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.