stepsister's characterization
Friday, July 31, 2009, 8:53 AM

NOTE: this is also on my own blog so yar.

I'm Stella, often called by my mother as "Guai". I hate that name as it is so demeaning to me. I mean, hello!! I'm not your pet dog or something. Treat me with the proper respect please! You always demand respect from me, and you shouldn't treat me like my stepsister. I use the term "sister" loosely because we're not even related by blood. At least not anymore. We have never been close and I don't see why I should start now. I'm perfectly fine with her helping around the house. No, of course it's not equal to slavery! We treat her perfectly fine. It's not like she's mistreated or anything. People say that she's prettier than me. I don't believe that of course. They don't say it to my face, but I know they do. But sometimes, when I'm not feeling particularly happy, I make her do more housework.It's not really wrong, no. She's already doing so much housework, nothing wrong with making her do more right? Even though I sometimes wonder if she might one day die from all the work, it doesn't bother me too much. Anyway, I'll be the prettiest in the house when she's gone. It's so unfair though. My mother makes me go through all these lessons and exercises so as to become lady-like but I still slip up sometimes. HER on the other hand, she's like, always so graceful!!! I can't stand it! Maybe it's all the housework she does. But the thought of even going near those dirty windows or the URGH toilet! Nevermind. She'll never find a good husband or whatever anyway. She's just like a servant girl. ANYWAY, who'll wash my clothes/do my hair/freshen my room/carry my shopping/do my homework?!?!?! I can't believe I'm saying this but, I think I really need her! Hmmm, there's a funny question. Who do I need more? Her, or Mom? Well, if you REALLY want me to choose, I'll pick........ both. Why can't I have both of them? I mean, I AM important enough!

OKAY! Enough about them. This is about ME! I was born on the 2nd of August. My dad was alive then... I think. I've never seen him before. All the photos I have of him are quite fuzzy. Well, what can you expect, they ARE local goods. I LOVE pink! It is such a pretty colour! Oh and black is such an intersting colour too, so mysterious!! Mom doesn't like me wearing black because it's "inauspicious". Hmmph! Nevermind. Pink then! I didn't go to school(of course not). School is for the people. The uneducated, illiterate and low-class. I have a governess of course! The very best in the whole of China. Not that I care much but my French tutor IS really very cute!! I'm generally VERY good in anything and everything. And if I'm not, I WILL BE. I strongly believe that I can get what I want, when I want it, how I want it and it will come to me AUTOMATICALLY. All my friends know this, of course. And OF COURSE I have a lot of friends. They're mostly from America because the Chinese here are SO unsociable and URGH! I can't stand them. I always tell Mom to send me to America/France/Spain/Italy. But she says I'm not ready yet. I don't understand her! I know so much more about those other countries than I know about China. I'm not stupid!! I can take care of myself! I'll just hire more servants!! Okay!! That's enough about me, I need my beauty sleep you know! I mean, I MUST be beautiful!!




Cinderella's characterization
6:51 AM

FACTS
Name: Cinderella
Age: 18
Family: Stays with Father, Stepmother, Stepsister.
Social position: Low-class

Lifetime objective:
"I want to have a life of my own."

Personality traits:
- Lively - Easygoing - Optimistic
- Excitable - Even-tempered - Thoughtful
- Quiet - Kind - Loving - Compromising
- Bubbly - Humble - Hard-working
- Patient - Easily bullied - Timid

Things she does:
Housework all day
Loves to sing
Loves the company of animals
Day-dreams a lot

Inner feelings:
Sad and angry but has to be strong as she is being controlled tightly.
Yearns for freedom.
Wants to rebel but has no ability to do so.


Related actions:
Smooth and flowy.
Bends the knees a lot.
Keeps the head low.
Swift exits and entrances.




The step mother costume
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 9:57 AM

Colour
- Dark Green
- Dark colours are used for older characters to show they are mature and respected.



