HS Tech Theatre 5th Period Assignments
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5/17 Last Warmup! Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin.
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5/15 Final Project part 6 sound
I want you to find the sounds for your play. I want you to make a list in order with page number.
Then I want you to find the sound effects and find a link on youtube or other sound effect websites to show us what they would sound like.
By sound effect I mean like gun shots, phone ringing, car horns, ETC.
Then I want you to find the sound effects and find a link on youtube or other sound effect websites to show us what they would sound like.
By sound effect I mean like gun shots, phone ringing, car horns, ETC.
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5/16 Warmup To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders
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4/24 Final project Designing for a play
You will need to design the set, costumes, find the sounds needed, and props needed for the play. I will be asking for these throughout the rest of the year.
The foreigner Elijah
The odd couple carianna
Zombie prom malana
The mouse trap Cailynn
Unexpected tenderness Katie
Moon over buffalo Logan
The awesome 80s prom Sean
Pride and Prejudice charlotte
A Christmas Carol Skylar
Boys next door Zoe
Dark road Camron
She kills monsters emilee
Winnie the Pooh Moises
The hobbit Parker
Alice in wonderland Layla
Prom queens uncharted addy
La gringa Amaris
Ghosts in the machine Milo
The foreigner Elijah
The odd couple carianna
Zombie prom malana
The mouse trap Cailynn
Unexpected tenderness Katie
Moon over buffalo Logan
The awesome 80s prom Sean
Pride and Prejudice charlotte
A Christmas Carol Skylar
Boys next door Zoe
Dark road Camron
She kills monsters emilee
Winnie the Pooh Moises
The hobbit Parker
Alice in wonderland Layla
Prom queens uncharted addy
La gringa Amaris
Ghosts in the machine Milo
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5/15 Warmup The mind is everything. What you think, you become.
Write what you think it means
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5/13 Final Project part 5
I want you to create a lighting design for each of the different scenes in the play. They will be more then the number of Slides I gave you. just duplicate an unedited one.
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5/14 Warmup It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve, and bad things are very easy to get
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5/13 Warmup When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals; adjust the action steps
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5/8 Play Final part 4 3d
I want you to take your 2d drawing and turn it into a 3D design in Tinker cad
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5/10 Warmup Over the wintry Forest, winds howl in rage With no leaves to blow.
Write what you think it means
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5/9 Warmup O snail, climb Mt. Fuji, but slowly, slowly
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5/6 Final Part 3 Set
I want you to draw a mock set out on paper, this set does not have to be in scale. Draw it as you were looking at the set form the front of the stage. I do not want a top down. If I wanted a Top down I would ask for a top down.
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5/8 Warmup The scent of plums detaches from the blossoms and leaves off into the distance the mind is drawn where the wind carries the detached scent.
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5/7 Warmup A man can search his whole life for the perfect Cherry Blossom and it is a life not wasted.
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5/6 Warmup Flowers are only flowers because they fall
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5/1 Final part 2
I want you to gather a list of ALL the Props and Photos of what they would look like
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5/3 Warmup To be or not to be that is the questions
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5/2 Warmup You can't always be the best. Everyone's best is different, But you can always do your best.
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5/1 Warmup Whoever one is, and Wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude
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4/25 Final project part 1
I need you to find put together the costumes for the characters in your play make sure they are time correct to the script you are doing.
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4/30 Warmup I would rather have questions that can't be answered then answers that can't be questioned
write what you think it means.
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4/29 Warmup Someone out there is holding their breath waiting for you to give up. Make sure they suffocate
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4/25 Warmup Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what’s happened and continue living.
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4/24 They say you should do 6 impossible things before breakfast
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4/23 Warmup To be or not to be that is the question
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4/22 Warmup Try to be a turtle, at ease in your own shell.
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4/19 Warmup If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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4/17 Group design project (2 people per group)
So we will be designing wood project with cash. You will designing a rack to hold lighting instruments, and a cabinet that can hold plastic tub.
You have $450 to build the objects. You will need to design them using 1/2 in scale to design the objects and then you will price them out and they have to be under $450.
You will need at least wood, screws, a pipe, and wheels.
The lights are 23 inches long and about 8 inches wide. the rack will have to hold 10 lights with two levels different lights
You have $450 to build the objects. You will need to design them using 1/2 in scale to design the objects and then you will price them out and they have to be under $450.
You will need at least wood, screws, a pipe, and wheels.
The lights are 23 inches long and about 8 inches wide. the rack will have to hold 10 lights with two levels different lights
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4/18 Warmup A forest bird never wants a cage.
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4/17 Warmup Even a great white eagle can be bested by a murder of crows.
