Unit 7 - Prepare for Specialist Study

Macbeth

Research

Macbeth is written by William Shakespeare. Macbeth is a tragedy about a brave Scottish general soldier named Macbeth, who recieves a propchey from a trio of witches that will one day he will become King of Scotland. 

 This  photo shows my colleague Sephora here was working on the sound desk for Level 3 Year 1 Macbeth performance and I was admired about how much she loved using the sound desk and I think when we have access to the theatre she should use the sound desk more and use of live sound as she more experience with her sound background. Also she participated in White light work experience which gave her more skills as well and she pushes herself to work on sound desk and she wants to work in live sound for companies and events in the future.

This photo shows me, using the lighting for the Level 3 Year 1 Macbeth performance. As using the lighting desk throughout the performance I learnt alongside with my partner Diogo that helped me and it was first using the lighting desk. And there was mistakes that I created but it was barely noticed by the audiences but I still carried on instead because mistakes happen as it was first time using the lighting desk. I learnt how to fix a quick error during the show by selecting one of the lights then add it to the cue, for example putting all the general wash lights up.

DisneyLand Paris

Throughout, the time spent in disneyland paris I learnt a lot of with my knowledge as they performance the events and shows. And I was so amazed with works the disney team put together to create such a magical time. Therefore, I was considering for my future to work in disneyland paris because I love creating shows come to life and becoming amazed with my work because it shows that the event was enjoyable and memorial. And I have a very goofy side which will be beneficial as I will know what the families and children will enjoy.

This video shows one of the nights I spent in disneyland paris and I saw the fireworks, the fireworks was so spectualr but other than that the reason I was so amazed by the work because the lighting projecter they used to create the disney characters and being on the time must've of been a lot practise to create something magical. Also while the fireworks would fire up, the disney team will then use the music and lighting projector to create the disney dream you have ever dreamed of. 

This video shows the parade that was occured during the afternoon. The video that I captured was the costumes that the disney team designed was so fascinating because I have seen good costume but these costume seems so back to your childhood memory lane and it matched the same as the disney extra characters as well and the design inerested me a lot as it also related the Royal Opera House that I was working on for my costume and these costumes that were created was brought into life.

This video is one of highlights of my trip. The reason why because the parade was really amazing but besides that I loved how the float of the dragon breathed out fire and that took my breath away because I have never seen something like that ever. That really interested me into props within making things as shown on the video and the contrast of the floats, for example some of the characters were in a similar these so they would be put into the same float but split into half. What is shown as well, as the dragon heads goes up the on dragon breathes out fire but I guess that is safety. 

Evaluation

After the summer holidays, I have a decision to either stay for another year or choose to university. But my teacher gave me advice to stay for another year to enter into better universities and entitle to more skills too. In this course, I mostly interest myself in lighting desk and I believe I need to use the lighting desk more and push myself into using it more when I have access into the gallery room and I shouldn't let colleague not allowing to use it when I have rights to use it; most importantly putting myself out there. However, I do want to participate doing work experience so where I occur to do my work experience I will be able to learn more and entitle more into my skills which is a bonus and I would like work with BBC, White Light or National Theater which are ambitions that I want to achieve next year. Therefore I also have an interest in costume, mostly fashion which is in the same category but the reason costume interests me because I love create costumes and creating costumes come to life and being able to put my idea out there. And I would like to learn more about costumes and have lessons about what costumes is suitable for performers while they performance or interview performers. Next year, I shall push myself to also experience other roles such as stage management and using the sound desk which I have not done yet and I would like to use my time in the gallery to able to do this and being able to learn with colleagues and being able to become more of a team work mostly. 

My Teacher's Review: My teacher believes that I should stay for another year to do Level 3 Year 2 Extended Diploma Production Arts. The only reason because this will help beneficially as I would  like to study at great university to study  Film and TV Production as this is the path that I am taking for my future. And for my Year 2 Level 3 Extended Diploma Production Arts will give me more incredible things to learn also I could do work experience which will definitely help to get connection in future also more there'll be conferences that could also be useful for the future that I'll be heading towards.

