Week Six
This week started off on a very pleasing note. Our first class, the double, began with the news that the class had blocked the majority of the memories while I was away last Friday. Great leadership Lisa and fantastic work Farmhouse Productions. The ensuing rehearsal showed that the blocking of these scenes had a marked effect on the confidence and understanding of everyone in the group. We’re so close to finishing the blocking it is great. The fantastic work continued on Wednesday’s class.
Tuesday also involved our next whole class Production Meeting. A huge congratulations to Jarrod and Tasha on the set work. The model looks great. Hopefully, Jarrod can soon have a photo of it up on his Blog. The massive leap forward made by Bethany and Teigan on costumes is also heartening. A masterstroke idea to use some of the costume styles we already have in the costume department as a template for the types of costumes that you want to make.
Publicity is still a worry for me. Although it may not be necessary to have things published yet, to get stuff into newspapers etc often requires three-four weeks prior notice. Same with producing a poster/brochure or contacting schools. It is also a little disappointing that great enthusiasm of ideas in both the poster design and the design for Farmhouse Productions logo seems to have stagnated and hasn’t been realised over the past four weeks.
The remaining areas of Audio and Lighting now really need to start to develop. Mini-production meetings with me should be arranged for the coming week. Information for standard lighting rig at MIPAC is available in my office and it would be nice if we had some ideas before the visit to Brunswick on the second day of next term.
This week was also about completing audits. Now that all ten students have finished, many have come to the realisation of just how much work is involved in getting this play up and running. We have probably now hot the point that most productions hit…. the midway point where it starts to get hard to keep up the energy and momentum. Stick with it team, we’re almost there.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Hi.
What a great blog. It’s really good practice to be blogging along with the students. They can get real insights into your role and thinking and you give them feedback on how they are going. I’m wondering if the students are settling into the blogging thing and finding it useful or of it is still a chore. It seems as though many of them have put their own personality and individuality into their blogs. Has it been useful to read their blogs on a weekly basis?
regards
Jo Raphael