I read a book. Let me explain. 

In our humanities class we were assigned to read the book “The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton. While we read the book, we learned about the second part of our worldview project. For first part of our worldview project please look here.

Worldview is the way which you see the world. The things that you cherish, the experiences you make, the information you gather, and the place where you live all influence your worldview. There are 7 big influences on your worldview.

These things will impact how you see the world around you. You can think of your worldview like the goggles that you see the world through. 

How does this tie together with the Tableau?

The last part of our project tied the book and the worldview together. We used tableau to do so. Tableau’s are still plays (the theatre kind). You start a play and then you freeze for 20 seconds. That’s usually it, but we did two tableau’s – one for the 1960s tableau and one for the 2021 version. I will explain more about that a little later. As we were presenting our tableau’s to our parents during a PLP winter exhibition, one of the biggest challenges was showing expression and explaining what the scene is. This is because we weren’t allowed to speak during the scene and we had to wear masks. We managed to show emotions with our eyebrows pretty well. 

Winter Exhibition – The Big Night!

Here we tied both tableau’s and worldview together. We had to show how our tableau’s represented two aspects of worldview. We have presented in a group. The member of our group, or if you like, The Cast, were me, Ronan, Frankie, Kadin, and Caden.

Photo of the layout

We had to create set pieces, costumes, script in preparation for the big event. 

As introduced prior, part of the assignment was to create two tableaus. One from the time of the book, which is the 1960s and one that we make up from 2021. We had to interpret different pieces of the scene into how they would look in 2021. 

Set          Some examples of this are the change from a drive in movie theatre to a cineplex. We changed our set by moving around some chairs. We pulled back the tarp that was covering the cineplex sign and we scrolled up on the word document to change the look of the projector from an old looking one to a newer projector.

Transitions are hard.    The hardest part in the transition always seemed to be handing out the 3-D glasses. This was mostly because of two problems. Firstly, we didn’t have enough 3-D glasses for everyone, which we didn’t realize until we started performing. To fix this, I didn’t wear any during the scene. This turned out to be a bad idea because it was quite hard to remember not to give me any glasses. We messed up so much because of this.

The second problem that we faced during the transition also came from the glasses. It happened because Ronan was talking and we couldn’t give him any glasses until he finished talking. This on top of the cast being separated to two different sides not being able to communicate with each other ended up with one cast member quietly trying to get their glasses and two people waiting to give Ronan his pair of glasses. Quite annoying. In the end I would give Ronan his glasses, but because we didn’t practice it much we couldn’t remember it every try.

It was hard to change all these set pieces within the short time that Ronan was talking, but we could pull it off consistently enough to not change anything about it. The set changes were the following: moving Dally’s chair in front of Cherry’s chair, lifting the covers to reveal the cineplex sign, scrolling down on the computer to change the projector from an old one to a new one, handing out glasses, putting the 3-D glasses box on the concession table, and we had to do it all before Ronan stopped talking.

Set Timelapse and other photos      We were asked to take some photos and videos for our blog posts. We didn’t do a great job, because we only have photos of the 1960s version of the tableau. I also added some other cool media of stuff we did during the project.

We made a plan for the set. We added a cineplex sign afterwards, but except for that this is what the set looked like.

This is a pretty bad Timelapse of us making the set

Group Movie trailer

cast photo

Photo of the 1960s set and tableau

We made a movie poster as well. You can see it in the background of the photo above.

Conclusion

Acting is hard, set design is fun, and scripts are hard to memorize. For next time the main thing I’d do differently is spreading the script lines more evenly. It’s hard to remember all the stuff that we have to say. Overall the skill that this project taught me about very well was  how to work with others. We had to be communicate with each other, collaborate to get tough tasks done and think creatively on how we could create a scene with such limited restrictions.

Other cast members blogs here👇

Ronan       Caden         Frankie