Buckets Scene Notes

 1. Doctor

  • Props
    • Photo frame, white file
    • White tables with panels
    • Bucket for list notes
    • Mobile Phones
  • Lighting
    • Spot lights on actors with wash
  • Projection
    • Emotive phrases – Definition , List1, List2
    • List of emotive words
      Confidential, Concealed, No one talks about, Disillusioned, Stressed, Uncomfortable, Off-kilter, Doomed, Distraught, Overwhelmed, Alarmed, Ordeal, Shocking, Terrible, Tragic, Unstable, Agony, Disastrous, Dreadful, Resentful, Condemning, Pessimistic, Controversial, What no one
      tells you, Secret agenda, Magical, Magnificent, Miracle, Remarkable, Revolutionary, Sensational, Superb, Tremendous, Trustworthy, Deadline, Uncaring, Helplessness, Disempowered, Antagonistic, Alienated, A cut above, Delighted, Ecstatic, Freedom, Astonishing, Honest, Blissful, Thankful, Sunny, Innocent, Courageous, Optimistic, Liberated, Thrilled, Exhilarated, Youthful, Serene, Blessed, Earnest, Inspired, Brave, Carefree, Authentic, Unburdened, Unique, Empowered, At ease, Spontaneous
    • Time stopping
  • Sound
    • Rhythmic beat introduction
    • ringtones
  1. Stage notes
    • Carnival into the box
    • Actors get out mobile phones (mobile ringtones) actors talking into these, emotive phrases
    • Freeze and then one actor will say one thing and then movement and then more speech – time bubble (projection)
    • Actors start their piece and other actors will slowly fade away.

2. Forward Planning –  Kieran/Steph

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projection
    • Dreams sequence type, photo album (future scrap book), getting married
  • Sound
    • Live Drum Beat
  • Stage notes
    • Actors clear set
    • Conversation about the word vomit
    • Some work with bucket list

3. Pet Project

4. Freetime

5. You’re gong to die

6. Kiss Me 1 (The Mission)

  • Props
  • Lighting
    • Moving head to highlight audience
    • Colour wash and spot
  • Projection
  • Sound
  • Stage notes
    • Meg talks to audience

7. Journalism

  • Props
  • Lighting
    • Emotionally up and down
  • Projection
    • Headlines
    • News feeds
  • Sound
    • Office sounds
  • Stage notes
    • American
    • WEB press room setting
    • WEB press room
    • 4 actors in background + 2 talking

8. Being There

  • Props
  • Lighting
    • Magical
    • moving heads with gobo
    • Colourful washes – slowly morphing
    • Leaf gobo
  • Projection
    • Trees
    • Magical Forest

  • Sound
    • Magical soundscape
  • Stage notes
    • Seen something amazing
    • Abstract
    • Outside
    • Run and jump onto platform

9. Minecraft

    • Make a door and install it – minecraft

  • Stage notes
    • If using the box ideas for staging, actors just stacking them
    • One actor is actually game character – 2 other actor who are playing and talking about it.Could then build up the door way for the next scene
    • Actors build set
    • White cubes
    • Immersive set

10. Charity

  • Props
    • Collection bucket
  • Lighting
    • spotlight on doorway
    • Then into the audience – audience lighting – tight spots on audience members
  • Projections
    • Doorway
    • Window mentioned – hospital window that actor points to

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  • Sound
  • Stage notes
    • Based on the doorway built in previous scene

11. Stan 

  • Props
    • Headphones
  • Lighting
    • Moving heads – wide light and then narrows down
    • Smoke machine
  • Projections
    • Projection of graffiti etc
    • Music video
  • Sound
    • Lose yourself first – then backing
  • Stage notes
    • Sharing headphones
    • mic coming from gantry
    • Full on musical theatre

12. Teacher 1

  • Props
  • Lighting
    • Class room lighting/quite tight, square shape
    • Bright
  • Projections
    • From showcase Punk- end of this video
      Winter showcase projections maybe from Matt Cooper on Vimeo.
    • Somehow signify a doorway – abstract or maybe

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    • projection on floor/black board effect – maybe lose this as she walks through the door – maybe song lyrics

https://vimeo.com/163720904

Blackboard background textures

  • Sound
    • School bells
    • sound from outside and door effect
    • Beatles/Maroon five – smart phone – my guitar gently weeps

