christination

2009-07-26T04:48:00.000-07:00

news before scratch!!

2009-07-26T04:44:00.000-07:00

Animation is ready and now i am working on the editing of other video. I found a performer that i thing will be perfect for this performance! yeahhh!!there are many technical things that i have to take care of. and some thinking of the costume...working working working!!!

my plans for the future!

2009-06-11T08:12:00.000-07:00

•My project has to do with the journey from adolescence to maturity. I focus on how a woman does this journey without really understanding it. We never understand when we live some moments that these moments change us. We never understand when is the time that we really left adolescent and we went to maturity.

•The animation will show the development of the body as a girl grows up .The animation film will finish at the time that the girl is an adolescent. At this time there will be a connection with the myth Eugena and the girl’s hands will be cut. For me this will be the symbol of the transition from adolescence to maturity.

•Next to the animation there will be a real life video. In this video I will show some things that we leave behind when we grow up and some new things that enter our lives. The video will show some hands of a girl that holds things that represent the life of a girl and some hands of a woman that represent some things of a woman’s life. The hands for me will be the medium to show the differences between the life of a woman and a girl.

•The performer will be the conclusion of my project. The performer will be the one that will mention how some moments chance us and make us more mature. The performer will refer the journey that a girl does from adolescence to maturity.

Timelines

11/6 -16/6 making the storyboard for my animation film

11/6 – 26/6 writing my essay

16/6 - 25/6 storyboard-directing for my real life video

21/6 - 19/7 animation video making

26/26 – 19/7 filming the real life video

20/7 submit the essay

25/7 – 6/8 rehearsals with video and performer

7/8 scratch show

7/8 – 15/ editing documentation

8/8 – 1/9 rehearsals, portfolio and making of the space

3/9 – 9/9 final show

Economical Plan

What I will need for my performance:

2 projectors ,sound system and speakers, 1 camera, lights: from college

Budget for costume videos and scenery : maximum 150 pounds

2009-04-29T14:41:00.000-07:00

rehearsals group 3

2009-04-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

we are ready for the show tomorrow.Martina and Anthony are great!!!There was a difficult way up to here but now everything is ready!

i chose red light for Anthony and blue light for Martina to make a contrast.Agnes -Martina has a cold light because se comes from a dream and Anthony has a warm but strange light because he is human but in that time he lives in his imagination.It think that the result will be nice.

Directing Martina and Anthony was a very good experience!!it was the first time i 've done something like that but guys were so good and easy to work with. I tried to have simplicity and i hope this will work tomorrow.

phase lapse

2009-04-02T14:11:00.000-07:00

i watched the performance by Group 2 and i really liked it!!! it was simple which was good and it seemed like the group had the same vision for it. I enjoyed the atmosphere and it felt like it was a contemporary approach to some kind of ritual theatre. The main subject of it was the body of the performance and i think this body transferred the cultures of many countries and the history of them. The scenery was simple as i would like it to be and the performer was reflecting the idea behind the performance very well.

the whole concept was great!!

PROJECT PROPOSAL-SOLO PROJECT-DIPLOMA STAGE

2009-03-30T13:18:00.000-07:00

I am working on a video for my solo performance which is based on a Greek myth called Eugena .My interpretation of the myth is that it deals with the transition from an adolescent girl to a mature woman.

I will show that subject using animation and live action on the screen .

I researched this subject by reading books about myths

and about adolescence and feminine psychology and i researched this also visually .I created an animated character that has the image of Eugena as I picture her in my mind and then I chose a performer with whom I work on the video of the live action.

My aim is to create a video that shows the change of an adolescent girl to a mature woman and how this happens without trying to be obvious but with some elements of fantasy . I want to show that this change happens so fast that a woman never understand when it really happens .I n addition I want to achieve a good level of artistic outcome.

I chose to use video because I wanted to see the action as images and not like the theatre live action on a stage. I like the aesthetic of animation in this project because I want to show my subject in a non realistic way. The fictitious presence of this character will show this subject from a distance of a real human nature but also will let the audience to have their own interpretation of it and find themselves in it.

I am not sure if I will present that in a space or I will present that in web. I will decide that when I will have the final result

making the costumes of the group project...

2009-03-26T04:27:00.000-07:00

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the ambient noise

2009-03-25T15:45:00.000-07:00

i really enjoyed the performance the ambient noise. the whole idea of it was fabulous. The performance had a great atmosphere!! the direction was good -the way the actors were leading us was great,the set was very nice as it created the image of something destroyed by the war and the sound was good too with a combination of naive sounds and war sounds that made a scary and also playful situation. I liked the costumes too but i think they were too strong sometimes . The only thing that i didn't like very much was that there was too much talking recorded for a performance like that. The highlight of the performance were the masks on the fabric. It was a very good idea putting these masks on the set.