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4/16 Warmup Home is any four walls that enclose the right person
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4/15 Newsies Set design
I want you to look into the set design of the newsies. Look into the scaffolding like structures and explain why or why not you think it could work on our stage on a high school level. It needs to be at least half a page explained why or why not. Not just a sentence or two. I want your actually thoughts on this or you will fail the project
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4/15 Warmup We miss our chance to be great because we are too scared to take a chance
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4/8 Floor plan project.
You will pick a TV show floorplan and then recreate said floorplan in Tinkercad.
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4/12 Warmup Don't take life to seriously. It's not like you're going to get out alive
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4/11 Warmup People think the worst thing in life is ending up alone, but truly the worst part is ending up with people who make you feel alone.
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4/10 Warmup You are not perfect, the person sitting next to you is not perfect. The person you are in love with is not perfect. But the real question is are y'all perfect for each other.
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4/9 Warmup The world is to big to be in a competition with everyone else, the only person I have to get better then is the one who I am right now.
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4/8 Warmup You gotta keep on keepin on.
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4/5 Warmup The circumstance of your birth is irrelevant, it is what you do with that gift of life that determines who you are.
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Sound quiz
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4/4 Warmup failure is not falling down but refusing to get back up
Write what you think it means.
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4/3 Warmup Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining
write what you think it means
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4/2 Warmup The true fool is the one that complains before they even start.
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3/28 warmup just because it’s easier to ignore the problem doesn’t mean it's what you do.
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3/25 Tinkercad combing through the script
I want you to use the information you gathered form Combing through the script and recreate the set and props in tinkercad.
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3/27 Warmup Climb every mountain, ford every stream, follow every rainbow, 'til you find your dream.
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2/26 Warmup Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are
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3/25 Warmup There is nothing permanent except change
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3/22 Combing through the script finding costumes
You will go on google slides and make a slide for each character and then find the photos of the clothing you believe the said character would wear. I am talking the whole outfit.
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3/22 Warmup Once you accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
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3/18 Combing through a script as a team
I want you to comb through one of the scripts below and find the Lights, Sound, Sets, Props Costumes.
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3/21 Warmup It’s darkest just before dawn
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3/20 Warmup You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose
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3/19 Warmup The Only real Losers are the people who are so afraid of not winning they don't try.
write what you think it means
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3/18 Warmup Things change and friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody
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3/8 Warmup Everything has been figured out, except how to live
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3/7 Warmup We can't always stop the storm, we can't make all the road we drive on smooth, but we can promise the people we will be next to.
write what you think it means
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3/6 Theatre lighting quiz
take the quiz
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3/6 Warmup Just because everyone else is doing it doesn't mean you have to. It is okay to say NO
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3/5 Warmup Some days are going to be hard to start then others, but when those days are over nothing can stop you.
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3/4 Warmup A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus
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3/1 Warmup It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste of life to live in the future
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2/29 Warmup Its leap day, spend it like its your last because the next one isn't for another 4 years
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2/28 Warmup it is so Shocking to find out how many people do no believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
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2/21 Foley Design
Your group will be given a 1:30 minutes scene that you will have to create and make those sounds for those scenes.
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2/27 Warmup Those who stand for nothing fall for everything
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2/26 Warmup A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
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2/23 Warmup If I Run Out Of Will Today, Then I Will Borrow Some From Tomorrow
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2/22 Warmup Getting to truly know someone is letting them touch your soul.
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2/21 Warmup I Don't Know How I'll Feel When I'm Dead, But I Don't Want To Regret The Way I Lived
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2/20 Warmup We think to much and feel to little
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2/12 Lighting Lab
You will be picking your own animated Disney or Dreamworks Movie You will need to pick 6 different scenes form the movie. Once you have picked the scenes post pictures of them on a google slides then describe the scene below the photo.
Below is an example of the scenes
Below is an example of the scenes
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2/15 Warmup The people who will change the world are those who speak out
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2/14 Warmup All hate thrives on one thing silence
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2/13 Warmup It is only when you are falling that you learn whether you can fly
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2/12 Warmup If you want to see the rainbow you have to put up with the rain.
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2/1 Movie scene lighting
I want you to take 8 scenes form your favorite animated movie and recreate them for the stage. You will need to grab a picture of the scene then describe the scenes lighting on a google doc and then use the Google Slides to recrate it for the stage.
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2/8 Warmup You can't go back once you have started this journey
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2/6 Create your own lighting plot
I want you to describe the info using colors and then create it in the following powerpoint slides.
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2/7 Warmup There are many paths to tread through shadow to the edge of night until the star are all alight.
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2/6 Warmup Home is behind the world ahead and there are many paths to tread.
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2/5 Warmup When one door closes another door opens
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2/2 Warmup A person is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
Write what you think it means.
Write it in the private comments
Write it in the private comments
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2/1 Warmup The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be
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1/31 Warmup Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A person should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
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1/30 Warmup We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?'”
