Behind the Screen Door- By Aronson

One of the main objects in a stage weather it is theater or a television set, the door plays an important role. The door plays a barrier between scenes and even characters. The audience of course knows whats on the other side, but the actors do not, and to see the reaction they take once the door opens it becomes incrediable. Just like the reading states that such shows like Seinfeld and I love lucy, have this reaction because everytime one of the characters walked in that door the audience clapped it also serves as an introduction to the character.

-Tiffany Lara

Collages

Well for my collage i wanted to show a form of happiness. I believe everyone should Smile, just because they can. I guess it's a little more personal for me because I chose things that i felt enjoyable to myself.
I'm trying to demonstrate that although we are getting older each an every day, we should still take time to let our inner child out. I just got images of people goofing off.I used some Disney actors as well, because their actors use their inner child to connect with their audiences. And i mean to me Disney reminds me of my childhood, and I never want to lose those moments so I hold on to them, and well I still continue to enjoy what Disney gives to the public. I tried to add as much color as possible to have a more pleasant vibe. There are a few scenery images. And I used a variety of cut-out texts to have the viewer understand it better. Another thing I wanted to show was that your decisions are the factors to your future. I mentioned that you should take risks, do your own thing, and make a mark. And that 'mark' can be whatever you make it be.

-Jennifer "Jenny" Vizcarra-

I didn't have any particular theme in mind when I was looking through magazines for images to put on my collage; I just skimmed for any random images that I liked. But as I was piecing all the pictures together, I realized that everything I had cut out represented some aspect of my life. The images portrayed my likes, my hobbies, my interests, as well as some of my goals. I decided to put the word "LOVE" in the center because I felt that the feeling it brings and the concept behind it is really essential. Love gives people motivation to do the things they do as well as bring positivity, hope and happiness into their lives. Everything else in my collage surrounding the word "LOVE" represents the things that give me happiness and the many roles that love plays in my life.

-Lily Wu

Ok so I got really into this and went overboard on the explaining…but please read it! It is pretty easy to understand; don’t get discouraged but how long it is.

In my collage, I question the idea of race and illustrate the danger it carries by comparing it to an actual car race. Race is a word and idea created by society to brainwash us; even today we have this mindset that our race means something about an individual person, and all is really means is where you came from, not who you are as an individual person. When skimming through magazines I immediately cut out what I was drawn to, nature, just images of beautiful scenes. But I decided I wanted to send a different message. So, I decided to look for new images online to create a new collage. After learning that race is not biological, but in fact socially constructed, I wanted to send that message for everyone else to know. Race is an American product created by the powerful to demean people of differences whether it is skin color or characteristics. It actually carries no significant meaning about a person’s genes or ability. The idea that race exists, leads to stereo types about people of different ethnicities. For example, Asians are smart; African Americans are funny , Irish are Drunks. These ethnicities carry no gene to make them that way.

So I typed in race on ask.com and one picture of an African American appeared while most of the others were racing cars. Then it occurred to me that the theory of race being biologically connected is similar to a driving race. The intention was really to beat people of lower social class. Even the word holds a connotation of separation.

Back in the 1900’s documents and dictionaries would use certain words and terminologies to demean others. For example abc books, j is for jews, then it would have a horrible corrupting explanation of jews…etc. These books held the idea that the poor carry poor genes and would breed more poor babies. But really the poor were poor because society’s system perpetuated there low social and economic status. I placed an image saying “we want white tenants in our white community”, proving that certain communities were constructed to keep the whites wealthy while Africans and Hispanics were pushed to lower communities like the ghettos. Even today reading material is highly biased injecting certain ideas in our minds, like dictionaries. I looked up the word race on dictionary.com and the idea of race persists:

1. A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
3. A genealogical line; a lineage.
4. Humans considered as a group.
5. Biology
1. An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies.
2. A breed or strain, as of domestic animals.

Race is not biological! Society wants us to believe that. Yes, certain ethnic groups may be less well off, but that isn’t because of their genes; it is because of their environment, advantages, and what they have been given. Unfortunately, this idea has been embedded in us and we tend to automatically and innately judge others based on something as insignificant as race. It is a mentally and socially constructed theory that will persist if we continue on believing certain ethnicities have “better” genes than others. Really there is only one race that shares the same genes, the human race.

-Melanie Centeno

so i started with cutting out rivers and creeks from the magazines in class and started to see this repetition of straight and squiggly lines in images of nature. the perspective of the flowing water and angle of the stairs helped with the idea of depth Allan was talking about. i didnt have a concept to start with but the colors created a dark forest with an apocolyptic feel.

-Deena Hashem

For my collage, I had a theme of life going on through out it. On the inside there are black and white pictures of people who have gone through life being oppressed or who have tragedies in their lives. Outside that box there are bright colorful images of animals and nature that are present in the world we live in. The point I was trying to make was: even when people are being oppressed or going through hardships in their lives, the beauty of the world we live in is always there and it is something that should be acknowledged and not take for-granted.

- Laurel Lansford

For my collage, I chose to do an image that described what I felt when listening to the music during class for Intro. to Design. The stage view is from the front of the stage, and you can see this by the bigger images in the middle. The images in the middle are bigger to grab your attention, and to bring focus on the larger pictures. Around the center are random pictures and words which I thought to be the outcome of the two bigger pictures in the middle. There isn't much color in the collage because I felt that the music was mellow and made me quite sleepy. In the collage I put random eyelids, open and close, to show how I felt when gluing those pictures to the collage. Overall, I find my collage to be quite interesting when thinking about how political figures, entertainment, and the community are combined in a piece of art.

-Crystelle Reola

The point I was trying to make on my collage was the diffrence between our society compared with other 3rd world countries. If you notice the only picture with worlds or animation is the one in the center that says "Change". On the right had side is everying we see in the United States, and everything on the left is what other countries have which is nature. I just want for people to just take a little time and thing of all the glamour and material things we can find in magazines, and television propaganda. The time for change is now, we should not wait another day.

-Tiffany Lara

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Buffet Productions Manifesto

Buffet Productions Manifesto

Deena Hashem Director
Alice Glass Ass. Director
Crystelle Reola Stage Manager
Jenny Designer
Melanie Centeno Designer
Laurel Lansford Designer
Lily Designer
Tiffany Lara Dramaturge
_ _ _ _ _ _ Playwright

Buffet Productions offers its audience a diverse and fulfilling theater experience. We aim to combine the right ingredients to produce progressive and entertaining theater. It is understood that theater is a collaborative possess where the flavors brought to the table must work together to create a play that offers its community something new, interesting, and tasteful. We want to address the serious complexities of human interactions within our production but simultaneously indulge in its many humors. We base our content on themes that will nourish the minds of our audience and keep them coming back for more. All are welcome to feast their eyes on the creations of Buffet Productions.

The above is a declaration of our groups purpose and is open and subject to change. Editing and expansion is welcome.