I really believe it was a great job of group 1!!!

the story board

2009-03-15T13:38:00.000-07:00

i am working in the storyboard of my solo performance-video. I am trying to have a result that reflects my view of how a girl grows and become a woman. The trip from adolescence to maturity is for me a trip to knowledge. The person becomes familiar with new things and changes his/her point of view.In the same time the body changes and becomes the medium to this trip.I wouldn't like to stick on some cliche but to show some little details that makes that difference from the period of adolescence to the period of maturity.To me the whole transformation of the body and the psychology of the person seems, as i look in my life, like it only takes a few moments...

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costume proposals for the group project

2009-03-11T14:11:00.000-07:00

These are my proposals for the costumes of the characters Agnes and Poet of the "Dream Play". I didn't want to describe Agnes as an angel but to symbolize that by some details on her costume. This cape that she will wear make her look different but also human. The whole image of her will be natural but with some details of hyppereal too. For the Poet i experimented with some different styles,i thought of the main characteristics of a poet...a poet can be bohemian,romantic,mysterious,a little mad..I made 4 images for him-4 opinions about him

the progression of the group project

2009-03-03T07:56:00.000-08:00

After the last meeting with the girls it seems like our opinions are more alike than before. we decided about who does what.Aditi will do the video-the sounds and the making of the costume,jessica will design the scenery and will construct it and also help me with the lights, I made the mask , i am designing the costume,i will do the direction and help with constructions and lights.We decided to keep the shape of the screen that Jessica suggested and we agreed with on the reference of the costume that I suggested. Aditi's images for the video are very nice and i am starting thinking about the direction with having them in my mind. It seems like the result will be good if we continue having a good connection of ideas among us.

My Video

2009-03-03T07:46:00.000-08:00

i made a storyboard for the video that will be my solo performance.After talking with the performer i transfered the main ideas into the paper.The producer of it must now find a space to start filming.i focused in one theme of Eugena (a greek myth) and that is the passage from adolescence to maturity.I will have some images of everyday life and also some animation.The video will probably be separated in two screens that the action of the one will follow the action of the other and the opposite.In the first screen there will be the animation part and in the second the action of a real performer. There are some issues that i stil haven't decide but i am optimistic

shun- kin the performance

2009-02-23T17:24:00.000-08:00

i watched Shun Kin the performance in Barbican theatre after i watched the demostration of theatre complicite.i enjoyed the performance a lot and i liked the fact that the actors talked the original language(japanese) of the book that the performance was based on. it was full of beautiful images and smart scenographic tricks that were not only impressive but also very important for the action.The puppets that they used were amazing and the whole atmosphere was magic. i only felt sometimes that there was too much visual informations and too many projections but the general result was gooood

about the mask

2009-02-23T17:03:00.000-08:00

i chose to make a mask for Agnes in "the dreamplay" our group project. she wears a mask to separates herself from mankind.She is a goddess and as a goddess someone could say she is the fake hope of mankind for a better life..Soi thought that the mask should present a non naturalistic face but not completely different from human face.a way of non looking naturalistic and also have a connection with the video that will be projected would be to make a face look like animated. that could only mean that Agnes is an imaginary person. so i made the mask look like animated using plastic ,papier mache ,news papers colours and PVA ..i wanted Agnes to look innocent and a little melancholic about what she sees...

from adolescence to maturity...

2009-02-23T09:38:00.000-08:00

i think that the main theme that i am in interested by choose eugena is the passage from adolescence to maturity in a female. how things change when you stop being a girl and you have to act as a woman. when you have to be mature enough to face reality and leave behind the ideal picture of the world that you once had. this is a painful progress like a new birth of the same person.i see the cut of eugena's hands as a symbolic action to the new life she has to live....the change is painful but the result is good and bad too.i think i am working quite autobiographically hehehe

2009-02-22T11:18:00.000-08:00

i am working on a storyboard for the dreamplay...coulours lighting and set...

the mask

2009-02-22T11:17:00.001-08:00

the mask for the group project is almost ready..Yeah!!

the mask

2009-02-15T12:22:00.001-08:00

i am working on a mask for the group project...first time i am making a mask i hope everything is gonna be fine!!!

complicite demonstration workshop 1

2009-02-12T15:32:00.000-08:00

complicite demonstration workshop

The director of theatre complicite talked about the new performance of theatre complicite "Shun Kin" and generally the ways that theatre works.He explained what are the thoughts behind making the book of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki "The portrait of Shun kin " to a theatrical performance.In addition the was a talk about japanese tradition.After speaking generally about theatre and his thoughts about it-such as an the difference between the actor in cinema and the actor on theatre stage(the actor in cinema pretends to be someone but in theatre not only he is doing that but he is also a storyteller)-he called the people to go on stage and exersize in some theatre movements. There was a demonstration of using the puppets they use in the performance. In "Shun Kin" puppets are used in a similar way with Bunraku theatre.The audience could play with puppets and also find ways of synchronize their bodies with the puppets. It was quite useful to watch this workshop because i understood how actors from another civilization(Japan) use different codes with their bodies and also i could see different codes by some japanese objects presented. The theatre complicite's thoughts about theatre really inspired me and made me thing more about the performers. The participation of the audience was a big advantage of this workshop because the usual distance between stage and audience disappeared.

