Sawatskys Drama

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Big News!!

Get ready for a funny, supremely entertaining drama with comic characters.
The spring musical stage production at ODCVI will be "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", based on the comic series created by Charles M. Schultz.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
1999 revival Logo
Music	Clark Gesner
Lyrics	Clark Gesner
Book	John Gordon
Basis	Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts
Productions	1967 Off-Broadway 1968 West End 1971 Broadway 1999 Broadway revival

Students who are interested should check out the mp3s on the Student Common file at school, and look for Sawatsky-- Drama---Charlie Brown.

Auditons to be announced.

Grade 10 ADA 2O:
Fractured Fairy Tale Unit:

Work has been completed for group organization and choice of basic fairy tales. Groups have brainstormed and chosen some adaptations to integrate into the originals, and now are putting the finishing touches on their scripts. (Some people have already finished !!) Tomorrow we will list the final needs for each group's preparations and begin rehearsals. One week to show time.

Fractured Fairy Tale Assignment

Final Preparation List:

Group Members:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Presentation Date:

Costumes required:

Props required:

Sound effects / music to be used:

Lighting to be used:

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Thursday, Oct. 04, 2012 Part B

Some pics from the grade 10 drama students at ODCVI performing `The Terry Fox Story`

Thursday, Oct. 04, 2012

Some recent pictures from grade nine drama students at ODCVI performing``Juve`

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Tuesday, Oct. 02, 2012 part B

one other link you might find useful: the Terry Fox Story

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086427/

the news coverage for CBC ran something like this:

www.cbc.ca/news/background/fox_terry/

Tuesday, Oct. 02. 2012

Grade 9 ADA 1O

Getting ready to perform our first scene on stage is great fun... but takes way more time than you might think.

check out this youtube clip of a high school performance of "Juve".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTSLhFbkffY

Grade 10 ADA 2O

Terry Fox run was last week; this week, we put together our stage performances of "The Terry Fox Story" from the documentary movie. Some people are probably going to cry, because this is such a sad story.

Jesse will bring his guitar to class on Friday, so look forward to some tunes.

possible field trips:

Oct 24 -- Stratford trip to see Shakespeare's comedy "Much Ado About Nothing"

Dec. 18 or 19 "Les Miserables"

Monday, September 24, 2012

Monday September 24, 2012

FYI:

ADA 1O - great work on your quiz today.
ADA 2O - study tonight for your Actor's Voice Quiz tomorrow

ADA 1O: we start our choral speaking unit tomorrow. Alex and Sarah video taped some great footage of our puppet stories today.

ADA 2O: Quiz and then, start work on scripts.

TECH TECH TECH TECH

Anyone interested in a great tech training opportunity, check out Theatre Collingwood's new lighting course coming up in October. Here's some basic information about it:

The course location is in Collingwood at Theatre Collingwood’s production centre at 65 Simcoe Street.

We would be happy to provide students with a Certificate of Completion signed by the instructor.

FYI, the course is being taught by Stephen Nixon, a lighting specialist with considerable experience.

Check the website at www.theatrecollingwood.com , you can download information and Stephen Nixon’s bio from the home page or, if you prefer, we can email it to you.

The class will be small so teacher/student ratio is excellent.

For registration, please contact either Marian or Monica in our office.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any other questions.

Steven Thomas

Artistic Director

Theatre Collingwood

Classes run on Saturdays and Sundays.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

September 20 2012

ADA 2O

work on the Actor's Voice assignment is due tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

here's the assignment:

ADA 2O

Actor’s Voice Assignment

1. Watch at least one of the following videos about actor’s voices.

a) Voice actors from the “Simpsons”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5PafoEcTf8

b) Voice actors from “Sponge Bob Squarepants”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRV6dxaXcRA&feature=related

c) Voice actors behind the scenes from “Transformers”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJKGAZO4beI&feature=related

d) Jim Carey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EffPnse4WQs&feature=related

e) A very famous actor impersonating another very famous actor:

Jim Carey does his Clint Eastwood impression.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaa28xicJDE&feature=related

f) Mr. Bean in a speaking role:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umRRCkspaQU&feature=related

g) Scenes from “Whose Line is it Anyway?” with Drew Carey:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-J1j4lgb0E&feature=related

2. Choose one voice actor from any of the videos and check out other work done by that actor by going to www.wikipedia.org .

3. After researching your voice actor, write two paragraphs about your actor.

In Paragraph One: Tell: Which video your actor was in. Describe the story or premise for the video.

In Paragraph Two: Tell: What appeals to you about this actor’s use of voice: it could be that they

- Are versatile,

- -they can do great impressions of others,

- -they are believeable,

- -they have other talents beside just using their voice.

You should include at least three reasons that tell why this actor appeals to you. Give details to explain what exactly you admire about this actor’s voice.

Create a Word file, where you will type your two paragraphs with an original title. Include your name in the file. Print and hand it in before the end of class.