign (States)
Spectacle/media (Aronson)
Metaphor (Borges)
The exchange of agency. “All the world is a stage.” Use of complex metaphor, “stopping my woods” is good e example.
George Tsypin's use of steel and glass (Aronson – the stage is a dangerous machine)
Ideograph (Taymor)
a gesture that relates of character, ie the Lion King
Mechanics (Taymore)
The double image: showing off the mechanics (Taymor - the book “playing with fire”)
TED lecture series on YouTube for Taymor lecture
Space in space (Svoboda)
The ceiling the floor the back wall and the prescinium arch
The formal theater (rob wilson)
“Absolute Wilson” book
Anti-illusionistic design (Appia)
Color projection color recession
blue recedes, red projects
1.2.3. point perspective
Complementary colors
Forced perspective
check out stampede video on blog
Light and shadow
1. specular 2. specular-edge transfer 3. shadow-edge transfer 4. shadow.
Motivated lighting: Identifying the source
In your lighting design you want to have a clear indication of where the lighting is coming from on stage.
Elevation section and plat
Ecstatic truth (Herzog)
Check out blog, Minnesota declaration: sometimes you have to stretch the truth in order to tell what the truth r really is.
Theater of the oppressed (Boal)
is it theater, or is it not theater.
Collaboration
Ishioka's creed: revolutionary, original, timeless
Look at her work and reflect on how her work could be these three
things.
Richard Foreman's set design (Aronson)
“What god is not” he makes the conventions of theater much
more.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Live Design
Live Design
Theme: The History of Dining
--- dining hall noises going on in the background.
---Dress in black shirt and jeans.
Roles:
1) animal-Crystelle
hunters- everyone else (one person with blanket)
2)four parents- Cody, deena, Crystelle, Laurel
kids- Alice, Lily, Tiffany, Melanie, Jenny
3)table- Melanie and Lily
butler-Cody
classy diners- Alice, laurel
cooks- Deena and Crystelle
4)tables-Melanie and Lily
waiter-Cody
diners-Alice, Laurel, Jenny and Tiffany
cooks-Deena, Crystelle
5)Everyone
6)Family dinner- grab at least three audience members.
Scenes
1) cave men: hunting animal. Eat. Fire. Start off stage right. Enter. Someone comes crawling out as an animal. Throw arrows. Kill. Gather around. Center stage. Throw blanket over. Warm our hands as if it were a fire. We start eating. Person rolls out of blanket and we place the blanket down flat.
2) picnic :Stooping next to/sitting next to one another. Sharing food.
3) butlers/service/bourgeois dining & kitchen scene:One person as table. Two people sitting for food. One butler. Two chefs.Dialogue between dining people. And dialogue between the chefs. Kitchen scene on side. Chaos. Butler going back and forth between kitchen and dining room
4) restaurant: Two people as tables. One more table with three people. Two cooks and a waiter. Dialogue between waiter and diners.
5) Last supper/ family dinner:Last supper- posing. End people holding cloth. Break from pose. Two or three people go into audience to gather people to join with us. Two people spread the cloth out for a table. Sharing conversation is improvised.
Dialogue
1)cave- grunts. Pointing. Passing food. Hunched over/squatting. Chowin’ down.
2)Picnic- four people sitting down. And five people “playing”. (jump rope, catch, etc)
3)Butlers/ classing dining
Diner- “This briquette is cold…”
Butler-“yes sir. Right away sir” walks away
Diners- “It was wonderful seeing you at the opera last Saturday evening?
“Oh yes indeed, you looked marvelous darling”
“And how did you enjoy it?”
“It was dreadful. Absolutely dreadful.”
4)Resteraunt
Waiter- “Can I take your order?”
Diner- “I’ll have the steak.”
“I’ll have the penne arrabiatta”
chef- “orders up!”
waiter- goes to the other table to serve them their food.
5)last supper/family dinner
last supper- memorize positions. Freeze. Sit at the end of the stage.
Family dinner- go into audience to gather people. Two people holding ends of blanket. Improv dialogue.
If you guys have questions just post them here and hopefully we'll be able to sort everything out!
-Laurel
Friday, May 29, 2009
Toy Story 3 Teaser Trailor
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/29/must-watch-first-early-teaser-trailer-for-toy-story-3/
Lily