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.