Glammer and Fluctuation

SOUND

Some audio definitions

• Level
• Fidelity (Quality)
• reverberation (Echo)

Reverberation
Reverb in voice
Echo clap hands

The Inverse Square Law
When the distance to a sound source doubles, the size of the disturbance diminishes to one quarter of it's original size.


Strength of sound at a distant point = orig. strength / distance^2

How was It For Sound?

• Quality (determined by environment)
• Reverberation

Microphone Types

• Pick up patterns
• Shotgun mic
• Lapel mic
• Handheld mic

Boom Operating

• Best possible postion
• Keeping a steady aim
• Weightlifting and ballet dancing
• Above USUALLY the best
• How big is the frame / who put that light there
• Quiet clothes and footwear
• Know the script!
• Rehearsals

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Storytelling, Myth and Ritual (Class 2)

Theatre analysis
Theatre language is .. something

The forms of analyses are extremely varied:
Spontaneously commented by spectators
specialist critical review in both print and electronic meida
Questionnaires applied after period of reflection
Sound or audio visual recordings
Written or oral descriptions of sign systems by Semiologists

Questionnaire devised by dr. Patrice Pavis.

Programs contain more than the names of the personnel, their ambitions and production directors.

1. General discussion of performance:
a) What holds the elements of performance?
b) Relationship between systems of staging
c) Coherence or incoherence of the Mise‐En‐Scène
d) Place the Mise‐En‐Scène in the cultural and aesthetic context
e) What do you find disturbing about the production; strong moments or weak, boring
moments
2. Scenography:
a) Spatial forms: urban, architectural, scenic, gestural, etc
b) Relationship between audience, space and acting space
c) Principles of structuring/organizing the space:
‐ Dramaturgical function of the stage space and its occupation
‐ Relationship between on‐stage and off‐stage
‐ Links between space utilized and fiction of the staged dramatic text
‐ What is shown and what is concealed
‐ How does the scenography evolves? To what do its transformation correspond?
d) System of colours, forms, materials and their connotations
[u]3. Lighting System[/u]
Nature, connections to the fiction, performance, the actor. The reception of the performance




We've all got opinions

For film theory, is it?
Celluloid strips?
devices that capture images
the way in which film acts to represent images on a screen on a screen in such a way as to convince us of their depth
the places we go to see

The knowledge that structures our view of the world, that allows us to make sense of our experience = Ideology
[color="#c0c0c0"]Ideology is not truth or reality, but becomes truth and reality.[/color]ol




Writing class 3.

I am happy.
I am very happy.
I am very happy today.
I am very happy today, baby.

Jack ate the pie.
Jack ate the fruity pie.
Jack hungrily ate the fruity pie.
Jack hungrily ate the fruity pie like a pig.
Jack hungrily ate the fruity pie like a pig, while he was texting.


"Like a pig" = Phrase
Phrase not understood by itself as a sentence.
Clause is.

"While he was texting" = Clause


Jack scoffed the pie.
Jack munched the pie.
Jack inhaled the pie.

Conjunctions
Words that join two sentences.

• AND
• BECAUSE
• BUT
• ALSO
• WHEN (?)
  
• HOWEVER
• WHEREAS
• AS
• THEREFORE
• OR
  
• ALTHOUGH
• HENCE
• NEVER THE LESS
• MOREOVER
• ERGO
• THUS
• NONE THE LESS
• SINCE
• SO

Jo kicked the ball. Jo scored a goal.
Jo kicked a ball and scored a goal.
Jo kicked a ball and therefore scored a goal.

Jo kicked the ball. Jo scored a goal. The goal was spectacular
Jo kicked a ball and scored a goal, never the less, it was spectacular.
Jo kicked a ball and scored a goal, which was spectacular.


The sun is out, but I'm hot.
Although the sun is out, I'm quite cold.

The goal was disallowed

Jo kicked the ball and scored a goal which was spectacular, although it was disallowed.
Jo kicked the ball and scored a spectacular goal, although it was disallowed because she was Off-Side.

1. Although it is my corn, you may touch it, because it belonged to Jack Black.
2. This corn looks good, however it is undercooked.
3. This corn is absolutely disgusting, never the less, I will eat it.

BECAUSE SOUNDS ANGRY - Fizzle

Happening at the same time:
While
As
And

Sequence of events:
Then
(So)
And

'Opposition':
However
Never the less
Whereas


Cause and Effect:
Therefore
Because


PUNCTUATION
Apostrophe

1. Contractions
2. Possessives

Contractions
Can not - cannot - Can't
Did not - didn't
Will not - Won't
Do not - don't
Does not - Doesn't

Would've - Would have
Could've - could have
Should've - Should have

It is - It's
It is - 'Tis

Fish 'n' Chips
Pak'n Save

I am - I'm
You are - You're
We are - We're


The boy's head
The boys' heads

The manager's special
could mean the manager is special

Mr Jones' car
Mr Jones's car
The Joneses' car

James' antlers

The apostrophe goes after the person or thing doing the possessing.

The people's voice

The dog wagged its tail.
Put the puzzle back in its box
Its a nice day.