Technical Theatre Certificate

Welcome to Technical Theatre CertificateThe Gio Console Programming

Thoroughly, I learnt how to record the lighting installation onto the Gio Console programme. Step by step: 1. You will select one of Fresenls, Profiles, Flood Battens, Parcans, LED’s or Moving lights but the Fresenls is the most common used lanterns in lighting so starting off I selected the Fresenls 85,86,88 and 89 all in a row. Then used the ‘Fader Page Control’ to rise the lights up then I would record what I created onto the cue after used the ‘Fader Page Control’ again and scrolled the lights down to create a blackout to add onto my cue. Personally, I think it was easy and quick to learn because it’s all simple if you are interested in the area of the production team. However, coming to technical theatre alongside working with the performing arts department with other students, we were assigned to work with other students then teaching them how to use the Gio Console to recreate ‘Relight My Fire’ song by Take that ft Lulu. Moreover, there was a session that we watched the music video of ‘Relight My Fire’ to get an idea, in order to fresh our brains to create a vibrant vibe for our light installation to present to my peers. I taught and explained to my partner how to use the Gio Console as every single of the other performing arts students had to learn to get used to using the Gio Console in the future. And I taught my partner how to record the light installation onto the cute then managaing the file so the file doesn’t get lost but the main objective was recording, adding onto the cues and being able to editing when the file is saved. On the other hand, I was handed a Gio Console Programme booklet which has helped along for the use of working in the gallery on the Gio Console and the booklet is very helpful and very much in depth if you are a production student or trying to learn about the Gio Console.

Eos/Gio Programming Level 1: Essentials Booklet: https://www.etcconnect.com/uploadedFiles/Main_Site/Documents/Public/Video_Tutorial/EosGio_L1_Workbook_v2.3.0_revA.pdf

This is a Par cans light which acts like flood batterns, but without the intensity of light that a flood batterns provides. These lights are most commonly used for concerts but this depends where the need for lighting is to flood battern area, alongside providng more selected areas of lighting. However, I taught how to uninstall the par cans lights alongside with my partner Kieran and together we learnt how to uninstall and install the par can in a safe way possible. In order to uninstall the par cans is depress the two adjacent spring leaves on the left and right accessory holders and gently remove the lens retaining- ring out of the lighting texture. Then installing the par can is to place the lens retaining ring on a flat surface with three copper clips facing upwards. The lens is placed with the concave side upwards and once these are placed correctly, slide the lens under one of the copper clips then carefully depress the two other clips simultaneously with your thumbs just so the lens seats onto the retainer. These were beneficial as I will be working in the gallery and theatre more often and I needed to know this otherwise I could injure those around me if placed incorrectly or not having a clue and that’s why it’s important that I should learning and understand how to work with the par cans and other theatre lights. Therefore, par cans and other theatre can be very dangerous as in dealing with par cans and other theatre in the future, for example changing lens for shows, concerts or performance these par cans have to be very secure in every possible before placing it in the ceiling.

Evaluation:


In addition, learning about the par can was beneficial as a production student but I also enjoyed working with other students outside my department was great getting along with them also them learning about the arts around of production which is great to learn about, the reason I chose this course because I am more behind the scenes type of student and I wanted to learn more about the production team do. Therefore, in the previous as I was studying UAL Performing Arts Level 2 I had some experience for performances such as marketing, poster making and set design which was my most favourite and drawn my intention towards production arts. And learning to work with par can and Gio Console was enjoyable as I will be doing this course for the rest of year and I will be developing my skills as going along. 




