TIE which stands for theater in education are organisations that help schools opertunity to social grow and a chance to perform they do this by relating there workshops and performances to lessons and adding criteria from the curriculum our TIE performance teaches them that you should never give up and that working hard makes a difference to getting what u want also that manners are easy to come by . we have also used techniques from Brecht and this will help them when devising there own theater pieces.
Tie was formed in 1965 by actor Roger Chapman at the Belgrade Theater Coventry.It was one of the first Theaters to be built after the 2nd world war.
Many TIE groups visit schools or youth centers to either make awareness like fire safety or similar as they go to teach specific skills like improvisation ,public speaking,confidence and social skills. our TIE performance teaches them that you should never give up and that working hard makes a difference to getting what u want also that manners are easy to come by . we have also used techniques from Brecht and this will help them when devising there own theater pieces. we also used a visual stimulus in the form of a picture with a political feature from this they have to create freeze frames and a short impro piece about what happening in the photo. i think that tie is great and that drama should be used more in everyday lesson like English for kids who have a disability or dyslexia as its shown visual involvement can be a better way of learning.
From the research i have done by looking at different schools and youth centers i think it would be best to mainly focus on schools like Davidson school and Portslade community college as they both like the arts and i think they would benefit from us coming in and help with there gcses and give them a better understanding of what our college has to offer.
also i see from TIE experiences in the past that it would be good for us to also receive feedback about our performances. and i think using the suitcase in our performance will work well with both school curriculum as this is what they are getting ready to use i know for a fact that pcc has a brilliant lighting and staging facility perfect for what we need to do and so does Davidson also i think having been given the chance to adapt our story lines and given the chance to modernize will help us hook the younger teen audiences. with the blend of fairy tale and panto making it light hearted we will not only be able to teach them skills we will also be able to show a message to our class. other people in my class are using physical theater so this would be really fun to teach them like frantic assembly specially after doing research they have a new show out. this would be very fun relevant to theater now a days this is typical of something involving t TIE.
maybe we could teach them a short part of our pieces and get them to adapt a ending to it.
overall i think TIE should be used more in the curriculum and and the arts should be equally balanced with other subjects like maths science and English as not all people are academic.
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Thursday, 13 December 2012
- what was positive and example and then explain
what we did give a point
what we did give a point
Structure your weekly post - You could write your blog in this order
Ø Introduce the stage you are at in the process (reflect on last rehearsal)
Ø What the sessions means to you? (QUESTIONS BELOW)
Ø Research (Include Pictures) –Remember to reference pictures
Ø Comment on the development of your own role/character
Ø Evaluate how the rehearsal process went (DEVELOPMENT GUIDE BELOW)
Ø Overall Evaluation of the week’s work
Why do I need to work hard in lesson?
Ø What can I learn from this lesson?…about myself? …the group? …the project? etc
Ø What could I use in the future?
Ø What I hope to achieve?
Ø What I need from the lesson? Why?
Ø How will I achieve this? When?
Ø In the future I will know what?
Final Reflection
Ø What worked well?
Ø What didn’t work well?
Ø Did everything go to plan?
Ø SWOT analysis Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats
Ø Practical work
Ø In theory
*Your characterisation work (voice+movement) *The characterisation of others
*Character interaction *Storyline development
*A particular scene *Proxemics/use of space
*Understanding *Group decisions *Production tasks *Trying a new technique
*Director’s input *Peer feedback
11th december
today was the day of our TIE performance and the finale time we would have to work on it or rehearse we had finally managed to finish the piece last night after hours of hard work we finally felt confident with the storyline that it was now clear well clearer than before . to make the story line clearer we had to make changes and the one problem we had was my character she was to mysterious for a serious piece and we need to make her more realistic and i needed to develop my character for the story to fit now we had two options we either scrap my character and create a narrator or simply make my character speak but under no circumstance was i going to stay the same as i was i felt stupid a ristricted in my part as the muted lady and i needed to develop i wanted to scrap the idea and create a narrator maybe this was because i had had enough of my character but i felt this would have been the simplest road to go down however this would completely change the storyline and would have the negative affect on the other characters with interaction as my part was such a solid role with dylans charecter this could not work as it would take the puprouse of the storyline away also we didnt have time for this we needed to sort this out fast i then looked at how i could inc operate talking to my character and give her a meaning i did this by suggesting to the group that we make her a friend of the step mum this would then explain why they are linked and how they know each other and attach me to the story line i then needed to thathom why i was powerful so i took the suggestion of being a hypthepyst and this is to how Lauren charecer new me it also added the mysterious feel of superstition and the unknown making it ok to have a slightly confusing storline because the audience could be left in the stoyline of the unknown i think by making it like this it makes my character more stylized and more threatening which it what we wanted to happen we want the audience to feel how Dylan feels throughout unclear and slightly on edge.
