Guest Lecture by Brad Gledhill Wednesday 19 March

Dear Students,
you are warmly invited to attend guest lecture by Brad Gledhill on Wednesday 19 March at 12.30 in Room 2144. Brad is a Lighting and Audio-Visual designer who has designed for Auckland Theatre Company and numerous dance and theatre productions. He lectures in the Performance Technology Programme at UNITEC’S Theatre, Dance and Film School.
Brad has designed lighting for Auckland Theatre Company productions of DESIGN FOR LIVING, MY NAME IS GARY COOPER, THE TUTOR, THE SHAPE OF THINGS, THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, PLAY 2 and PLAY 2.03. Other designs include THE CUT (Silo), HEAD (AK07), ALADDIN, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, MINIATURES, LASHINGS OF WHIPPED CREAM, KNOCK KNOCK TURN, CORAM BOY and many National Dance Tours of works by Michael Parmenter, Simon Ellis, Daniel Belton, Raewyn Hill and Chris Jannides.

Curtain Call Studio: What's Happening next week

Dear students,
thank-you for your contribution to the studio session on Wednesday-there is some exciting work being produced and I think that sketch-up will be a valuable tool to help some of you render your set designs (thank-you Ingrid!)

As with last week I will have a pin-up sheet outside my door. Please sign up for an individual appointment and I will come down to your studio space to see you at the time you have designated. Please ensure that you have responded to the feedback recieved on Wednesday so I can best help you move the project forward. For those of you who did not attend the class or who feel they are getting behind please remember that it is critical that you attend ALL studio sessions and keep terms with both Ingrid and myself-this is the only way that we can ensure your success in this studio paper. Please contact us if you are unable to attend any sessions.

We will have a pin-up again next Wednesday in the same space we used this week. At this time we will expect all of you to have fixed upon a site and have documented it thoroughly (scale drawings a must and don't forget about the sections!). You will need to provide a rationale for why you have chosen this particular location, based upon your research into the play. You will be required to present initial mock ups of your set design/s (these can be a combination of drawings, digital models, physical models). In order for your set design to be meaningful it is absolutely critical that you have undertaken research into the play and ways it could be interpreted (this will also prove invaluable to your theory studies),

I look forward to seeing you all next week,
with best wishes,
Rachel.

Curtaian Call Studio

Dear students,

Next Monday (3rd March) we will be participating in the model making workshop with Sean Flanagan at 9.30am in Room 2144. Please bring a range of different papers/carboard, scissors, craft knife, glue, and sellotape to the session. I have asked you to attend this session as a 'warm up' because modelling, in one form or another (physical or virtual) will be an important component of the theatre project. You will also get to some extraordinarily detailed models that Sean has made.

I will distribute a new sub-brief on Monday outlining what you need to do during the week. By now I imagine you have begun your research: looking at the books on desk copy, identifying plays of interest and beginning to examine how these plays have been performed and how different set designers have interpreted the narrative structure of the plays. I would like you to present your research (texts, images and analysis) to the group on Thursday of next week. (venue to be confirmed)

Ingrid has already lined up another excellent speaker so will keep you posted. I will also organise a theatre experience next week-one that challenges the relationship between audience and spectator! Please do not hesitate to contact me with any queries you might have,

with best regards,

Rachel.