Lighting Installation:


Take that - Relight My Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Od45DjCA4

In this assignment we had to recreate the music video ‘Relight My Fire’ but using the lighting installation instead. Furthermore, I was assigned to work with Hesel and as me and Hesel were worked together we schemed through the music video ‘Relight My Fire’ and the music video showed very colourful and very bright colours alongside too retro so me and Hesel wanted to recreate the same as the music video. However, we discussed about what colour would seem very bright as the music video for our lighting installation and we chose to use the colours such as Green, Yellow, Red, and Blue as these colours are very colourful then mix these colours together throughout the song but as the chorus we would use the colour red as it says ‘Relight My Fire’. Moreover, as we are in the gallery room in the theatre we used the Gio Console Programe to create the lighting installation and alongside with Hesel I taught him how to use the Gio Console Programme so he would be able to use it as well. After we recorded our lighting installation, we saved our work onto a file to ensure that our work is safe and doesn’t get lost.


Evaluation:
In addition, the lighting installation a good experience to recreate a 90’s theme into exploring different colours in the lighting installation. However, this was beneficial for other students outside the theatre course which gave them an experience to understand and learn how to use the Gio Console Programme as a whole. But I believe that I wished that my partner would be attend the session so we would get more work don together but it was awesome working together as our ideas were great together and did not clash at all and it was nice way to understand his ideas a musician too.


Creating a Music Video:



This assignment we have to work in groups to create a music video and I was assigned to work with Adam and Diogo. We had session as where we had explore on youtube  for inspiration for our music video, me and Adam had similar inspirations such as; Michael Jackson, 80’s song and etc but we as a group decided to make our music video with a Christina Aguilera song. Moreover, the song is about heart break and love so we wanted to create a sentimental video, as Me and Diogo went to explore outside to find ideas to capture footage,  I captured footage of a building to show as looking up to the skyscraper and looking up as a disappointment of love to show frustration plus everyone glances up into the sky. Also Diogo captured video’s of me to show heart break that the character is fed up of love and has to let go of love.



  
This is the iMovie software that I have used previously for my YouTube videos or any videos in particular, therefore this is a video editing software which a allows you to import your digital video footage and the automatically separates the scenes into clips. iMovie is a easy software to use because there are multiple video about how to use iMovie but I think personally it's really practical because of the tools show you also as soon as you have iMovie on your device it shows you the steps on how to use iMovie which is really helpful indeed.




This is also another software called 'Adobe Premiere Pro'. This software is used very often with Media students and Film Studies students for their course. Therefore, Adobe Premiere Pro is also a video editing software but timeline-based. And with this software you have to purchase in order to use Adobe Premiere Pro.

However, we had to use this software called ‘iMovie’. As this software is to mostly videos or short film but there was also ‘Adobe Premiere Pro CC’ which is also another software also used to edit videos but unfortunately I couldn’t use it due to misunderstanding the software. Therefore I chose to use iMovie because I have experience with the software as I have edited videos before for my youtube channel. And with my skills I was able to create the music video with the footage that I held. Meanwhile, I was editing I chose a song called  ‘Medicine by Queen Naija’ which is a 21st Century song and this song is about lying, cheating also heartbreaking. The reason why I chose this song was because as I was exploring each song that would give an idea to create the music alongside to match the footage I held to have a meaning and the song I chose gave an idea and it also related to the footage I held. But I really could have been beneficial if I have taken more footage to create the music video that I want. I captured this image near Kings Cross. I  decided to capture the picture of the building because not of the likes of it but I wanted to created a moment where the girl looks like up the building and the sky to think what next? And some music videos have captures of building as an inspiration of Hall of Fame music video.  And this image the work I have been working on ‘iMovie’. Therefore, I decided to work by myself as I wasn’t much included in my group but the music I have been working on shows the footage that Diogo and I captured as we were exploring and with the footage I had I created the music video which was roughly great but I wished I captured more footage to create the music to my expectations that I wanted. However, for my first time creating a music video on ‘iMovie’ it was good as I would say per say but there could be some improvements as a Film Editor would agree with me too.

This music video I created with iMovie sofware on my phone device and selected a different song by Beyonce Ft Kendrick Lamar called 'Freedom' and the only reason for change of plans because my Mac computer stopped working and I had to work with Plan B and use different images and videos footage I have because the original images and videos were stuck on the computer, and I couldn't download the footage from iCloud. Personally, this music videos different type of of colour texture that I used e.g. Black and white and I also used the speed intensity too, to match the pace of  the music video as well to have an affect with the music which is what I want preferably wanted. This music is what I created on my own and I believe the first video that I created was much better than this one but however I will improve next time.

