Saturday, May 24, 2014
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Unit 4: Blogologues - Task 6 - Production Roles
Part 1: Research your production role in the theatrical community. What kinds of real life jobs relate to your production role? Why are they important to theatrical companies, individual productions, and the world of theatre?
Part 2: I think that the role of the director is an important one. The director is really in charge of enforcing the theme throughout the production, and making sure that the other members are using their imaginations and abilities to their full capabilities. The director more or less is in charge to guide the other members in ensuring that the costume, staging, technical details, script, etc. is all perfectly appropriate for the production.
Part 3: I think that I am well-equipped and skilled to fulfill this role. That is because I think I hold enough responsibility skills to get the work done on time, and of good quality. Although I do think that I will be able to fulfill this real, some things I have to work on is getting myself organized. I think often when I lead things and have responsibility, I forget to do my own work on time like, the tasks for example. Although I tend to be naturally bossy, I need to work on sticking to my word to make sure when group members are assigned to do something, they get it done. I realized in one day that if someone doesn't do the work; the entire group has to suffer and waste time. So, its important for everyone to fulfill their responsibility. So I need to work on, keeping everyone on track.
Part 3: I think that I am well-equipped and skilled to fulfill this role. That is because I think I hold enough responsibility skills to get the work done on time, and of good quality. Although I do think that I will be able to fulfill this real, some things I have to work on is getting myself organized. I think often when I lead things and have responsibility, I forget to do my own work on time like, the tasks for example. Although I tend to be naturally bossy, I need to work on sticking to my word to make sure when group members are assigned to do something, they get it done. I realized in one day that if someone doesn't do the work; the entire group has to suffer and waste time. So, its important for everyone to fulfill their responsibility. So I need to work on, keeping everyone on track.
Part 4: Some things that are on my priority list as a director is to:
>Guide the other people with different production roles to get their work done- or guide them simply on what to do.
>I also need to push and make sure they get their separate segments done
>To find blogposts for their separate segments & plan it out, assist so that they at least have some sort of base to go off of.
>Guide the other people with different production roles to get their work done- or guide them simply on what to do.
>I also need to push and make sure they get their separate segments done
>To find blogposts for their separate segments & plan it out, assist so that they at least have some sort of base to go off of.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Unit 4: Blogologues - Directors Only Task
The concept of my production is to interpret the different views of love and marriage. Whether its pessimistic or optimistic views on love & pessimistic or optimistic views on marriage, I want to show it through my production. I want to convey the concept of love and marriage from the perspective of different people, and cultures.
I want to communicate that there are both positives and negatives to the concept of love and marriage, and it varies from person to person or culture to culture. For example in the american culture, love is a very common thing and most marriages are a result of the discovery of love or genuine feelings for each other. Many in the american culture (from the stereotypical view I have) would think its rather unusual to be get married in an arrange manner. Most would consider it old-fashioned and not realistic. However, in many parts of the world like, Bangladesh for example, although love is becoming a more normal concept in the bangladeshi society, arranged marriages are usually the way to go when it comes to getting married. These are two contradicting perspectives on love and marriage, and they are interpretations of the different cultures that are practiced within the countries. This contradiction of perspective is what I want to communicate with my piece.
My overall artistic approach will be to make sure that there are segments that relate or intertwine specific cultures. So for example, the bangladeshi view on love/ marriage vs. the american view on love/ marriage. I want to convey these views in a funny way but at the same time making sure its not exactly insulting.
Some decisions that I have made are that
- The transitions will be quotes of love/ marriage, either from song lyrics, books or quote websites, perhaps even blogs. (Idea from Ms. Kimmy)
- Characters are going to be assigned depending on the interests of the group members. After our initial discussion, I will assign character roles depending on their major interest.
- Although I plan on assigning characters after the initial group meeting, Shubham should definitely play a father role at one point of the piece.
Unit 4: Blogologues - Task 3 - Find Your Own Material
Blogs that would be a good source of material for myself:
This blog is about bengali girl problems. It basically talks about why not to marry bengali girls, and the blog consists of many issues that we are intertwined with on a regular basis. They are problems that we see regularly in several instances and since I am so familiar with the content of the blog it would be a good source of material for myself to perform. This blog incorporates a list of problems, which each could either be a source to act out the problem, or the problem could be a performance itself.
This blog is about white girl problems. Similar to bengali girl problems- it would be interesting to compare the differences and similarities and identify how many connections the stereotypical white girl and the stereotypical bengali girl have. This would be a good source of material because again, white girl problems are something that I've seen made fun of, and its something people joke about on a regular basis. It's something that would be straightforward to act out.
