PORTFOLIO PROJECT
R CHECK LIST & INFORMATION
Stage Crew Name: ______
105 Total Points
Use this Check List to make sure that you have included all information in your portfolio.
Remember: Handouts, except Critiques, are not acceptable!
oThe Prologue: Introduction 15 points
¨ Cover of Portfolio decorated to reflect the project (5 points)
¨ Table of Contents (5 points)
¨ Introductory paragraph (5 points)
oAct I: Biography of the Play & Playwright (Knowledge and Comprehension) 10 points
¨ Biography of the playwright & information on playwright’s historical period (3 points)
¨ Photograph or picture of the playwright (2 points)
¨ Biography of the play (3 points)
¨ Photograph or picture of the play in performance (2 points)
oAct II: Script Analysis and Preparation (Application and Analysis) 30 points
¨ Script Preview Handout (in nice format!) (2 points)
¨ Portion of Script used for project with notations applicable to project (4 points)
¨ Given Circumstances Handout with “Questions, Given Circumstances, (6 points) & Creativity”
¨ Design Doodles (4 points)
¨ Historical Research (6 points)
¨ Design Mapping (2 points)
¨ List goals you had for each of your three presentations based on your critiques as applicable from the teacher, student critics, and class comments.
¨ Preliminary Production Meeting Presentation (2 points)
¨ Dress Rehearsal Production Meeting Presentation (2 points)
¨ Final Production Meeting Presentation (2 points)
oAct III: Design Work (Synthesis) 30 points
¨ Process of creating your project
o A log of your design process
o A diary of your design process
o A photographic display of your design process
o A power point of your design process
o A sketch book of your design process
o Come up with another creative idea – to be approved by Mrs. Roney
¨ List Choice: ______(10 points)
¨ Creativity #1: Pick ONE of the suggestions, give examples, and then write up your choice, uses, and relationship to your design in paragraph or bullet point format.
¨ Find an element in the natural world that you used as an inspiration for your design choices
¨ Share an element from your research that became a basis for your design
¨ Do a color chart or palate that you chose for your designs that have a basis in the play and/or historical period
¨ Describe what emotional response you expect the audience to have to your design based on color, texture, and line and why you expect it based on your design choices
¨ Find a painting, music piece, sculpture, photograph or other created piece that inspired your design choices
¨ Find a description or quote from your play that inspired your design choices
¨ Find a poem, song, or other written piece – independent of your play – that inspired your design choices
¨ Find something with a particular texture that inspired your design choices
¨ Come up with another creative choice to be approved by Mrs. Roney
¨ List Creativity: ______(10 points)
¨ Creativity #2: Display your FINAL project in your portfolio or as a realized project in another form, such as 3-D Design, Poster(s), Power Point (with print-out and disk in Portfolio), or other medium as approved by Mrs. Roney and appropriate to your design project.
Your final project MUST be neat and professional; reflect your historical research, script analysis and design process; support your oral presentation; and be an originally conceived interpretation of your play in the job you have chosen.
¨ List Creativity: ______(10 points)
oCurtain Call: Final Evaluation (Synthesis & Evaluation) 20 points
¨ Summation Essay
Summarize your design process and preparation for your final presentation in a multi-paragraph informational essay. Compare and contrast the criteria below and rank how each helped you create your character and prepare for your final presentation.
¨ Assess how each of your three presentations developed, changed, grew, and matured through your preparation, rehearsals, and proceeding presentations;
¨ Assess how your historical research helped in creating your design;
¨ Measure how script analysis helped in creating your design;
¨ Measure how the creativity work supported the creation of your design;
¨ Explain how you used critical responses in your preparation for presentations;
¨ Summarize what you learned from the Design & Portfolio Project that you will take into
other aspects of your life.
Notes:
oThe Epilogue No extra points - mandatory
(Failure to complete this section will result in flunking the project portfolio)
¨ Work Cited List
¨ Work Cited List submitted for Graduation Project (as applicable)
¨ Turnitin.com: ______
¨ Final Summation Essay
Stage Crew Graduation Project – 2012-2013