Evaluation:

Moreover, I believe that I should have been more a participant with my group as we did not discussed as much together, therefore Diogo informed what was happening within our group such as the song and the footage captured by Adam and Diogo. Along with my group we did discuss some similarities of our ideas. Another time, that I am assigned into a project similar to this assignment with any other of my peers, I shall be more open minded and definitely share my ideas more because this would be great for the group as whole rather be than working by myself but independent is good but this was a group project and I should have involved myself more. I will take note into accountable for my future preferences as this will help me beneficially.

Unit 5 and Unit 6

Unit 5 - The Royal Opera House Challenge

The Royal Opera House was founded in 1946, located in Covent Garden. Alongside with the English National Opera. The Royal Opera House has associated with a dance company called 'Royal Ballet'.

        

Inside of The Royal Opera House                                     Outside of The Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House: What Do You See?                                              

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBh_1RvIF68

This video shows you what you really see; the hard working behind the scene, the ballet rehearsals and the orchestra band because they bring the performance back to live for the audience give them the ultimate experience.

History of The Royal Opera House:

The Royal Opera House, the original construction was in 1732. The first shown ballet within The Royal Ballet was presented in 1734. Then, 1735 the first season of opera's began by Handel's work. The Royal Opera House was burned down, lost all valuable items, the new building opened in 1858.In 1860's, until the Second World War the opera at the Royal Opera House sung in the original language, with star singers and conductors. The Royal Opera House was leased by it owners, Covent Garden properties Ltd to Mecca Ballrooms who used it profitably as a dance hall during the war. The owners approached the music publishers Boosey and Hawkes, towards the end of the war figured if they were interested taking possession of the building's lease, staging opera and ballet. However, Boosey and Hawkes took possession over the lease, and granted a sub-lease at liberal terms to a charitable trust established to run the operation. Lord Keynes, the chairman of trust. After the war, between 1910 and 1939 Sir Thomas Beecham presented many seasons opera.

Romeo and Juliet

Background:

The play was written by William Shakespeare in 1597. The genres contain tragedy, musical theatre and romance. Romeo and Juliet is a translated Italian tale version of The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562, and in 1567 William Painter retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure. Romeo and Juliet has been around for centuries and adapted for stage, film, musical and opera venues numerous times.

Week 1:

These post-stick notes shown on the image are each information about Romeo and Juliet. As a group each one of us had to write about what we knew about Romeo and Juliet. In addition, being more creative we were told to write down emotions to describe the Romeo and Juliet also partially the family feud e.g. young lovers Romeo and Juliet, Capulet's and Montague's hatred towards each other. This post-stick was to brainstorm and have a more in depth ideas of Romeo and Juliet before setting our jobs into set stage, hair and makeup or costume for the competition.                                               

 

This second image shows on the left side are my drawings that I drew. We were told to look through each magazines given to me and colleagues then draw what images mostly stood out and the reason we did this because this was another brainstorming ideas for The Royal Opera House as we are entered in the challenge for Romeo and Juliet facial expressions, paintings, and objects. My drawings show makeup essentials, a mountain with a curtain going across, an ancient clock from Liverpool Street, and a face statute. Each of my drawings have different meanings. 

• Firstly, the makeup essentials show beauty as a female should always represent herself very neatly and this relates to Juliet because she's part of a upper class family, she should always present herself. The drawings shows perfume, lipstick, purse and etc.
• Secondly, I drew a mountain with a curtain going across and I chose this image from the magazine because it express forbidden love and hidden love for Romeo and Juliet as they are forbidden to see each other since their both families are apart of the family feud. 
• Thirdly, the ancient clock from Liverpool street that I drew expresses that time precious and also useful for the set stage era for Romeo and Juliet. The reason the ancient clock expresses time is precious as the amount of times Romeo and Juliet sneak to see each other mischievously because of their family feuds they couldn't see each other as much and both couple die in the end which is devastating. 
• Finally, the incomplete statue I drew was meant be a screaming statue and as statue's cannot say nothing. This expresses that the both young couple are apart of the family feud and they are meant be enemies but the young couple fell in love which meant that they had to secretly hid their relationship and cannot show any emotions or interest in the open public otherwise the feud will worsen. 

