Annie Production october

Today I made a plan for the program organizing what was going on each page and how it would be set out. i did this in pages. After this I gave the drat to Amy to consider then I made a plan of how the photographs were going to be set out in the program and the captions of who all the people were in the photos.

I based my plan on the program from the previous year, researching what they had done and the things they had included. Also I made a detailed plan of what I was going to do on paper. (IE2)

program draft -

front cover:

brookfield .... presents......

title

picture

date

licensee agreement

brookfield logo

page 1:

Advertisement

page 2:

Auditions

page 3:

Story Summary

page 4:

Act One & Two

page 5:

main characters

annie

daddy warbucks

miss hannigan

grace

rooster

lily

page 6:

named orphans

page 7:

cast list

page 8:

cast list

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page 9:

cast list

page 10:

pictures from auditions

page 11:

production team

orchestra

page 12:

set designers

costume

makeup team

backstage staff

program

front of house staff

backstage staff

page 13:

photographs

page 14:

photographs

back cover:

pictures

Today I have learned how to take information from an old piece of work and edit it to make a new piece of work relevant to the topic. Also I have learned to carry out research appreciating the consiquences of my decisions and overall today I have been a good independent and self-manager today.

Annie Production october

Fist we had a meeting and discussed what we would be achieving today and our goals. We also heard what everyone else has achieved so far and how they did it. This was helpful to know what everyone else was doing in the diploma. (SM2)

Today I learned how to create and send out a memo to the school. ( It was about the cast photographs and reminding them to check the board for their photograph dates. After doing this, because I had achieved what I needed to do today, I helped Sian and Jaz by helping paint the bundles cart, which they had made. (TW3) Then I put up the new schedule for the photographs and a further memo.

I think that I have been a team-worker today because I asked questions to new people and learned new things. Also, today I worked by a deadline, if I did not send the memo out by 2:20 tutor groups would not get the memo and photographs would not have been able to take place on that day.

memo:

(Concerning all cast members in Annie)

Please can you check the board straight after school for photographs which are taking place throughout this week to be put in the program.

The photographs are VERY important!!!!!

If you miss these photographs you will NOT be included in the program!

Thanks,

Amber May and Kia Holliday

(production assistants)

Annie Production october

This is the timetable that Kia and i devised telling the cast members of Annie what time, when and where there photographs were going to be. I did this in Pages buy adding a table and then adding the relevant information.

I think that this timetable is a good example of teamwork because we made this together, Kia found the information to put in the table and I created the table. (TW3)

timetable:

Cast	Date	Time
Annie	Friday 16th	2.35-2.50
Named orphans
Other orphans
Warbucks, grace, Miss Hannigan, Rooster, Lily
Servants
Warbucks servants
Bundles, Apple seller, Lt ward, Eddie, Sophie, Usherette
Dog catcher, Dog catchers assistant
Man 1, 2, 3, 4 Woman 1, 2, 3, 4
Principle dancers
Hooverville
NYC dancers
The Cabinet
Bert Healy, Connie Boylan, Ronnie Boylan, Bonnie Boylan, announcers, sound effects man, Jimmy Johnson, Fred Mccrakin, Wacky
Chorus

Annie Production october

Firstly we had a group discussion (RL1) about the things we were doing and then gave each other feedback to help improve our work and things we could do to achieve the results we want. (TW2)

Today we drafted our letter to the junior schools asking them if they would like to come and see our production. For our fist draft we gave it Mrs Kent and she gave us feedback and positive criticism and also how we can improve the letter. (RL4) After this we then edited the letter, correcting all the notes that Mrs Kent gave us about the letter and generally improved the language and sentence structures to make it sound more professional and well thought out.

Also today we had visitors from different departments of the school coming in, assessing us and viewing what we have done so far. I showed a teacher what I was doing, my job role and the things I am learning and achieving during this module. (RL6)

Today I have been a reflective learner and a team-worker. I have also developed some new editing and english skills and learnt how to construct a formal letter to a different type of audience (a school) to invite them to the production.

