Notebook Week 4

Chapter 5, Lesson 1

• The lines that an actor speaks must be heard clearly. Every word must be understood by cast members and the audience.

• The voice is the foundation for the actors work.

• A voice that is used effectively conveys a wide range of emotions and reflects a person’s personality, moods, and attitudes.
• A well trained actor with an effective voice knows the importance of the following ten elements.
  relaxation, breathing, quality, pitch, flexibility, articulation, pronunciation, volume, rate, and projection.
  List 5 things you like about your voice. List 5 things you don’t like about your voice.  
• Relaxation - freedom from all bodily tensions. It gives the actor a deeper level of awareness and provides the energy needed for the stage.
  being relaxed means that you shut out any wandering thoughts about yourself or others. 
• being relaxed will give you physical and mental control and focus onstage, which in turn will help you achieve your theatrical goals.
  These will also improve your Posture - how we sit and stand.
  It will also improve the sound of your voice and make your movement smoother onstage. 

Chapter 5, Lesson 2

• Quality - is the voice element that makes you sound different from everyone else.

• People can recognize you from the unique sound of your voice.

• Some examples of poor quality voice are huskiness, nasality, and a thin, weak quality
• People can tell is you are happy or angry, depending on whether your voice is pleasant or unpleasant. 
• Even when you are not aware of it, your voice quality reflects your personality and mood. As an actor, you will need to use a variety of voice qualities to interpret and portray different characters.
• Pitch - is the musical tone of your voice - how high or how low you speak on a musical scale. 
• Pitch is determined by the vibration of your vocal folds, muscular membranes located in the larynx, or what id often called the “voice box” 
• the faster the folds vibrate, the lower the pitch. 
• if you loose your voice after hours of yelling this is a result of strained vocal muscles.
• You can find your pitch by matching your voice against the scales of a piano.
  two common flaws onstage are a thin, high tone and a monotone. A high, thin pitch can be corrected with concentration and a conscious effort to lower your speaking tone.
  A person who speaks in a monotone tone (speaking without a change in pitch) needs inflection - the rising and falling of pitch. 
• You will be able to keep the members of an audience on the edge of their seats if you vary your pitch and exhibit flexibility. 
• Flexibility - is the result of using the muscles in your face, tongue, jaw, lips and throat in a lively manner. 
• Vocal flexibility is used in a number of ways. Using variety in the sounds of words; placing emphasis, or stress, on certain syllables words, or groups of words in an unexpected way.

Jr. Thespian District Results!!

Ramblewood represented our school very well this weekend at the Jr. Thespian District competition!

We had 19 pieces perform and the students worked very hard on all of them.

Here are the results for the top honors of the day.....

We received the highest rating of "Best In Show" for Carmen Bulthuis singing Gimme Gimme from Thoroughly Modern Millie . (This is a HUGE honor for Ramblewood. This means that out of all of the other acts that performed in Carmens room they picked her solo as the best one of the day!)

Superior Ratings

1. Jarvis Floyd - Solo Musical Theater - Corner of the Sky - Pippin

2. Alex Montesino - Solo Musical Theater - I Want To Go to Hollywood - The Grand Hotel

3. Carmen Bulthuis - Solo Musical Theater - Gimme Gimme - Thoroughly Modern Millie

4. Alex Montesino and Savannah Sarwar - Duet Acting - Anna/August

Excellent Ratings

1. Jennifer Defrietas - Solo Musical Theater - Pulled - The Adams Family

2. Julie Berman - Solo Musical Theater - How Lovely to Be A Woman - Bye Bye Birdie

3. Jessica O'donnell - Monologue - Cinema Limbo

4. Linzie Cullen and Julia Sqires - Duet Acting - God from Parallel Lives

Also our one act production of "Seussification of Romeo and Juliet" received an Excellent rating as well.

And our tech for our one act production received a Superior Rating!!

The Students involved in that production were

1. Daniel Agmon

2. Julie Berman

3. Jensen Bury

4. Jennifer DeFreitas

5. Christina Gilg

6. Jordan Gonzalez

7. Ashleigh Henderson

8. Darrell Lewis

9. Shelby Martin

10. Alex Montesino

11. Jennifer Nixon

12. Jessica O'donnell

13. Jordan Poliard

14. Ambar Ramirez

15. Stacey Reyes

16. Johanna Sapicas

17. Savannah Sarwar

18. Rachael Skinner

19. Laila Subeih

20. Sunshine Tellefsen

GO TROUPE 88655!!!!

