Jay-Rod

Term 2 Week 1

Posted on April 21st, 2007 by jayrod.
Categories: Uncategorized.

                                                                                                                           Mood : BURAK

ok so holidays are over and i said in my last blog i would finish my rantings about set, so here it goes.

Set

HAPPY/SAD
Ok so here me are, so bizzare i should be at skool now, sept i am to sick so i sit here with information about a purchase order. hopefully tash will have worked out the information and given it to cooper.

So pannels they turned out really good, we got over the problem of the wood falling apart, by changing nails for screws, but that in turn created the problem of the wood spliting. luckily that comprimise is acceptable and safe. The pannels also have undergone there first layer of paint, an undercoat. I have also done a pricing for set and ita around 600$ for wood and paint we will need:

4 x 3m x 1.8m x 12mm MDF
6 x 2.4m x 1.8m x 3mm MDF
20 x 3.3m x 75mm x 19 mm Pine Support Beams (straight)
6L of Paint.

Price for that is approx $530.00

AUDIO

Really not much else to say about audio, I need to ask Steph Way if she would be able to do the french comentary. That also meens that I will need to send an email to Mr Carrick about organising a time to record the french. I have also finished most of the audio choices for the cast. Burak was easy, then a general music for the void came next and then sophies music and i think i have the selection for Nia now. But none of this is finale, as it all depends on wat Josh has found, and so i put forward can you josh bring in any audio you have i recon that we should finalise what we have and deside on what we want to keep.

MACBETH

OMGoodness. How amazing was Macbeth. Yet again John Bell creates such a amazing production of a classic. The begining was really powerful. The stage lights as the audio track rises, a mix of a windy storm covered with a gail of rain and the sound of war torn battle, the howling of exploding bombs, the shower of bullets leaving a machine gun. all while the stage is pitch black. then suddenly as the audio cracks with lightning we see the cast on stage, staning with legs wide and posture strong and controlling. As quickly as it became light it is again dark, while all the time the mix or war and rain plays on in the background. Seconds later the lights again flash, and this time the cast is dead still on the floor. I thought it was one of the most amazing ways to capture the audience i have seen. I was also really amazed with the style and costumes of most of the play. I found myself watching and feeling a sence of 1940-50 world war 2. some of the costumes were really appealing, and so were the props. The daggers for me only futher strenghend the ww2 feel for me, and also gave me some strage images in my head. When the king of Scotland entred it was very Hitler based, and it was from this that the daggers to me seemed to fit in with the peice. Not sure if other noticed that, or if any of you understand what i am saying. The reason the daggers to me felt “period” was members of Hitlers army had daggers with the Swastica and the German eagel on them.
2 things i did not like were the choice of costume for Lady MacDuff, and there child. to me it was odd and out of period. and i also did not like the death of Macbeth, as the gun did not suite. thats not the same as saying i did not like how he was killed, i really like the use of a bullet to kill him, it was the choice of gun that was used that i did not like, the small details.
Oh one last thing i really like the change of lights at one stage to distinguish between real time in the play and Macbeths Solilique.

TOP CLASS
WOW… and Yet Compleatly withing grasp.
Today there were many things that i think all of us gained from Top Class, weather it be getting use to dramatic and stylistic pauses, or the small details of staying in ones charecter. I think that my Fave was Oscar Wildes play. It was witty cleaver and really funny. I ALSO LIKED cerano de burgerak IT WAS GREAT.

I did not like how ever Amadeus, Lisa’s play. there were areas i found really good, and then others that Lisa did a much better job at. From watching it i could see that there were times wen the quietness and sad pathos were really important, and had not noticed this before, and then other times were i thought it was lacking, really need to go higher and commit more, like Lisa.

AND finaly i must thank ERIKA, YOU ROCK. the car trip home was fun. Ur DAD ROCK
AND I must Thank JORDAN, YOU ROCK, and so does Tracy. THANKS ALL OF YOU FOR THE CAR TRIPS.

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