2009-02-07T10:31:00.000-08:00

study plan

this term i will continue my research about escaping reality in contemporary theatre performances. i will test my ideas about using comics as a medium for my research's goal.

The group project and solo project will be the main areas where i will test those ideas.My ambition is to achieve making more personal project in that term something that i am not sure if i will be able to do.

The performances

group performance:our group performance is based on the "Dream play" of A.Strindberg.the original script will be adapted,by isolating the speeches and specific questions that Agnes -the main caracter want answers to and to stress the illogic of the dream by reorganizing the sequence of the dialogue.to make the performance we will use a scenery,video, costume ,sound made my voices, lighting design and it will be performed by one performer and the "voice of humanity" that will be played by a voice/a face on the screen/video.

solo performance

my solo performance will have to do with my personal research.i will probably make a perfomative piece that will have as a starting point a text-idea.i will create a performance/instalation that i will test my ideas about hypperreality in theatre and comics as a medium in theatre performances.my goal is not to make a complete -finished piece but an experiment.the result of this experiment will help me find my way for my final project.

Methodology

group work: in the group project i will try to combine Strindberg's ideas with group ideas.i would like to experiment with different positions in theatre such as designing costumes,performing,lighting design and direction.i will try to transfer the results of our interpretation of Strindbergs text in whatever i will be involved in the performance.i will also try to test some of my personal work interest wherever that can happen. i have already researched images that i believe that have a relation with the text.i want to do a research about the theme of the "door".For the technical part i will do some research about materials that are good for the set deign and costume.Together with Aditi and Jessica we will have the general supervision of the performance.

personal work: i will decide a starting point for making my personal work.i am thinking about a greek myth-fairy tale and also a comic book for children. i will try to contemporize the original text and idea as i will have as base my own interpretation of the text and my own worries about the theme of it.Having a text-idea as a starting point will help develop my research and do a more concentrated work.

i would like to make my own comic figure as i started taking lessons about animated caracter design.The reason of taking these lessons is to understand the way comics are structured and the sense of making them. I will also take some lessons of animation so i am planning have some animated piece of my own comic if not this term maybe the next one. I believe animation will help me have the aesthetic i want for my final project for the course.i have a thought of making a comic of the basic caracter of the greek myth or of the children book's caracter-it depends of i will finally decide.

in my plans is also to have so conversations with people who make comics and what they think about the social effect comic have.i will also try to make some thoughts about why there is so much animation and comics in art like cinema lately.Why comics are interesting for art industry lately?

i am very interested about the feedback that i will have in my attempts.

our group project..

2009-02-06T05:33:00.000-08:00

Aditi Jessica and me desided working on the "Dream play" of August strindberg.We will be based on that text but we will create a new version of it.

Strindberg, A Dream Play

st is criticises the condition that humans are in, in society.

The main character is Agnes, Indra's daughter who comes down from the heavens to witness life on earth.

In our reading of the text,

on the one side we have a goddess in the position of an observer, who forms her opinion subjectively by participating occasionally and on the other side we have different characters who represent the face of humanity.

People go through their lives searching for truth-meaning in their lives- and Strindberg uses the symbol of the door repetitively in the play.

He uses some real problems from everyday life and presents them in the structure of the dream. He separates the story/narrative into different chapters....characters appear "randomly" (as if in a dream), in t

he different chapters.

Characters are used to describe hierarchical structures and the dynamics of relationships.

The Performance:

Script:

The original script will be adapted, by isolating the speeches that discuss the human condition and the specific questions that Agness wants answers to and to stress the illogic of the dream by reorganising the sequence of the dialogue.

Set: Location TV Stidio

The set will include a screen that will be projected upon. The existing door in the TV studio will be utilised as the door for the performance. There is a possibility of using the other walls and the ceiling(under consideration).

Character:

The character of Agnes will be played by an actor.

The "voice of humanity" will be played by a voice/a face on the screen/video.

Costume:

One costume will be designed for the main character of Agnes.

Sound:Voices will be interspersed with the dialogue from the script, as well as sound of actual labour activities such as fishing docks/coal miners. These can be produced from real activity/created from similar sounds.

Technical Specs:

2 projectors

2 laptops

1 mixer

1 Amp

2 Speakers

3 fornells -big spot lights

1 ladder