One Act Play - It's All Buisness

Last night's perfomance was filled with energy. I have never been more proud of my classmartes. Obviously, as a music technitian, I could see how much they've progressed seeing that I've seen my classmates rehearse feverishly for many days and long hours. It all paid off. The "It's All Buisness," script had a comedic air to it and its humour reacted thunderous laughs throughout this performance. For example, I learned the responsibility and priviledge of being backstage and the dire need to learn the theater's "map" or so to speak. I also learned how to use Windows Movie Maker! I learned that you can play and stop music using the spacebar of a laptop and also, the importance of exact minutes and seconds of a song. Not only that, but the placing of music in a play with its cues makes the play flow better. Choosing music to fit the characters and the situations that were presented wasn't very hard thanks to my classmate, Sandra, who helped write the script. Characters need to be analyzed to be able to find or create a "essence," to the scene. The music chosen fitted the characters just fine but I think if I would have been more familiar with the script and its characters a bit better I could have come up with better music or been at least a bit more helpful to the play. Music is as important as dialogue in a play. Music itself sets a mood and sometimes even prolongs a mood for the audience. Background music in movies is essencial to the film because humans recept the concept of a film a bit clearer. Nevertheless, the play went on and it was outstanding.. but now what i'm wondering is, what should i expect for Paucartambo? Will I be perfoming or should i start researching the culture ahead to initiate my search for fitting music? All good things come to those who wait..

P.D- The lights and music are also essential to the scene setting.


NEXT ON IB DRAMA..