Voice Reflection: 1. Create a visual or find an image that represents your voice. Using the visual as a template/starting point, answer the following questions that are relevant to you: 2. What aspects of your voice do you like? What would you change about your voice? 3. Write a short description of what you think your voice sounds like. Make use of similes and metaphors to be as descriptive as possible. 4. What warm-up exercises do you need to engage in or perform to target potential problem areas or challenges within your voice? SONGOLOGUES
Assignment: Select the lyrics (or partial lyrics) to a song. Choose lyrics that are interesting and emotive for you. This need not be serious or dramatic. You may select lyrics that are comedic or simplistic. Your interpretation of the lyrics is what is important. You will make some conscience decisions about the emotion and context of the piece. Who are you speaking these words to? Where are you? How can you use emphasis on certain words and phrases to create meaning and context to the words? Can you use repetition in the song to help reinforce a particular emotion or idea? How can movement and gesture help provide meaning and power to what you are saying? Performance: You will select a group of 1-3 people to rehearse and present your songalogue with. You will each be rehearsing and presenting your own song but you may choose to all select songs with similar themes or from similar artists. Or your songs may all be totally different and unconnected. Articulation: Words and sounds are clearly and correctly pronounced. Student pays attention to pacing; words and sounds are not lost to rushing. Projection/Volume: Words and sounds are clearly heard. Voice is loud enough but it never feels like student is pushing or straining voice. Student uses variance in volume for emphasis and to extend interpretation. Expression: Student has interesting and believable expression. Voice is interesting to listen to and conveys mood, emotion, tone, and feeling. Interpretation: Student has created an interesting and believable interpretation of the piece that supports and enhances vocal choices. Movement&Gesture. Student has made choices about the movement and gesture of the piece and choice support and enhances vocal choices. Memorization: Piece is confidently memorized. |
Personal Response to Tableau Project
1.Communicate your artistic interest/influences. (Mind map, collage, writing, etc) 2.How did your artistic influences impact your work/contribution to this project? 3.In 1-2 sentences, please describe your groups intention with the tableau project. What do you want the audience to think/feel/experience? Were you successful? 4.Respond to the work of another group. Describe a moment, tableau, series of tableaux, etc that you thought were interesting, effective, successful, creative, etc. |
Final Reflection:
Drama 10.
Think back to the quote that appeared on the Drama 10 course outline----
"We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time."
TS Eliot
Drama 10.
- Find (or create) an image that reflects your experiences in Drama 10 OR how you view yourself as an artist OR how you view your creativity. Include a brief description of why you selected that image within the context of the image or as a separate reflection.
Think back to the quote that appeared on the Drama 10 course outline----
"We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time."
TS Eliot
- Describe the type of learning that is required and experienced in Drama. How is it different from learning in Math or Social or English?
- What does the word creativity mean to you? Do you consider yourself a creative person? Why or why not?
- Provide an example of one activity, experience, relationship, or performance in Drama 10 that helped develop your creative or artistic person/process?
- How will you continue to develop your creativity and as an artist in your other classes and pursuits?
Journal Guide Drama 10 Sept 2014-Jan 2015
Orientation
For your Orientation journals, you should have three pages. 1. Reflect on the idea of ENSEMBLE. What does it mean for our process and success in Drama 10?
2. Intuitive Mind and Intuitive Learning: What is intuition? How does drama help us connect with our intuition? (Use Einstein or TS Eliot quote to help you express this idea) 3. Select one activity, attitude, or exploration from our orientation unit and record that activity, as well as reflecting on its importance.
Find or create two images that connect to your experience during the tableau unit. Some ideas of things to reflect on:
-Elements of Stage Composition. Create an exciting, visual, working definition of the elements of stage composition (Line, Level, Mass (Positive and
Negative Space), Balance, Symmetry/Asymmetry)
-Journal about your experience with sourcing a project. How did your group or you personally work with and
interpret the source materials? Find/create an image to reflect or illustrate how your group interpreted the source material?
-Reflection on your final project. Use a photo of your project to talk about a moment in your performance or rehearsal process.
-Reflect on the idea of collaboration/ensemble and challenges of creating with a true collaborative group.
Voice
Create a visual or find an image that represents your voice. Using the visual as a template/starting point, answer the following questions that are relevant to you:
What aspects of your voice do you like? What would you change about your voice?
Write a short description of what you think your voice sounds like.
What warm-up exercises do you need to engage in or perform to target potential problem areas or challenges within your voice?
Character (Scene and Monologue)
-Include all written work/writing you worked on in-class.
