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=__Just one DAYYYYYYYY away__= __Practise exams__ __I__ will be running LAST REVISION session - Thursday Period 5 and 6 BE THERE! A structured session with EXTRA hints and answers using pre-written responses SAMPLES and question time in ST1 = = = = =__Just on one week to go!__= Practise Practise Practise! = = =Exam Preparation - Here is the PowerPoint that I gave as feedback to the Mock Exam which was the 2010 Exam= =- can meet with me during classes and any time you make an appointment.= - will be sending out some materials so be ready! = = = = = __H____OME PAGE LATEST NEWS__ = = __CHECK FOR TIMETABLE CHANGES__ = =Holiday Timetable - (other attachment for Monologues statement of Intention located in VCCA materials)= = = = = = = = =
 * __ Monologue Schedule HOLIDAYS WEEK 1 WEDNESDAY 28th September Mrs Egglestone __**
 * 45 minute sessions strictly **
 * __ TIMES __ || __ Don bridges __ || __ Ms Moorhouse __ ||
 * // 9.45 // || Adam || Donald ||
 * // 10.30 // || Josh || Nick ||
 * 11.15 || Madi || Shantelle ||
 * 12.00 || LUNCH || LUNCH ||
 * 12.30 || Ash || Steph ||
 * 1:15 || Steph || Bec ||
 * 2:15 || David || Laura ||
 * 2:15 || David || Laura ||

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 * __ Ms Egglestone ONE HOUR SESSIONS Please bring STATEMENT OF INTENTION and PRACTISE EXAM __**
 * __ TIMES __ || __ Ms Egglestone __ ||
 * // 9 // || Nick ||
 * // 10 // || Adam ||
 * // 11 // || Donald ||
 * 12 || LUNCH ||
 * 12:30 || Shantelle ||
 * 1:30 || Ash ||
 * 2:30 || Harry ||
 * 3;30 || Steph ||
 * 4:30 || Laura ||

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 * __ Monologue Schedule Thursday 29th Mrs Egglestone __**
 * __ TIMES __ || __ Freddie W __ || __ Ms Moorhouse __ ||
 * // 9:15 // || NOT AVAILABLE || Kate ||
 * // 10.00 // || Josh || Ryan ||
 * 11.15 || Eloise || Anila ||
 * 12.00 || Matt || __ LUNCH __ ||
 * 12.45 || Madie || David ||
 * 1:30 || Jackson || Harry ||
 * 2:15 || NOT AVAILABLE || Alex ||
 * 3:00 || NOT AVAILABLE || Madelyn ||
 * 3:45 || NOT AVAILABLE || Taylor ||

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 * __ Ms Egglestone ONE HOUR SESSIONS Please bring STATEMENT OF INTENTION and PRACTISE EXAM __**
 * __ TIMES __ || __ Ms Egglestone __ ||
 * // 9 // || Ryan ||
 * // 10 // || Kate ||
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 * 12 || LUNCH ||
 * 1:00 || Eloise ||
 * 1.30 || Anila ||
 * 2:30 || Taylor ||
 * 3:30 || David ||
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 * __ Monologue Schedule HOLIDAYS WEEK 1 FRIDAY Mrs Egglestone __**
 * __ TIMES __ || __ Ms Egglestone __ ||
 * // 9 // || Jackson ||
 * // 10 // || Alex ||
 * // 11 // || Matt ||
 * 12 || Luke and Erin ||
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= = = = Monday - Period 5 Wednesday 6 Thursday - Period 6 Friday - Period 1, 2. 3 = = = = With only two weeks until the end of term we are having performances last week of term and a mock night practise for the monologues coming up all students will perform their monologue first week of term 4. = = Monologue practise Sac exam Monday and Tuesday week 1 term 4. 7:00 -9:30
 * Ms Egglestone Free Periods **
 * Monologue performance Sac Date October 21** need to be at the Darebin centre by 8:30 all students have allocated times.
 * WRITTEN EXAM**