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1/29 Warmup When today is not your day then try tomorrow
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1/26 Warmup when ignorant screams, intelligence shuts up.
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1/25 Warmup Even a great white eagle can be bested by a murder of crows
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1/24 Warmup You don't notice your progress in life because you are always raising the bar
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1/23 Warmup Our work is the presentation of our capabilities
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1/22 Warmup Life is 10 percent what happens to you, and 90 percent how you react to it.
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1/19 Warmup You might be the sweetest peach on the tree, but some people just don't like peaches
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1/18 Warm up If you wouldn't take advice form them why would you take criticism
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1\16 Prop Making for She Kills Monsters
We are doing sketches then make final drawling for 3 different props and 2 different constumes
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1/17 Warmup If life was easy you would be bored.
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1/16 Warmup Life has no remote. You have to get up and change it yourself.
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1/10 She Kills Monsters Prop and Costume
We will be reading She Kills Monsters and combing through it for all the different Props and costume pieces
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1/11 Warmup You can't escape death, and you can't predict when it will happen, so live, live like there is no tomorrow
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1/10 Warmup The desire for victory must outweigh the fear of failure. You've got to be tired of losing to truly appreciate winning.
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1/9 Warmup Anyone can show up when you are happy, but the ones who stay by your side when your heart falls apart they are your true friends
What do you think it means?
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1/8 Warmup This semester I will accomplish this.
Answer the questions
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12/8 Warmup Anxiety is just excitement without the breath
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12/7 Warmup In darkness only ambition will guide you.
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12/6 Warmup Remind yourself that is it okay not to be perfect
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12/5 Warmup You do not get to choose if you hurt someone feelings. They do.
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12/4 Warmup You might be the sweetest peach on the tree, but some people just don't like peaches.
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11/28 Christmas Movie Swap
You are creating a costume for Santa Clause, Mrs. Clause and an Elf in the Movie genre you were randomly given. Once you have drawn those costumes you will then create a paragraph summary of the movie that fits the New Costumes.
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11/30 If you want something to get better you have to make it so
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11/29 Warmup If you want to see the rainbow you have to put up with the rain
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11/28 Warmup Your story may not have a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. it the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
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11/27 Warmup Every time you say something bad about yourself you are putting iron weights in your pocket sooner or later you will drag yourself down and won’t be able to get up
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11/17 Warmup Favorite thing to eat on Thanksgiving
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11/16 Warmup What are you thankful for?
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11/14 Warmup Let go or be dragged
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11/13 Warmup Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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11/7 If animals wore clothing
I want you to take your 4 favorite animal and find costumes or clothing for them if they became human
Part 2 I now want you to find the outfits and prices or prices closest to them. and how much you would spend on the costume.
Part 2 I now want you to find the outfits and prices or prices closest to them. and how much you would spend on the costume.
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11/9 Warmup You can't take back what you said, but you can atone for the actions you have done.
write what you think it means
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11/8 Warmup We are not our failures, we are not who we were, we are not those who have been, we are who we choose to be.
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11/7 Warmup Anyone can show up when you're happy but the ones who stay by your side when your heart falls apart they are your true friends.
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11/6 Warmup under every stone lurks potential
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11/3 Warmup The greatest teacher is failure
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11/2 Warmup Do, Do not there is no try
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11/1 Warmup Dread it, run form it, walk straight into it, But the future is inevitable.
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10/31 Warmup Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear
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10/30 Question Fear is the mind killer I will face my fear and I will permit it to pass over me and through me
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10/27 Warmup to live would be an awfully big adventure
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10/26 Warmup Don't be sorry be better
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10/25 Warmup Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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10/24 Warmup Why do we fear death? It is as natural to die as it is to be born
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10/23 Warmup To many people give up so easily so close to the start
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10/19 A Midsummer Nights Dream.
I want you to watch the movie. Once we are Finish with the movie we will work on different costumes and styles for the characters.
I want you to design the costume Ideas off the Characters Mood, Tone, style and class level of character. (like how much status the have in the world).
I want you to design the costume Ideas off the Characters Mood, Tone, style and class level of character. (like how much status the have in the world).
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10/12 Warmup Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you
Write what you think it means.
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10/11 Warmup Home is any four walls that enclose the right person
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10/10 Warmup Humans only have one ending. Ideas live forever.
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10/9 Warmup No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without struggle
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10/6 If your ship doesn't come in, swim out and meet it.
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10/5 Warmup Whatever you lose, you’ll find it again. But what you throw away you’ll never get back
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10/4 Warmup There is no use worrying about things you can control just embrace them head on.
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9/29 Shoe box set
Task 1
Choose a scene from your favorite play or musical
You are going to design a set for that scene. It must be an original design, so it must be your interpretation of the scene.
