MS Theatre Design 1st period Assignments
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5/20 Final Exam
This is your final
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5/16 Things on Final Exam
These are the things that will be on the final exam. I would study them if I were you.
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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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5/16 Warmup To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders
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5/13 Creating your own set using non-staged entertainment
I want you to recreate a scene form one of you favorite Tv shows, Movie, and or Video Game. I will need a scene with multiple objects, multiple people, and that appears more then once in said thing.
Once you have picked said scene I will approve it then you will need to draw it in a top down view to the best of your abilities.
Then after you have drawn it form the top down view you will need to figure out how to fit it on a stage for people to be able to see.
Once you have picked said scene I will approve it then you will need to draw it in a top down view to the best of your abilities.
Then after you have drawn it form the top down view you will need to figure out how to fit it on a stage for people to be able to see.
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5/15 Warmup The mind is everything. What you think, you become.
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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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5/10 Lighting and Costumes Almost, Maine
I want you to use the Google Slides attached and creating the lighting and costumes for your scene in Almost, Maine
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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 Almost, Maine Set 3d
I want you to take your set design and then put it in the 3d format.
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5/10 Warmup Over the wintry Forest, winds howl in rage With no leaves to blow.
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5/9 Warmup O snail, climb Mt. Fuji, but slowly, slowly
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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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5/3 Warmup To be or not to be that is the questions
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5/6 Warmup Flowers are only flowers because they fall
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5/2 Designing for a play Almost, Maine
I want you to pick one of the 6 scenes. Read it and then you will draw out what you think the set looks like.
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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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4/30 Warmup I would rather have questions that can't be answered then answers that can't be questioned
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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 1 Page Paper on The Proper way you should act when there is a sub
I want a 1 page paper on how you should act when there is a sub. It will be a test grade, If you don't do it, it will be a ZERO.
Normal Aerial Font with max font size being 14.
Normal Aerial Font with max font size being 14.
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4/24 They say you should do 6 impossible things before breakfast
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4/22 Middle school play Tinkercad Set/Prop design.
I want you to create the sets and props for 10 ways to survive the Zombie Apoc.
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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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4/16 Middle School Play
I want you to comb through the script and find the different props, set pieces and possible costumes we could use for the play in a list style format. Once you have those I want you to start looking online for examples of what those props, set pieces and costumes could look like.
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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 Warmup We miss our chance to be great because we are too scared to take a chance
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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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4/8 Warmup You gotta keep on keepin on.
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4/2 Paper Mache mask project
Add your ideas to a google doc and attach it here.
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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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4/4 failure is not falling down but refusing to get back up
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4/3 Warmup Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining
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4/2 Warmup The true fool is the one that complains before they even start.
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3/25 Movie Questions.
I want you to watch Sound of Music and answer these following questions
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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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3/27 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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3/22 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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3/25 Warmup There is nothing permanent except change
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3/18 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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3/22 Warmup Once you accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
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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 wo are so afraid of not winning they don't try.
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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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3/4 Combing through a script
We are looking for the 5 different tech elements in a script. Lighting, Sound, Costume, Props, and Set.
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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.
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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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2/21 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.
Peyton Kaylee
Levi Braxton
Lexi Vy
Lee Emma
Charlies Wyatt
Jaren Josh
Katie Kylie
Mya Rachana
Dom Ava
Diego Matthew
Sharif Shelby
Peyton Kaylee
Levi Braxton
Lexi Vy
Lee Emma
Charlies Wyatt
Jaren Josh
Katie Kylie
Mya Rachana
Dom Ava
Diego Matthew
Sharif Shelby
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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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2/27 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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2/21 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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2/15 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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2/9 Lighting the stage
I want you to take the lights and the gels to recreate the scene in real life.
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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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2/9 Warmup If you see something wrong you can either do nothing or do something
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2/8 Warmup You can't go back once you have started this journey
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2/7 Lighting Lab 2 colors and mood
I want you take your descriptions of the scenes then use the attached documents about mood and color and use that to tell us how it fits into the scene and help explain what is going on.
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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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2/5 Lighting Lab
You will be picking your own animated Disney Movie You will need to pick 6 different scenes form the movie. Once you have picked the scenes post pictures of them on google Docs or 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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2/6 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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2/1 Movie scene lighting
I want you to take 5 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.
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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.
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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 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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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 Lighting Quiz
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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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1/22 3d Set design
I want you to take your favorite Tv show set and recreate it. I need to be able to tell what the set is with out you telling me.
Here some some examples of sets for TV shows. (you do not have to do these sets)
Here some some examples of sets for TV shows. (you do not have to do these sets)
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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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1/19 Fairytale costume and props
I want you to take one of the fairy tale creature form the Shrek the Musical and change what time period they are form. Including props and costume. The different time periods you can choose form are 1800s 1920's, 1950's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, 2000's, Futuristic.'
You will need to find refence images on line and then draw it.
