Planning and Production
Additional Role
My additional role was production leader. My role consisted
of me organising meetings with the company and the production students, writing
any ideas down that were suggested, send music and send information to the
production students via email requiring any special things that we needed for
the final performance. I also was in charge of collecting everyone initial
ideas for lighting on their solos and duets and then discussed as a group what
we wanted for the group pieces. Every Monday we would have a meeting with the
production students where we would go through any things that we wanted for
stage and at the beginning we explained our idea and how we changed it and the
theme of the Cabaret so that the production team had knowledge on what theme we
were going for. In these sessions I wrote down what was being discussed so that
it was recorded and so that we could go back and use it for reference.
Communication
As a company we had many ways of communicating and discussing
our ideas outside of college for example; Whats App group chats, where we would send
recorded videos from rehearsals and discuss what we did if someone was absent. We
often also used to snap chat as a way of keeping in touch, for example; to let
one another know if we were running late or to discuss anything that we had
planned in rehearsal in further detail. For rehearsals we discussed and created
a timetable in which we would follow to allow us to focus on each piece and
make sure we get as much out of every session as possible.
Stage Plan
For our stage plan we wanted to follow the themes of a Cabaret
so we decided to go along with a stage at the back of the main stage with stair
at both end of the stage. We had to consider whether the size of the stage was acceptable
as it was important mainly for the dancers as they would be needing the space
for their dances. We also discussed whether we wanted microphones on the stage
and decided that we would have a main microphone in the middle that works and
two on each side for the setup of the stage. In regards to the audience, we
wanted there to be around 8 tables surrounding the stage which would have
candles, flowers and programmes etc.
Programme and
Running order
As for the programme we decided that wanted to name our show
Le Cabaret Magnifque. The name was suggested by our teacher and had come from a
French origin. The name seemed to fit well with the theme and we like the way
it sounded. We then went through all the pieces and discussed which order the
pieces would go and if there should be a specific order or if we should just do
it in no particular order. With this being said, we had to consider costume changes
and who were performing together to ensure everyone had enough to get changed.
Running Order
Running Order
All that Jazz
Anything You Can Do And I Am
Telling You
Look What Happened to Mabel INTERVAL Welcome to Wonderland
White Rabbit You
Can’t Stop the Beat
Take me or Leave Me
Mr Cellophane Fly Away Hard
to say Goodbye
Contrast
Marco Spada
As for You Can’t Stop the Beat, the company went upstairs to
the recording studio to record a backing track with Grant and Charlie. The pictures
down below are the logic format in which Grant and Charlie edited and recorded
us singing on.
Look what happened to Mabel: spotlights, bright light
Fly Fly Away: spotlight, purple lighting
Lighting for duets:
Take me or leave me: sidelights
Anything you can do: sidelights and spotlight
Lighting for group pieces:
You can’t stop the beat: disco ball, colourful lights and
haze machine
All that Jazz: dark red dull lighting
Hard to say Goodbye: side lights
For lighting I decided I wanted simple lighting for my solo
as I wanted the focus to be on me. Similar for the duets as the pieces were
strong enough and could stand on their own. As for the group pieces we decided
that we wanted lighting that would set the mood of the piece as listed above. The
speeches between each pieces helped to introduce and link all the pieces
together.
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