i think using the bored with the text messages worked well as it gave a visual stimulus like our wokshop and again added style taking ideas from brecht. using brecht also kept this area of the pice clean and clear leavig other areas to question the audience.
in the future if we had more time to work on it i think we would have liked to have worked on a peice of frantic pysical theartre maybe an argument between the step mum and dylan as i very much enjoyed the workshop and the beutiful burnought show.
i dont think the ending was clear having us shout worrds then having dylan wake up however we went with this becuase we foundit powerful and quite chillin and i quite like the idea that the ending is not clear it opens the question of did this really happen.
and we are showing durrington huig school
the first group we had we quite and would only be watching our performances i feel this performance out of the two was the strongest and as a group we were slicker with our scene changes and dialogue the feedback we got was positive they said " that the story line was clear and the chercterisation and the way the story flowed was very good" we took this as a development form what we had hear previous.
our second part of the day was our workshops we all had a go and our group focused on a picture of somthing political and we asked them to create a freeze frame and then rewind form this scene and creat a freese frame before this picture was taken this would come in handy for when they are devising a performace. the group was very shy and the teacher tld us from feedback that one girl from his class never participated in class at all and that she enjoyed the frantic chari workshop.
we then did our second performance to the same class and we again got positve feedback and they to enjoyed and enjoyed the brecht sighns and use of transistions between scenes.
what i liked and felt went well with our performance
i think the scenes flowed well and are transistions were goood i think this is becasue we reduced our prop use and used freeseframes to set the next scene. using this techniques enables control over the scene transition as its your choice when to start the scene.
if i were to do TIE devising again i think i would change who i worked with as i felt somtimes the group got distracted anf i found it exhausting trying to keep focus i also think we could have developed it by takeing it to a darker place and maybe adding a twist to our performance maybe the mother could be a syco killer or not actually wih the dad and only pretending i think i would also ads some more frantic assembly especially the dance movement in beautiful burnout. i would also make it longer and have included the audicne more and has them sitting aroung the stage .
health and saftey and organisation
we had to make sure we knew the schools regulations and that we sighned in and made our self known to the teachers of the lesson and made sure we knew the rules smoking on campus and firebell regulations this is very important when touring and when touring again i think its good be aware of your surroundings.
i think if we toured again i would keep the use of the suitcase as it kept touring simple and small bacause there was less to carry whilst traveling and it kept out performance simple letting us use more basic techniques like the sighn posts with the riddles on them simple but affective.
deadline
having a deadline ment we had to keep pace to it however we found with our performace due to the amount of time we had it started to lack energy and we ran out of ideas as most of our work was done right at the beggining we didnt notice things were not working like the story line was confusing till the end so having a deadline is good but i would have preffered smaller deadline. also it would have made us notice the problems before them happened . maybe we should have made ourselfs smaller deadlines before the finale.
i think using the bored with the text messages worked well as it gave a visual stimulus like our wokshop and again added style taking ideas from brecht. using brecht also kept this area of the pice clean and clear leavig other areas to question the audience.
in the future if we had more time to work on it i think we would have liked to have worked on a peice of frantic pysical theartre maybe an argument between the step mum and dylan as i very much enjoyed the workshop and the beutiful burnought show.
