Collaboration Project Journal/ WORKSHOP

COLLABORATION PROJECT NOTES

original piece of theatre

13-15 minutes
specific target audience

create it from a starting point you select

submit a process portfolio

15 pages

• nature of your collaboration
• your personal individual contribution to the whole thing
• submit a video recording 4 min (that best represents u)

for the journal

• individual approach

• research and contribution
• developing ideas

what mrs moon can do for us

• help form the ensemble
• discuss the starting point with us
• guide our exploration but not tell us ideas
• she can ask us questions
• talk back session with audience
• give feedback to mock presentation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChdeR--QIbw

November 30th .

1. Warm-up Game
1. ABC Improv Game
   Works better standing up
2. 3 Stimuli
1. Which Way home.
1. train
2. yurico
3. Addiction to an idea of a better place on the other side.
2. Echoes- Shar Mark
1. good train song for Which Way Home?
2. sharp
3. drastic beat change can stimulate drastic cool lighting changes
3. POSSIBLE STIMULUS - Exile Vilify - The National
3. Exploration
1. Which Way Home

• you can run but you can’t hide
• ^ running with your issues
• Train
• La Bestilla
• The beast

b. echoes-pink floyd

• isolation

ILLUSION

• running with your problems
• things aren’t always the way it seems

you can run but you can’t hide

1. we all represent different parts of “BIANCA”

1. BIANCA= ACTUAL PERSON
2. HAYEON=DRUG PERSON
3. AIDAN=DEPRESSION

All the same Person

1. Bianca is addicted to drugs, She’s also depressed.
2. Aidan Tells Bianca, Hayeon is the problem you need to get away, (depression causes Bianca to try to leave Drugs) - Depression is shown to be the saviour, what causes Bianca to lose
3. As time progresses, Aidan becomes more and more aggressive towards Bianca however Bianca’s allegiance to which one of her friends is more important to her is consistently questioned. Aidan continues to say things such as “I got you out of that relationship, it’s because of me that you’re free”

basic story plot.

1. all three characters introduced
2. bianca chooses aidan while trying to run away from hayeon
3. hayeon is gone for a while
4. aidan is meaner
5. bianca is confused
6. all three end up together
7. bianca dies
8. aidan triumphs. another victim consumed! (depression/damaged mental health has prevailed)

workshop roles

bianca=porrmans

aidan-lighting

hayeon-film/sound

FILM WORKSHOP AND EX MACHINA

intro video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwtpJ3T8eK4

how to pan without shaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgos3eUBUJE

how to film silhouette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R37Fb3Kvcng

how to dolly zoom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amj6RiGiTOE

EX MACHINA 
- a harmony between the recorded arts and the non recorded arts
- total theatre
- movement
- improv games used during creative process
- language as an element of sound rather than just a means to communicate a message

Workshop

warm up = catch the snap
1. try to convey a feeling with a string of random words that don't make sense. Aim of this exercise is to strip words of their meaning and rather than focus on what the words mean just experience purely the auditory elements of the diction or guttural sounds of the language can have on the listener.
2. pick a location (ex. park, friends house, lake) and improvise a scene by starting each sentence with the next letter of the alphabet. (ex. "Andy! Nice to see you. Isn't this view just stunning!" "By jove it is! What a fantastic lake." "Can you believe this place was almost turned into a government project?" Aim of this exercise is to explore the possibilities of improvisation and how random ideas can reveal a pattern and create something bigger.
3. partner A will start the action which partner B will mimic. This will help us understand the significance of meaningful and slow movement like which is often used in ex machina's productions. An emphasis on movement as a medium of communication.