Pattern
- It has sharp patterns at times to show her harsh, strict disciplinary nature.
- And soft rounded corners at other times to show her motherly attitude towards her daughter.
- Plain but yet elegant.



Headdress
- Her headdress does not have the petal like structure at the forehead unlike the younger characters, but instead have a straight cut line.
- Simple yet elaborate designs usually made out of jewels.
- The colours used on the headdresses are also usually limited to two or three.



Makeup
- Basic Chinese Opera makeup with white base and highlighted eyes and eyebrows.
- In order to show that she was the ‘evil’ party, we extended her eyeliner upwards and made it pointy.
- The rouge on her cheeks is lighter than the younger characters.












The step sister costume
9:53 AM

Colour
- She is your typical spoilt girl, hence the colour pink is used.

Pattern
- Heavy embroidery shows us that she is from a rich family.
- It is a traditional Chinese pattern made up of flowers and leaves which represent youthfulness.

Headdress
- The multiple brightly coloured flowers are to emphasize her girly nature and her youth.

Makeup
- Basic Chinese Opera makeup is used.
- Like the step mother, her eyes are made to point upwards to give the ‘evil’ effect
- In contrast to the Stepmother, she has more rouge around the cheeks to show her youthfulness.

















Cinderella costume
9:38 AM

This is Cinderella's completed costumes. Headdresses are still in the making...
This is the description that will be put along side the sketches for display outside the BB for all those who watch the show.

MAID COSTUME

Pattern
- The maids in Chinese Opera are dressed in long shirts, pants, an apron as well as a piece of cloth in front.
- A simple design using flowers is used to show her youthfulness. No heavy embroidery is used as she is just a maid.

Colours
- Light blue was used to compliment her passive and gentle nature.
- Red was used as a contrasting colour to show Cinderella’s daring side.

Headdress
- Maids did not wear headdresses in those days. Instead, their hair was styled up with colourful clips.

Makeup
- The basic Chinese Opera style makeup is used.
- The rouge on her cheeks is to emphasize her youthfulness and her eyeliner is not pointy like her stepmothers and sisters which shows us she is on the ‘good’ side.





BALL GOWN

Pattern
- Various types of flowers, butterflies, hearts and other designs are used to show her youthfulness.
- There is a fairly heavy amount of embroidery suggesting she is from a rich family.

Colours
- Blue is used once again to show us her passive, kind nature.
- Red, green, pink and peach are used as she is young. The more number of colours used, the richer the character is.

Headdress
- Comprises of jewels, flowers and tassels, which all point out that she is young, beautiful and rich.





















Styles....
Friday, July 24, 2009, 9:12 AM

Here is some rresearch that i did about styles- Mainly looking into naturalistic as well as expressionistic styles.

Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to theatre that attempts to create a perfect illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies: detailed, three-dimensional settings (which bring Darwinian understandings of the determining role of the environment into the staging of human drama); everyday speech forms (prose over poetry); a secular world-view (no ghosts, spirits or gods intervening in the human action); an exclusive focus on subjects that are contemporary and indigenous (no exotic, otherworldly or fantastic locales, nor historical or mythic time-periods); an extension of the social range of characters portrayed (away from the aristocrats of classical drama, towards bourgeois and eventually working-class protagonists); and a style of acting that attempts to recreate the impression of reality (often by seeking complete identification with the role, understood in terms of its 'given circumstances', which, again, transcribe Darwinian motifs into performance, as advocated by Stanislavski).[2]

Expressionistic theatre is different from realism - actors will behave how most people wouldn't in real life, their physical and vocal qualities exaggerating their emotions; sets designs will be exaggerated to emphasise the tone of the setting, etc. In expressionist drama, the speech is heightened, whether expansive and rhapsodic, or clipped and telegraphic.

