Year 10 Arts Week 2011 (Term 4, Week 4)

All Year 10 students are fortunate enough this week to be participating in an Arts week.  Students have full immersion in a different arts related subject each day over four days and today I had 10RS with me at Otago University's Allen Hall for the Drama programme.

Martyn Roberts, the Allen Hall Theatre Manager and Designer, put together a Lighting and technology programme to give students an insight into the world of theatre technology. Today 10RS examined lighting design (learning how to rig lights & use a smoke machine), health & safety issues in relation to theatre technology, and sound design - where the students spent time in a University Mac Lab learning how to create a atmospheric theatre soundtracks using "GarageBand". 

In the afternoon, students honed the skills they had used in the morning sessions, to work in groups to devise small scenes using a range of props and lights. The four groups came up with some very creative scenes and it was great to see them being imaginative and thinking "outside the box". A rewarding day was had by all.

Below are some photos from the afternoon session, when the students were devising scenes and rigging lights.