Character reflections notes for during character exercises (Leading with a different body part, using animal as jumping off point, hats, writing exercise with the thrift shop find, anything other character discoveries/moments you had). Document characters in a character chart:
Character Name/Exercise
Vocal Characteristics
Physical Characteristics
Other Notes/interesting attributes.
Include a MINIMUM of two drafts of your monologue.
On the final or second draft of your monologue note the following as it is true for your monologue character:
-Where are they?
-Who are they talking to?
-What dominant playable traits (physical/vocal) did you portray in the piece?
-What was the conflict or high stakes moment in the monologue? Why did the character need to share this story?
Check Please Scenes: Reflect the dominant character traits and history of your character in a journal page from the journal/scrapbook/collected thoughts of your character.
Final Reflection:
1. Drama 10.
Find (or create) an image that reflects your experiences in Drama 10. Include a brief description of why you selected that image.
Within the context of the image or as a separate reflection, consider the following ideas and questions:
Think back to the quote that we discussed at the start of the term----
"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time."
What have you uncovered about yourself and yourself as an artist?
Whether or not you continue in Drama, what have you learned about yourself as an artist and about the artistic/creative process?
Drama 10 Block 1 (5 Credit) ONLY
-Create a page to reflect and record a response to the play we saw this term, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Thrimble.
-Reflect on your discoveries and developments as an actor this term. Create/describe an emerging process for yourself when approaching a text for stage play/presentation.
-Include all fight notation from your combat scene.
Orientation
For your Orientation journals, you should have three pages. 1. Reflect on the idea of ENSEMBLE. What does it mean for our process and success in Drama 10?
2. Intuitive Mind and Intuitive Learning: What is intuition? How does drama help us connect with our intuition? (Use Einstein or TS Eliot quote to help you express this idea) 3. Select one activity, attitude, or exploration from our orientation unit and record that activity, as well as reflecting on its importance.
Find or create two images that connect to your experience during the tableau unit. Some ideas of things to reflect on:
-Elements of Stage Composition. Create an exciting, visual, working definition of the elements of stage composition (Line, Level, Mass (Positive and
Negative Space), Balance, Symmetry/Asymmetry)
-Journal about your experience with sourcing a project. How did your group or you personally work with and
interpret the source materials? Find/create an image to reflect or illustrate how your group interpreted the source material?
-Reflection on your final project. Use a photo of your project to talk about a moment in your performance or rehearsal process.
-Reflect on the idea of collaboration/ensemble and challenges of creating with a true collaborative group.
Voice
Create a visual or find an image that represents your voice. Using the visual as a template/starting point, answer the following questions that are relevant to you:
What aspects of your voice do you like? What would you change about your voice?
Write a short description of what you think your voice sounds like.
What warm-up exercises do you need to engage in or perform to target potential problem areas or challenges within your voice?
Character (Scene and Monologue)
-Include all written work/writing you worked on in-class.
Character reflections notes for during character exercises (Leading with a different body part, using animal as jumping off point, hats, writing exercise with the thrift shop find, anything other character discoveries/moments you had). Document characters in a character chart:
Character Name/Exercise
Vocal Characteristics
Physical Characteristics
Other Notes/interesting attributes.
Include a MINIMUM of two drafts of your monologue.
On the final or second draft of your monologue note the following as it is true for your monologue character:
-Where are they?
-Who are they talking to?
-What dominant playable traits (physical/vocal) did you portray in the piece?
-What was the conflict or high stakes moment in the monologue? Why did the character need to share this story?
Check Please Scenes: Reflect the dominant character traits and history of your character in a journal page from the journal/scrapbook/collected thoughts of your character.
Final Reflection:
1. Drama 10.
Find (or create) an image that reflects your experiences in Drama 10. Include a brief description of why you selected that image.
Within the context of the image or as a separate reflection, consider the following ideas and questions:
Think back to the quote that we discussed at the start of the term----
"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time."
What have you uncovered about yourself and yourself as an artist?
Whether or not you continue in Drama, what have you learned about yourself as an artist and about the artistic/creative process?
Drama 10 Block 1 (5 Credit) ONLY
-Create a page to reflect and record a response to the play we saw this term, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Thrimble.
-Reflect on your discoveries and developments as an actor this term. Create/describe an emerging process for yourself when approaching a text for stage play/presentation.
-Include all fight notation from your combat scene.
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Tableau Projects
Find rubrics for both the tableau projects below. These are what are referenced in the comment box on PowerSchool.
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sourced_tableau_project.doc | |
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Link to my Public Dropbox Account
Here is where the photos for Drama 10 tableau project. Click HERE, yo! Or copy and paste to a new browser window if the hyperlink is broken! https://www.dropbox.com/sh/znubqjp8axwo73f/5Yvt40dtFY