- The Expressionist stage neither simulated reality nor suggested unreality. It existed in its own right as the platform from which direct statements could be made.
- The characters in Expressionist drama were often impersonal or nameless. Very often they served to illustrate some aspect of the protagonist’s thought or feelings or expressed aspects of the world and society.
- bring the mask back into common usage. Initially, the mask signified typical or depersonalized characters; later, it became a device for distancing the audience from the characters altogether, as it was used by Brecht




Justification for characters stepsister and godfather
Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 12:26 AM

Ok after consulting Mrs Wong, an artistic director and chinese opera actress, we'd come to the conclusion that we were going to take the approach of modern chinese opera, where the need to appeal to the audience was of great importance, and as such decided to go along with an Americanized step sister and a 'Chinaman' type Fairy god father.This is due to the fact that the modern audience needs to have a connection with the characters and be consistently entertained by that 'one' character who does things differently and as such, the godfather became the stereotype of the strict, constantly annoyed chinese man who seems to have a funny side and the stepsister the shallow superficial girl like today's trend-chasing girls.

The above allows the audience to connect with REAL people they may have met throughout their lives. As our target audience is teenagers, they will be able to relate to the Fairy Godfather as a teacher or parent who consistently nags and picks at them yet genuinely cares, while the stepsister is the girl in the class or the one in the street who looks like an airhead but tries to hide it.In terms of MOVEMENT, this will allow a more varied form of movement for each of these characters and give the play a contrast from the ancient norms of opera and fairytales.

The Fairy Godfather for example will have mechanicalish and rigid movement, yet he will have a few playful moments here and there to give him that 'human' connection. The stepsister will have more 'fluttery' and 'wavy' motions which will show her front of trying to be fragile and delicate. She will also have tantrum like behaviour to show her stubborn character which shows that she's a sore loser.




Costume designs... -Priscilla
Monday, July 20, 2009, 8:56 AM

THE STEPMOTHER BACK VIEW-
THE STEP MOTHER FRONT VIEW-
(Wig and headress yet to be drawn)

HE STEPSISTER-




NEW DEADLINES
8:19 AM

Script- This Tuesday evening

Masks- This Tuesday Evening.

Costume Sketches- This Wednesday Morning

Set and light design- This Wednesday evening

Sound- Next Wednesday

Costume (Real pieces complete with water sleeves)- Next Monday Morning

Movement- Next Tuesday




FINALLY!!!!!!!!! the script...
8:08 AM

We went to meet the lady at the teahouse today to check on the things in the script.
We asked her a few questions and decided that it would be good if i posted them up.

1) Are there any conventions in Chinese opera that we should keep in our script?
- Chinese Opera is all about the dialogue and the singing as well as the movement. All these are the main components in Chinese Opera.

2) Is Opera more movement or script based?
-Both are equally important and both are used to convey the story line as well as things about each character.

3) Do plays usually have a climax? Where are they usually?
- They do have climaxes, they can be everywhere. But it really depends on the lenght of the Opera being performed.

4) Would adding modern elements and stuff like that be disrespectful to Opera?
- Only people in China are really bothered with keeping the art form pure. Now a days because of the youth and their mentality,Opera has had to take a very modern sdtand inorder to attract the audience. So i think it is alright to modernize it to fit into the requirements to please the audience.

5) We have a fairy Godfather in the play, do you think it would be better if we have a base character from Chinese Opera history to use for the Godfather?
- You can create your own character, he can be funny, serious, whatever you want the Godfather to be. It really depends oin your interpretation of the character.

6) Is there a clear exposition in Opera?
- There used to be very clear expositions whereby the characters came up on stage and told the audience of theuir name, family, occupation, etc. But now a days there seems to be no need to do this as the audience has become 'smarter'. Todays audeince will be able to derive the characteristics o the audience from their actions and dialogue throught the script.

