Changing Genre: Documentary it is!

     

    Hey blog! So, a lot has happened since my last blog post. Previously, we were planning on starting plot ideas for our short film and getting to this weeks agenda, being to explore our genres of interest such as coming-of-age, comedy, and drama, as listed in my blog post from last week. We had a range of floating ideas, spanning from creating an entire fictional and out-of-reach world full of especially characterized characters like a stereotypical French man or a creepy old woman, with that short film playing with mise-en-scene in a more abstract way (costumes, etc...), such as in a Wes Anderson film. Another idea we had was to create a more relatable story, a coming-of-age that does still follow a fictional plot but feels more grounded, such as like an inspirational type of feeling such as the one in Dead Poets Society, where we would play around with dialogue and comedic bits to create an impactful final theme (didn't fully have that one developed yet). While these ideas are still one's I would LOVE to pursue, our currently extremely hectic schedule, that includes directing a musical each (coincidentally the same show, Descendants, but working with different casts), being involved in three musicals (Pippin, Hadestown, and Sweeney Todd), preparing for states for theater (the week after our Pippin performance which is IN TWO WEEKS...), a chorus performance coming up, and school! All of that to say, we have as lot going on.

    This past week we have been in tech week for the show we are currently doing and performed over the weekend: Sweeney Todd! It's been very busy but I love doing the show. While overhearing the director talking to an actress from the show, my sister and I thought that it would be such a cool opportunity to embrace the experience of our future show Hadestown, that we are currently working on that we perform in June, and film a documentary on some aspect of it/ of the theater company that we have recently become involved with! It's something I thought about but didn't truly consider until my sister brought it up to me, and now I'm sold. SO, change of plans! We are now doing a documentary!