Maddie's IB SL Theater Blog

There are a lot of areas for growth next semester for our project. We need to improve on advancing the plot, making the plot clearer, and developing lighting as well as sound. Our group also needs to work on finding an ending to the story because so far we don’t know how we are going to conclude it. We have been exploring several options but we need to pick which one fits our story the best. For lighting we have written out what we want to happen but we still need to program the cues and figure out how we are going to do some of the on stage lighting that we want. We still need to write the scene where the dream Ellie is talking about her relationship with her sister. This is my monologue and I need to make sure that it isn’t repetitive, and that it is natural. Also, we need to make sure that it is clear to the audience that I am Helena's subconscious/dream self. We can do this by having us wear the exact same thing, but we think that we need something else to make it clear that ...

In the beginning of this process my group, me, Caroline, and Helena started by doing different exercises to explore our stimulus. Our stimulus was the song “Just a Dream” by Carrie Underwood. This song is about a newlywed couple starting their life together. The husband eventually decides to go into the military and leaves the wife alone. He dies in combat and the wife is now a widow. After we decided on the stimulus we did improv exercises to explore possible topics as well as a lighting exercise. After we did this we wrote a general outline of the major plot points that we want to hit during our performance. We have also outlined what lighting we want to try for each scene. This week we wrote the script for out first scene and rehearsed it three times. Each time we tried to make sure there were changes in emotion at certain crucial points. We also changed the placement of props and set pieces to make the scene more natural. My contribution was helping to write the script and light...