i dont think the ending was clear having us shout worrds then having dylan wake up however we went with this becuase we foundit powerful and quite chillin and i quite like the idea that the ending is not clear it opens the question of did this really happen.
and we are showing durrington huig school
the first group we had we quite and would only be watching our performances i feel this performance out of the two was the strongest and as a group we were slicker with our scene changes and dialogue the feedback we got was positive they said " that the story line was clear and the chercterisation and the way the story flowed was very good" we took this as a development form what we had hear previous.
our second part of the day was our workshops we all had a go and our group focused on a picture of somthing political and we asked them to create a freeze frame and then rewind form this scene and creat a freese frame before this picture was taken this would come in handy for when they are devising a performace. the group was very shy and the teacher tld us from feedback that one girl from his class never participated in class at all and that she enjoyed the frantic chari workshop.
we then did our second performance to the same class and we again got positve feedback and they to enjoyed and enjoyed the brecht sighns and use of transistions between scenes.
what i liked and felt went well with our performance
i think the scenes flowed well and are transistions were goood i think this is becasue we reduced our prop use and used freeseframes to set the next scene. using this techniques enables control over the scene transition as its your choice when to start the scene.
if i were to do TIE devising again i think i would change who i worked with as i felt somtimes the group got distracted anf i found it exhausting trying to keep focus i also think we could have developed it by takeing it to a darker place and maybe adding a twist to our performance maybe the mother could be a syco killer or not actually wih the dad and only pretending i think i would also ads some more frantic assembly especially the dance movement in beautiful burnout. i would also make it longer and have included the audicne more and has them sitting aroung the stage .
health and saftey and organisation
we had to make sure we knew the schools regulations and that we sighned in and made our self known to the teachers of the lesson and made sure we knew the rules smoking on campus and firebell regulations this is very important when touring and when touring again i think its good be aware of your surroundings.
i think if we toured again i would keep the use of the suitcase as it kept touring simple and small bacause there was less to carry whilst traveling and it kept out performance simple letting us use more basic techniques like the sighn posts with the riddles on them simple but affective.
deadline
having a deadline ment we had to keep pace to it however we found with our performace due to the amount of time we had it started to lack energy and we ran out of ideas as most of our work was done right at the beggining we didnt notice things were not working like the story line was confusing till the end so having a deadline is good but i would have preffered smaller deadline. also it would have made us notice the problems before them happened . maybe we should have made ourselfs smaller deadlines before the finale.
10th december
my group rehersed during our dance lesson and after college our peice needed alot of work after thinking we had sorted it out rachel watched and desided it still didnt make so we dicided to start from scratch for this i took lead of the group and tried to keep the group spirit positive.
we looked at the game sims and how this could be used in our performance and we also looked at irish and celtic storsys and how we could coperate this after working on this for a few hours we deicided to go back to our original story line but give me a speaking role and intorduce me at the beggingin of the scene. my charecter has now turned into a couger hympnopherpist and im attracted to dylan and have a thing for him this gave the missing link of who i was and what my job was in the performance.
strengths
we finnaly came up with our fnal story and finished in tieme for the performance we got a lady from art to watch our performace to see if it makes sense she said " the performance is creepy but clear and leaves the option open of a dream reality i really enjoyeed it"
after hearing this we had postive veiw to the performace the next day we also kept the sighns wich are a technique from brecht using the sighnes wich really stylised our performance.
weakness
i found it hard to keeop the group positive and to keep the rest of the group focused
my personal strenths
i think i stayed focus throughout and dertermined to finish the tie whilst also keeping positive
what needs to be done
we need to keep up our positive vibe we dound in the end and stay in charecter and go witht the story line we need to try to stay focused this can be done with maybe a warm up before we start like a count game.
