Pitches

Reca - Set

• Motivations
• TOK; questioning the veracity of the mainstream media
• Heroism
• Recently written; relevant issues and references
• Thought-provoking and leaving room for artistic interpretation whilst not being so avant-garde that it's lost on the average teenager
• Maximizing our talents in our class
• Merging visual arts and theatre
• Creating a new world to immerse an audience member
• Learning the technical vocabulary and protocol for possible jobs in engineering
• Seeing complexity to seemingly simple themes
• Issues and Themes
• heroism
• transparency
• etc.
• Target Audience
• Upperclassmen
• Those random underclassmen that are 'up' with current events
• Parents
• Elements of Performance that will Excite and Inspire Audience Members
• SET - in-your-face-ness and immediacy of the realism
• Current events/names that we hear about on the news every day
• China's proximity to us (many people visit it frequently for things like APAC)
• Popular culture -> everyone's familiar with the Tank Man
• Fast-paced, action-driven
• Relationship between TOK and bias in the news
• End of hte play is very inconclusive; forces viewers to think long and hard about who the 'hero' was
• The original staging benefits us with stage transitions
• The Set Itself
• overlap of Zhang Lin and Joe
• Frank's Office atop of the cramped flower shop
• image from superman
• generic multi-purpose office
• benches for parks; tables for restaurants; etc.
• Scott Pask: The Pillowman
• that image is fantastic
• so much depth; scrim is almost opaque
• light up specific views
• Le Page; needles and opium
• projections on the walls and floor make fantastic textures and moods

Austin - Lighting

• Motivations
• media; influence of censorship
• International School
• a huge change from Brechtian style Epic Theatre
• Leaves everyone to ponder
• Target Audience:
• high school students and faculty
• Vision
• Theoretical vs. Practical vision (Darkness of Black Box)
• Director and Lighting Department; mutual vision
• propaganda / censorship
• murky vs. seeming cleanliness
• establishment of different scenes through lighting
• red and blue; this actually looks pretty darn cool
• pressured, claustrophobic atmosphere for China
• open and more tolerant atmosphere with America
• Practicality
• most of the light is the ceiling
• follow-spot, what is happening with the scrim?
• intensity will have to be high due to the darkness of the black box
• colors are visible but not dominant
• slowly mix the colors as we continue on
• will the colors blend? do we have barn-doors?
• what colors represent what?
• Functions
• visibility or obscurity
• mood
• Summary
• geographical and temporal discrepancy
• play with the intensity of the light for the past
• potentially starker lighting for the past to represent propaganda?

Andy - Film

• Cinematic vision:
• incorporate film in the production, mainly for background and past of characters
• creating the atmosphere around the set
• for example, the airplane set; having a background to emphasize the environment
• Zhang Lin's apartment - the feeling of a Chinese apartment
• Keywords
• Hazy - pollution in China
• Overwhelm - claustrophobic environment
• Censorship - media in China
• Urbanization - cities, traffic lights
• The past - 1989 Tienanmen Square
• Population - Chinese population, crowded
• Robert Lepage's approach in Film and Theatre
• juxtaposing multicutural elements in theatrical plays
• bringing together various art forms by combining tech and live performances in the development of a multimedia project (Zulu Time)
• cinematic quality, using media screens and technology to tell stories
• "facilitating multiple viewpoints on the same subject through the variation of camera angles"
• When you have realism, but have to go beyond that, it is about 'close-up', and film is there to bring things closer to the audiences
• audiences are far from the object and action, etc.
• example images
• CCTV for the torture scene