This blog is about arranged marriage vs. love marriage. This would be an interesting source for a performance because it has different segments, with different questions and parts about marriage. The one part that seemed most interesting to me is "What happens in an arranged marriage?". This question is answered in a general form with the most stereotypical overview of arranged marriage, and it would be very good to make a performance out of. It's also interesting because arranged marriage has a similar stereotypical overview in our society, and the familiarity with the problem would make a good performance piece.
The blog that I chose to create a plan for: is blog 1 & 2.
The performance would consist of two groups of people. One staging white girls problems and the other would be bengali girl problems. The groups could be as little as 2 people and as big as 10 people because both blogs have enough material for such large groups to perform them. The concept for the piece is to show a comparison of white girls and "brown" girls (as bengali girls are often referred to as). The point of the comparison would be for the audience to identify the differences (hopefully similarities) between the stereotypical problems of the different cultured females. I think both would be funny to see. I'm trying to communicate that although the stereotypical identity is from two completely different cultures, they still have commonalities.
As far as staging elements go I think that for costumes it can either be kept simple or totally unusual. The different groups of different cultures "white" and "brown" could either be wearing opposite cultured clothing, so white girls wearing brown girl conservative clothes or vice versa. OR a safe way to play it would be if white girls wore white girls clothes and brown girls either wore kameezes or more conservative clothes, which could be western. No major props should be needed, other than perhaps simple girl tools like; makeup for example. For staging, the two groups would be facing opposing each other and it would be a somewhat showdown scenario. Where one person- or the performers for a particular problem step forward to perform it.
These individual problems should be performed one by one to each group, and the performers should have their own take on each problem to make the entire performance a form of comedy which is the ultimate goal; to make the audience laugh. The content itself is funny, so there isn't much needed to get people to laugh.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Unit 4: Blogologues - Task 1 - Research
Who?
Allison Goldberg and Jen Jamula- graduates from Yale- are the co- creators of
blogologues, as well as co-creative directors of lively productions.
What? According to
Lively productions, they describe themselves as “a live
sketch comedy show in which the internet is performed verbatim onstage” Basically the group transforms pre-existing online blog post into full
performance pieces, with the blog being the base of the plot or even their
entire script. Lively productions is known to “bring the internet to life”
Where? New
York City/ Lower Manhattan- they performed their first show at Under St. Marks
When?
Spring 2011, specifically May 2011, when they had their first performance about
a blog on sex, drugs and interwebs.
Why? They
were unable to join a preexisting theatre group, so they started their own and
came up with new endeavors related to theatre.
The group’s
performance concept is to literally bring the internet to life, by using
content pre-existing on the world wide web that are related to different themes
such as sex, money and literally anything. The theatrical tradition Thematic is
used in their performances.
The processes in which the group has to
undertake to create new performances should include:
-Surfing the
Internet for content that has potential to fall under a theme
-Choosing a theme
-Finding content
(blogs) on the theme.
-Ask for blog
creators for permission to use their content/ blog as a performance piece.
-Brainstorm
possible character ideas/ staging ideas
-Read out the blog
as it is, attempting to make it as funny as possible.
According to my research, the typical most important element of blogologues is comedy. All their performances are somewhat funny, and has a realistic feel to it in an unusual way. Because the blogs itself are written by human beings so it isn’t meant to be anything out of the ordinary. However, they are performed in such exaggeration that it is funny and unusual.
According to my research, the typical most important element of blogologues is comedy. All their performances are somewhat funny, and has a realistic feel to it in an unusual way. Because the blogs itself are written by human beings so it isn’t meant to be anything out of the ordinary. However, they are performed in such exaggeration that it is funny and unusual.
As found in critic reviews, the positives of their performance are:
“This is a great, intelligent,
funny show.” –The Daily Beast
“While the theme
changes every time, the topics are always up to date and often totally off the
wall. Plastic surgery addicted Singaporean bloggers? Crazy mothers entering
their daughters in child beauty pageants? Security guards at Sea World in,
ahem, love with the the wildlife? It's all here, with the bonus of knowing that
someone actually posted the material (usually in complete seriousness) on the
internet!” –Blogologues reviewer on trip advisor.
Mostly the viewers are constantly
watching these performances because of how fresh and up to date they are.
Internet is the most commonly used tool to this day and watching the internet
literally come to life through a performance is a very interesting and fun
concept.
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