Blog 26: Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your 2-Hour Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

I think the thing that I am most proud of would be presenting to a class for about 2 hours. Never in my life did I ever think that I would ever be able to do something like that. For years, I have always been the kind of person that has dreaded speaking in public, I would also blend myself in with the background. But after doing my 2 hour, I feel much more confident in myself, it has opened my eyes to see just what I am capable of doing if I just try. Doing this presentation in my oppinion was a huge boost in my confidence level, and I feel that for being a very shy person I did a pretty good job.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your 2-Hour Presentation (self-assessment)?

      P       I feel  that for my 2 hour presentation I deserve a P. I did everything that was on the requirements for the presentation. I stated various sources, I met the time requirements, I feel that all the research that I have done was shown through this presentation, and I cited more than 3 sources throughout the presentation. I feel that I did everything that was asked for this presentation.

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?

   P       I would personally give myself a P. I personally feel that I worked hard throughout the year and I did what was asked. I did not miss a single assignment and I turned in everything on time. I tried my best with my assignments and did the best I could to make them good and meet the expectations that were needed. I personally feel that I did a pretty good job at doing everything that was asked.

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

I feel that one thing that really worked for me was personally i-search and the blogs. I feel that i-Search really helped me with starting to reflect on my project and start organizing my thought and what I would say during the presentation. When creating my powerpoint I noticed myself going back to my i-Search and reviewing it to help me organize my thoughts for the presentation and helping me come up with a certain order. Another thing that I feel really helped me was the different blog posts we had to do throughout the year. In a way I feel that they helped me with not procrastinating as much. Through the blogs we were many times able to fix our thoughts and start thinking about future assignments. I feel that they were a really big help.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

I think I would have personally not have taken a young scholars class during winter quater because if not then I could have helped Ontario High School with another production. I was actually really sad about not being able to participate in another play with Ontario High School. I would have really loved to have done more mentorship there.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

Senior project helped me realize of just what I was capable of doing on my own. Before this year I never really had the confidence in myself.  This year made me go out of my comfort zone many times. First with finding mentorship; I am a really shy person so having to go around asking people if I could do mentorship with them was a big deal. Then, with all the interviews. Before this year if I could avoid setting up and appointment and interviewing someone, I would. But with senior project, it helped me get out of that shell and just overcome my shyness and fears. It pushed me to do new things that I would have never done. This project basically helped me prepare for the real world where it is basically up to just me to solve problems and set up appointments, and do things with little to no help almost.

Presentation!

Today was the big day! I finally did my 2-Hour presentation. Regardless to say, it went better than I thought. I was stressing for the longest time. The more I saw presentations, the more nervous I became when ever I thought about presenting. The nerves were killing me and making me feel sick. While I was waiting inside the classroom for the students to come in to see my presentation, I got to the point where I felt like throwing up. But when the actual presentation came, my nerves only lasted for like the first 3 or 4 minutes, after that I got used to the audience I was presenting, and as I was presenting suddenly I realised that the entire year's hard work and research was finally paying off. All the research that I had done throught the year just flowed through my head and made presenting so much easier. This 2-hour presentation made me become much more confident in myself, helping me see just what I could accomplish and what I was capable of doing. Never in my life did I ever think I would be able to do a 2 hour presentation, much less on just one topic itself.

Support and Thank You!

The night before my presentation helped me realize what great friends and family I had. I kept recieving messages from different friends and family members wishing me luck on my presentation. They told me that if I needed any help with anything, they were there to help with what ever they could. I also had people from where I did my mentorship wishing me luck and giving me words of advice before my presentation. This gave me a lot more confidence. It made me very happy to see that they still remembered that I had to do this presentation and that they were willing to help me even though I no longer do mentorship at Ontario High School.
Another thing that I realized was the amazing friends that I have at iPoly. I already knew that They were very amazing friends. But for my presentation it only made me realize how much more blessed I was to have them. They helped me with so much. Just to mention a few people, for set up, J.D., Victoria, and Roxy were such a big help and I greatly appreciate that. And during the actual presentations, once again J.D. and Victoria were there to help me and calm my nerves down. Amanda K. also helped me greatly helping me with the powerpoint and helping me keep track of time. And at the end when everyone helped me pick up, Roxy, Jose, Lucas, Audri, Amanda, JD, Elizabeth, Alissa and others, it made me happy to see them there to support me and help me. I'm really thankful for all the help.

