IA Oral Presentation Draft

Topics:

• Lighting
• Red lights for Haiti because of the bloodshed and violence
• Blue for the ocean to represent some element of escape
• Staging
• Three sections one for each character
• All varying in a number of props, more for me because I was rummaging through life and sort of not throwing anything away because I couldn't afford to. 
• David having the least because he is on the boat
• Having stella ext to me so that I can easily move between teh prsion and my house
• Aswell as the boy being very far from me
• Blocking
• Moving to use all of teh stage and show nervousness and uncertainty.
• Sitting to show how weak the other is.
• Script
• Making sure to include elements form teh epilogue, Children of the sea,a nd 1937
• USing a monologue to give backround and tell the story aswella nd individual monologues since there wasnt a lot fo availibility in motion
• Costuiming:
• Keeping thins nuetral fro the pursoe od deracay and earthy tones becuae there wasnt money for nice clothes.
• No changes becasue she wouldnt have beenable to afford that
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IA Individual Update

Individual update due -- Post on your blog what you have been working on, how it's going, what else you need to do to improve your project -- 300 words. Prepare to present your ideas in class as well.

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Our group has spent a good amount of time working on our own to learn lines and figure out some good blocking ideas. While we have come together a few times, we need to do more of this. On my own, I have been working on remembering the order of my lines and cues for me to speak. I think that it's going pretty good, but I think that I don't know how much I really need until we can all do a dry run of our rehearsal. I think that it's been a little bit difficult because we are all working individually to find a time when everyone can come together and do a solid run through. I am having a hard time motivating myself as well, and I've noticed this in my group mates a little bit too. I think that I need to work on the lines and my blocking on the stage with the room I am given. Another thing that I would like to be working on is the overall sequencing of the piece. I think that we will struggle a little bit with timing and when to come in and do different things on time so that it flows, right now when we run through we don't act it out very well. I would also like to, as I stated, run through the whole piece with all the lights and staging so that we can get a feel for the whole piece and really add our emotional and act out the whole scene like we will perform it. I would also like to note that we have fixed a lot of our mistakes with scene changes and what we were going to with Stellas costume change being too hard and how we were going keep the flow and explanation of Celione and her baby without her ever being seen. We also changed how the monologue was structured and who was going to be saying the monologue. We changed the lighting cues and the physical lights themselves to allow for more room to move around and to see what was going on, this will help us to see for our blog ideas. Overall, we have done a lot with our scene, but we still have a way to go still. 

IA Change/Adaptation Proposal

• Tech:
• Volume changes (Rise in both speaking and overhead sounds)
• Lighting (Try to lower brightness levels) 
• Video Focus (Focus on the corners of the screen when spotlights are up)
• Do a few more tech rehearsals before January 29 (whenever we can get class time in the Black box)
• Blocking:
• Increase use of levels (David stand up and move around, keep it small because are on a boat. Cassidy, Move around the house has open space use it to advantage. Stella move where sitting.)
• Seems more natural and stop being static
• Lines:
• Volume increase on all accounts
• Put emotion behind the volume, sadness doesn't always have to be quiet.
• Join movements with lines
• Keep the same script, without really modifying it
• Characters:
• Put more reasoning behind lines and develope.
• Liked some of the lack of blocking and levels with David because he is in a confined space. As well as the weakness and low standing posture that Stella had, We want to keep her relatively low to the ground for the idea of weakness and the fact that she is dying through the whole story.

Blog Post - Oral Presentation 1/8/19

In the oral presentation students will be expected to demonstrate:

 

 • understanding of the text(s)

 • critical perspectives on the dramatic potential of the text(s)

• insights into the performance process experienced from page to stage

• critical evaluation of their particular role and contribution to this process of transformation or adaptation and realization.

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Book Notes:

• Krik Krak By Edwidge Dandicat
• Inspiration - Coming from her works and passion behind each and every bit of emotion that was both external and internal about the characters.
• Referencing own feelings of loss and abandonment, questioning, pain, etc.
• What I like - The lack of capitalization in pieces of the Children of the Sea, 
• The continuation of hopes and dreams without being very well educated, a fight for oneself and to remain human while feeling opposing to that thought.
• The similarities between the beginning - Coming full circle
• Black butterflies - Having things that hold meaning even the smallest ones, trying to defy fate and change what has happened.  
• The symbolism in a doll
• How the Modanna cried and the implication that maybe Josephine put the oil and wax under the Modannas eyes
• Thought that she wanted to connect with her mother and be involved in her life, unlike she had before. 

Transformation notes

• Who chose these chapters
• Similarities between the discovery of self
• tragedy and moving on
• The idea that there is somewhere to go after rock bottom
• Family and love above all the madness fo the world.
• How this transferred into the scene and my personal lines
• Demonstration of love prevailing
• Going to visit mother after all the time, asking her about the flight. Speaking to a lover she knows is gone.
• Boy continuing to show deep love for the girl and wanting to write to her out of love and missing her
• Girls line after knowing her lover was dead "Endless waters like my love for you" The final lines about her mother rising and falling.
• Song choices
• The opening song - Set a folk story feelings
• Evict the emotions of despair, death, sadness.
• Ending all shall fade indicating the fading of their lives, two of the three dead and the girl being left along with everything fading around her.
• Changes from boy to girl musical with oceanic noises for the boy to demonstrate the difference in location, also setting moods for the prison and set places. 
• Character choices
• Josephine as the girl as well Wanting her to have more to stay in Haiti for rather than the decline in the relationship between her mother and herself.
• The Boy - Using to demonstrate another type of love and unity regardless of distance and education level. The determination and dedication that someone can have to better themselves and their lives
• Mother - Wanting to show a negative side to relationships, and the not so happy side to family, bring in the negative elements and background of the Haitian fights. Further why the boy would have left the girl alone in Haiti in search of a better life. 
• Performance
• Stage set up - Wanted a clear differentiation to the places that we wanted, ocean with blue lights prison with red and home with regular yellow lighting. Using the entire width of the stage while utilizing time the best way possible to decrease stage changes has proven difficult to set up properly for a three-person crew who also had to act. Using the lighting to set the tone and show relevant information. Where light landed on people and how we could all come together in the middle to finish the scene
• Ending - Important for reflection as well as uniting and love that all people have a connection between different people and a country.
• Role itself
• Lines- Mainly monologue lines
• Demonstrate the writing to another through words and actions, wanting to make sure that there are clear causes and effect to all of Josephine motives. Give some insight into what this life is like.
• Remaining conversations with the mother being short, the cause of the rift between them 
• Don't have a lot of lines with hopeful endings mainly drawing on the past and mentioning how her other had never liked it, another element to focus on their difference but ability to connect on some level.
• Stage movement
• Only had to move between portions of the stage to prison and back to demonstrate a movement and change of scenery when talking to different people
• Areas of improvent
• More movenet
• Sitting at desk often causing not a lot of blokcign and prolmeb with levels
• Better lines
• More about the situation
• Voiceover
• Not connectin well with what we wanted to mood to be,Seems out of sorts used a different voice of effect.
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