Visual and Performing Arts
Fall 2011 Update
News from the Visual & Performing Arts Departments…
It’s a busy year in the Performing Arts at Desert Academy. The middle school production of “The Plague of Madison Avenue” is in rehearsals. This hysterical melodrama will have a school performance on November 7th followed by a 7pm show on November 8th.
We are also getting ready for the arts performance at our annual Grandparents Day, the week of Thanksgiving. The 7th grade speech classes will be performing group poems. There will be a “stomp” performance by the 7th grade music class. Our IB music seniors, are working on their Italian art songs for that day and Mellie Nolen, a senior IB Theater student, will be directing her original one-act that she wrote last year.
The Acting for the Stage class has just finished their monologues from “The Laramie Project.” Now they have returned to another unit in improvisation. This one is building characters and scenes through improv. They are all working hard and hoping they will be cast in our all-improvised spring production, “dating.com.” That show is a long-form character-driven improvisation complete with songs made up on the spot!
The high school music class is busy scoring selected scenes, which will be presented soon. Their Beatles Medley is ready to go, and they are preparing many other vocals for upcoming performances.
Our Film Production class just finished their first round of films. The work is outstanding! We plan on entering their work in several film festivals. Second quarter, they will be training on lights and sound both in shooting live and animation. Their training in editing will continue, and they will begin work in rotoscoping. These talented young filmmakers will be pitching their second films (3 minutes) and storyboarding them for completion before the holiday break. At the end of the second quarter, production teams will be formed and will either track live films or animated films. They will produce a total of four films this year!
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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR CAST & CREW OF “YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN”
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