Sadly little...

So I still haven't been able to contact my mentor at the Chino Community Theater. However I'm going to try and contact a family friend for the possibility to sit in on the production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Like I said I would keep it updated for the new events at The Chino Theater. So here is the most recent set of events for the theater:

• March 7: Beauty and the Beast Jr.- first show for this play all starts at 7:00 pm
• March 8: Beauty and the Beast Jr.- Cast opens at 2:30 pm
• Also if you are a ukulele fan every Friday night there is a group that goes to the theater to play and create a ukulele community. This is done every Friday at 6:00 pm.

Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

EQ

What is the best way to optimize a stage for a successful production?

 

1) Answer #2:

Using state of the art lighting boards and audio mixers, is the best way to optimize a stage.

2) 3 details to support the answer:

•  With the use of a new lighting board you can manipulate the lights that are attached to hydraulics. What is meant by "manipulate" is the ability to move the lighting fixture in real time to follow an actor on stage.Moving them into different focus zones for the next act without having to manually move them while on a ladder. This task can be achieved remotely through the lighting board.
•  With audio mixers you can combined multiple channels into one. An audio mixer uses a plethora of incoming audio channels to: raise or lower the gain, increase or decrease each individual channel, along with turning off that channel completely or even have the ability to still listen to a channel without it going through the speakers.
• With a state of the art audio mixer it will give the best audio quality and will have systems in place if there would happen to have audio feedback.

3) The research source (s) to support your details and answer:

Source: 

11-ETC manual: goes into detail on each function the lighting board can do. 

13-"How to use an audio mixer": gives you a full tutorial on how a lighting board functions.

4) Concluding Sentence:

With the ability to use a modern lighting board and audio mixer allows the technician the ability to have to correct lighting and crisp clear sound.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
My plans include, getting more hands on experience. I plan to do this through practicing and preparing to going to the Fullerton College Theatre Festival, along with competing there. The festival is a two day event consisting of competitions for acting and technical work. I will be competing in 9 theatre technical events on one of the two iPoly tech teams. The event I will be in are:
Tech Olympic events:
1) Costume Quick Change- Change a member in the dark that has over sized clothes on in the fastest time.
2) Light focusing- Have to hang theatre lights and crop the sides to match a taped out shape on the opposite wall.
3) Team Knot Tying- Each member has been assigned 1 of the 5 knots and will be timed until all knots are done.
4) Tool Usage- is a relay. Each member has been assigned 1 of 5 tools and hardware that need to be used.
5) Prop Quick Change- Given blurry pictures of a scene and have to set the stage in the fastest time and as accurate to the picture as possible.
6) Tool And Hardware ID- Have to identify as many tools and hardware as possible in a very dark room for a limited visibility as a challenge.
7) Electrical Wiring- wire adapters
8) Individual Knot Tying- Same as #3 instead I will be doing each of the 5 knots on my own.
Scenic Event
9) Scenic Design- I will present my technical work for the production of  "Working"

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
Evidence of my 30 hours will be shown chronically throughout the practice for events through pictures. Pictures will also be taken during the competitions I will be in. The pictures will include the 9 events I will participate in. Since the competitions are given awards, I will possibly win an award, to show my participation in and event or events.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.
I will be seeing a play at the end of the festival to see the production's use of lighting, color and props. I will also be able to take a tour and see what equipment they use for their productions. I can also interview the students and see what other possible answers I can get.


4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your other logs and call it the independent component 2 log.
Done and done

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a)  “I, Jonathan Shoemaker, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component

For me my independent component was done for the ipoly drama club. So really the person who I worked under was Joe Hogan he helped walk me through what was needed for the production and what wasn't. Also he provided me with a book that helped me find what hardware was needed for what I had to do. The book was "The Backstage Guide"

• (c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log.

Done and Done.

• (d) Explanation of what you completed.    

Also Done and Done... on the blog. Well anyway I'll say it here. I did many of things, what my main job was to build set pieces and props for the actors. I also worked with the lights to create lighting zones along with troubleshooting and creating lighting cues. In details I was able to create an 8 feet by 6 feet by 9 feet big rig with full motion since it was on 8 different 5 inch caster wheels. Also the big rig was fully lite with from the lighting zones I created and from the headlights I made out of the headlight frames and scoop lights. Also I was able to make the lights seem as if they followed the actors as they crossed from one side of the stage to the other. The only thing is the lights were completely stationary and were set at the beginning of the play and never moved until the end of the last show. All of that was done from my research of the backstage guide, Mr. Hogan, and lots and lots of trial and error.

• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  

The old styled wooden doors the I got from the truck salvage place.

Truck headlights that have reflecting turn signal panels 

This the screen I saw when I was organizing the lighting addresses to the channels

so this was on the first day of the show finishing up the truck. 

Yes those are actual Truck doors the are able to swing out they are about 30-40 pounds

This was day two where I felt the truck could still be greatly improved so I spent even more time working on it.

So as you can see I was a very busy bee unfortunately I did even more, I just wasn't able to take pictures. However if it wasn't for having all of the technical parts of the production put on my shoulders I wouldn't have come up with my first answer. Since I had to deal with the technical parts it caused me to work with the lights in a way I haven't been able to before. Working with the lights made me realize that without them the stage is bland or dull, if that's the case, there is no way then for me to answer my EQ of "What is the best way to optimize a stage for a successful production?"

• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

This component pushed me out of the theatre tech job. It pushed me to talk to the actors get to know them understand how they move and being able to know all of positions of the production staff. What I faced was having to take a little of the stage managers job and use it to relate the actors and stage setting.  By getting to know the actors the colors that would be applied to setting could include the right colors in the lighting to get the most from the actors tone and delivery.  I was also able to convey to the actors the importance of communication so that should their blocking change, I am able to correct the lighting the cues. This allows for them to be fully lit at all times. It allowed me to see first hand the problems that could come up, so I could better prepare for them in later productions.



 
 
 

Blog 13: Lesson 2 Refletion

Content:

1. Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
I'm most proud of my power point being minimal forcing me to go completely off of memory rather then reading off of the presentation itself.
2. Questions to Consider
       a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

       b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
I stuck to what was required. Such as making sure my rough draft lesson plan was turned in on time, my EQ was clearly visible throughout, and I even was able to connected multiple pieces of research to the presentation when I possibly could.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
What worked for me was the ability to say the directions of what my activity was. Then let them free to work on it with little questions, what scared me was that I failed at directing but rather then it being bad everyone understood it and completed the activity as I pictured it would.

4.  (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
I have a feeling I might not have made the 20 minutes I sort of felt that I rushed the activity. So what didn't work was most likely my time management.

5. Finding Value
What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?  
My next answer could possibly be "communicating to the production staff with full understanding" My whole goal with this answer is to go in depth on how to structure you vocabulary in a way that will be calm and kind while being able to be aggressive on how things should be done on stage.