we looked at the game sims and how this could be used in our performance and we also looked at irish and celtic storsys and how we could coperate this after working on this for a few hours we deicided to go back to our original story line but give me a speaking role and intorduce me at the beggingin of the scene. my charecter has now turned into a couger hympnopherpist and im attracted to dylan and have a thing for him this gave the missing link of who i was and what my job was in the performance.
strengths
we finnaly came up with our fnal story and finished in tieme for the performance we got a lady from art to watch our performace to see if it makes sense she said " the performance is creepy but clear and leaves the option open of a dream reality i really enjoyeed it"
after hearing this we had postive veiw to the performace the next day we also kept the sighns wich are a technique from brecht using the sighnes wich really stylised our performance.
weakness
i found it hard to keeop the group positive and to keep the rest of the group focused
my personal strenths
i think i stayed focus throughout and dertermined to finish the tie whilst also keeping positive
what needs to be done
we need to keep up our positive vibe we dound in the end and stay in charecter and go witht the story line we need to try to stay focused this can be done with maybe a warm up before we start like a count game.
6th december
in this lesson we showed the year 12 our TIE perfromances this was a great way of getiing points of improvment we were told that that our charecterisation is strong and that my movemnet is stong as i look like im charge of him and that i use every inch of my body when im moving creating tension
strengths
we have some great ideas included like the voodo lady and outr settings were strong my charecterisation was also good however i could improve this by maybe speaking .
personal weakness and development
i feel my charecter is not bonded into the scene and hass no connection to the scene i think this could be improved by me speaking and being more realistic maybe i could be a hypmotherphist this would explain why i am so creeepy also i lke the idea of not using chairs i will think this will make the scene transferes quicker and slicker.
notes from year 12
story line unclear we need to make my charecter more realistic and we need to add a connection to me and a other charecter.
scenes dragged again this will be smoother with no chairs and freeze frames .
we will be arranging time to reherse to look at our story line this is very important
i think i have now taken lead and the next rehersal i will be putting my ideas foward without feeling shy
strengths
we have some great ideas included like the voodo lady and outr settings were strong my charecterisation was also good however i could improve this by maybe speaking .
personal weakness and development
i feel my charecter is not bonded into the scene and hass no connection to the scene i think this could be improved by me speaking and being more realistic maybe i could be a hypmotherphist this would explain why i am so creeepy also i lke the idea of not using chairs i will think this will make the scene transferes quicker and slicker.
notes from year 12
story line unclear we need to make my charecter more realistic and we need to add a connection to me and a other charecter.
scenes dragged again this will be smoother with no chairs and freeze frames .
we will be arranging time to reherse to look at our story line this is very important
i think i have now taken lead and the next rehersal i will be putting my ideas foward without feeling shy
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
5th december
after last lesson with rachel she told us our tie performance was a bit confusing so we have lookd at how we can make the story line clearer we are still having this problem this due to us stripping our performance back originally cause there was to much context now we have to little.
firstly we looked at laurens chareter and why they dont no the area very well so we have decided to make that they have just moved in ny adding a scene we have also cut down the creepy box music scenes as they lagged a bit and ow the performance runs better we have also added in a phone call with the creepy lady and laurens charecter.
scene 1
the scene with dylan and danilla winning the footbal match and winning a feather this has sayed the same as it fits with our modern outcome
scene 2
laurens scene with dylan moving in to the new area and the bet he couldnt get her the bird and that he is useless - this scne explains why he is getting the feather
scene 3
phone call scene with dylan and danile his companion and this will send him on his journey linking the scenes
scene 4
the first scene with creepy woman - music box music playing
scene 5
riddle scene with the mirror and the prop of the text
scene 6
the old creepy woman agian with the music box music
scene 7
him and daniele about fake tan in superdrug
scene 8 giving up arguement with his mum \
scene 9 the bed scene creepy lady comes in and the spell / dream lasts
scene 10 arguement scene with dylan and lauren
scene 11 phone call scene with lauren and me and creepy music ( i personally believe i should speak in this scene maybe we should try this)
scene 12 he wakes up to discover all was a dream (this needs to be really clear as the audinces may not get this ending we could use a peice of frantic assembly)
scene 13 the end
we thoutht that making it a dream could mean it could be more artistic and not have to make sense we could play with it more
weakness
we could go to far wih it an the whole scene could be unrealistic
strengths
the whole thing could be really fun
we need to work on our structure this will happen if we keep trying new ideas and re arranging also we took alot of our original story line out all wee need to do is add more in . we may need to include some of our original storyline like rachel suggested and go back and add things.
