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actf was exciting. for those of you who don't know, actf is the american college theater festival, and i went with other theater students from our school to support some of our irene ryan candidates, and for the rest of the crap that goes on on such an adventure. it was held in pittsburgh, pennsylvania this year, and will probably be there next year as well.
looking at the displays for the dtm (design, technical, and management) exhibit pumped me up for gathering images and research for my set design for the hfs effect, julia's thesis production. the overall setting is a post-apocalyptic house. the style of furniture i've chosen is the kind of pieces you'd find in the home of a rather wealthy person. beautiful pieces of furniture that is going to be destroyed by burning and breaking or tearing them up to be used as scenery and seating... both on stage and off. pieces collected for the audience are not going to be too destroyed, just made to look distressed so that the seating is safe. this means we'll be replacing the ordinary black chairs in the rifle range theater used for all other shows.
he hfs effect is conceived based on the inner demons everyone has. the deepest, darkest, most secretive part of your soul is one of the few common denominators that lies within all of us as a species. the style of furniture chosen reflects this by creating a juxtaposition; beautiful pieces of furniture made to look ugly after being destroyed and weathered.
back to actf however! thomas and i found this light box used for scale models that you can arrange a miniature light plot in and light it up for an even more professional display. i want one for myself, but they're expensive. the school could get one for the use of all students, but there are not enough scenic design students and the odds of me alone being able to pull enough strings to get one for the department are slim to none... at least not in enough time for the actf julia's thesis will be going to, 2009. well.. perhaps.
i'm disappointed in myself for being foolish enough to skip the few workshops i wanted to attend (a design concepts class for kicks, a 3-part workshop on dramaturgy, a puppetry class, an applied theater class-street theater, creating blood and gore on stage, and color pigment under different color lights) however i did attend three shows and a series of 10-minute play readings aside from other random things like the irene ryan scenes, and a few little things held by the festival. i really REALLY wanted to see this one work done by a school for the deaf. it was a movement piece and silent the whole time. unfortunately, they ran out of tickets before i could get one. everyone raved about it, at the end everyone gave a standing ovation - in sign language. the school was one of two chosen for consideration to go to the national festival. i hope they get to go.
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i've already began to collect images of furniture styles i'm interested for my set design. i need to collect the necessary materials for a model so i can build a model of the rifle range theater. i also need to start compiling a serious list of what i'm going to need for my design. tomorrow i'm going to go to the library and get some books with furniture, perhaps make a run to the sunrise mall to look at the waldenbooks with my $100 gift card to a westfield mall. i'm also going to go collect paint chips from the paint store to compile a color pallet. i'll be posting sketches, collages, research, and conceptual statements in the future. now it's time for a salad.
farewell
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