The Boards – Charting our Progress
So it’s our final weekend, here at school and with Air Styx. We would have all loved to put in more time earlier so we wouldn’t have to push now, but it’s irrelevant. We have to push now. So Al has made up a handy board of completion – with each task laid out so we can check them off each time one is completed. The “achiever” in me is pretty excited. We have few checkmarks now, but I plan to be a big part of filling up the board.
I am currently working on the sound recordings we’ve collected, specifically with Andrew’s recordings as the pilot, of which I wrote the dialogue. I am very interested in the pilot as this unseen character and I hope he reflects the “ambigous” nature of the characters in the piece. I also want his dialogue to punctuate each scene. Luckily his superb voice acting should make this happen. My inspiration for the pilot was from bus drivers and pilots who tend to say too much. Charon starts out as merely as eccentric but as the flight goes on what he’s saying should just seem strange. (Obviously his words are laced with foreshadowing.) Some of my favorite parts include – his choice to avoid the safety instructions (which actually was because we didn’t know how to get them in but it obviously works for the flight anyway) and his choice to turn off the non-smoking sign. The fuzzing of the PA is also serving to punctuate important phrases – as well as make him strange and “other-worldly.” A little “verfremdunstwerk.” (Brechtian’s – to mke strange in order to provoke thought. Also called alienation effect.)
As we finished our final checkmark the board was erased in haste! Before I could get a photo. (The “achiever” in me was sad.) However each task was completed.
-Jen out.