You will need to find refence images on line and then draw it.
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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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1/16 Shrek the Musical question guide.
answer the questions on the work sheet.
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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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1/17 Warmup If life was easy you would be bored.
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1/12 Tinkercad prop project
I want you to create 3 props form the following list. Fishing pole, Coffee Mug, Sword, Baseball hat, Paintbrush, Umbrella, Watch, Bicycle, Bat, Open book, Spoon, turkey, old fashion jukebox.
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1/16 Warmup Life has no remote. You have to get up and change it yourself.
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1/9 Tickercad
You will follow this link then you will go to resources, then learning center and you will do the first 12 tutorials
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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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12/11 what does Christmas spirit mean to you?
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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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12/4 Warmup You might be the sweetest peach on the tree, but some people just don't like peaches.
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11/28 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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11/9 Theatre History
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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 3 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.
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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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11/3 Drawing a costume design
I want you to draw and color 3 costumes for three different events. A Halloween Party, a Fancy Dance and a School day.
They do not have to be perfect drawling just sketch so we can tell what they are wearing.
They do not have to be perfect drawling just sketch so we can tell what they are wearing.
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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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11/1 Beginning of Costume design.
I want you to pick you Favorite Cartoon and 5 Character form that cartoon and change their costume to a different era. Like the 30s 50s 70s 80s 90s and find the photos on the internet
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11/2 Warmup Do, Do not there is no try
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11/1 Warmup Dread it, run from it, walk straight into it, But the future is inevitable.
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10/30 Warmup 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 Makeup Quiz
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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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10/23 Warmup To many people give up so easily so close to the start
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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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10/12 Warmup Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you
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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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10/3 If you feel like you're losing everything remember, the tress 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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9/29 Design choices
Answer these questions about the video you watched in class.
What about this version did you like better?
What about this version did you not like better?
What do you think about the set design they did for the Tower scene?
What do you think about the set design they did for the Inn scene?
What do you think about the set design they did for the town scene?
What about this version did you like better?
What about this version did you not like better?
What do you think about the set design they did for the Tower scene?
What do you think about the set design they did for the Inn scene?
What do you think about the set design they did for the town scene?
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9/28 Warmup Are you trying to achieve greatness or are you trying to avoid disappointment
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9/25 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
production style
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
production style
set and props (including use of color)
Task 4
What materials will you need to build these sets?
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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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9/21 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 Set Design as a job
Answer this questions on a piece of paper. We will watch the video together but if you need to rewatch it you can.
Why is it important to consider everything that is put on stage and seen by the audience?
What does Bunny Christie (Designer for the National Theatre, UK) suggest you write down about each scene before you start designing?
What does Bunny Christie do for research when starting a new design?
What is the difference between drawn stage designs and model sets?
Why is it important to consider everything that is put on stage and seen by the audience?
What does Bunny Christie (Designer for the National Theatre, UK) suggest you write down about each scene before you start designing?
What does Bunny Christie do for research when starting a new design?
What is the difference between drawn stage designs and model sets?
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9/20 Warmup What song is your favorite form said musical?
Answer the question.
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9/19 Stage Configurations
Go to the website and answer the questions on the worksheet Stage configuration Worksheet then answer the Theatre Arts Stages worksheet.
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9/19 Theatre arts stage
Answer the questions on the doc
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9/19 Warmup what is your favorite musical and why?
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9/18 Warmup Getting knocked down is not losing, but not getting back up again is.
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9/8 Periaktoi / Prism set design
You will come up with three different scene to go on each side of the Triangle. One of the sides has to be an outside scene. You will then need to sketch out the scenes. Once you have done that you will be give three piece of printer paper and fold them to make a triangle. then draw the scenes on to the triangles.
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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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9/12 Warmup Do you listen or do you just wait to speak
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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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9/8 Warmup Do not complain about what you didn't get from the work you didn't put in.
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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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9/6 Warmup Lions don't concern themselves with the opinions of sheep
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9/5 Warmup A Bowl is more useful when it is empty
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Playbill Project
Assignment is in the document. You can use Google Word, Turn the pages to landscape and make the pages two columns.
You will need Poster of the play on the the font page, a full cast list for the play. At least 3 different ads, and Biographies form at least 6 of the actors. The Biographies should be about a paragraph long. The cast list can be already famous actors or people in the class.
You will need Poster of the play on the the font page, a full cast list for the play. At least 3 different ads, and Biographies form at least 6 of the actors. The Biographies should be about a paragraph long. The cast list can be already famous actors or people in the class.
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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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8/31 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 What is the difference between at Protagonist and the Antagonist
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Poster Project
Assignment is in the document. You can use Google Word, Slides, Canva,
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8/25 Warmup Don't let what you cannot do stop you from 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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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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Parts of the Stage Practice
Instructions are on the slide.
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8/21 Warmup You are not what you were born to do, but what you have in you.
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