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- Creator:
- Trabitz, Randee E.
- Description:
- I directed and collaborated with performance artist John Fleck on a performance piece entitled Blacktop Highway, which I directed for Redcat's NOW Festival in August, 2014. Using the structure of classic horror films, we explore mixing cinematic narrative with the liveness of theatrical performance. Fleck plays a dizzying array of filmic archetypal characters live, on video and with puppetry. We achieve a heightened interactivity between them by using multiple projection screens, to create an environment of video imagery. In this project report, I describe our collaboration: from inspiration, to our method of generating text, to funding, to installation and performance. I discuss Fleck's history and impact on the world of performance art, analyze recurring motifs in his long career, follow with a theoretical discussion of Blacktop, and conclude with a self-evaluation of my own work as director and dramaturg.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles
- Department:
- Television, Film and Theatre
- Creator:
- Arnold, Sean Robert
- Description:
- I developed a story simultaneously as a comic book and as a play in order to examine how the differences between the mediums affected the development of the story. The story I told is called "Lately Something's Changed" and follows the last two males left on Earth as they deal with the death of the last female and what that means for their lives moving forward. The play was performed at CSULA in February of 2014, where I distributed copies of the comic to everyone in attendance to get feedback about both. Through analyzing that feedback and the notes I made during development, I decided that stories exist outside of the medium through which they are told. Thus, any story can be told through any medium, but a good author takes advantage of the particular strengths and weaknesses of a medium when crafting a story.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles
- Department:
- Television, Film and Theatre