Competition

On Thursday April 8 I went to Parkrose High school at 5:30 in the morning. At about 6:00 the bus for Eugene pulled out of the parking lot and I was on my way with a bunch of other theatre students to the Thespian Competition where I would be competing in set design and leading a workshop on set design. My competition started at 12:00. I had to show all my renderings that I made and explain why I designed the set the way I did. I didn't win, but it was interesting to see the other competitor's designs for the plays they picked.

Competition Preparation

The Friday after Spring Break I once again missed ACE and stayed at Parkrose High School. I met once again with the theatre teacher there and went over many of my scene designs. We talked about what I needed for the competition for the following week. We also discussed what materials I would need for the workshop I was planning on leading at the same competition. The materials I needed include Popsicle sticks, glue, newspaper, scissors, rulers, clay, and markers.

Work at Parkrose

There were two days of ACE before spring break that I missed. One day I missed ACE becuase I was teaching a class. The other day that I missed I was meeting with the theatre teacher going over my set design sketched. We talked about what was good about the sketches and what needed to be changed. Then we worked on putting things into google sketch up.

Class at Parkrose

The week before spring break I stayed at Parkrose instead of coming to ACE one day becuase i was teaching a class. I was teaching the tech theatre class at Parkrose that is normally taught by the theatre teacher Ms. Zena. I started off with a discussion about what they knew about set design and architecture. Then I split the class into groups and gave each group a scene from the Little Mermaid. Each group had to come up with a design for that scene complete with scene changes and lighting. The class was hard to teach because the students didn't know much and didn't respond much when I asked them questions. Each of my questions ended up needing to be leading questions to get them to say and know what I wanted the to.