Answer 2

What is your EQ?

How can a stage manager ensure a show runs smoothly?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

Proper Pre Planning Prevents Poor Preformance.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

Fake it til you make it.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

My first answer: My father was the one who has always told me about the 6 p's. He learned them when he was in the national guard because it is essential to plan everything out precisely if you want it to go dmoothly.

Second answer: Fake it til you make it is something my 5th grade teacher taught me when I was nervous about going in front of a large crowd to speak. She said that if you act like you know what you're doing, no one will tell you otherwise. This helps in stage managment because a lot of people rely on you to know what you're doin and how to do it well. 


5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
Fazio, Larry. "Stage Manager The Professional Expierence" Feb 2000. Page 13-14
6.  What other source supports your answer?

My interviews all talk about how important confidence is when calling cues and how much it helps to have everything planned.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

Being a stage manager is all about time management, flexibility and confidence. Without those three, none of the cast and crew will respect or trust you and your skills.

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

Jordan Partida proposed to me that we work together to write and produce our own one act play. For me, this would include being the stage manager and producer for this play with Jordan as the director. I will be stage managing it from start to finish and Jordan will direct and write it.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

As you could see in Independent Component 1, I made far more than 30 hours. Yet, that was a very long play and not a 1 act as we have planned. My plan is to tie my experience stage managing our 1 act with hours of shadowing a stage manager in the booth during an actual production. This will not only give me more hours, but give me more than a one dimensional view on stage managing because by learning from being a shadow, I can apply those learned skills to the production of our own play.
 
3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

Again, by actually practicing stage management, I am bound to learn and grow from that. Also, when I am shadowing a variety of stage manager, I will get multiple different techniques and ideas from them.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Done!

Independent Component 1

This is a picture of the faries in Midsummer Jersey

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• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Jenelle Huck, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 96.5 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

"Sonoma State University." Theatre Arts & Dance: Our Season. Sonoma

Jeff Keane's interview helped a lot with how to control my actors

(c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.

• (d) Explain what you completed.  

I completed 96.5 hours during the fall show at iPoly. This includes all pre-production that took place, rehearsals, and shows.    

• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

There is no better way to learn how to stage manage, than to jump into it and just do it. That is why this was the best independent component I could come up with. I feel like this number of hours is very minimal compared to an actual play where they work 5 hours a day twice a week on rehearsals and they have more paperwork to do because they have rehearsal reports to do every night. My evidence could be my Stage Manager binder, or the actual show its self. 

• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 

Actually stage managing a show is the best way to learn about stage managing because it is impossible to sit in a classroom then come out the perfect SM. You really have to go out there and experience everything in order to become a stage manager. Practice makes perfect. One example of this is that when some actors were missing cues, I went in the green room and found that they were being so loud that they couldn't hear when their cue was. To solve this problem, I stayed back there and kept them quiet for a few minutes and chewed them out for talking so much. They did learn from this and I only had to go back there a few more times since then.

  

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

I am most proud that my answer 1 is clearly communicated in my really pretty powerpoint.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

      P

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

I think I deserve a p because I did everything that was required and o thi k I did it well, but I didn't exactly go above any standard.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

I liked my lesson 2 because my answer worked really well with my presentation.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

I would ramble less at the end of my presentation.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

My answer 2 is probably going to be communication with everyone.