From this question and answer round that we had with her, Isaac edited the script and we now have a finalized (nearly) Script that i can base sound and set on!! YAY!!!!
So GREAT JOB GUYS!!!! kepp up the gOOD.,.. no GREEEEAAAAATTT WORK!!
LOVe ya all..
-Priscilla Jamir




What we are doin and why the heck were doin it tht way...
Sunday, July 19, 2009, 7:11 AM

Hey.. this is what i put up on my blog.. but i think its important for all of you guys to know this stuff for the question and answer round..:D
Please readup and absorb.... -Priscilla

We changed our idea once again and decided to use Chinese Opera as a mode to tell our fairytale story. We decided that we wouls keep to the same classic story,but just chnage the mode of presentation to chinese Opera. But this in itself was a crazy hard task!

1) We decided to keep the structure of Opera as far as costume and makeup were concerned. Also, we tried to base the characters in Cinderella as close to the Chinese stereotypes as possible, thus making it easier to match the costume and make up.

2) Chinese Opera in itself is a HUGE genre, so we decidede to narrow it down to something that was more recent and famous so that our audience might be able to make some connection to the chracters, be it through costume or makeup. Beijing or Peking Opera was decided on as it is one of the latest tradition of Opera and is recognized world wide. We felt that this modern version oif Opera would be better to use as it does incorporate certain elements that have come about with modernization. The makeup for example is now thicker than it was before as now the indoor performance theatres have stage lights, and do not depend on natural lighting.

3) After talking to people in the Opera industry and also reading up, we found out that the singing in Opera was what made it so special. However, we decided that we would have to let go of the singing as it was a second barrier or double alienation for the audience, something that we did not want. They would not be used to seeing youths on stage dresed in Opera costumes and singing in english. This would only cause them to laugh, and thus hinder their ability and concentration on the play as a whole. Also, we felt that if singing were to be added, it would seem like a satire and a mockery of Chinese Opera, something that we are definately not trying or want to do. Furthurmore, after doing some research we found a play which was a chinese adaptation of Shakespears 'Taming o the shrew'. In this Opera performnace, there was more dialogue than sound, and the whole play was at a much faster pace inorder to accomidate the modern audience in 2001. Thus, using this as our example, we decided to incorporate faster dialogue in our production.

4) The story line in Chinese Opera is very straight forward. However, inorder to appeal and to capture the audiences attention, we are trying a method very much like restoration comedy. We wil not be using old english, but we wil be using the use of underlinging meaning as well as comedy in our script not so that it will be a satire, but so that the audience will be more interested in the dialogue. We decided on this approach through research on motion, as we found that certain characteristci of motion in Chinese Opera correspond to that of Restoration Comedy.

5) As far as movement in concerned, we wil be trying to stay as clodse to Chinese Opera as possible. We have done research on it, watched videos on it and are going to attend a workshop soon to work out what movement differentiates each character from one another and how one must go about acting Opera.

6) The reason we are using the story of Cinderella is because it has a very fariy tale, unrealistic element to it, something dreamy. That is what we are trying to achieve here. Opera is not something that you see in everyday life, the actions are exaggerated to s certain extent for emphasis and many of the movemnets are not seen in real life today either. Why Cinderela one might ask, arent Operas about politics and state affairs? Well yes, they did have a certain amount of politics in it, but as China began to be influenced by modernization, the joint family unit broke down, leading to may smaller family units and in some cases just the couples. Thus, this chnage broiught about a chnage in the Opera culture as well, after all the Opera was catered to the people's tastes and preferences and also chnaged with the times. Thus in the 20th and 21st century, Opera began to show plays that revolved around love and how it overcomes all things in the end.




Friday, July 17, 2009, 2:02 AM

Videos of xiaosheng, huadan, jing and chou
http://www.english.cciv.cityu.edu.hk/beijingopera/video.php?item=1




Music
Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 12:04 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NRtReM8Vxw&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL4IGn-p4gI
Saad:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-dPC-srIbs&feature=related
Kid:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqoEsNw2PGs




Script
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 5:15 AM

We are following Chinese Operas costume, makeup, movement and the concept of a simple script.

As for the singing, we will not do it. Dialogue will be short one liners and we will drag it a bit so that it seems opera like.

Movement we will still keep and train ourselves.

Here is the script.

