UpstagePrimary/Workshop 3

UpStage Play
Playing with story elements, characters

First check your goals from last week (do you need any help with how to operate in UpStage?)

Script session


 * look at the log (or your script ideas)

- decide who will play each character or characters - remember you can be more than one but it is easier if they appear in different scenes


 * change your avatar name to the character you will play

- think about what your avatar will look like when you make your show


 * how will the avatar move?

- will they sit or lie down? - get bigger or smaller or run, jump or fly?

Acting out a scene think about the other elements happening on stage while the characters are talking


 * what is the backdrop?

- is there a house, or a street or a forest - does the action take place in a room or on a plane or a planet? - will you use a photograph or draw the scenes?


 * is there an important prop in the story?

- does the main character have a hat that blows along the street? - does romeo offer juliette some flowers? - is there a crime scene? what was the weapon?


 * what sounds can you hear?

- is there talking? - who is thinking? - does anyone shout? - is there the sound of a lawnmower or traffic? - what other sounds or music might you include in your show?


 * will there be live drawing?

- does a tree appear to grow in the background? - does a big shape fade into view when the space ship lands? - does the answer to a maths quizz miraculously appear in writing on the homework book?

Make a storyboard

- some will be already in UpStage (what backdrop, props, avatars can be used from other stages?) - what do you need to make? who will do that? - what is drawn before or during the show?
 * planning the visuals

- what sounds need to be created? - how will you make them?
 * soundtrack

Go over show and workshop plan and decide roles who will do what, and when Make some UpStage elements, start with Backdrops and props

Do you need technical help? - for next week help for making avatars (on a white backdrop, screengrab, clearcutting, export with transparency),
 * which application?