In addition, the right side of the other page shows different types of fabrics that interests as individual 

Also on the right side of the page shows different type of fabrics that I've been scanning through different magazines for which fabric meant to me and what related to Romeo and Juliet also what stood out to me mostly so I could work with costumes with Romeo and Juliet if that was my area of work. Some of my fabrics represent each meaning such as the blue silk presents Romeo as it's more of a rich male colour e.g. blazer or shirt. There's a rose gold sparkly fabric to present a royalty party themed ball, an African print to present more of an ancient pattern more unique and different, mostly silk on my research because royalties have more silky fabrics and this presents their riches as well. I chose some dull colours to present the lower class people or servants because during those era they couldn't afford to wear riches or silk fabrics unless they were told too by the higher class people. Some of these fabrics have given me ideas for Romeo and Juliet more in depth for props and costume if I decide to work with costume or prop.

  

 This image shows the front of Juliet's outfit showing the top fabric going across each side as a scarf and the bottom half shows as fabric patterned skirt to show that Juliet's funeral outfit isn't just plain. Me and my partner wanted to portray Juliet as flowery girl.

 However our teacher gave us feedback, on how would the dancer "Juliet" move around with the skirt because the looks on the small mannequin is very tight if the dancer had to perform as she would be doing a lot of moving. So she told us to get a more suitable fabric for Juliet to move around. And the top half she said the fabric is fine but it shouldn't be a loose fabric or a tight fabric because once again the movement and it does make sense, as Juliet will be doing a lot of movements and she would be uncomfortable wearing loose or tight fabric. And my teacher explained to get fabric that's comfortable such as; silk, cotton, velvet and etc. And uncomfortable clothes are heavy layers, tight fabric, loose fabric and reasons why dancer can't wear because the difficulty the dancer would go through during the show and as a team of costume, we don't want any complications at all. Comfortable wear are light layers, silk, cotton and linen fabric and reasons why it's because the dancer would be able to move a lot around without any complications on stage.

 This week, we were assigned to design a costume for Romeo or Juliet but me and my partner Sephora decided to do Juliet as from a female interest it was easier to do. However this images shows the design on our model, this style represents as it's all black showing Juliet's funeral. 

Week 2

Hair And Makeup

Vision 2:

• Vibrant → Colourful
• Out of the box → Contrast → Engage with patterns → Bright colours in a dull environment
• Powerful
• Different 
• Cultural
• Blossom 

1. I want to prove that ballet is not an outdated art form. 
2. The director is always interested why Juliet's family may have objected to her chosen Love in a way young audience would understand
3. Where can the story be set? - Imagination, Anytime, century and era.

Research:

 Theme:                                                      

 Beauty of Love

Love/ Tragedy 

Happy 

Context:

Teenagers 

Forbidden Love

Death/ Courage 

Final visual for these keywords:

• To convey young audiences to understand
• Practicalities 
• Ballet 
• Dancing/Movement 
• Who are the main characters (emotionally, theory and stories)
• Why we use makeup on the stage 
• Difference between beauty makeup + stage 

Makeup

- What can makeup, wig and hair tell about the story.

e.g,. wealth, costume, gender, age, uniform, status, religion

Informal - Dance Theme 

Understanding the clients 

• Personal Response
• Artistic Response 

(Emotions) - Personal Response 

Heartache - Dark Inside - Dull Colours 

Materials 

Textures 

Colours - Artistic Response 

Weight 

4. Where do see this example today?

• Modern 
• Young audience's relate 
• Nowadays 

                      

5 designs for 5 characters: 

• Juliet
• Romeo 
• Mercutio 
• Nurse 
• Tybalt 

Romeo and Juliet:
All these notes below are evidence of my vision 2. However, my planning shows hair and makeup ideas that I have written down. Therefore, I will be researching and experimenting makeup on models for practise to improve my skills or to change any ideas.

