1) How are they the same today?
Scripts today are more audience/ camera/ stage friendly rather than actor friendly. Lots of scripts today are more about the words for the people more about the words for the actor. It is harder for an actor to find the meaning in a piece and memorize it because Shakespeare made his scripts memorization/ verbalization/ pace friendly.
2) How are they different from Shakespeare's time?
They are more directed at the audience than the actor.
3) Suggest a way to perform one of the ages to show both the similarities and the differences (between Shakespeare's time and today) without changing the actual text.
The meanings of words have most likely changed in some way from Shakespeare's time and the actions that go with those word are definitely interpreted differently by an actor. We can not jump into the skin of someone living in the 14 or 15 hundreds because we don't know what it was like. So presumably we can't possibly preform the same way as the actors in Shakespeare's time did but we can make it 21st century absorbable. Just preform and display things people today understand through your interpretation of the old text.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
FLQ Docudrama
1) How effective was my contribution to the group?
Fairly effective. I had a lot of input, as did most of the group members. We all had good ideas to make the docudrama better and thats one of the reasons we worked well as a group.
2) Have I encouraged everyone to be heard in a non-threatening environment?
Yes. I have.
3) What is the value in performing a documdrama?
It gives people insight into something they may not have know about, actors included, and it is challenging to both be historically accurate and act as a historically important figure.
4) What did you feel was positive and successful in your production of the docudrama?
The whole thing went very well but the way the production ran so smoothly, with the exception of one part, was good to see.
5) What do you feel could have been improved in your docudrama?
As I said before, that one little delay we in staging could have gone better. It was just a matter of moving some stuff behind stage but other than that everything went very well.
Fairly effective. I had a lot of input, as did most of the group members. We all had good ideas to make the docudrama better and thats one of the reasons we worked well as a group.
2) Have I encouraged everyone to be heard in a non-threatening environment?
Yes. I have.
3) What is the value in performing a documdrama?
It gives people insight into something they may not have know about, actors included, and it is challenging to both be historically accurate and act as a historically important figure.
4) What did you feel was positive and successful in your production of the docudrama?
The whole thing went very well but the way the production ran so smoothly, with the exception of one part, was good to see.
5) What do you feel could have been improved in your docudrama?
As I said before, that one little delay we in staging could have gone better. It was just a matter of moving some stuff behind stage but other than that everything went very well.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
What kinds of decisions are many teens presently faced with?
Besides the infinite choices that everyone makes every second teens are faced with the very pivotal "life style choices". I cringe when I write that but it's true teens are exposed to a whole galaxy of choices to decide who they are and what they want people to see of them. Wether they want to live a healthy or un-healthy life and what goals their going to set for their future.
What information do teens to help make these decisions?
I think that other people who have gone through the experience of making those kinds of decisions would be the best source of info. I think parents would be a bad person to go to because your parents, no matter whose they are, want you to be a certain way and that may purge the process of actually making your own choices instead of having someone make them for you. But someone who has made those decisions would be a good choice.
Describe your life ten years from now.
Trying to get along with acting as a career and trying to "suck the yoke out of life". I doubt I'll get everything I want to do done but I'll try. It would be good to say "rolling in money" but I know that won't happen right away. I have no idea if I'm gona make it ten years. Thats a lot of time. I've thought about this a lot and I still don't have an answer. I don't think anyone really does. All the other blogs will just be people dreams or goals. I'd like to see them get there in 10 years. There thats it. I'll be the patient observer. Waiting for someone to mess up so I can step in and reap the benefits. Now all I have to worry about is what everyone else will be doing in 10 years.
Besides the infinite choices that everyone makes every second teens are faced with the very pivotal "life style choices". I cringe when I write that but it's true teens are exposed to a whole galaxy of choices to decide who they are and what they want people to see of them. Wether they want to live a healthy or un-healthy life and what goals their going to set for their future.
What information do teens to help make these decisions?
I think that other people who have gone through the experience of making those kinds of decisions would be the best source of info. I think parents would be a bad person to go to because your parents, no matter whose they are, want you to be a certain way and that may purge the process of actually making your own choices instead of having someone make them for you. But someone who has made those decisions would be a good choice.
Describe your life ten years from now.
Trying to get along with acting as a career and trying to "suck the yoke out of life". I doubt I'll get everything I want to do done but I'll try. It would be good to say "rolling in money" but I know that won't happen right away. I have no idea if I'm gona make it ten years. Thats a lot of time. I've thought about this a lot and I still don't have an answer. I don't think anyone really does. All the other blogs will just be people dreams or goals. I'd like to see them get there in 10 years. There thats it. I'll be the patient observer. Waiting for someone to mess up so I can step in and reap the benefits. Now all I have to worry about is what everyone else will be doing in 10 years.
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