New Classroom Decor

Thanks to J.D. I was actually able to come up with a new idea for setting up the classroom for my presentation. He was able to get me out of my block for coming up with ideas. He ended up giving me an idea to create a small living room set. Based off of that I was able to create a set that using things from my home. I brought in various little things that you could find in a living room. I brought some living room decorations, DVD player, DVDs, remote control, a globe that is located in my living room and some curtains. I based the decoration of the smart board. The smart board became my focal point. I set up the classroom so the the front of the room was like a miniture stage. The smart board was supposed to act as a TV in a living room.

Powerpoint Coming Along

Here are some shots of my powerpoint when I was working on it. I had 39 slide when i took this. By the final product, I ended up having around 55 slides, give or take a few.

SET UP! (day before)

Originally my set up was going to be very simple. I was basically just gonna have a collage of pictures of different sets on the white-board. I wasn't planning on doing anything else other than that due to tight budget and the fact that I was very nervous about the presentation that I couldn't think of anything else to do with the set up of the class room so that it would fit. It wasn't until J.D. came in to help me set up that I figured how to set up the room. J.D. ended up giving me so many ideas that were simple and I can't believe I couldn't think of them.

I was actually very proud of how my collage came out for the presentation.

Update!

So as I am preparing for my 2 hour presntation, my father started talking to me about set design. He told me about how at his old job, he would go deliever clay to different film studios. He told me about all the things that happened behind the stage and the huge amount of pepople that would work to create the contruction. he told me about how once he went do deliever clay to a studio and when he entered one of the warehouses he got to see how the stage crew built the pirate ship for the movie "Hook" with Robbin Williams. He described the huge amount of people working there to construct the ship. He got to talk to some of the people about the construction for the ship, and all the work that went into designing it and constructing it. He also told me about some warehouses he walked into and got to see the different props and sets that were saved so that they could possibly be reused in future movies.

Blog 25: Mentorship

Literal:

Log

Contact info on the log.

Interpretive:

The most important thing that I gained from this experience would have to be knowledge of preproduction and set. Before this senor project, I had no real clue what really went on behind-the-scenes of a play. I never knew all the work that was put in to create even the simplest of sets, and the huge amount of people it takes to work together to make sure everything works out at the end and comes out how it was supposed to.

Applied:

When I was doing this mentorship, I spent most of it working with the set. I got to see the process of creating a set, and what were different things that we had to take into consideration when building the set. The set that we created was completely different from what the original play script for "Back to the 80s" described. Instead of having to create just one set for all the scenes, we created various sets for different scenes. We had to use different techniques and work with what we knew about the play to create a new set diffrent from what the script described. My essential question is "What is the best way a set designer can enhance a play?", and us as the set designer had to build a set that best fit the play, keeping the story true to the original.

Where my Interest for Behind-the-Scene Work Began

Wow, so one of my friends put up a post about one of my all time favorite movies, Labyrinth. Their post made me remember where my interest for set design and all the behind the scenes stuff began. This movie was actually the start of my curiosity and interest. I remember watching it as a little girl and falling in love with the set. I used to watch the movie just to see the design. I remember always looking forward to the very ending of the VHS because they would pass all the Behind-the-scenes footage. And right now searching through Youtube I found more behind-the-scene footage that I didn't know about. I found this youtube video on the design of one of my favorite scenes from the movies. I was always facinated with the set, props, costumes, makeup and pretty much everything of this scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtZiGI9iFdM 

"As the World Falls Down"

Blog 24: Exit Interview Questions

Content:

1) What is your essential question? What is the best answer to your question and why?