DRAMA CLUB ONE ACT!!

Please join us on Tuesday at 7:00 in the RMS cafeteria for the first performance of the year it is going to be amazing!!!

Drama 1 Notebook Update

Drama 1 Notebook Update

Chapter 4 Vocabulary

1. Creative Drama is an improvisational form of theatre in which participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact, and reflect on human experiences.

2. Formal Drama - focuses on a performance in front of an audience as the important final product. 

3. Improvisational - non scripted and spontaneous.

4. Replaying - is acting out the story or activity again using the changes discussed. It allows participants to expand on their ideas. Replaying can occur immediately or can occur at another time.



5. side-coaching - a method by which the leader talks you though an activity by making suggestions or giving you ideas.

6. Leader(or teacher) playing in role - a leader (or teacher) who actively participates in the creative drama process by playing one of the characters.

Chapter 4 - Lesson 2
Narrative Pantomime

7. Narrative Pantomime - a creative drama activity in which a leader reads a piece of literature while the entire class plays the action in unison without words.

8. In Unison - at the same time

9. Interpret - is to act out meaning of a selection and understand it in a unique way.

10. Literary Merit - the quality of a story that gives readers and actors a deeper understanding about the human condition and human spirit just through experiencing the story. Usually, the story’s protagonist must face a triumph over internal and external obstacles.

11. Protagonist - the major character in the story. The protagonist must face triumph over internal and external obstacles.

12. Conflict - the problem or obstacle.

13. internal characteristics - inner, personal qualities, invisible to the human eye.

14. external characteristics - qualities relating to a character’s outwardly visible traits.


Week 14

Do Now - What is your favorite Childhood Story

Tongue Twister - There's no need to light a night light on a light night like tonight. On a light night like tonight for a nights lights lights a slight light, and tonights a night that light.

11/07/11

Drama 1:

Do Now - New Tongue Twisters

1. Selfish Shellfish
2. Rush the washing, Rusell!
3. Red Leather, Yellow Leather
4. pre-shrunk silk skirts
5. good blood, bad blood

Create a team name!

ADV Drama - Your 2nd assignment for districts is due. Also we will go to the mac lab today and research your shows.

Strategies - SSR - then brain teaser

ATTENTION DRAMA CLUB MEMBERS!!!

There is a Booster Mtg. for your parents tonight at Sir Pizza in the walk at 7:00. Tell your parents to come and help out the drama club!

11/03/11

Drama 1: NOTEBOOK CHECK FOR A GRADE TOMORROW

Do Now- "What is your favorite murder mystery show?"

Slides from Act 1 of Curtains. - MUST be in your notebook and MUST study for your exam tomorrow.

•Time 1959

•At the beginning of the play it is opening night of “Robbin’ Hood!, “A new musical of the Old West.

•Jessica Cranshaw enters. She is the star of the musical and she can’t act, sing, or dance.

•After opening night she collapses on stage and no one knows why. 

 •We see four people reading the reviews from the show the night before.

•Composer – Aaron Fox,

•Lyricist – Georgia Hendricks

• ( they were married, but they got a divorce )

•Banker – Oscar Shapiro

•Producer – Carmen Bernstien

•When the director – Christopher Belling – enters he has a new plan to make Georgia Hendricks the new star of the show. Georgia has recently started a romance with the leading man of the show Bobby Pepper.

 •The director reveals his masterful plan…as long as Jessica Cranshaw is indisposed, her part should be filled by Georgia.

 •Everyone agrees, except for her ex-husband Aaron.

•BUT the news arrives that Jessica Cranshaw has died at the hospital and the cast has an impromptu funeral service for her.

•This is interrupted by the arrival of Homicide Lieutenant Frank Cioffi, who thinks the show is terrific.

•The cast reveals that they don’t want to go on and Carmen and Frank must remind them that they are in fact, “SHOW PEOPLE”

 •Lieutenant Frank reveals that no one can leave for the night because it appears that Jessica Cranshaw has been Murdered. SO the cast has been trapped inside the theater until they can find out who done it….

•She has swallowed a poison pellet during the show so someone in the show had to murder her.

