Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Final Sound Design Rubric

Here is the final rubric for your performance on Thursday. Please use the rubric to help put the best performance on as possible!

MS Performances: 
Emma
Dani & Louisa
Duda & Sofia S.
Sofia O. & Maria Paula
Agustina & Olivia

HS Performances: 
Chihiro & Montse
Siyeon & MinSeo
Artur

Friday, May 24, 2019

Dress Rehearsal

Now that you are ready with your sounds, you will need to add them to a Media Player and run a dress rehearsal.

Once you have all of your sounds/music recorded, import your sounds to a theatre playback program. MAKE a playlist in order of the cues you made on the Sound Cue Sheet. (Make sure all of your sounds are the correct sound files--MP3 or WAVs.) Many people use programs like iTunes, but for theatre shows, we use the following program to allow better flexibility: 

MultiPlay (PCs) or 

QLab (Macs) **NOTE: I had a lot of trouble with this version of QLab. (It's quite a bit more complicated that previous versions.) So, I would recommend using iTunes if you haven't already started working with QLab.

Sound Board Operator
1) ONE member of your team (the sound board operator) will need to download to their computer.
2) Sound Board operator should upload the sounds and make sure they are in the correct order
3) Play with using the GO buttons and how to move quickly to next cue.

Stage Manger -- You are in charge of "calling"the cues. You need to prepare your script to be able to communicate clearly with your Sound Board Operator.

There are two terms you will need to know "Standby" and "GO!" You will need to annotate your script in the following manner (using your pencil).

Stage Manager: (a few lines before the line to have the cue play) "STANDBY Q# __________"

Sound Board Operator: (moving hand to cue/go button) "Standing by."

Stage Manger: (at the exact moment the sound should play) "Q# GO!"

Sound Board Operator: (pushes the GO button)

________________________

Once you have completed all of these actions, you should practice running the cues on your own and then with the actors!