My essential questions is "What is the best way for a set designer to enhance a play?" My best answer is that the best way for a set designer to enhance a play is by making sure that they know the concept of the play like the back of their hand. By knowing the concept extremely well, a set designer is able to see what they can and cannot do with the set of the play. The entire design is built upon the concept, so it if a set designer wants to do anything that will enhance a play, it is crucial that they know the concept of the play like the back of their hand.

2) What process did you take to arrive to this answer?

This answer has always been something that kind of crossed my mind after reading the book,  Theatrical Design and Production: An Introduction to Scene Design and Construction, Lighting, Sound, Costume, and Makeup. In this book they talked alot about the set designer and the concept and how important the concept is to the set designer. Through the several chapters in the book that I read, the concept was mention quiet a bit. And throughout later research articles that I got, I also noticed just how much the concept was mentioned and how it was essential to the designer designing the set of a play. It wasn't really until my third and fourth interview that I figured this to be my best answer. Through my interviews with Mario Montenegro and Mara Gutirrez, I was able to confirm and truely understand just how essential the concept was to the designer when creating the perfect set for the production.

3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?

One problem with my senior project would have had to been during the summer when I was looking for a topic that I could do with mentorship. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do as my topic, but the problem was that the topic I wanted to do would either cost me a lot of money, or my parent would have to drive me somewhere pretty far away in order to get mentorship. How I resolved this was by being open minded to different opportunities that came my way. I did not close my mind to just one thing.

My biggest problem though was my Science Component. It was really hard doing this component especially because of my topic. At the beginning when we had to find a reliable quote about a problem within our topic, I had a hard time finding a quote that stated a problem. It took me a long time and a lot of searching before I actually found a quote that I could use in order to do a science experiment. Another part that gave me trouble was the collecting of data. For my science experiment I ran a survey about hiring theatre technicians who had a degree in Theatre Technology versus someone who didn't. In order to do this experiment I had to call theaters all around California to conduct the survey. The problem with calling these theaters was that it was hard to actually get responses, because one, they they didn't have the time to answer a survey because they were busy or it would take me to machine that had extensions to reach someone who worked in the theatre, and two, sometimes the places I called the number no longer existed or the theatre was a non-profit theatre which means they don't hire Theatre Technicians to work for them. The way I resolved this was by simply being persistent and to keep calling to get some data for my experiment.

4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

I would have to say that my two most important sources would have to be my 4th interview with Mara Gutierrez and a book I got from the Cal-Poly library called Theatrical Design and Production: An Introduction to Scene Design and Construction, Lighting, Sound, Costume, and Makeup. These two sources helped me the most because they gave me lots of information and support for my answers. The book gave me basically the foundation of set design and the process a designer goes through to create a set. It also described in great dept the steps and the importance of the different steps a set designer takes. This book basically gave me a solid foundation on set designing and also a lot of support to use for my answers. My second source was significant, because she gave me some very useful and interesting information that helped me support my answers as well. She also helped me learn more about design in such a short amount of time. She was one of the most helpful people I've interviewed.

5) What is your product and why?

My final product I would have to say would be that my skills of working as a team improved. This topic helped me realize just how important it is to be able to work well with others. I know that all throughout iPoly we have worked in groups for projects, but I never realized just how important the skill of working together with a team really was. It took me this experience to really realize just how important being able to work with others is in real life. At iPoly our groups were only ever around 6 people max, but here I was to work with 60 other people and be able to cordinate with them to put on the production. Both my first hand experience and the articles and books I read helped me realized how in the real world, you will have to be able to work with others, and teamwork is an important skill to have especially in a field that requires one to work with other people. I learned to tolerate and get over any differences between anyone and avoid drama because when working with others on such a big project, there is no room for any of this. Through this project, I feel that my skills of working as a group has improved greatly, especially since I had to work in much larger group where you have no real option but be able to work as a team. I feel that the improvement in this skill will probably help me in the future when I enter the world of working, and I hope to be able to what I gained from this experience in real life scenerios. 

