Tuesday, 19 May 2015
Updated Pinterest Inspiration board
Throughout the project I have been keeping up to date with an inspiration board on Pinterest.
Link above.
Preparing for Professional Practise
Q: What could you expect to work as after graduation?
- Designer - Set, costume, lighting, projections, digital media
- Assistant Designer / Model Maker
- Deigner / Maker
- Maker - Painter, propmaking, costume maker, treatments, superviser, buyer, production team, lighting team
- Designer / Performer - Theatre Maker
- Visual Artist in Performance
- Artist in Education - Theatre, galleries, schools
- Artist in Health / Hospital settings
- Community Artist / Art activist
- Display and Exhabitions
- Digital Media / Music business
- Promotions, events, celebrations
- Post Grad study in same / Other subject
- PGCE teaching formal / Informal Education
- Specialist course - Craft / Digital Education
- Change of Direction / Travelling (Take it with you)
Janet Vaughan - Freelance theatre, event maker / designer
> Taking Birds
Manchester Arts Educational Festival
Q: When do things open?
Keep an eye on when things are happening and when they will need help.
i.e festivals and panto
Go to Annual Trade Shows - Companies and jobs, collect broacher
www.newdesigners.com/ND15Features
Theatre Employees Org
TMA
ITC
SWET and SOLT
Unions
Equity (Actors, performers, designers)
Beatu (Film, TV and technicians)
Key Organisations to keep tabs on...
- Arts Council England
- Regional Arts Boards
- Creative Partnerships
- City and County councils - Arts, Leisure and Education
- Community Organisations, Charities and action organisations
Friday, 15 May 2015
CAD DRAWINGS
These are my AUTOCAD drawings for the set of The Duchess of Malfi - Nottingham Playhouse
1:25 scale drawings on A1 paper
1:25 scale drawings on A1 paper
Ground Plan
Side Elevation
Back Wall of windows and cross section drawings
Set 1 Arch and Columns and cross section of column
Set 2&3 of columns Pictures for reference of the columns as they need construction to look like the model box.
Friday, 1 May 2015
Story Boarding
Beginning the play to see a neutral feeling set. - No hints as to want could happen
Shrine of Loretto - Night time
The death of the Duchess causes a black out, the columns are suddenly light and it causes a cold chill in the theatre.
After the Duchess has died, Antino and Deil are walking past a cemetery - they hear the echo of The Duchess.
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Puppetry Performance
Our first performance of the verbatim piece went fairly smoothly.
The only issue we had was during the bus stop scene where the 'male' puppets leg fell off. Unfortunately the puppeteers on the puppet didn't notice until the puppets were back at the table. If they had of noticed sooner should they have acted out about it? Would it have taken away from the seriousness of the issue we were trying to raise?
After the performance we received a lot of good feedback asking about the topic and how we went about collecting data. We also received opinions and a small debate about whether or not other people dealt with this kind of harassment and a few conversations after the play lead onto where the piece could go from here.
with more research and more time it would be interesting to face more difficult issues and experience than what we performed. However unfortunately the research we gathered didn't have anything particularly shocking. It was difficult to get people to talk about their experiences let alone to get really mentally scaring material out of people. That was just one thing that would have always been difficult to get from people as it is a very personal experience.
Q: why puppets?
Puppets allowed us to discounted our prior thoughts that we have about somebody before they talk. We judge people from their clothes, hair and how they present themselves. With puppets we can not project an image of a 'stereotype' onto it and therefore we listen better to what they have to say.
The only issue we had was during the bus stop scene where the 'male' puppets leg fell off. Unfortunately the puppeteers on the puppet didn't notice until the puppets were back at the table. If they had of noticed sooner should they have acted out about it? Would it have taken away from the seriousness of the issue we were trying to raise?
After the performance we received a lot of good feedback asking about the topic and how we went about collecting data. We also received opinions and a small debate about whether or not other people dealt with this kind of harassment and a few conversations after the play lead onto where the piece could go from here.
with more research and more time it would be interesting to face more difficult issues and experience than what we performed. However unfortunately the research we gathered didn't have anything particularly shocking. It was difficult to get people to talk about their experiences let alone to get really mentally scaring material out of people. That was just one thing that would have always been difficult to get from people as it is a very personal experience.
Q: why puppets?