firstly we looked at laurens chareter and why they dont no the area very well so we have decided to make that they have just moved in ny adding a scene we have also cut down the creepy box music scenes as they lagged a bit and ow the performance runs better we have also added in a phone call with the creepy lady and laurens charecter.
scene 1
the scene with dylan and danilla winning the footbal match and winning a feather this has sayed the same as it fits with our modern outcome
scene 2
laurens scene with dylan moving in to the new area and the bet he couldnt get her the bird and that he is useless - this scne explains why he is getting the feather
scene 3
phone call scene with dylan and danile his companion and this will send him on his journey linking the scenes
scene 4
the first scene with creepy woman - music box music playing
scene 5
riddle scene with the mirror and the prop of the text
scene 6
the old creepy woman agian with the music box music
scene 7
him and daniele about fake tan in superdrug
scene 8 giving up arguement with his mum \
scene 9 the bed scene creepy lady comes in and the spell / dream lasts
scene 10 arguement scene with dylan and lauren
scene 11 phone call scene with lauren and me and creepy music ( i personally believe i should speak in this scene maybe we should try this)
scene 12 he wakes up to discover all was a dream (this needs to be really clear as the audinces may not get this ending we could use a peice of frantic assembly)
scene 13 the end
we thoutht that making it a dream could mean it could be more artistic and not have to make sense we could play with it more
weakness
we could go to far wih it an the whole scene could be unrealistic
strengths
the whole thing could be really fun
we need to work on our structure this will happen if we keep trying new ideas and re arranging also we took alot of our original story line out all wee need to do is add more in . we may need to include some of our original storyline like rachel suggested and go back and add things.
22nd
we phoned up schools i looked up online i contacted them for our tie
list of schools we contacted
portslade community college pacca
ohoned the school unfortuantly they are rehersing for a school show so this no time for this
shorham acadmy
said they were going to get back to me i gave them my number
sir robert woodard acadmy
said they were intrersted on phone an dtook rachels contact details
plan of action
if we do not hear back we re contact them
list of schools we contacted
portslade community college pacca
ohoned the school unfortuantly they are rehersing for a school show so this no time for this
shorham acadmy
said they were going to get back to me i gave them my number
sir robert woodard acadmy
said they were intrersted on phone an dtook rachels contact details
plan of action
if we do not hear back we re contact them
21st november
chicago rehersal
we went through all our individual numbers im singing all that jazz with a group number around me and im also in both reached for the gun and razzle dazzle and mumma knows best.
for all that jazz
my main concern i s to concentrate on my singing and vocal contorol and not get hooked up in dance.
basically we keept rehersing the number and each time i feel my vocal is improving.
strengths
my charecter is starting to come through and im feeling alot more confident with my part.
im also solid routine and enjoying the number ,
weakness
vocal projection and remebering lyrics
i need to work on both of my weakness by ree=hersing and staying carm i will look at my lyrics before i go to bed everynight and reherse when posibble
we went through all our individual numbers im singing all that jazz with a group number around me and im also in both reached for the gun and razzle dazzle and mumma knows best.
for all that jazz
my main concern i s to concentrate on my singing and vocal contorol and not get hooked up in dance.
basically we keept rehersing the number and each time i feel my vocal is improving.
strengths
my charecter is starting to come through and im feeling alot more confident with my part.
im also solid routine and enjoying the number ,
weakness
vocal projection and remebering lyrics
i need to work on both of my weakness by ree=hersing and staying carm i will look at my lyrics before i go to bed everynight and reherse when posibble
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