Blog 23: 2014 Interview

Blue: Me
Black: Gustavo Rios

1.  Who did you interview and what house are they in?
I interviewed Gustavo Rios, and he is in North House with Edwards.

2.  What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?
I have an idea to do theatre acting, cause acting is an interest I have and is one of my favorite subjects/hobbies to do.

3.  What do you plan to do for your summer 10 hour mentor ship experience?
I plan to volunteer at the Chino Community Theater during the summer for my summer mentor ship hours and hopefully throughout the year as well. I heard they had some really good opportunities for mentorship there. And since I am also in drama with Mr. Hogan, I hope to gain experience through there as well.

4.  What do you hope to see or expect to see in watching the 2013 2-hour presentations?

Im expecting to hopefully get ideas on what to do next year, and get some pointers on how to use my time wisely and see what worked and didn't work for the various 2 hour presentations. I hope that by seeing these presentations I can also get rid of some of the nerves that I have about the project.


5.  What questions do you have that I can answer about senior year or senior project (or what additional information did you tell them about senior year or senior project)?

How will mentorship affect our schedual next year?

Well you have to work with your mentor around your schedual. You have to talk to them and let them know that you have school things going on and that there would be days when you won't be able to attend certain days. Many times mentors are very easy to work your schedual with and are very understanding. So basically your schedual depends on the mentor you have and what you guys agree on.

If we get more than 50 hours of mentorship, will the other hours count for community service?

All of the hours of mentorship that you complete count for community/learning service hours. They will count towards your 200 hours of community service. And if you get over 50 hours of mentorship, those extra hours could be used for your independent component.

How many hours do you need for independent component?

Well for independent component you need to do 30 hours of work or 30 hours extra of mentorship.  You need to complete 2 independent components for the year, giving you a total of 60 extra hours of mentorship or work based on your topic.

If I participate in iPoly's drama and plays, will that count as hours?

You can use iPoly's drama as your independent component, so any hours done there can be used for you independent components. Do you have any more questions?

No, thank you though.

Blog 22: Final 3-Column Chart

Final 3-Column Chart

Blog 21: Independent Componenent 2

LITERAL

(a) I, Dolores Rios, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b) The source that helped me complete this second independent component was my mentorship at Ontario High School's fall production of "Back to the 80s" in theater tech working on the set. The two people who helped me the most during that time were Mr. Hansen and Mr. C.

(c) Log

(d) I was able to complete and extra 30 hours of mentorship with Ontario High School's production of "Back to the 80s" working in Theater Tech on different aspects of tech. But my main focus was usually always on the creation of the set for this production. With these extra 30 hours of mentorship, I had the opportunity to learn more about the construction of a set.

INTERPRETIVE 

For this independent component I did 30 extra hours of mentorship. During my mentorship I got to work on various parts of Theatre Tech, but my main focus was on the set for the play. Due to the fact that I was in tech, getting pictures was kind of hard due to the fact that we were back stage and not supposed to have any phones. I have very few pictures but they show different aspects of the play that I helped on.

This was Mr. C, Mr. Hansen's assistant for this production, he was in charge of tech when Hansen was with the actors. The car he is in was for one of the scenes in the play. The scene included a real car being driven on stage for one of the scenes. This was the first time that Ontario High School ever brought on stage a real car.

 In this following picture are some of the main actors in their outfits for a concert scene. I was one of the people who helped pick out the costumes that would be used for this scene. Also in the back ground of this picture are some lockers that my group had to build. We had to build the lockers so that they were easy to move on and off stage, and also so that one of the doors would open up and the inside would look like. Even though the lockers were pretty much designed by Mr. Hansen and Mr. C, we were given the freedom to build the lockers how we thought was best, but of course we still had to run our plans by either Mr. C or Mr. Hansen.

Some more of he actors. The two in the front were outfits that I helped pick out for the actors according to their characters.

This was the scene where the students in the play are getting ready for prom. I got to help build most of the set pieces for this scene. We built the bleachers so that they had to purposes. We had the bleachers one one side for the scene before this one and as soon as that scene was over we went up to the bleachers and turned them around revealing a wall that was decorated for the prom scene. I helped build the bleachers and paint them as well.