__Calendar Unit 4__

**Year 12 Theatre Studies Unit 4 Outline** GLOSSARY TEST 2  MONOLOGUE SUNDAY  ||  Don Available  GLOSSARY TEST 3 ||  Don Available   GLOSSARY TEST 4  ||  Don Available   GLOSSARY TEST 5  ||  Don Available   MONOLOGUE SUNDAY  ||  Don Available  MONOLOGUE PERFORMANCES || = = = = =Stagecraft Folio DUE TUESDAY JULY 19th= **__ Stagecraft Folio __** **// 750 Word Limit (on annotations) //** **__ The STRUCTURE of your FOLIO __** **You should have all your notes, drawings photos, blogs, web applications, organised before the final week of putting your folio together so that you can use the time in class wisely. You will need to bring all your resources in during the last week of term.**
 * ** TERM **** 3 ** || **1**  ||  **2**  ||  **3**  ||  **4**  ||  **5**  ||  **6**  ||  **7**  ||  **8**  ||  **9**  ||  **10**  ||
 * ^  ||   ||  ** Unit 3 Outcome 2 **   ** Thursday **   ** 29th Written exam Day 9-2 **  ||   ||  ** VIEW Performance of The Maids **   ** Wed 10th Aug **  ||  ** Unit 4 Outcome 3 SAC **  ||  ** Unit 4 Outcome 2 SAC **  ||   ||   || ** Practise Written Exam ** ||  ** Statement of Intention Monologue **  ||
 * ^  ||  **18 ~ 22 Jul**  ||  **25 ~ 29 Jul**  ||  **1 ~ 5 Aug**  ||  **8 ~ 12 Aug**  ||  **15 ~ 19 Aug**  ||  **22 ~ 26 Aug**  ||  **29 Aug ~2 Sept**  ||  **5 ~ 9 Sept**  ||  **12 ~ 16 Sept**  ||  **19 ~ 23 Sept**  ||
 * || COURSE OUTLINE   Students will have chosen the monologue Outcome 2 Unit 4 will be given out and worked on in class  ||  Notices handout for THEATRE VISIT  || GLOSSARY ACTING TERMS TEST 1 ||  La Mama Theatre  || Don Available
 * ** TERM 4 ** ||  **1**  ||  **2**  ||  **3**  ||  **4**  ||
 * ^  ||  ** Performance **   ** EXAMS **  || ** Performance **
 * EXAMS ** || ** Last Day **  ||  ** Written **   ** EXAM **  ||


 * **Folio suggested size A3 OR A2**
 * **Presentation is important. How do you plan to:**
 * **Organise the Lay-out of your notes and work?**
 * **e.g Sequentially - from the beginning of the process to the de-brief at the end.**
 * **Present your 2 Stagecraft areas in the folio in an //__interesting way__//**
 * **Consider a Contents page at the beginning and an Appendix at the end**
 * **Organisation of your ideas and**
 * **__ 4 pages __**** for each stagecraft area for the 4 areas of the Production Process. **
 * ** REFER TO ACTING SMART **


 * CHECKLIST **

- ** The style of performance we used (Directors concept PPT is on the wiki) how this impacted your interpretation and creation of ideas ** - ** The contexts of the play historical social political and how this impacted our interpretation ** - ** Character and stagecraft research ** - ** Australian theatre homework could be useful ** - ** Dramaturge information presented ** - ** Brainstorming notes ** ||  || - ** Photos of designs/ideas **
 * ** Have I included ** ||  ||
 * ** A contents page ** ||  ||
 * ** Planning stages (audition/planning concepts) **
 * 4 pages **
 * **__ Developmental stage __**** (rehearsals) **
 * - scripts **
 * - direction notes **
 * - workshop/rehearsals **
 * -collaboration of groups and individuals. **
 * - production presentation and meetings. ** ||  ||
 * **__ Production __**** (performance **
 * How were your stagecraft areas applied in the performance? **
 * -Photos **
 * -journal entries ** ||  ||
 * **__ Evaluation __**
 * -what things changed the most that could include sample of script and how by the end of the process **
 * - how did you feel? ** ||  ||

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Friday 27th May Furies Scrapped
- The world outside War protests loud noisy busy overlapping contrasting with the opening of the play. It will set context of outside world as a contrast - soundscape of music newsreports and the girls are being photographed black and white - Poloroid camera - GIRLS are in a series Freeze Frames of representing what is happening on the outside - music can play in the transistion from ACT 2 - impact the mood as a contrast with the music inside the mental institution which is COSI Cosi is the world of the asylum and the girls music etc represent hussle and bussle of the 'real world' outside
 * Late night idea 28/5**
 * THERE IS A PHOTOGRAPHER CHARACTER/movie crew (Adam could join this group...**

Working -n something that sits with the play better, Furies idea scrapped for something simplier less intellectual /cerebral clearer 1. Sound collage and the beginning of the play with excerpts from 1971 mixed together voices from the time interviews on the Vietnam war -sound bytes __**1971 Radio samplers**__ [] 1. War protestors with Placards (use phrases from news) [|http://www.youtube.com/user/nzoz1971?blend=9&ob=5#p/c/0CE228CEFBB3F553/0/y-CaIy-Y-PA] EAGLE ROCK - anthem of 70's 6 Gold album -[] 2. Apollo 14 [] [] 3. First colour tv show on channel 9 1971 [] 4. Interviews with War Protestors []

[] [] [] strange [] __**MULTIMEDIA**__ []

2 Workshop. Four girls represent the mental illnesses or Storytellers setting the scene and context of the play. What was it like to be in a mental institution in 1971? Not convinced saying too much - same issue as Furies.

