Production Meeting 3

Production Meeting 3

Unit 4 Drama

25/3/11

Production Management

· Budget will have to remain as an even split until all departments and agreed of a final costing before we can share it out

·        We do not have a portable silks frameit was hired.

·        I have emailed Neil regarding silk time in the theatre, he’s happy to do it but Jo Loader will have to agree a time and date? Potential dates are 20^th ,21^st, 22^nd April

·        Waiting to hear back from the brain observatoryHave heard back, we can use their videos just need to record the show and send them a copy of the show.

·        CBS news video – need to find out about the rights.

·        Is it possible to have a Q&A after the one of the afternoon shows?

·        Running times – maximum of 1 hour 15 mins.

·        Get in starts on the 26th

Stage Management

·    Have you attended rehearsals?Alicia (DSM) has attended rehearsals.

·    Anything to feedback from rehearsals?Worked off the students script from now on will be the directors script.

·    How’s search for props going?Very well, the hospital props are perfect. 3 stethoscopes needed. 

·    Has the ground plan gone down into rehearsals?Yes, as much as possible .

·    When do you think you will be able to complete the props list (date)

·    Have you compiled a list with props / set re; who’s getting what?Yes, Polly is going to take pictures of everything and make up a full props list.

·    Stage management need a rehearsal schedule.

·    The design for the bar is going well, the raised part will be made into a mine theatre, there will be a guest book and a way record comments (maybe in the Q&A?)

·    In the gift bags we could have comment cards/business cards with the blog on them.

·    Do we have a lectern? Maybe in the lecture room.

Lighting– Mike not present for meeting

·    Do you have any question for the directors?Any specific things? Just the silks.

·    Dates for& final design?Waiting for Mike.

·    Have you attended rehearsals?Yes – Spencer has.

·    Have you had a look at the ground plan?Yes – Spencer has.

·    Going to sit down with the set designer and go over the model box.

·    Projection? Maybe use the screens or televisions.

·    MEETING NEXT MONDAYLUNCHTIME ABOUT FLYING WITH PM/SET/LIGHTING/JO LOADER…

Sound

·    What was the outcome with your meeting with Vanessa?

·    Dates for final design ?

·    Are you able to attend rehearsals?

·    Have you researched the music discussed last meeting?

·    Have you had a look at the ground plan?

·    Will have a sound meeting with the director after this production meeting or tomorrow morning.

·    Zach is coming in the recording equipment tomorrow morning to record some performers. (10am).

·    Has an initial design, if anybody would like a copy please let Zach know. 

Set

·    Could we have the design in a4 please?Not needed anymore

·    How are the designs coming along?All the hung flats are built, window, screens, wallpaper, table, lecture table and sink unit basically done, just finishes need doing.

·    Are you flying anything?

·    Need to arrange a walk through with the director and performers, maybe tomorrow during ‘Swan’ morning.

Props

·    Could we have a date for when the props will be ready?

·    Will you be making or sourcing rehearsal props?

Costumes

·      Could we have a date for when the costumes will be ready?Trousers and lab coats ready for next Wednesday other costumes will be ready for production week.

·      Costumes are coming along well, all measurements have been taken.

·      Trouser fittings Friday if possible, performers have a schedule – it should take 15 mins per performer, two at a time.

AOB

·      Publicity – Spencer has sketched an initial design for the poster

·      Devon, Becca and Spencer will meet and liaise about the publicity 

Next Meeting 6th April 13:30 Production Room

Production Manager: Josh Attwood 07917654611

Assistant Production Manager: Ruby Cooper

Audience gifts

Should we give audience a gift?
A party bag, memento, gift box?
With memory related things in it like smells, a card with the blog address on it....
ANY IDEAS or THOUGHTS please comment

Obituary for Henry Molaison‏‏

An impact he could never appreciate Wednesday, December 3, 2008

 

From Suzanne Corkin (MIT):

"Henry G. Molaison, 82, of Windsor Locks, CT died on Tuesday. He is known in the medical and scientific literatures as "the amnesic patient, H.M." He was born in Manchester, CT and graduated from East Hartford High School. In 1953, he underwent an experimental brain operation at the Hartford Hospital to relieve his seizure disorder. Immediately after the operation, Mr. Molaison showed a profound amnesia, which became the topic of intense scientific study for more than five decades. From age 27 on, he was unable to establish new memories for events in his everyday life and to acquire general information about the world in which he lived. His memory impairment was "pure" and not accompanied by intellectual or personality disorders. For this reason, and because the operation has not been repeated, he is the most widely studied and famous case in the neuroscience literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. Mr. Molaison's contributions to knowledge about memory have been groundbreaking, and researchers worldwide are in his debt. Burial will be private.

Thinking about SOUND

• How can sound show the passing of time to help us tell the story of how suzanne actually spent nearly 40 years studying Henry?

• Shall we have  a recording of the soundtrack to the operation that scoville performed. it can start maybe realistic, with conversations on top, then get a little more expressionistic.

• Shall we record a lot of the dialogue so that it can dress the movement sequences? Editing it with loops etc might also help convey loss of short term memory. Or Henry's continual confusion about the present moment.

• What music for the silks? If Tom and Carmen start on the silks, what music? opera, classical? What can fade into carmen's over the rainbow?

• Do we have live music? Where, how, why?

• What if most of what characters from the past say is pre-recorded? And those from the present is not? or the other way round?

• If we had mp3 players, what would we want the audience to listen to privately? And why?

• I would like us to use some of the music from the Papaioannou clips 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ5krTgV98g&feature=player_embedded#at=20  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6mjMnj9PF8&feature=player_embedded  

Tango Inspiration

Something I found online, Blue tango music was released by Leroy Anderson in 1952 and was number 1 for 5 consecutive weeks in May.

This has more teamwork movement than the first... but again its for inspiration if the tango sequence is still happening.
Tyrone :)

Suzanne Corkin!

·        Former graduate of Brenda Miners at McGill who runs the behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory at MIT

·         Took over as lead investigator on all things Henry related in the 1970’s

·         She is known to be fiercely protective of her prized test subject vetting researchers exhaustively demanding the signing of non-disclosure contracts

·         Disallowed tape recorders etc

·         She built a good portion of her career on her special access to Henry, she won’t just let anybody in

·         She discovered that Henry is able to recognize the intensity of smells, but not their provenance unable to discriminate  the fragrance of rose from the smell of dog poo.

·         She gave H.M a list of names, all beginning with C and he could pick out Corkin.

·         When she got the call about H.M dying she said… “I was very sad at the time, but I also knew there was important work to be done. H.M and his conservator signed a Brain donation form. After he died, we brought him up to MGH and we scanned his brain for nine hours. In the middle of that night, I wrote his obituary. That was the first time I had the opportunity to confront my emotions about his death. And I was very sad because I realised that I had lost my friend of many years, it was hard.

·         She was fiercely protective over her prized subject.

·         She first met henry at Brenda  Mills lab in 1962

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/dec/10/first-complete-brain-dissection-also-social-media-/

This is a radio interview... Speaking to Suzanne Corkin and Jaccopo!

Ria! :)

images from script writing