This was another scene in the play were we simply used a platform that was built and used in various scenes of the play. We had to build it so that it could have multiple uses for it.

Some pictures of glances of what went on back stage during pre-production. These pictures were the few that I was able to take of what went on back stage, but pretty much sums up what we basically did to create the set for the play.

There were many more things that I wish I had pictures of, but these were a few of the ones I was able to obtain, my log has a better explanation of what I did.

APPLIED

This component helped me answer my EQ because I got to experience the designing and construction of a set first hand. Though many of the designs were already given to us, we had the liberty of also choosing and designing some things for the set. Mr. Hansen would sometimes go up to tech and tell us that he needed a certain thing for the set and he would let us make decisions on what best fit what he wanted. For example the furniture and the props used for the play were chosen by us. We had the opportunity to design and chose props for some scenes. For example we were able to design and chose some of the props for one of the characters named Cory. I also had the chance to help design the ballot boxes that were used for one of the voting scenes. I actually got complimented for them, they really liked the designs and paintings I painted on the boxes. Each of the boxes were especially made to fit each of the 3 main character's personalities. Throughout the play we had various of these kinds of opportunities appear, which really allowed me to experience set design and construction first hand. 

Being Blown Away by my 4th Interview!

I just completed my 4th interview and my mind has been completely been blown away! I am in utter shock with the person I just interviewed. By far the best interview I have had. I interviewed a scenic designer from Mexico, which my previous interview helped me get in touch with, and the information that she gave me left me baffled. The only thing I knew about her was that she worked with my mother's life long friend in the CECUT in Tijuana Mexico and was the person in charge the design. Little did I know just how amazing this interview was going to be. After the interview I searched her up online and just ended up being in more shock after reading her short bibliography.

"Mara Gutiérrez García

Originaria de la ciudad de Tijuana, es egresa de la carrera de Arte Dramático por la Asociación Nacional de Actores y de la carrera de Comunicación por la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
Ha tomado cursos y talleres con maestros como: Jaime Soriano, Ignacio Ortiz, Mauricio García Lozano, Gustavo Montiel, Ángel Norzagaray, Dora Arreola, Fernando Payán y los maestros Joaquín Romá, Agustín Milián, José Luis Melendo y Lorena García de España. Ha sido directora de reparto para cine y televisión a nivel nacional e internacional a lo largo de 10 años. En teatro se ha desarrollado como productora y actriz, en televisión como reportera y guionista. Ha realizado labor social en medios de comunicación en pro de la imagen de la ciudad de Tijuana. Como actriz cuenta con más de 20 montajes en su haber. Ha formado parte de diversas muestras y festivales de Teatro nacionales e internacionales como productora y actriz.
Actualmente es Gerente de Producción Escénica del Centro Cultural Tijuana, es encargada, entre otras cosas, de la Muestra Internacional de Danza Cuerpos en Tránsito, el Encuentro de Teatro, el grupo Ópera Ambulante y la producción y co-producción de espectáculos de artes escénicas con artistas locales y nacionales invitados."




It turns out that she has worked not only in theatres as a producer, scenic design, and actress, but has also worked on television as a reporter and writer. Her work has varied from local jobs to international jobs doing all of these things. She has worked on larger scale plays in Mexico City with other famous scenic designer. But the best thing is that she said that for her next production she get me and my family free tickets for the play and she would get me VIP access to the play and take be back stage to see what goes on at a professional theatre back stage.This made my night completely.

Awesome Link I Ran Into

Just ran into this Link, I thought it was pretty cool, especially because of how accuretly the sets were constructed to the pictures. This kind of thinks always amaze me!

Blog 20: Three Column Chart First Draft

Three Column Chart

Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1.  What ESLR have you excelled in most in your senior project? 

I feel that the ESLR in which i have excelled the most in my senior project would be in Effective User of Technology.