Cast Of Characters:
___________________ Narrator ___________________ Evil Stepmother ___________________ Ugly Stepsister #1 ___________________ Ugly Stepsister #2 ___________________ Cinderella
___________________ Fairy Godmother ___________________ Queen ___________________ King ___________________ Prince ___________________ 1
st
Herald ___________________ 2
nd
Herald

Scene #1(5 people)

Narrator : Is 7 a.m. and Cinderella's family has just woken up. They are in the sitting room.

Evil Stepmother: (pauses, looks around) CINDERELLA!!

Cinderella: Yes, Stepmother?

Evil Stepmother: Come here and make us breakfast! And bring me my makeup while you're at it!

Cinderella: Yes, Stepmother.
(Cinderella leaves to get the breakfast)

Ugly Sister #2: Good morning, Mum. Where is my breakfast? I’m hungry.

Ugly Sister #1 Have you heard about the big ball the King is throwing to find Prince Charming a wife? Everyone will be there!

Ugly Sister #2 Can we go, Mum, please, can we?

Evil Stepmother: Of course we are going to the ball. My daughters are the most beautiful girls in the land.

Ugly Sister #1: I hope he picks me to be the princess.

Ugly Sister #2: No, I hope he picks me!

Cinderella:(To stepmother)Here’s your breakfast.
(To sister #1)Here’s your breakfast.
(To sister #2)And here is your breakfast.
(Pauses, in a sheepish tone)
May I go to the ball too?

Ugly Sister #1: You?

Evil Stepmother: (Laughing.) Of course you may go, Cinderella, IF you finish all your chores, and IF you help your sisters get ready, and IF you can find some decent clothes to wear instead of those rags! (Cinderella sighs, puts the tray down in front of the sisters and leaves.)

Ugly Sister #1: The prince will think I am beautiful!

Ugly Sister #2: No, he'll be amazed by my beautiful hair!

Evil Stepmother: Don't be silly; the prince is known for liking older women like me!

Ugly Sister #1 and #2: Mom!!!!

Scene #2
(6 people)

Narrator: Cinderella’s evil stepmother and ugly stepsisters are getting dressed for the ball.

Evil Stepmother: Where is my dress?

Ugly Sister #1: And my shoes?

Ugly Sister #2: And my purse?

Evil Stepmother: (angry, to Cinderella)
Why can’t you find anything when I ask?

Cinderella: Your dress is there, mother
(points). Your dresses are here.
(gives them the dresses)

Evil Stepmother: Be careful, dear. Don’t spoil them with you dirty hands. But where are our fans?

Cinderella: Oh, I can give you the fans, too. (Turns, picks them up, and gives them to the sisters)

Ugly Sister #1: First, you must mend my socks.
(gives Cinderella her socks)

Cinderella: Oh, yes, right away.
(leaves the room)

Ugly Sister #1: Oh, mum, be quick!

Evil Stepmother: Ok, let’s go!! (happily) Bye, Cinderella! Don't forget to sweep the kitchen!

Narrator: Cinderella picks up the broom, but begins crying to herself.

Cinderella: I wish I could go to the ball!

Fairy Godmother: Sh-! (Cinderella looks up.) What was that you just said?

Cinderella:(frightened and surprised) Who are you?!

Fairy Godmother: I'm your fairy godmother! Now, what was that I heard you say?

Cinderella:(still crying a little) Ju..Just that I wanted to go to the ball.

Fairy Godmother: Is that all? I can manage that.

Narrator: The Fairy Godmother waves her wand. Cinderella looks at herself and sees she is wearing a beautiful dress.

Fairy Godmother:(smiling) Goodbye, have a good time.

Cinderella: But I can't go to the ball barefoot!

Fairy Godmother: That’s right!
(waves her wand again) There you are, beautiful glass slippers! Remember that you need to be home by midnight or the magic will stop working!

Narrator: Cinderella leaves for the ball in a beautiful car. But she has to remember not to stay too late or the car will turn back into a pumpkin.

