Just before spring break started at our school, I traveled with my school ITS theatre troupe to the North Carolina state competition. I brought my sound design for Dead Man's Cell Phone with me to compete. This was a very new experience for me as I had never competed with a theatre tech presentation before. I knew what I had was good work but I worried I wouldn't be able to present it all properly within the given time frame. Our school has a lot of great tech people and I wanted to put my name up there with them by getting a superior score.
thankfully I was very prepared going into the room. We worked the night before with our teachers and fellow tech students to put the finishing touches on our presentations.When I went into the room I was relaxed and ready to show them what I had. Everything went smoothly as I quickly went through my sound plots, cue sheets, and played cues off of my bluetooth speaker. In the question portion I didn't get any questions that left me at a total loss which I took as a very good sign. At the end of the competition I got my scores back. i received a perfect score and critic's choice (an honor given to the best person in each field). While I will not be taking my sound design on to nationals, (due to my ability to only compete with one event and a critic's choice in duet acting) presenting my sound design at State's was a valuable experience. It helped me learn to explain the choices I made in the show clearly and concisely. It also gave me even more appreciation for the technical side of creating a working sound system as I had to explain the challenges I faced in rigging up speakers and creating a working speaker chain. These are skills I will be sure to take into the future as I continue to do sound work. -When and what competition I went to -The competition in summary -Important takeaways
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AuthorSamuel Henry is a Senior at DSA in NC. He has 3 years of prior experience in the game design pathway and he's looking forward to becoming a great game designer. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools Categories
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