• Create
• Making 
• Research 
• Progress
• Evaluate 

Romeo and Juliet Director's Vision:

Vision 2:

Romeo and Juliet is ultimately a story of young lovers. I want to create the production that is geared specifically focused on the audience of young teenagers of today. I want to prove that ballet is not an outdated art form, but one that is current and vibrant and a powerful medium for conveying twenty-first century dilemmas. Forbidden love is not common to young people today. I am interested in why Juliet's family may have objected to her chosen love in a way that young audiences today would understand. Where can this story be set? Why are these two families so determined to keep young lovers apart? Where do we see examples of this today and how can we depict that on stage so that young audiences will relate to it an immediate way?    

Juliet's Hair and Makeup (Mood Board):

Juliet's Hair and Makeup African Culture (Mood Board):

 

- Noted: All this images that I have captured are from Pinterest and I liked the contrast between light make up and then switched onto African theme and the reason why I did this because as my notes say I wanted to be creative and not simple so this will give me and idea what to recreate for Romeo and Juliet.

Change of Plans (Costume):

The image below shows my new planning for costume

• Briefly, I have changed from hair and makeup to costume instead. The reason I chose costume because I thought I could explore with different ideas and colours which interested me very much. However, I am still continuing with vision 2 but I preferred doing costume after and I understood more of vision 2 while doing costume instead as it was easier to could express more thoroughly through the costume that I will be creating.

This is my other planning. I want to express gender neutral through my costume and the character that I have chosen is Juliet. I haven't just chosen to express gender neutral but also alongside with African print costume and I want to show the director vision 2 as vibrant and powerful for conveying twenty-first century dilemmas. African print and gender neutral also shows forbidden love for young people today, as African Print expresses the beauty of love but gender expresses love and tragedy. I want the costume I am designing to denoting an expression that cannot be taken to refer to one gender only.

Gender Neutral Meaning:

• Suitable for applicable to, or common to both male and female genders. 

My mood board presents African print dresses of different type of designs and pattern e.g. Fishtail African print, African print maxi dress and etc. These ideas I have chosen for my mood board and I explored on Pinterest.

This imagine shows different type of African wax used on many dresses, such as; Dutch wax, Dashiki, Holland wax and much more. However I have explored the background of these type of African wax and there is meaning in every single African wax.

Types of African Prints:

Ankara

• Ankara isn't just the capital of Turkey. Ankara fabric is a popular fabric worn by many Africans 
• Ankara is also known as a African print or African wax.
• 100% cotton fabric with vibrant patterns
• Ankara is a colourful cloth and is primarily associated with Africa because of it's tribal-like pattern and motifs.

Kanga

  This image shows a female wearing Kanga.

• Kangas have been a traditional type of dress amongst women in East Africa since the 19th century. 
• The Kanga is  a colourful fabric similar to Kitenge, but lighter and worn by women and occasionally by men throughout the African Great Lakes region. 
• Kangas consist of three parts: The Pindo (Wide Border), The Mji (Central Motif), Ujumbe or Jina (The kiswahili) is featured on a strip which contains a message. 
• The earliest pattern of the Kanga was patterned with small dots or speckles. These looked like plumage of the guinea hen, also called 'Kanga' in Swahili. - (This is where the name came from contrary to the belief that it comes from a Swahili verb for to close.
• Kanga is used a dress, skirt, head wrap, apron, pot holder, towels and baby carries etc.