Scene #3 (4 people)
Narrator: At the ball, the Queen and the King invite everyone to enjoy themselves. Everyone begins dancing and having a good time.

Queen: The ball is on, please dance and play! (Couples begin dancing)

Narrator: Suddenly, Cinderella appears and the music stops.

Queen (to the King): Who is that girl?

King: She is so nice and smart . . .

Prince: May I dance with you? Let’s start . . .

Narrator: The music begins again and everyone is dancing. Then they hear the clock strike 12. (Dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong!

Cinderella: It’s midnight and I have to run. Good-bye, I really had a great fun!

Prince: I will miss you! I hope we will meet again.

Narrator: As she is running, she loses one of her shoes. The prince goes, picks it up, and looks at it. He decides to keep it so that he can find this beautiful woman again later.

Scene #4 (7 people)

Narrator: The next day, Cinderella’s ugly sisters and stepmother are talking. Cinderella is sitting to the side.

Ugly Sister #1: A beautiful lady was at the ball. We really don’t know her at all.

Ugly Sister #2:(in a dreamy, wishing voice) The Prince wants to marry her.

Evil Stepmother: Stop!
(listens) Do you hear those men? The king’s messengers?

Narrator: Two heralds (messengers) enter the room.

1st Herald: Please, try on this glass shoe.

2nd Herald: (looking through the long list): We know you were at the ball.

Ugly Sister #1:(trying the shoe on) It’s too small.

Ugly Sister #2: (trying the shoe on) It’s small for me, too.

1st Herald: What about you? (points to Cinderella)

Evil Stepmother: But she didn’t go to the ball. She is Cinderella and that is all!

Cinderella: I want to try it on, Mum.

Narrator: Cinderella tries on the shoe and everyone sees that it fits perfectly. They are very surprised.

Ugly Sister #1: How could you have been the beautiful woman at the ball?

Ugly Sister #2: How could you even have gone to the ball?

Stepmother: What has happened? The king was supposed to choose one of you! I am ruined!

1st Herald: The Prince is waiting for you, as you know.

2nd Herald: Be quick, let’s go!

Cinderella: I am so happy today. I forgive all of you. Good-bye!
(Cinderella leaves the room after the heralds, waving goodbye to her family.)

Narrator: Cinderella and the prince lived happily ever after. She forgot about her ugly sisters and evil stepmother and lived forever in the castle.

The end.




ROLES, DUTIES AND DEADLINES
Saturday, July 11, 2009, 8:54 AM

Since were doing Chinese Opera, we have had to do a bit of shifting around with the roles-

ROLES

Rachel- Make up and Mask (if were going to use it)

Wen Zhen- Costume

Priscilla- All technical stuff- lights, sounds.

Issac- Scriptwriter

Saad- Movement coach.


TO DO

Wen Zhen- The characters in Chjinse Opera and what about their costume (concentrate on structure) tells the audience of their personality and role.

Boo- All aboiut the makeup. The shade, angels, colours, etc. Please search for the avalability of the makeup required and check out the price so we can see how it can be split. Thankz.

Saad and Issac- All about the movement. How various chracters enter, exit and move about the stge. How does this contribute to helping the audience get to know their character, etc.

Priscilla- Reasearch about fairytales and chinese Opera and link them together, link hostory, present day and the reason as to why we use opera to present a fairy tale.

DEADLINES

Issac- script to be completyed and group briefed and all chnages made by tuesday. Character analysis needed to help costume and make up ppl.

Wen Zhen- By the 15th all research is to be done. By 18th All sketches and costume plan should be completed.

Boo- Research to be done by 15th. Coloured sketches of the make up to be done by 18th.

