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The Impact of Scholarship Program (Task 2) (Consider your Audience (We…
The Impact of Scholarship Program (Task 2)
Consider your Audience
We chose this topic because we want many people to become aware of how much of the program has impacted our community and how it has changed our points of view. We don't want them to think that this is just, only giving the scholarship students opportunities but also providing our community a bigger view on our surroundings. We want them to feel an emotional hardship and pain in the beginning as they have to work hard to achieve their goal and as the kids progress with help, they start to feel a sense of gratitude and gratefulness. It is important for us to express the impact of the scholarship program has on the community towards the audience, so that they can become aware that this program is beneficial for us. After the performance, I hope the audience could change how they surround themselves with the scholarship kids.
Beginning
The performers acting as kids will be speaking their monologues from the interview, using cannon to show the determination and hardship in them. No matter if they are either rising towards or distancing themself to their goal, they should still repeat their words as this shows how important and focused they are on achieving their dreams.
However, the three performers will be far apart from each other, using abstract movement to represent the conflict in achieving their goal. Mixing flow and sharp movements. The value of using flowing and light movements, symoolizes gentleness and hope. This can be accompanied by a calm yellow light as it stimulates positivity and strength. Meanwhile the contrasting sharp and powerful movements represent the loss of faith and aspiration. This can be accompanied by a dark tone of red as this shows rage and anger. Both types of movement and lighting can create the transitions of uprising to downfall, making the story of the message more effective towards the audience.
The clothes and make-up on the performers could be very minimalistic (cheap clothings and/ or no make up at all) because this shows the mindset of the CCF kids. This choice helps the audience understand the hardship expressed by the performers, which helps communicate the message more.
Ending
The performers will lead the kids onto the chairs and desk behind them (in total 3 sets). However, the kids movement will be really closed off and tense, making them careful and sometimes fidgeting to make them look nervous. Comparing that to the ISPP student where they’re relaxed and calm, more free and open. Projecting the emotions of the kids on their first day of school. The projection could be a splash of colors (including sound effect) as this shows the different emotions they were going through.
Climax
The performers will then move towards the center where there will be a spotlight - their blocking - while the rest of the stage will be in red to show that their hardship has finally paid off.
While the sound could be the interviews from Scott Neseon and the teachers talking about the kid’s determination and eagerness. As the projection could be a text that will be continuously typing (including sound effect) because this emphasizes more on the words of the interview to tell the story.
Performers must fit into the spotlight and must focus their movement on a higher level, like reaching upwards or using others to help support the performers to reach higher. However, there should also include movements where they are being pulled back into the red light but the other performers will pull them back into the spotlight to represent support no matter the hardship. While the performers for acting parents, teacher, Scott and ISPP students could come in with red clothes which resemble ISPP. As the performers will move around the spotlight in strength and confidence while including hand movements with the red cloth.
Eventually, the performers outside the spotlight will use the red cloth to come in contact with them as this shows the scholarship program. Then all of the performers will hold onto each others red cloth and this will symbolize empowerment and hope.
Transitoning from the climax to the end
Transitioning into the end, the lights on set will slowly turn into a warm tone of yellow, one by one to represent the achievement and success to their hope as this will cause the audience to feel a more free atmosphere with all of the tension disappearing. The performers will throw the red cloth upwards to show acceptance and connect to “graduation”, when the alumnus throw their caps.
Transitioning from the beginning to the middle
In the projection, there could be random shots of clips that resemble a black and white toned “rebirth” and second chance, like a cocoon turning into a butterfly, a growing plant, etc. As the performers continue, the projection can slowly turn into its original colors and the subtitles will be the yellow text from the interview. This will represent the sign of progress and empowerment of the kids.
Consider your Content
In the verbatim performance, I will be including different types of perspectives to deliver the emotions and thoughts to the audience. Perspectives ranging from people who are working on the program like the actual scholarship students, assistant and organizer of the program to people who are a part of the community like ISPP students, teachers.
Our theme of the verbatim play
Our chosen theme for our final performance is based on the effects of the scholarship program. As the scholarship program has been a new additional program to ISPP and it’s community for the past two years.