Kitenge

• Kitenge is an East African, West African and Central African fabric 
• Kitenge is often worn by women. This is used wrapped around the chest or waist, headscarf or etc
• Kitenges has become very popular as a fashion statement in urban pop culture in Africa. Such as; hoodies, trousers and accessories e.g. bags. 
• Kitenge (Plural 'Vitenge in Swahili and 'Zitenge' in Tonga)
• Countries that Kitenge worn is at: Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo

Dashiki

• The Dashiki is a colourful garment for women and men worn mostly in west Africa
• Dashiki has a formal and informal versions and varies from simple draped clothing to fully tailored suits
• It is frequently worn with a brimless kufi cap. Which is worn in Islamic communication in Africa
• The name 'Dashiki' is Yoruba adapted word from Hausa for 'Danshiki' or 'Dan ciki' means 'Inner Garment' in Hausa, as compared to 'Babban Rig' that is worn over 'Dan ciki' as the outer garment. 

This is my first sketch I drew of a dress that I found on pinterest and I am not much of  artist. Therefore, the sketch shows a short tutu dress, in a kind of a young princess dress and added flowers patterns as shown on the sketch. The dress embraces young love as Juliet is a young woman.

This is my second drawing that I drew from an idea that I also found on Pinterest but I will be recreating my own version. However as the dress shows the final sketch that I will be creating for the challenge. The sketch shows two pockets on the left and right but they are not pockets to be used but I have seen dresses that are similar to having pockets but not used pockets but for fashion. However, the flowing shows a fairly flow at the bottom to embrace beauty of love as it's flowing and spread everywhere. And there are designed petals on the dress which will be patterned on the dress, also the shaded part on the dress will be a different colour. 

Final Design:

This is my final piece for the Royal Opera House Challenge that I have designed. I created an African print dress but I didn't go with the gender but I still created a vibrant and powerful medium for conveying the twenty-first century. And this dress embraces and expresses young love relating to forbidden love from the director's vison and I believe many young audience would grab their tension towards the dress. This is a powerful dress for a young women especially Juliet as she is an upper class young lady expressing her love as a young love also showing that Juliet's family is objected by her love. However, I didn't go for my original plan; as I wanted to do makeup but I changed my mind towards creating a costume but it came with good results and I did not want to be different or cultured but embracing the power of love and beauty of love through the dress itself and I also didn't go with the gender neutral plan but I stuck with African print as I couldn't get attention off the colours and how vibrant it is. Throughout the Royal Opera House challenge, I learnt time management ad most importantly the expectation for the director's vision and the ballet casts. But I believe it was a great experience and opportunity to work but there was stressful moments and being under pressure but this helps for the future into the career world and it is very beneficial. And I hope in the future, there are challenge similar to the Royal Opera House. I believe with the next challenge or in the career world this experience will be useful and I will be skilled for it.

Unit 6 - Shakespear's Play

Firstly, me and my production team were working with the Level 3 Year 1 with their Macbeth show; we recreated their show with lighting, costume and soundtrack they wanted and we produced it for them. As I wasn't in to participate during the rehearsals because I was ill but I was still informed on what I had to do with my part of job which was lighting. And I also participated last minute of the rehearsals on the day alongside with Madelon, Adam and Diogo in the gallery but as the show came in the evening, I didn't get to do the job because Adam took over as he created the lighting cues and knew what he was doing. 

Onwards, came towards the last show and I also participated on the last and ran through rehearsals and alongside with great team work with Sephora on the sound desk and Diogo being stage management. I managed to redeem on the last show by taking over the lighting desk. There were a few mistakes that I have done twice but confidentially I still carried on.

Evaluation

At the end of day, I enjoyed participating with the Level 3 Macbeth's show and the thrill I had was exciting but also nervous racking because it was my first using the lighting desk for a show. In my opinion, I believed in myself that I done great because even though there was mistakes I still pulled through and continued without stopping myself. I believe I feel very comfortable in this position of using the lighting desk because I like to use the thrill of lighting and I want to learn also explore.  However, next time I should step up more and put myself out there and while I experienced being on the lighting desk for the first time I felt very good about using it but I did feel scared as I thought I will fail and create errors but most people make errors during shows but I will learn to improve when I have access to the theatre.