Lesson 1 - 5/1/16

The aim of this lesson was to go through: production roles, set design and show weeks.

We started off going through all our responsibilities with the other two shows in which we are involved with which are Rent and West Side Story, we did this as it is good to be organised as well as we are helping the year thirteen's so that they we help with our show.

We then spoke about production roles, as The Wiz is quite modern and edgy we have decided to have multimedia involved with production I think this is effective as it will make the show more dynamic and unique which is appealing to the audience as they don't want to see a boring performance. As Jordy and I take Media courses we were allocated as the Multimedia people. I'm quite excited for this as even though i take media it will be the first time using my skills within a live production. Rachel wants sections of projected set therefore asked us to look at Love song by Frantic assembly, Golem by 1927 and her set design board on pinterest.

I watched sections of both productions, I thought that within the frantic assembly their lighting, used to highlight key features was really dynamic, also I thought the projected birds flying across the screen was really effective but simple; lastly they projected images and flashbacks on the screen I thought this was clever and could be effective within our production as we can use effective sets to add the right feel to scenes. With the other production Golem by 1927 I thought that the way they interacted with the projections was clever and worked well this would also be effective within our production.

Jordy and I have created a schedule/list of things we need and are going to do, we want to plan ahead so that once its done we have time for anything that we missed or need to do further. Here is the schedule:

For our set we have decided to have a gauze at the back and low stage blocks in a line near the back of the stage therefore creating a large stage area at the front.

We have also thought about using gobos within the performance to represent things like windows to show shadows, this is effective because makes it more realistic for the audience.

targets: Start creating ideas for stills and videos and making plans for stills for multimedia, do this within the next two weeks by looking at different ideas on pinterest and making notes.