Blog 18: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
How can a production produce a show that successfully enhances the audience's reaction?
2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
One way a production can produce a show that successfully enhances the audience's reaction by going through a process called "perfect casting", where the casting crew does everything they can to ensure they carefully pick the best actor/actress to fit every role. This takes place during auditions and callbacks.
3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
Another way a production can produce a show that successfully enhances the audience's reaction to it is by using stage lighting. This includes the amount of lighting, where it goes, and the colors.
4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
Lighting makes a huge difference in a performance. If you want it to be more dramatic and darker, you'd use cooler colors as well as not a lot of lighting around. If it is a more cheery scene, you'd use more light as well as warmer colors. During intense performances, for example, Adele's grammy performance of "All I Ask" used amazing lighting use. Very simple, but the attention was really on her and got the audience to get more emotional and mesmerized in her performance.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
6.  What other source supports your answer?
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

Blog 17: Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
The person I interviewed is Masiela Lusha and the interview with her really helped me with my answer 1; in fact, she basically gave me my answer one. We first talked about how she got into acting and then went into details about acting and basically what makes acting great.  

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
Well, my first interview was interviewing the actors from my mentorship. Their information wasn't the most helpful in comparison to what I know now. But I interviewed an expert in acting (and the arts in general) for my interview 3. The questions kept on popping up and rolling so easily while compared to my other interviews I struggled with coming up with more questions to ask them.

The questions I asked during my interview

• what was your past experience with acting? For example, how many shows and years?
• Did you have any techniques or methods to help you improve your acting?
• How would you describe your production staff? This includes the actors, producers, directors, etc.
• Do actors tell one another what to do during rehearsals?
• How crucial are read throughs?
• How crucial was blocking?
• Were you able to use cue cards?
• Were there ever any times where there were some lines that you just couldn't get down?
• Why do you think the George Lopez Show was such a successful show?
• What do you think is key to having a successful show?
• Did the writers have to go out and experience stuff to make their writings more "real"?
• Do you think that the people who were casted fit their role?
• What did you learn from working in this show?
• Can you talk about what you know about theater?

The audio recording for my interview here https://soundcloud.com/karinanoemi21 

Blog 16: Independent Component Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
I have started a Glee Club (vocal performance) where I get to teach 7th and 8th graders every Monday and Friday. I will have different themes for every 1-2 weeks and will target certain areas. Some days we will be working on finding the emotion for every song, projection, how to have a powerful performance, as well as perform monologues, skits, and learn to sing in musicals versus in a regular performance.
This club will go on until May and I will be hosting their talent show around April for their whole school. I hope that through this club I can apply what I have developed from my answer 1 and articles I have learned from my research checks. For every meeting that I have, I will be blogging about it and what has happened. You can follow along by looking through my blog or typing in independent component 2. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
Well, I meet with my students (which is 10 girls so far) every Monday and Friday and each day we do something different. I plan on having this club go on until May and I will be organizing a talent show for their school. 

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
Because my answers became about from experience through my mentorship more than research, I think I am able to apply what I learned with them. I get to work hands on and become a teacher (or a director). One of my answers is possibly communication so hopefully I get to test my answers or come up with a new one. I'm excited to see what I learn from working with these kids and getting to see how applicable and how true my answer is. And if it is not, then being able to see why not.

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

Independent Component 1

LITERAL
(a) Write: “I, __________________________, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents ____ hours of work.”

• I, Karina Tostado, affirm that I completed my independent component, which represents 45 hours of work. 

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

• Gladwell, Malcolm. Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Boston: Little, Brown, 2000. Print
• Klickstein, Gerald. "The 5 Facets of Performances Preperation." The Musician's Way Blog. Oct. 2011. Web. 28 Aug. 2015
• "Vocal Health - How to Keep Your Vocal Chords in Good Condition" Street Musician. 5 June 2011. Web. 4 Sept. 2015

(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 helped out each of my 4 mentees individually and privately on things they needed help on. 3 of them wanted practice to enhance their performances for upcoming events and one of them just wanted to get back at singing. Every time we met, I would listen to them sing and provide them helpful recommendations as well as getting them to improve on their performance every time we meet. 

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.  

•  I chose as my independent component 1 to privately help people on their singing, specifically their performing. I get them to do exercises,  have a binder in which they have to fill out a sheet every time we have met. 

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

• I really got to learn different techniques and ways to enhance your performance. Also, I got a glimpse of how tedious it is to learn every person's different style of singing

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
My answer would be the thing I am most proud of because it did take a lot of time and observing everyone so much for me to actual develop and realize how crucial my answer was. I was also very proud of the people I went to for help in developing my answer to my EQ.

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

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
          I basically did well in every area, especially engaging. Everything that I presented on connected back with what I stated my answer for my EQ was. 

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
Tying my hook activity with my activity and then afterwards explaining why my answer was so important when it came to casting "the witch".

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
I talked WAY too fast and I feel so terrible for doing so because I could have done a way better job with details. My pacing wasn't the greatest but it worked in the end.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
I have no clue. It will probably be communication between the director and actors.