Jim Bierman
David Cuthbert
Kimberly Jannarone
Jessica Hayden
Chris Molla
Kathleen Kralowec
Chris(Topher) Maraffi
David Cheng
Mark Twain's press in Carson City NV:
Machine age architecture in Bay area:
1. "motion sketch" of animated character:
2. a possible collage containing history of print and print machines:
3. another possible collage of images to use in the media of the play:
4. a very sketchy motion illustration of cogs:
5. another very sketchy motion illustration of cogs:
skit performed in a living room in which all the furniture is made from/covered in newspaper
conversation between newspapers, from different eras
news devices such as newspaper, magazine, macintosh tablet, electronic reading device, laptop, advertising themeselves and trying to push each other out of the way to get the audience's attention
STOP THE PRESS – EVENT LIST
1. Audience enters through hallway. David Cheng’s “2014” video bit.
2. Opening music (Foreign Correspondents’ Rag). Newspaper delivery (newspaper is the program).
3. Rosie the Printer monologue with printer’s response (sounds, belching steam, lights).
4. Ray K. as talking head pontificates.
5. Newspaper funeral. Newspapers’ complaints.
6. David’s talking-head commentary/faux interviews projections.
7. Ray K. speaks again.
8. Dowd vs. Schmidt (Vin Scully simlecast!).
9. Audience is directed to side rooms. Mo Cap? Dance, Text Dance.
10. Audience groups switch places (Text Dance, Mo Cap? Dance).
11. Audience directed to take seats.
12. Ray K. appears once more as projection. Rosie enters. Each delivers their speech, competing for audiences attention. Printer responds with noises and lights. Text comments and quotes taken from blogs, articles, (also written or reworked by us) etc., are projected. David’s talking heads and newspaper video collages projected. Music recapping themes from dances and “Foreign Correspondents’ Rag”. Computer music, mechanical (typewriter etc.) music. Newspapers fall from above and are scattered across the stage. Scene becomes chaotic. Action ends suddenly. Lights out.
13. (I can’t help it. I have to throw this in!) Ray K. appears alone onstage, sitting on a toilet reading the news on an electronic reader. Announces the end of the show. (I think there needs to be some kind of epilogue-type thing here, in which the audience is addressed directly, in the manner of a Shakespeare comedy, etc.).
“CURTAIN”
Throughout the piece, the Printer makes noises and displays lights and projections, belches steam, etc. by way of comment on action and speeches. Projected text can also provide commentary on action. There should be a multiplicity of voices throughout, to reflect the complexity of the issue.
__Kathleen Media List
15 mins- "ambient mechanical press imagery" (a.k.a. "Press 1")
5-7 mins- "press/person conversation" (a.k.a. "Press 2") (see: "Expo Scene script (to be written))
3- 10 mins- "cartoon balloons" (a.k.a. "Press 3") (see: "commentary" script (tbw))
5 mins- "ambient funeral imagery/newspaper history/death" (a.k.a. "Funeral March") ( <--?? entirely Alex's visuals or...?)
5 - 7 mins- "Dowd/Schmidt score cards" (a.k.a. "Score!") (see: script for debate scene)
varying mins- "blog" contributions (see Press 2)
varying mins/times "newspaper character spelling out text/animated character scenes" (see: script where relevant: introduction of Kurzweil? opening announcements? audience instructions? other text?)
character design and model: newspaper character
layout/design: program
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