Saad- All movemnet to be choreographed by 22nd Wednesday. Please work along side costume person as you need to see how restrited the movemnt will be and what about the costume can help with the movement.,




EVERDAY EXERCISES
Sunday, July 5, 2009, 8:50 AM

10 sit-ups

10 crunches
-left over right
-right over left
-normal ones
TRY TO HOLD THEM,
SHOULDER SHOULDN'T TOUCH E GROUND AT ALL TIMES
TILL 140 ONE FINE DAY

10 normal push-ups

10 hands-wider-apart push-ups

Normal stretching
-Head
-Shoulder
-Hip/Waist
-Leg (upper and lower)
-Ankle

Isolations
-Head
-Shoulder
-Hip

Do slowly~! :)

xoxo,
BOOBOO




TIMELINE.
1:54 AM

Task
You are required to devise a short piece of ‘total theatre’ (i.e. drama which consciously attempts to involve other art forms) based on the theme of ‘Politics of Identity’. The duration of the piece
should be about 20 minutes in total. All members of the group should perform in the final piece; in addition every member should also take on a secondary role such as scriptwriter, director, movement coach, mask designer, puppet designer, costume and makeup designer, sound / lighting designer, etc. Doubling or sharing of roles is allowed, but a fair distribution of responsibilities must be seen.

Individual weblog
Every member should keep a weblog detailing the process of carrying out his or her individual
primary and secondary duties. The following must be considered:

 Inspirations and influences for the storyline and skill(s) chosen
 Performance traditions / theories related to acting and skill(s) chosen
 Explanation of creative choices made
 Significant moments or turning points that contributed to the final product

Weighting

The weighting for this assessment is as follows:
1. Group Mark for the ensemble (10 marks)
2. Individual Mark for each member of the ensemble (10 marks)
3. Individual contribution to Group Presentation – Teacher and Peer-assessed (10 marks)
4. Individual weblog (10 marks)

The tentative assessment date for GP2 is August 13, 2009 (Thursday).

The following is a suggested timeline. There is no extension of deadlines.

Week Event Submission

June hols
Gather creative inspiration; read up on
performance traditions / theories; analyse
suggested readings and texts for structure and
dramatic style
Blog entry 1

Week 1 As above
(Semestral Assessment week)

Week 2 (Prep week for JC2 Practical exam – JC1s
excused from class where needed)
Submit list of roles for each member, and what
this entails;
Blog entry 2

Week 3 Class meeting: all groups to pitch their pieces to the rest of the class; may present 1 scene in which they show how another skill (together with acting) has been incorporated within the piece
Submit Working script and scene synopsis;
Blog entry 3

Week 4 Technical rehearsal Submit set / costume / mask / puppet design;
Blog entry 4

Week 5 Showcase Submit light and sound cuesheets;
Blog entry 5

Week 6 Full dress rehearsal
Blog entry 6

Week 7 Assessment
Final Blog entry 7




MEETING DATES
1:52 AM

6th MONDAY- Before, after and during SWAKK'D rehearsal. Saad will show us what excersise we will need to faithfully follow a home. And we will also discuss about the script and storyline.

10th FRIDAY- After and before SWAKK'D rehearsal (6 -7 pm) By this time we will have a script, so we will finalize it and also work out some of the movements and finalize songs that we will use.

11th Saturday- Whenever we finish clearing the BB (3-4pm) We will all leave together to go toIssac's church. Where we will stay until about 7 to do movements.

12th Sunday- 7pm to whnever needed, to rehearse and what ever needs to be done like costume and set, etc.

13th Monday- After SWAKK'D rehearsal (5-6pm) We will have a group meeting.

15th WEDNESDAY- After scholl till whenever. Costume and set.

18th Saturday- 3to 7pm.

This is all we have got so far. EVERY saturday, we will have meetings from 3 to 7. So keep that time free every week.

Rojak

Director: All
Playwrights: Isaac
Secretary: Rachel
Costume: Wenzhen
Set: Priscilla
Lights/Sound: Priscilla
Movement coach: Saad




SDEA
TSDian
Pris's Rojak I.blog
Rach's Rojak I.blog
Isaac's Rojak I.blog
Other TSD bloggers,
Melvyn
Isaac
Afiqah
Chenxing
Mark
Rachel


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