Friday, 21 June 2013

Work in Progress


Results are looking good after a busy mornings work up in VAD...

Character design
by Patrick, 
 Olivia...
 and Catlin!

Graphic Crystals by
Chelsea
 and Alice

Backdrop design by
Eshara, Anastasia and Irvine...


Woo



INVITE by Ernest

Final ideas ( to scale...)

Good work Team Crystal.  :-)

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Design Ideas

INVITE INFO (deadline - Friday 21st)



INVITE info. Including directions or map snippet. Clear and creative designs - PSD or any editable files to tom for friday please...


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BRIT School students present....
Crystal Centre Community Arts!

FREE ENTRY

Refreshments, original theatre and mural unveiling in and around the Crystal Centre physiotherapy room.

Wednesday the 10th of July, 2pm to 4pm     
(these times are to be confirmed)

RSVP Wendy Becker at  <Wendy.Becker@croydonhealth.nhs.uk>

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Hi Will!

Please add change this if you notice any mistakes or important info missing!!





More crystal pics

Wednesday plan and material ideas

Monday, 17 June 2013

Devising Rehearsal 1

Today's Work.


What styles of Theatre did we use in the first devised site specific performance?

  • Physical
  • Immersive
  • Episodic
  • Non-linear
  • Naturalistic

What is the role of the performer?
  • Actor
  • Musician
  • To create atmosphere
  • Narrator

What have we got?

  • Present your research
Where do we place the audience?

Any unifying themes?
  • Do we need a unifying theme?

Mark out the space.

Find similar areas in the school.
Further Possible Research
Dead body found 2003

Morris Dancers

What the 1000 crimes were
            Compare crime over the years

Attitude to disabilities
            Past and now

Crystals
            Formation, movements, healing effects, myths, internal and external differences, religious views, where they are found, history of crystal healing.


Interview the people form the Crystal centre

Friday, 14 June 2013

Rubbish quality images of room (that might be useful)


Hullo campers. Bit late with these, but feel free to use them in your designs if it helps. Remember - we'll need to take measurements to be sure of the scale of our decorations. T:)




 

                                       

Our Crystals!!!


Bianca, Imy, Jake and Nora.


Hannah, Pareis, Jisele Making Crystal Art.


BRIT and St Giles Making Art!


St Giles have arrived!

We are working with the BRIT Students to colour templates of crystal shapes!

Homework Tasks.

Friday 28th June
Write a personal account and evaluation of your visit to St Giles today.

Monday 24th June
Write up response and evidence from your research at the library.
Type up notes collated from Site Specific performances and evaluate one performance.
Questions to ask when responding to a site.

History
Previous Uses
Question the site
  - Performance Opportunities
     - Audience placement
     - Architectural opportunities
  - 20 Words to describe the site
  - What emotions do you feel there?
  - What stories does the site tell?
  - What sounds are there?
What is your instinctual response to the site?



Friday 21st June 
Type up responding to the site notes from Crystal Centre Devising Book

Graded Research Task

You will research a Community Arts company.  
  1. You will focus on the roles within the organisation.
  2. Analyse how they contribute to the working of different projects.  

Use an example of one specific project by your given company.
  1. Analysing the skills.
  2. Processes needed to run a community arts project.
You will then be interviewed regarding your knowledge of the organisation in a seminar discussion on Monday the 24th of June.

Suggested Oraganisations

Monday, 10 June 2013

Today's Site Specific Performance.


Research Topics
Architecture
·      Period of architecture?
·      Fashion
·      Feature
·      Process of construction
·      Cost
Where from? Online, Library texts, local records office, Croydon museum.

Street History
·      Changes
·      Crime
·      Anything in press or online
·      Stories
Where from? Online, historical foundations, local records office, Croydon museum.

Local history
·      Of Croydon
·      Of the local area
·      Recent and old
Where from? Online, historical foundations, local records office, Croydon museum.

Research Specific to the building
·      Previous uses
·      Process of construction
·      Cost
Where from? Online, historical foundations, local records office, Croydon museum, the Land Registry

This process will keep drying up but you must allow yourself to keep coming up with new ways of finding information and evidence.


Then ask yourself questions about what is useful and what the next step could be.
BRIT School Mini Site Specific Performance
Questions to ask when responding to a site.

History
Previous Uses
Question the site
  - Performance Opportunities
     - Audience placement
     - Architectural opportunities
  - 20 Words to describe the site
  - What emotions do you feel there?
  - What stories does the site tell?
  - What sounds are there?
What is your instinctual response to the site?

20 Minutes Interrogation
30 Minutes Devising
2-3 Minutes Performing!