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Monday 19th March 

Introduction to multimedia 

We watched 3 videos 

1. Exploring Multimedia production

2. Devising a multimedia production 

3. Acting in a multimedia Production

This lesson we looked at a few clips that told us the meaning and background of Multimedia. I found out quite a few things. Here are some of them: 

1.

A lot of different angles are used to film 

Many of the actors play different parts, they also help out with moving props and lights

Its quite frantic and busy on set because there are lights and cameras everywhere

paragraphs from a text are picked out due to how much they can fit multimedia into it 

they consider it as the science of new construction which makes it more exciting

you can create what you want with lighting, microphones,cameras, angles and projection 

Sometimes it can be boring to look at a piece of texting and creating what you see in real life action using just voice and movement 

2.

Convert paragraphs into a storyboard to create a piece 

80% visual images were structured by actors 

picking out parts and putting them together 

structure means it works together 

3.

shared roles mean everyone works equally and everyone can be proud of the piece they finish with 

builds up emotion so they have an idea of how the audience will react 

 Thursday 23rd march

We did a neutral 10 minute warm up to get focused and ready for the lesson 

We got into little groups we used phones to open up the first few chorus lines 

I worked with Jake, Rory and logan  

We 

-shined torches 

-ring tones

-sounds

-voice notes

-videos

-image 

-light 

-sounds

What i learned: 

It is interesting to use technology in a different way and effect the reader using simple movement. 

There are many ways to use a phone and videos 

We then reflected on each others pieces, we then divided into two groups 

class 1-

- we looked at the different emotions shown when you use the camera unclose or faraway 

- have a video being filmed not in the room the audience are in, shown through projection 

- audience reactions 

- conversation through a screen 

- modern phone calls

- i had an idea of two people having a hushed conversation faraway yet microphone so audience can hear through earphones or speakers this will create a sense of mystery and questioning  

Next we moved onto looking at how garage band could be used and how using our own created music could help and work well with our pieces. After this we were put into groups to create a piece of physical theatre using sounds and our phones. 


1st exercised using movement 
we went into chorus 
we used one line and changed it into movement 
2nd We chose a modern scene , we talked about the difference and why they did this and the language used 

-we then neutralised so we can take ourselves out of character we then imagined we were in a dark cave 
-felt peaceful which let me focus and reflect on how far Antigone has come and what she would feel 
*anger * desperate * loneliness * upset * helpless * trapped 
- We then looked at the relationship between Antigone and Creon