Oral Presentation Second Draft

Second Draft:


  • Story:
    • Musical Adaptation
    • Adaptation from:
      • A Wall of Fire Rising
      • Night Woman
      • The Children of the Sea
    • Use these stories to show the relationships between Guy’s family members
    • Summary
  • Reason:
    • Open spaces
    • But interconnections
    • Investigate the relationships between characters in the book
      • Not just who is who’s mother or father
      • But also how their characters are shown between interactions.
  • Dramatic potential:
    • As characters are investigated and shown in relationships
    • A interesting theme can be seen.
    • I saw the theme of Fate and Choice
    • I foreseen the alignment of the theme with many musical elements
  • Body:
    • Describe our production in three domains
    • Theme relates to the musical elements using examples of my performance
    • Repetition (Fate)
      • Theme
        • Under the same culture of Haiti, we want to show the repeating fate in different character
        • Especially in generations
        • Guy and Little Guy killed themselves
        • Lili and the Girl has to face their significant others leave
      • Music/production
        • Repeating melody
        • Repeating lyrics
        • Repeating dialogues/lighting cues
      • Performance
        • Same emotion (different level)
        • Body size: big (convincing Lili/Girl)  small (dying)
        • Helpless
    • Differences (Choice)
      • Theme
        • Different education
        • Different time period: (Guy: white terror, Little Guy: massacre)
        • Resulting different situations that characters encounter
        • And different level of emotion they have
      • Music
        • Different orchestration (first: harp, second: horn)
        • Different chords (more minor and extended in the second half)
        • Longer bridge (intensity)
      • Performance
        • Different sight (Guy: shortsighted and selfish. Little Guy: opposite)
        • Different personality (Guy: joyful, Little: serious)
        • Joyful: bigger movements, light steps, fidgeting
        • Serious: less subtle and redundant movements, calm but heavy
        • When they die they have different level of emotion
        • Guy: shocked about himself and the family. Doesn’t know what to do
        • Little Guy: worried about others, sad for the people in Haiti
Conclusion:
  • Evaluation of your role and performance

    • Director
      • Constructed the idea and the theme
      • Designed the lighting
      • Designed most of the blocking
    • Lyrist
      • Created the lyrics with my partner
      • Created most of the script
    • Editor
      • Edited parts of songs
  • Limitations:
    • The hair
    • Scene change
      • The periactoids are hard to move to designated area
    • Need to explore more lighting possibilities
    • Indicate Lili’s death
  • Learned:
    • Different aspects of theater:
      • Making a musical from nothing
    • Music can really facilitate the emotion

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