2.  Please explain why you think you have excelled in this ESLR.

I feel that i have excelled in this ESLR because I have learned how to use many new types of sources, how to use new Technology, and I have used technology in order to complete projects. Through my senior project, I learned how to research more quality research and I have learned of new websites that have become very helpful. As for learning how to use new technology, this applies directly with my topic. I learned how to use new equiptment that I did not know how to use before. Equiptment like tablesaws, rigging material, lights and other things. Some of the things that I learned how to use during my mentorship, I'm able to use outside of my topic like at home. For technology, I have also used it to complete components for my Senior Project. Before this year I never dared use Prezi, but this year I made myself learn how to use it for presentations. Another thing that I also used for my Senior project, though it may seem like nothing, is using the phone to my advantage. I used it to complete several projects, one being my science fair project in which I called professional theatres in all of Southern California, and another time where I had to learn how to make long distance calls to Mexico in order to complete one of my interviews.

3.  Provide evidence from your senior project to support your claim 

(evidence is a photo of something you are doing, photo of something you made, etc).

Mentorship

Some of the projects that I worked on that required me to learn how to use new technology.

Interview 4 (Interview I did that required me to call all the way to Mexico)

Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

Content:

1. What is the best way set designer can enhance a play?
2. Know how to translate their vision into real life.
3. -Bringing the set to life is just as important as designing it
    -Translateing is one of the biggest steps in design
    -Step includes scale drawings, construction of scenic model, and so on.
4. "Stage Directions: The nomadic world of theatre design" Article by Liam Doona
5. Study more in depth the actual process that takes place to bring the set designer's vision to life.

Update!

So this last research check, Friday February 22, I read some amazing articles. I haven't read some really interesting ones in a while now. They were very insightful and helped me understand theatre set design a bit better. But not only did they do that, they also provided me with some information that I could use for my Science Project, something I don't really find in articles for research check. I hope I can run into more articles like this for future research checks. Oh, and thanks to these articles I discovered some online Theatre   set design magazines.

                       

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the best way a set designer can enhance a performance?

2. When designing a set, what are some factors that you take into consideration when designing?

3. I read that when designing a stage it is better to try to stay as close as to the real place where the play is taking place in order to help people identify it as a real place, what is your opinion on this? Would you agree or disagree and why?

4. When a theatre is limited to supplies for constructing a set due to budget, what are some other ways a set designer can enhance a performance?

5.When designing is there a point where the set design can be too much? For example distracting from the actual performance instead of enhancing it.

6. I have heard that many professional theatres in Broadway are starting to use projections during their plays to enhance a play. Do you believe that these projections help with enhancing the play?  Why or why not.

7. From research that I have done, many people believe that projections will take the place of actual sets that will allow for actual locations to be projected onto stage to create the setting in order to enhance the play instead of having to build it. Would you agree with replacing hand crafted scenes with projections instead and why?

8. Do you believe that projections enhance a play more than a hand crafted scene or would it really depend on the genre and the play?

9. What is your personal preference when it comes to using projections or hand crafted scenes? Would you choice one over the other or would you use both to enhance the quality of the play if you could. Why or why not?

10. Apart from just the set itself, what would you say are other things that help a set designer enhance a play?

11. With my previous interview, the person I interviewed believed that the best way a set designer can enhance a play is by making sure they know everything there is to know about the play. What is your opinion on this?

12. If a set doesn't really require a set, how can the set designer enhance a play? Are there other ways they can contribute?

13. In order to help enhance a play would knowing who the audience is and what they tend to like help and why?

14. How does knowing the context of a play help a set designer with helping enhance a play?

15. How can a scenic designer make sure that their design truly works with the play's production?

16. Would you say that knowing how to work and communicate with others in the theatre is essential for a set designer when trying to help enhance a play?

17. Would a set that is different of that of other productions of a play, have an important role in helping with the enhancement of the play? Why or why not?

18. As the set designer when designing the set do you have to work a lot with the costume designer to help come up with a set that fits? This is something I read in one of my research articles, about how the set designer many times uses the costumes to help create a set for the play apart from just the script itself.