Puppets allowed us to discounted our prior thoughts that we have about somebody before they talk. We judge people from their clothes, hair and how they present themselves. With puppets we can not project an image of a 'stereotype' onto it and therefore we listen better to what they have to say.
Friday, 17 April 2015
Violence in Hamelt
Violence in Hamlet
Suicide
Ophelia (Hamlet)
Ophelia, driven insane by Hamlet's cruelty and the murder of her beloved father, plunges from a tree branch into the current below. Although her fall is an accident, Ophelia makes no attempt to save herself, and thus her drowning is viewed as a suicide.
Suicide
Ophelia (Hamlet)
Ophelia, driven insane by Hamlet's cruelty and the murder of her beloved father, plunges from a tree branch into the current below. Although her fall is an accident, Ophelia makes no attempt to save herself, and thus her drowning is viewed as a suicide.
Murder
Polonius (Hamlet)
Acting as a spy for King Claudius, Polonius hides behind a curtain in Gertrude's chamber to listen to her conversation with Hamlet. Hearing a noise, Hamlet stabs through the curtain and kills the old eavesdropper.
Acting as a spy for King Claudius, Polonius hides behind a curtain in Gertrude's chamber to listen to her conversation with Hamlet. Hearing a noise, Hamlet stabs through the curtain and kills the old eavesdropper.
Gertrude (Hamlet)
The Queen drinks from the poisoned chalice of wine intended for Hamlet. She dies exclaiming, "The drink, the drink! I am poison'd" (5.2.320).
Claudius (Hamlet)
Hamlet stabs Claudius with the poisoned rapier and then forces him to drink from the poisoned goblet.
The Queen drinks from the poisoned chalice of wine intended for Hamlet. She dies exclaiming, "The drink, the drink! I am poison'd" (5.2.320).
Claudius (Hamlet)
Hamlet stabs Claudius with the poisoned rapier and then forces him to drink from the poisoned goblet.
Assassination and Execution
Hamlet's Father (Hamlet)
Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, assassinated Hamlet's father by pouring the "juice of cursed hebenon" (1.5.63) in his ear while he slept in his orchard. Hebenon is a folk name for Henbane, the expressed juice of the fresh plant, Hyoscyamus niger. Other folk names for Henbane include Black Nightshade, Cassilago, Devil's Eye, and Jupiter's Bean. The death of Hamlet's father was inspired by a real event in 1538, when the Duke of Urbino was killed by a poisoned lotion rubbed into his ears by his barber.
Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, assassinated Hamlet's father by pouring the "juice of cursed hebenon" (1.5.63) in his ear while he slept in his orchard. Hebenon is a folk name for Henbane, the expressed juice of the fresh plant, Hyoscyamus niger. Other folk names for Henbane include Black Nightshade, Cassilago, Devil's Eye, and Jupiter's Bean. The death of Hamlet's father was inspired by a real event in 1538, when the Duke of Urbino was killed by a poisoned lotion rubbed into his ears by his barber.
Killed in Combat
Hamlet (Hamlet)
Hamlet is stabbed with the end of Laertes' poisoned rapier.
Laertes (Hamlet)
During the final climatic fencing match, Laertes and Hamlet scuffle and their rapiers are accidentally exchanged. Hamlet grabs Laertes poisoned rapier and wounds Laertes. Laertes soon dies from the injury.
Hamlet is stabbed with the end of Laertes' poisoned rapier.
Laertes (Hamlet)
During the final climatic fencing match, Laertes and Hamlet scuffle and their rapiers are accidentally exchanged. Hamlet grabs Laertes poisoned rapier and wounds Laertes. Laertes soon dies from the injury.
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/violenceinshakespeare.html
What does each of these deaths say about the killer and the victim?
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
Building the Table
- Industrial materials, used scaffolding wood and scaffold poles to create the table
- We use clamps to allow the table to open and pivot
- Concerned about the weight of the wood? -how can we make this safer?
The inspiration for the table came from The Wired Cafe- the industrial feel of the cafe gave a nice aesthetic to the story and it felt like a place in which the character go for coffee as a group of friends.
Attaching the scaffolding boards to a piece of MDF, this will be the base that attaches all the pieces together and allows the boards to lift up for the end scene.
As you can see from the picture the attachment of the hinged support was not ideal for health and safety. We decided to drill a screw into the main body of the board, underneath to give a better lock onto the support, and to reduce the risk of injury.
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