Copy of Junior Schools letter:

Brookfield Community School and Language College

Brook Lane

Sarisbury Green

Southampton

S031 7DU

Date 02/12/2009

Dear Mr Andy Stockton

It is our pleasure to write to you to invite your students and their parents/carers to this years Brookfield production of Annie. Brookfield's productions are well received and attract large audiences. With a reputation for quality presentation and a good evenings entertainment enjoyed by every generation, so this is a very good opportunity not to be missed.

We are running our production from Wednesday 2nd to Friday 4th December at Brookfield.

Every year the production is really popular yet unfortunately there are always some members of the community who are unable to purchase tickets. We are aware of this and therefore to help the situation would be to sell some tickets at a reduced rate to students and parents from our local feeder schools.

We would like to ask if you could distribute and collect ticket returns for this performance which will take place for a younger audience on 1st December. This performance is ideal, as it will have an earlier start time of 6pm, that means that a younger audience can enjoy Annie with not too late a night. However we are not filling our hall to it’s full capacity as it will be the cast’s dress rehearsal so the tickets will be allocated on a first come first serve basis so don’t miss out!

If you have students and their parent/carers who are interested in coming to the dress rehearsal please distribute copies of the letter, which includes further details. This is a fantastic opportunity to watch a brilliant show which the students here at Brookfield School have been working so hard on, and we promise to make it an enjoyable experience. We believe your pupils would thoroughly enjoy viewing this performance, as it is fun and helping our local community.

Yours sincerely,

Kia Holliday and Amber Lightfoot

Year 10, Diploma Students (production assistants)

Annie Production october

Annie production:

Today I was writing a letter to show Mrs Kent about how we are going to achieve all of our goals and when we are going to complete them by. (SM2). We did this by planning what we were going to do on a calender which we had printed out.

Then we planned out how we are going to go about organizing everything. Some things had to me done immediately and some things had to be done nearer the production date.

We had to prioritize the different tasks (EP2). After doing this we started on the business letter to local business's asking them if they want to advertise in Annie's program. Then we sent this to Mrs Kent to be edited. We prioritised this letter because we had to give the businesses a chance to think and respond to our letter. (SM3)

After this we then drafted a letter for the dress rehearsal performance, this had to be done by the 16th October. This also was sent to Mrs Kent to be edited. We did this in pages and made sure that all relevant information was included and was correct for Mrs Kent to overview and edit.

Copy Of my letter to Mrs Kent:

Dear Mrs Kent,

Our plans for the production jobs for the forthcoming weeks regarding contacting local businesses and school sorting out the FOH is as follows:

We are now drafting the letter(which will be emailed to you by 9th October) that will be distributed to local businesses regarding advertising space in the program for annie. We will go about this by approaching businesses and handing out the letter accordingly or sending it to them.

We have spoken to Ed Gent(student photographer) and arranged a meeting for next monday where we can discuss with him how we are going to go about arranging different cast members and taking there photograph for the program.

If its ok with you once we have organized different dates for the photos (and they not disrupt any other rehearsals) we could give you a time table that you could put up next to the rehearsal schedule for that week that way people can see it which saves giving tutors messages to the students involved. we will try and finish all the photos by 31st october as we do not want to do loads of people in one week.

We are also going to draft the letter which will be posted to the local primary schools. We are going to post this letter to as many primary schools as possible and see who is interested and can participate an then take a certain number from each school who is interested. this will have to be done by the 16th so we will work on this draft week beginning monday 12th.

When you come in for the hour to talk to us we will have planed the seating plan drafts and present them to you which you can then give us some constructive criticism and feedback to improve it and discuss it with us.

We will then need to talk to Miss Ross on wednesday 18th November to make sure that the primary schools have sent their letters saying they will be attending the production. After this has been done we will sort out the tickets and then will be returned either before or on November 27th.

Hopefully by the 23rd october we will be hearing back from the businesses and we then can work from there with the designers (Amy and Sophie) and then put them into the program where there is a space. Also the photo’s that we have been working on with Ed Gent will be finished and ready to give to Amy and Sophie (photographers) which they can then put into the program.