  • Stage notes
    • Same setting will be used in subsequent scenes as teacher 2 with same actors

13. Kiss Me 2 (Objective)

  • Props
  • Lighting
    • Replication of number 6 Kiss Me without the movers
    • Loose audience lighting keep wash
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

14. A Spoonful of Sugar or Something Else Entirely

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
    • Projection challenging childhood words
  • Sound
  • Stage notes
    • Initiation for school children – into gang
    • Mean girl films – age teenage
    • On boxes quite high up/or cave

15. Status Update

  • Props
    • phone/computer/tablet pro – make vacuum formed with LED lighting inside?

  • Lighting
    • Isolated lighting for actor
  • Projections
    • Text being written as same time as acting
    • Person on stage and then bubbles coming out projected about what they are doing – make a fake facebook page for this?

  • Sound
    • Complete voice over with no acting just projection
  • Stage notes
    • Staring at phone/computer/tablet

16. The Decision

  • Props
  • Lighting
    • Moving heads, spot above the 3 areas
  • Projections
    • Anger projection/Words

https://vimeo.com/81484286

  • Sound
    • really loud music – 3 different types – parent rushes in and switches off the music
  • Stage notes
    • 6 actors
    • 3 parts of the stage sitting on blocks, lying on the floor
    • Speech is split between all 3 actors

17. Days

  • Props

  • Lighting
  • Projections

https://vimeo.com/149895763

  • Sound
    • Vivaldi – seasons
  • Stage notes

Projection – passing time at end of piece

Calender, seasons passing, tree leaves

Interactive screen

18. The Score

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

Projection of scoreboard?

Set at heavens gate

Heavens administrator and secretary someone getting into heaven

Heaven type projection, following the light, from heart rate monitor, through white light tunnel to heavens gate

Wings behind them – bellydance wings

Ethereal music, heart beat going which then stops

Happy lighting

Smoke machine

Filling in application form – paper and clipboard

19. Pouring and Sipping

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

In a pub

Pub noises, drinks and things

Actors coming and going

Analogy of drinking about love

Aaron lies down as if he’s into a coffin – runs into next scene

20. In Point of Fact

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

rectangle on floor

Rectangle on floor

21. Bungeeabseilskydive

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

From gantry

Beth flies

White wooden ladder get pushed and others catch her

As if flying – moving head soft focus with gobo

22. Better Belieber

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

Hospital feel

Bed from comic potential

Realistic scene

Drips and tubes etc

Chart at bottom of bed

Nurse, PR lady, poorly girl, pop star

Big teddy bear with a red bow

Hospital sounds – Theme hospital

Cynical

Heart rate monitor increases at kiss

Hospital, white clean light wide wash

Bed made from blocks with seat next to it.

Hospital background noise

Possible heart rate increasing during kiss

23. Parenting

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

Single spot red angry and frustrated

Follows on from last scene

Mother of the daughter who is going to die in previous scene

Because daughter is very young

24. Not moving

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

No plan as yet

25. Teacher 2 (We have to go)

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

As set for Teacher 1 – being reduced in length

Change time maybe

26. Leading Question

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

Abstract video – assisted death. Could the actors do this and we film it

Aaron – status update/connecting with facebook

No new messages – projection

Rope and ladder – actor walks through

27. Not Working

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

Back to heavens gates

Coffee break – coffee mugs white

Repeat as previous heaven scene

28. On the Phone

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

Train station at night – atmospherice

Mobile phone prop

Trains coming and going sounds

Track noises

Projection clear where platform is

29. Refrain

Video of what the words say – different things

Tip, fill, pour repeat

Projection of things doing the above

30. Terms and Conditions

  • Props
  • Lighting

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  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUdhJ_S_z3w

Beams of light

Battery life ready to be activated – charging

Womb setting

31. So Happy We Could Cry

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

32. Kiss me 3 (The goal)

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

Repeat of kiss me 1 & 2

33. The End

  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Projections
  • Sound
  • Stage notes

All gather at one ned of the stage walking towards the light

Like end of close encounters of the third kind

Romeo group

Further group ideas