Write down the following things about the scene you have chosen:
Characters in the scene
The time of day that the scene takes place in
The month and season that the scene takes place in
What is happening in the scene?
Special notes for the scene (eg something particularly important that effects the stage design).
Task 2
Choose a stage configuration that you think would suit that scene and create 2 different stage designs for that scene. Create your designs on paper and draw them. They only need to be sketches.
Proscenium Arch
Thrust
In The Round
Task 3
Choose your favorite design and answer this question:
As a designer describe in detail your set design for the scene you have chosen. You should justify your ideas with reference to the original staging.
In your answer refer to:
your choice of stage and audience position
set and props (including use of color)
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What materials will you need to build these sets?
Choose a scene from your favorite play or musical
You are going to design a set for that scene. It must be an original design, so it must be your interpretation of the scene.
Write down the following things about the scene you have chosen:
Characters in the scene
The time of day that the scene takes place in
The month and season that the scene takes place in
What is happening in the scene?
Special notes for the scene (eg something particularly important that effects the stage design).
Task 2
Choose a stage configuration that you think would suit that scene and create 2 different stage designs for that scene. Create your designs on paper and draw them. They only need to be sketches.
Proscenium Arch
Thrust
In The Round
Task 3
Choose your favorite design and answer this question:
As a designer describe in detail your set design for the scene you have chosen. You should justify your ideas with reference to the original staging.
In your answer refer to:
your choice of stage and audience position
set and props (including use of color)
Task 4
What materials will you need to build these sets?
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10/3 If you feel like you're losing everything remember, the trees lose their leaves every year, and they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.
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10/2 Warmup Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints it takes and it takes and it takes and we keep living anyway.
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9/29 Warmup The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.
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9/28 Warmup Are you trying to achieve greatness or are you trying to avoid disappointment
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9/26 3d Design Seuss Set
Take a screen shot form the front view and the top down view of the 3d design set
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9/27 Warmup If you want something to get better you have to make it so
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9/26 Warmup Memories are the most powerful kind of magic there is
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9/25 Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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9/22 Warmup Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!
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9/20 Putting your Seuss Set on stage
Your stage is 20 feet across and 15 feet deep. So you sets will both have to fit on that size stage. I will need both sets.
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9/21 Putting your seuss set on stage part 2
I now want to see the front view of the set pieces form your sets in 1/2inch scale. with color
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9/21 Warmup The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.
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9/20 Warmup What song is your favorite form said musical?
Answer the question.
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9/19 Warmup what is your favorite musical and why?
Answer the question
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9/18 Warmup Getting knocked down is not losing, but not getting back up again is.
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9/13 Warmup Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want
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9/11 Warmup You can't take back what you said so don't freight over it, all you can do is atone for your actions.
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9/7 Costumes
I want you to find costumes for 6 characters form your play. You will find photos of the costumes pieces you think they would be wearing. Like Shoes, Shirt, Pants, Dress, Jacket, and two accessory's like Ring, Purse, necklace. for each characters
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9/8 Warmup Do not complain about what you didn't get from the work you didn't put in.
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9/6 3d Set Design
I want you to take 4 set piece you found in your play and make them in tinkercad.
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9/7 Warmup The only way someone can live in peace is if they are prepared to forgive
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9/5 3d Prop Design
I want you to take 4 props you found in your play and make them in tinkercad.
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9/6 Warmup Lions don't concern themselves with the opinions of sheep
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9/1 Warmup What is the difference between a Thrust Stage and a Proscenium Stage.
Answer the question to the best of your ability
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8/30 3d design
You will be joining a class and do the tutorials form 1 to 13 You will take screen shots that you have done it and submit it here.
Name of the final one is Let's Learn Tinkercad!
Name of the final one is Let's Learn Tinkercad!
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8/31 Warmup The same wind that seeks to blow out a fire may also cause its spread.
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8/30 Warmup Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we are awake.
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8/28 Scaling rooms in the house
I want you to scale three connected room in this floor plan. Yes that means you will need look up how big some of these things are.
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8/29 Warmup The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
Write what you think it means.
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8/28 What is the difference between at Protagonist and the Antagonist
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8/25 Warmup Don't let what you cannot do stop you form doing what you can.
Write what you can.
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8/24 Warmup It isn't where you come form but where you are going that counts
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Combing through the script
You will comb through the script and look for the Sound, Lights, Set, Props and Costumes.
You will list them and what page they are on.
You will list them and what page they are on.
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8/23 Warmup All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.
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8/22 Warmup Before you know it tomorrow has just become another memory
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8/21 Warmup When Life gives you lemons make beef stew
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8/18 warm up Dreams make good stories but everything important happens when we are awake
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8/17 Warmup Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.
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8/16 Warmup You are not what you were born to do, but what you have in you.
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