Blog Checklist for MULTIMEDIA UNIT:

For the MULTIMEDIA UNIT make sure you have covered all of the points below:

Multimedia aspect of your blog.

•   We began with a discussion of "what is multimedia?"

•   Incorporating aspects of your mobile phone when responding to a moment of the chorus.

•   Exploring what "Live feed" is and how can it be incorporated.

•   Garage band - what is it and how can it be incorporated?

Exploring the Promenade aspect of Antigone.

•   Responding to your site and how it can be used within your section. Sound/ Visuals...etc.

•   Consideration of how multimedia might be used within your piece.

•   Considering your site and how it dictates what you can/ can't use.

Exploring chorus.

•   Responding to the ensemble demands of a chorus.

•   Remaining disciplined, focused and committed.

•   Incorporating multimedia in the chorus - lights and pre-recorded voices.

•   Learning lines - reflect on challenges and how you will go about learning. The importance of speaking exactly what is written.

Evaluation of the performance:

• List all of the multimedia used in the performance.
• How did multimedia enhance the overall performance? 
• What impact do you think it had on the audience and why?
• Would the performance have been as effective without the multimedia? 
• Which moment of multimedia was most effective and why?

Cut and paste the grid below onto your blogs. Complete the final column: 

Scenes from Antigone:	Multimedia used and locations	How did the multimedia in each scene enhance the performance?
1. Creon announces that Eteocles will be honoured and Polynices will be shamed and left un-buried.	Video to be shown on screen in reception.
2. Antigone goes to Ismene to persuade her to assist the burial of their brother. Ismene refuses.	By the tree - video shown of the thoughts of the characters.
3. Antigone goes to bury her brother.	Round of wooden stumps.
4. Creon looks for the support of the chorus of Theban Elders in his  decision to leave Polynices unburied.	Creon announces from fire escape door of 415 - chorus round the tree looking up. Audience looking up also.
5. A Sentry reports the burial of Polynices. Creon insists that the Sentry finds out who or face death.	Filmed footage of event is shown on screen top of stairs. Sentry talking to Creon.
6. Chorus sing about honouring gods.	From the yard up to windows of 413 Recorded chorus played.
7. Sentry returns with the Culprit: Antigone. Creon confronts her.	Burst into 413 - audience turn to see. Lighting used.
8. Creon confronts Ismene. Ismene tries to confess but Antigone won't allow it. And in the end, the two sisters are imprisoned.	Still in 413 but Creon live speaks to a projected Ismene. Antigone is walked out the room and joins the real Ismene - escorted off. Lighting used
9. Haemon both pledges allegiance to his father, Creon, and asks that Antigone be spared. After the discussion deteriorate, Haemon storms out vowing never to speak to him again.	Traverse in 413 - iphone lights as the two talk. Throughout confrontation, lights go out, one by one.
10. Creon choses to spare Ismene, and to bury Antigone alive. As she is dragged out, the chorus express their Sorrow.	One light left on Creon's face. Sound of s body being dragged...etc.  Projection and video used
11. Tiresias attempts to advise Creon that what he is doing is wrong and that the Gods are angry. The prophecy of a dead son is mentioned.	Tiresias never moves his mouth but what he says coupled with weird underscore is played through speakers of 415. Projected video played
12. The chorus, terrified, begs him to take Tiresias' advice. Shaken, Creon agrees to release Antigone and bury Polynices.	As many chorus as possible fill cavities of 415 and urge Creon. Three doors and side grated window thing.
13. Chorus deliver a choral ode to the god Dionysus.
14. Messenger informs Eurydice of Haemon and Antigone's death.	Filmed footage on repeat of Haemon stabbing himself and Antigone hanging, swinging from a branch.
15. Carrying the body of his dead son Haemon, Creon is then met by a 2nd messenger informing him of Eurydice's death.	Audience back outside looking at tree. Creon walking through the courtyard, holding Creon, confronted by messenger at the tree. Chorus look down from 415.

Some performance pictures

Use these photos to explain how moments of multimedia were used to ENHANCE the performance. 

Work Extension

It has been decided that we will give you extra time for the completion of written work as you are missing a lesson on Monday.

On Thursday you will have time to work on your presentations, however should come prepared with all of your notes to ensure your presentation can be completed by the end of the lesson.

Presentations and blogs will be due in week 1 of term 5.

All questions and notes will be posted on here tomorrow. 

Thursday 16th April

Today we recorded the moment of choral speaking and some breath. 

Why did we do this?

How will having the pre-recorded sound support this moment of the performance? The audience will be listening to this whilst you perform on the basketball court. 

We discussed how the pieces that you are creating are relevant for a contemporary audience.

How is your piece relevant for an audience? 

How is the moment of multi-media in your piece relevant for the piece? 

Some groups did some filming today. How did it go? How will this support your piece?

What planning did you have to do before the filming?  Write the script? Rehearse? Think about the best place to film it? Costumes...? 

We then shared your scenes so far. Type up he notes you made on the groups. 

What moments are successful and why? 

What meets need to be developed and why? 

How did the pieces become relevant for a contemporary audience? 

Rehearsal Log for Antigone

You need to make sure you have a rehearsal log for the scene you are developing for the performance on 30th April.

The assignment brief given out at the start of the term outlined what you need to do. Here are the points you need to make.

Please make sure you have one for each lesson.

Production blog:

Keep a blog detailing the activities you have undertaken:

Describing the activities undertaken:

 •What have you done in the lesson with your group.

 •Keep a log of the activities for each rehearsal.

Explaining ideas generated and justifying the decisions made with regard to the form and content of the piece and the use of multimedia techniques and materials in the performance:

 •Why you have develop characters in particular ways.

 •What multimedia are you using?

 •How are you using this multimedia?

 •How will it help to develop the work created?

Explaining the intended effect on the audience of the multimedia techniques and materials you have decided to use:

 •How will the piece of multimedia you are using help to tell the story to the audience?

 •What effect do you want the multimedia being used to have on the audience?

Context Homework - 26th March 2015

Today you explored two versions of the scene between Antigone and Creon. 

Which scene did you work on? 

What did you think of the style of the writing? 

How was this scene different to the other script used in the lesson? 

Did the laugauge make the characters change? 

In groups you then created a version of Antigone focusing on setting it in a specific context. By doing this you had to focus on the use of the language in the piece. 

What did your group create? 

What was the setting?

What characters were developed?

How did you use language?

Type up the notes that you made on the other groups.

Set Design Task...

You need to design a set for your own version of Antigone. You need to imagine that you'd have as much money to create this, therefore you have no limits on your ideas.

You need to think carefully about designing something that helps the audience to understand your version of the play. 

Your version should be relevant for an audience today. 

First decide where your version of Antigone would be set:

A school?

A tower block?

A nightclub?

A park?

In the future?

In a war?

It's up to you...

Then think about the shape of your space. Where are the audience?

In the round?

Traverse?

Promenade?

Colours - think carefully about the colours in your set, they can tell the audience lots.

You can draw or make your set. 

It must have some written justifications to go with your design. 

Homework - Multimedia Monday 16th March

Search on-line, a "Multimedia Theatre Production" and find a you tube clip taken from the piece. Watch it and reflect on the following question:

"Within a Theatre production, how does the use of multimedia help in its communication to an audience? What does it add to the piece?"

Additional work:

Find a review of a multimedia theatre production and see what Theatre critics have to say.