Arrival Portfolio

SUMMARY OF GROUP'S PITCHES

Pitch Guidelines
- powerpoint/mood board
- production concept

Resources
1.) Mrs. Moon
2.) Textbook
3.) Mr. Roddick and Mr. Black

-What are you supposed to show them
-Viability and feasibility of ideas
- Graphs and visuals

Directors Pitch (Sarah)
-Pina Bausch inspiration
-Butoh
-Physical theatre
-Take the audience on a journey
- make them feel like they have arrived

Costume Pitch (Bianca and David)
- preserve color tone from book
- make up
- white clown make up
- make it really weird
- creepy almost
- slowly as the father assimilates into the new environment he gets make up on his face too

Set Design Pitch (Daniel and Haejoo)
- artificial depth of field
- rusty colors
- easy to move around
- try to stick to the book in terms of tone and mood
- place audience on opposite side of entrance

Light Design Pitch (Erin and Aidan)
-  need a make shift scrim
- want to make sharp lighting
- make the lighting "boxy"
-"edgy" lighting instead of wide flat lighting

Film Pitch (Jackson)
- film close ups of objects
- maybe the hand
- doesn't want to distract audience from whats happening live

Sound Pitch (me)
- sound needs to create a sort of environment
- i want the music to not only explain the scenery but also to reflect the moods
- the music can also be the opposite to the mood happening on stage in order to emphasize the feel even more
- the music can create an environment, explain a situation, accompany an action, and more
- using mostly instrumental
- sound effects
- q lab
- fill out sound cue sheet ASAP

TYPED NOTES ON ASSIGNED PAGES AND GENERAL GROUP BRAIN STORMING

For the Father (credits to Sarah Hahm on Facebook page) 

- after coming into immigration
- juxtaposition (dove)
- eggs show hope within the city
- symbolic of fear and beauty
- night-time
- still life picture

- man arriving in balloon
- committing to being here
- "one way trip"
- creatures that are little swans
- shape of trees

- symbols that come out again throughout the book
- city life
- creatures within the scenes

- runs into lights and gets book from bag
- looking for directions
- where he can stay
- encountering creatures
- creatures kind of resemble owner

- going to an inn
- creature
- different room

- shower scene

- trying to figure out how all these things are working

- larger pot version of creature found

- finds friend/animal

- shadow scrim
- distance from light
- shadows of bodies and sets
- expressionistic
- angled buildings in set 
- hinges and wheels
- people on stage didnt actually equal people
- more physical friendly costumes
- sound has to be environment within itself
- surround sound
- all instrumental
- peculiar rhythm
- depth of theatre

BRAIN STORMING GROUP NOTES CONTINUED

Nostalgia 11

preparation for separation 1

adjustment
intense fear
power of war
flashbacks/memories, perspective, connections
hope for the future11
dehumanization
lack of communication111
power of silence
shadow
flashbacks1
hands
exploration
sharing
making connections

PERSONAL NOTES TAKEN FROM MY ASSIGNED PAGES(PAGES 42-47) 

Brief summary: Father struggles looking for work with pet and also runs into a monster. After finding work father starts talking to war veteran at the factory and a flashback takes place into our "Butoh" scene.

Pg 42: Father is tired and pet is sitting next to him

- moving around together being rejected until he finds a job for putting up posters

43: Preserve symbols 

- basket

- runs into monster 

- follow the weird signs 

44: At the factory

- making small white figurines

- repetition

- conformity

- clockwork and clanking noises

45: Sharing a drink with the veteran

- cone hat

-talking

- Flash back begins

- flowers

- people marching to war 

46: slowly moving into darkness

- go from happiness and celebration into darkness 

47: Shadows and silence

- bones

- death

- war

SOUND DESIGN
(pending draft of sound cue list)

Soundtrack is supposed to create an environment, provide an mood, support a theme, or even contrast a theme in order to emphasize the disparity and thus deliver a more powerful message.

Things left to do
- FINALIZE CUE LIST BY CONFIRMING THE TIME CUT OFFS




This is a screenshot of my sound cue list on Q lab