Ten top tips for approaching theatre studies - thoughts to keep you organized and motivated.
http://www.theatrepeople.com.au/tpjunior/top-10-tips-theatre-studies

Performance Analysis Sac dates
Outcome 3 Friday May 20th period 5&6

=Cosi REHEARSAL TERM 2= We will be having our regular Tuesday Afterschool Rehearsal. The theatre will be open every lunchtime for rehearsals Tuesdays and Thursdays in Week 3 with some Mondays. =EASTER HOLIDAY REHEARSAL SCHEDULE= I hope everyone has enjoyed the first week off! The plan is to solidify the blocking and I hope you have been learning your lines! It would be fantastic if you can come to both for extra workshopping as Ms Moorhouse will be there, however it is compulsory that you turn up to the ACT you are involved in.
 * Starting at 10- 4pm**

__**Wednesday**__ __**ACT 1**__ the ideal plan is!!

10am Short Brecht workshop 1. We will run-through Act one blocking (re-visit) Starting with Furies 2. Pizza Lunch delivered 3. Run Act 1

__**Thursday ACT 2 - All students involved in ACT 2**__

10am Short Brecht workshop 1. We will finish run- Act TWO blocking with Furies at the beginning 2. Pizza Lunch delivered 3. Run Act 2

BRING AS MANY PERSONAL PROPS ETC as you Can this will be an important rehearsal.

=FRIDAY APRIL 1st our very exciting and exclusive workshop for 'The Laramie Project - 10 Years later on'= Please make sure you have returned your forms for this and ALSO make sure you return the form given out Today Friday 25th March for the excursion to see the play APRIL 28th as it is the first week back!!! =**REHEARSALS for COSI are compulsory and part of your homework!**= =Friday 11 February EXCURSIONS and PERFORMANCE notice COPY BELOW= Okay everyone auditions are finalised today! Homework from the text 'Performance' on Brecht is due! Next week we begin the creative journey Here are all the PERFORMANCES and EXCURSIONS that we will be attending this year! My aim is to try and get parents involved with some of the drop off and pick ups, so that we can cut costs on bus's !

__** IMPORTANT DATES: THEATRE STUDIES **__

**__UNIT 3__**

I have organised a unique visit for St Helena Students where a designer and actor will visit our school. I am nutting out with Erin from the Red Stitch Theatre Company a deal for show and workshop. This activity will take place at school and will run for an hour and a half and I am organising for the day and time of the workshop to be held in the Theatre Studies DOUBLE period so it will not impact other Year 12 classes. Great opportunity for our students, I am giving her a brief which she will specifically tailor to our needs!
 * 1) **__LAST WEEK TERM 1 in Class time__**


 * 1) **VIEW Performance for OUTCOME 3 first week of __Term 2 Thursday April 28th 8pm__ Compulsory**

// The Laramie Project – 10 Years Later // by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project, Australian Premiere at Red Stitch Actors Theatre // Venue: //__ Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda East __

I was going to see if we could organise for 4-5 parents to come and pool students in cars and meet at the venue. I know some parents have expressed interest. That way no permission forms required and with the other excursions I need during school time would be useful. </span

**3. TOP ACTS WORKSHOP and PERFORMANCE FRIDAY MAY 13th starts 3:30** have until 10:00 need to leave the school by 2:15, the day finishes at 10:30pm. Bus one way and can see if we can organise parents to pick students up. The bus prices are very expensive for both ways for that period of time.