We will be going to sketch up plans for the foyer displays for the front of house. This needs to be done for the 13th November ( we are going to organize a meeting with you to discuss our ideas between 2nd and the 6th November if this is possible, if not what’s an appropriate time for you? ) For this part we need to go into the foyer and get and idea of the space we have and where everything will go using pictures in our drafts.

Annie Production 2nd december

This morning i organized everyone different job roles for the Annie foyer boards TW2. I did this by organizing Sophie and Sian to put up the paper on the display boards, Sophie W to create speech bubbles and Jazz and me chose the photos and organized and put them up. There are 4 boards all of them have photographs, headers and speech bubble quotes.

Then after doing this I edited my Quadrophenia Critique with Mr Coulson and changed it completlwy and re-wrote it RL4. (my critique is on another post) The photos which i have put up are of Annie rehearsals, cast members and our dress rehearsal.

After this we organized what we are going to do for our parents next Tuesday. We are sharing what we have achieved and done this term, I am showing my process portfolio and showing my work which I have completed. Also, by presenting it I am showing my presentation skills which I have achieved this term.

Lastly we all put up some more photos which i had organized, in the main hall for the production Annie, starting tonight.

Today I worked to a deadline with the foyer boards because they had to be done in 2hours and they were for tonight. By doing this I got my SM2

Quadrophenia Critique - december

Today we had a visiter from the other school doing diploma, Porchester. She is the leader of that school. Firstly we were discussing what we have been up to and the things we have dine so far in the module. After this we looked at out Quadrophenia critiques and started to re-drat them. i re-drafted mine twice after having feedback from Mr Coulson and our visiter. This really helped me improve my work and hopefully get a better mark for the critique. (RL5)

I have had some good criticism today which has helped develop my work and means I have am able to deal with setbacks, criticism and feedback. Furthermore I need to develop my skills in inviting feedback for more things - it will help me and make my work better.

Quadrophenia (tour)
Venue: Mayflower Theatre
Place: Southampton
Review Date: October 12th 2009
Rating:

Pete Townshend’s 1973‘s album, Quadrophenia has been adapted to be a Rock Opera and it is now on tour and at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton. With an energetic cast and a rocking live orchestra in the background, this theatre experience is memorable and a must see show!

As The Who was before my time I wondered what the show would entail, furthermore as this show is classed as a rock opera I was expecting it to be a classical musical score with a rock twist portraying a story for two and a half hours. It was much, much more!

The story follows the life of a young man Jimmy, a London Mod (fashion and music obsessed, working class yobs), trying to find himself. This is portrayed by four actors showing the different aspects of Jimmy’s personalities, the romantic, the lunatic, the hard man and the hypocrite. In some songs throughout the story it is often hard to understand which one of the split personalities is being portrayed and some of the action and suspense is lost.

The story continues by following Jimmy, his friends and arch rivals The Rockers ( wear black leather and listen to classic Rock ’n’ Roll) to brighton. With a continuous series of powerful and moving songs portraying the continuous battle between the two gangs. Additionally after Jimmy looses the girl he has lusted over for so long he returns home and his life falls apart. The way the songs are staged by the actors moves the audience with songs such as “Love Reign O’er Me” leaving chills down your spine.

With a moving centre stage which is used to portray the chaos in the story and it is used effectively by the actors and the brilliant scenery is relevant and effective in all scenes, moreover it all adds to the atmosphere built up throughout the performances. The costumes were funky and relevant to this era, they also gave the audience an idea of the difference between the two groups. Furthermore I really enjoyed the dances which accompanied the songs, the choreography was ablaze and satisfying.

However, the opera sometimes overpowered the singers on stage and the story plot sometimes got confusing when scenes changed abruptly. Despite this I feel it was a positive experience and this show would appeal to any of the one who has experienced this era of time and wants to relive it for a night. It also appeals to a younger audience that likes rock music and action theatre, like myself who found it enjoyable and a really super theatre performance.