Photos from the dress rehearsal

You might want to use these in your evaluation to show some of the choices made  - annotate in detail, justify things you developed etc...

Final post

Well done for your final performance! It was excellent, I enjoyed watching the audience reactions! You certainly have lots to evaluate. Take a moment to check how you are being marked below...


D4 evaluate the potential of the work in artistic, professional and vocational terms with strengths and weaknesses clearly identified and judgements fully justified and thoughtfully expressed.


So...

EVALUATE - WHY? HOW? You need to talk about the piece as a whole and then some smaller moments within the piece. 

What were the strengths of the performance? How and why were they the strengths?

What were the weaknesses of the performance? How and why were they the weaknesses? 

Be THOUGHTFUL in your writing style, you must use Theatre vocab in your evaluation...

Has your view of theatre been developed through the experimental term? Do you like creating experimental theatre? 

Reminder of how you are marked...

YOUR LOG/FLOG/BLOG WILL BE MARKED BY THIS...

P4 evaluate the potential of the work in artistic, professional and vocational terms with recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of the work.

M4 evaluate the potential of the work in artistic, professional and vocational terms, with considered judgements about what worked well and/or less well.

D4 evaluate the potential of the work in artistic, professional and vocational terms with strengths and weaknesses clearly identified and judgements fully justified and thoughtfully expressed.

Hand in date!

Your hand-in date for completed log/blog/flog is:

Wednesday 20th Feb by 4.10pm ! 

Make sure your work is updated! All you should have left is your evaluation.

Tuesday 12th Feb

Please make sure that you are keeping your blogs/logs/flogs updated! They should have answers to all of the questions posed on here. You should have clear personal targets set and written comments on how you have met these yourself in the devising process. 

Questions for this week:

Q - What are the strengths of the piece? What things need to be developed further?

Q -What is your favourite moment and why? 

Q - What moment do you find most challenging and why? 

Q- How does our piece affect the audience? 

Q - What would Artaud like about our piece and why? 

Q- What have you learnt about yourself as a deviser?

Q - What have the challenges been of an experimental devising process? 

Q - If you were to grade yourself now for the process, what would you give yourself and why? (Refer back to the marking criteria in a past post)


PLEASE make sure you get your work completed this week as you have an evaluation to do next week before the hand-in on Wednesday!!! Check back on my blog for how you are being marked. 

Remember the blog is just not a diary - it is a source of research, critical reflection, picture and can be video footage! 

Things to remember for Monday:

Costume - something that looks sophisticated, yet easy to move in. You know the action you should be able to so in the outfit. 

Drinks - it would be useful if you could bring in some fizzy pop...doesn’t matter if it is the cheapest lemonade going, just saves me having to get everything. 

Torches - if you haven’t yet got a torch, then please do!

Devising - meet with your group to finalise your small piece...there is not time to do this on Monday, we will be putting the piece together and tidying it up not devising. 

Lines - learn your lines for the opening of the piece. 

Workshop 3 - 22/1/13

Today we explored two different approaches to experimental theatre.

Mask Workshop

Trestle masks

• What are the rules of masks? 
• What performances were successful?
• How can you tell a story with mask? 
• Why might mask be useful in our performance? How does it link to Artaud? 

Here are some photos for you to have a look at...

 

Forced Entertainment

Click here to go to Forced Entertainment's Website

 

We explored the Forced Entertainment show Quizoola. 

• What did we do?
• How did you feel when performing?
• How did you feel as part of the audience?
• How could we potentially use this to develop our piece?
• Discuss briefly why Forced Entertainment’s work is experimental, how do they link to Artaud?

Click here to read some of the ‘Quizoola’ script

We have started to work on the opening section...please run through what we did in your head so you don’t forget it. REFLECT on what we did so far. What does the opening section say so far? HOW is it experimental? What should we do next? 

You should come ready with ideas for Monday and Tuesday. You should have planned what your small group piece should be saying and have firm ideas of how this should be performed. 

Sound for the piece...

Here are some of the things happening in my head. These are some sound clips that I think will work and inspire the piece. Have a listen see what you think. Please either write some comments below, or on your blog. I will continue to add stuff as I am inspired...you should do the same...

White noise...

Machine noise - metal grinding on metal, there are some great sounds in the itunes library and I have some edited machine noise that I will share with you on Monday.

This track is by Jane Siberry. I have a different version that isn't on youtube - again I will share with you on Monday. I saw this as the opeing track, the club goers arriving. I will share the rest of this idea on Monday. 

Acid House 

 

Techno  

Sigur Ros