AFTER EXAMS BUMP-in WEEK 8 17/6 Pupil Free day RUN WEEK 9 Thurs 23rd and Friday 24th of June
 * 1) **__OUTCOME 1 and 2 PERFORMANCE of Cosi June__** **COMPULSORY**

**__UNIT 4__**

Wednesday 10-3pm and I can organise bus OR there is a Saturday session from 9-2pm(students would find their own way.)
 * 1) **DRAMA VICTORIA PERFORMANCE and WRITTEN EXAM workshop** WEEK 2 Term 3 July 25th – 29th

View a Performance of __The Maids__ by Genet Starting at 6:30pm with Question answer session afterwards. Meet at the venue/Car pool with parents lift home. // Venue: // La Mama, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton // School Tickets: // $15 students & teachers 3. **WORKSHOPS for the Monologues** in the double periods and also over the __SEPTEMBER holidays__ with professional actors. Dates and times TBA
 * 1) **WEDNESDAY 10th AUGUST - OUTCOME 3** **Compulsory**

=Friday 28/01/11= Great work today people! Creativity was flowing and you grasped challenges of Grotowski's Acting Techniques and hopefully will gain something from our audition workshop, preparing you for the monologue as well. All my notes on the Grotowski workshop will be in the Theatre History section under Grotowski. The auditions will be in the week after school starts Monday 7th.

=Friday 21/01/11= Hi everyone, you all should have read Cosi by now and have some idea of what you are wanting to do for your OTHER stagecraft area, besides acting, please consider more than one option. We are starting next week the first stage of the four stages of the Production Process. I will be explaining and workshopping the audition process with you and workshopping your monolgues and then we will be doing them in the afternoon.

** STAGECRAFT: other than acting- ideas and concepts,extensive information and research on the play context (historical political, cultural, and social) **
Welcome to all students in the class of 2011

Important information December 2010
Hi Theatre buffs, you should receive a letter home regarding this special workshop that will be held in the Studio on Friday the 28th of Feb at - the aim is to give us a headstart Get ready for a big year! It will look like this...

As a part of the Year 12 Unit 3 and 4 Theatre Studies course in 2011, the drama department will be holding a workshop on Friday the 28thof January in the Studio from 10:00 through to 3:00. Students will be auditioning for their chosen role in the play and assigning stagecraft areas. It is important preparation for the course. All students are expected to attend.

The purpose is to give students the opportunity to start the audition process for ‘Cosi’ and also explore important theoretical concepts, usually covered in Unit 1 and 2. Students will need to bring lunch and wear comfortable clothing, such as tracksuits, so they can move easily. They will also need to bring their folder, scripts and audition pieces along with plastic leaflets and paper and pens.

Students are not to be late! This is an important part in their preparation for VCE. If you have any questions or problems please contact me, After a fantastic Transistion week now we must get down to business! I have uploaded the Audition parts for Cosi. Please select ONE character to present. There are two characters for girls and two for boys. Choose one and be prepared to present on our special workshop day at the beginning of next year before school starts!

**[[file:hwk_(holiday).doc]] Just in case here is the holiday homework that needs to be complete**

 * [[file:MTC 2011 VCE Summer School brochure and application form.pdf]] If you want a headstart check this out!!!

Friday 1 April 2011
 * Dates for Top Class out of these comes the finalist for Top Acts

10.30am Drama Concert 1

2.00pm Drama Concert 2

6.30pm Theatre Studies Concert 1

Saturday 2 April 2011

10.30am Theatre Studies Concert 2

2.30pm Drama Concert 3

Ticket prices $13.50 per student ($11.50 regional). Discounts available if attending multiple concerts. Ring Melbourne Recital Centre on (03) 9699 3333 or book online.

**Something I found which describes the****mysterious Art of Acting by one of a greatest poets** **The Top 20 Greatest Banjo Paterson Poems of All Time**

#20

from The Bulletin, April 8, 1893

Behind the Scenes

The actor struts his little hour, Between the limelight and the band; The public feel the actor’s power, Yet nothing do they understand Of all the touches here and there That make or mar the actor’s part, They never see, beneath the glare, The artist striving after art. To them it seems a labour slight Where nought of study intervenes; You see it in another light When once you’ve been behind the scenes. For though the actor at his best Is, like a poet, born not made, He still must study with a zest And practise hard to learn his trade. So, whether on the actor’s form The stately robes of Hamlet sit, Or as Macbeth he rave and storm, Or plays burlesque to please the pit, ‘Tis each and all a work of art, That constant care and practice means– The actor who creates a part Has done his work behind the scenes.

=Breakdown of Assessment= Units 3 and 4 The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority will supervise the assessment of all students undertaking Units 3 and 4. In the study of VCE Theatre Studies students’ level of achievement will be determined by School-assessed Coursework, an end-of-year performance examination and an end-of-year written examination. Percentage contributions to the study score in VCE Theatre Studies are as follows:

• Units 3 and 4 School-assessed Coursework: 45 per cent

• Units 3 and 4 end-of-year performance examination: 25 per cent

• Units 3 and 4 end-of-year written examination: 30 per cent.