 •Sidney Burnstien, the show’s senior producer, arrives from New York where he claims to have been at the time of the murder.

•Niki Harris, who was Jessicas understudy, starts a budding romance with Lieutenant Frank.

•They both realize that they are in love with there jobs more then they should be.

•The next day Georgia is struggling to regain her show biz sea legs, And they invite Daryl Grady to pay them a visit – he was a theater critic who did not like Robbin’ Hood the first time he saw it.

•The director Chris Belling tries to rehearse a very difficult number called, “In The Same Boat.” But realizes that the problem might be the show itself.

•So Aaron Fox, the composer, goes back alone without Georgia to write a new song for the show.

 •During the number, “I miss the music” Lieutenant Cioffi makes an unexpected confession.

•Georiga does a number called, “Thataway!” Which is amazing and no one doubts that she can carry the show.

•As the first act ends a key member of the company is forced to face The Big Blackout.

ADV Drama - District research. You will get a packet tomorrow with everything that you need to do.

Strategies - Guest Teacher

11/02/11

Drama 1: Continue to copy notes from Curtains/ Watch

ADV Drama: Introduce district piece unit

Stratigies : Guest teacher


Drama 1 notebook:

Copy down D.R.A.M.A policy

D=demand your greatest potential
R=respect yourself and others
A=aim to reach your goals
M=make mistakes
A=aim to reach your goals

11/01/11

Drama 1 : We started copying the notes for Curtains the Musical. We are watching JP Taravella's Production this week.

ADV DRAMA: Registration for District Pieces

Strategies: 20 min. silent reading, Sudoku Puzzle

Drama 1 notebook

Week 10/31/11

Tongue Twisters
1. Six short slow shepards
2. truly rural
3.the blue bird blinks
4.crips crunch crackle crunchily
5.betty better butter brads beard

Curtains the musical
1. Curtains is a musical with a book by Rupert Holmes, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, with additional lyrics by Kander and Holmes

Debuted in April 2003. and  on Broadway 2006.

Original Broadway principal cast

• Lt. Frank Cioffi
• Carmen Bernstein
• Georgia Hendricks
• Aaron Fox
• Bobby Pepper
• Niki Harris
• Christopher Belling
• Bambi Bernét
• Johnny Harmon
• Daryl Grady
• Oscar Shapiro
• Sidney Bernstein

Drama Club Meeting

Notes from the Drama Club Meeting today Tuesday October 25th !!!

Drama Club Membership forms are due by November 1st. It must be complete to be accepted. If you need a form it is blue and can be picked up in the Drama Room (194).

CONTEST FOR SHOW POSTER

Are you interested in drawing or creating? Drama club is having a contest for the design of the show flyer. The contest is over on NOV. 1st as well. You must turn in an 8 by 11 standard size paper and the poster MUST include....
        + Ramblewood Middle School Drama Club Presents....
        + Show name: Suessification of Romeo and Juliet
        + Author: Peter Bloedel
        + Show date: November 29th @ 7:00 at RMS in the cafe
        + Tickets can be bought at the door for 3 dollars.
Other then that. Be as creative as you want to!! this will be made into the poster and appear on the front of the program. Winner gets a free ticket to the show! And the pride of seeing there design posted all over the school.

Drama Club Officers Announced!!!!

President..............................Alex Montesino

Vice President.....................Daniel Agmon

Secretary........,....................Lauryn Braithwaite

Historian.............................Nicole Shikora

Officer in Training..............Julie Berman 

Also..if you want to sign up for a tech spot for the one act please let me know in class or email me at rmsdrama88655@gmail.com 

Any questions? Email rmsdrama88655@gmail.com

ALSO remember to friend us on facebook.

Hello Drama Members

Reminders for this week....

Drama 1 - Notebooks MONDAY! This is the biggest grade of the quarter so far. If you do not show me a notebook by Thursday it will be a zero.

ADV Drama- District titles due on WEDNESDAY!!! No late titles accepted.

Study Skills - Find an AR book to read for the second quarter.

DRAMA CLUB

- Important meeting tomorrow. You must attend this meeting if you want to remain a drama club member. Further details about the meeting will be posted tomorrow.

ANY QUESTIONS???? Email rmsdrama88655@gmail.com or friend request us on facebook at Rms drama. THANKS!