19. Does the characters personality help a lot when trying to come up with the perfect set that could possibly help with the enhancement of the play?

20. Do you know of other ways or of other resources that could possibly help me answer the first question that was asked?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

Content:
1. What is the best way a set designer can enhance a performance?

2. The set designer should know the plays very well, know everything about it.

3.
 -The analysis step is one of the most important and crucial parts a set designer goes through when designing. It's the step where they learn about the play.
- Knowing the play helps you with the concept that you should go with for your design.
- A play's context can be interpreted in many ways,so lots of research needs to be done on the play to see what set design fits best for the production of the play.

4. The source that helped me prove this answer is justified is my third interview with Mario Montenegro.

5. I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing some more research on the process that a set designer goes through to get to know the play.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

CONTENT:

(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
For this independent component I plan on working extra 30 hours of service learning above the required mentorship hours.

(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
I plan on working an extra 30 hours of mentorship at the theatre to gain more experience within my topic. 

(3) How does your independent study component relate to your working EQ?  
Through this independent component my job is working behind the scenes on the set both constructing and chosing props to fit the play.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Literal

A) I, Dolores Rios, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

B) Mr. Jeremy Hansen, Ontario High School Drama Teacher (contact information on the log of hours attached)

C) Hours Log 

D) For the independent component I worked an extra 30 hours over the required hours for mentorship hours with my mentor during the play "Back to the 80's". I participated in the whole process of preparing for the play and helped with the actual play.

Interpretative

Top 2 pictures are the schedule of all the rehearsals and performances that I helped at. The highlighted ones are the days that I was there and the ones that are crossed out are the days that I missed of mentorship. All of the highlighted days are located in the log attached to this post. The bottom is the pamphlet that was handed out during the play with the names of all the cast and crew and sponsors.

Applied

Through this component it helped me gain more experience with theatre tech, especially since I really had no prior experience with Tech before my senior project. I got to see the whole process of putting on a play. Through this process I got to learn different techniques with different aspects of Theatre Tech, techniques with construction, some lighting and some audio.

Blog 13: Rough Draft of 30 minute presentation

30 Minute Lesson Plan Rough Draft

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1. What is the best way a set designer can enhance a performance?

2. When designing a set, what are some factors that you take into consideration when designing?

3. I read that when designing a stage it is better to try to stay as close as to the real place where the play is taking place in order to help people identify it as a real place, what is your opinion on this? Would you agree or disagree and why?

4. When a theatre is limited to supplies for constructing a set due to budget, what are some other ways a set designer can enhance a performance?

5.When designing is there a point where the set design can be too much? For example distracting from the actual performance instead of enhancing it.

6. I have heard that many professional theatres in Broadway are starting to use projections during their plays to enhance a play. Do you believe that these projections help with enhancing the play?  Why or why not.

7. From research that I have done, many people believe that projections will take the place of actual sets that will allow for actual locations to be projected onto stage to create the setting in order to enhance the play instead of having to build it. Would you agree with replacing hand crafted scenes with projections instead and why?

8. Do you believe that projections enhance a play more than a hand crafted scene or would it really depend on the genre and the play?

 

9. What is your personal preference when it comes to using projections or hand crafted scenes? Would you choice one over the other or would you use both to enhance the quality of the play if you could. Why or why not?

10. Apart from just the set itself, what would you say are other things that help a set designer enhance a play?

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours Check

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?

I was doing my mentorship at Ontario High School with their school's theater.

2.   Who is your contact?

Mr. Jeremy Hansen (Ontario High School's Theatre teacher)

3.   How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?   

While doing my mentorship at Ontario High School's Theatre I was able to complete a total of 174 hours and 30 minutes.

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

Basically my 10 hours of service were spent on helping with the pre-production of Ontario High School's musical production, "Back to the 80s".  Most of the time I was on stage left working on building different sets and props that were needed for the production. I also did some painting and helping make sure that everything was organized in the scene shop. I would also do other things that Mr. Hansen needed done for the play. Things like helping find furniture or costumes.

 
5.   Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number.    
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