Singin’ in the Rain
November 5, 2011Hermon High School
A note about the process of producing Singin’ in the Rain at Hermon High School:
The arts are a gateway to real-world skills and ideas, and, for the first time ever, Hermon High School is proud to announce that this year’s fall musical has been completely produced by the students in Hermon High School’s Theatre Production class.
The Theater Production class features the Marvelous Marketers, Costumes at the Theatre, Felicia and the Fundraisers, the Bodacious Box Office, and the Glamorous Gala teams. For this fabulous production of Singin’ in the Rain these teams have created the tickets, promotional videos and posters; researched, organized and purchased costumes; solicited donations and sold advertisements, umbrellas, and t-shirts; orchestrated and planned the annual Gala Event; and managed all ticket orders, questions, and sales at the Hermon High School Performing Arts Box Office.
As with all classes in the Hermon High School Performing Arts program, the learning process is the most valuable element. In that spirit our students integrated the following 21st Century tools into the Theatre Production curriculum: Internet research for scripts, costumes, props, and historical references; text messaging to communicate with fellow cast members, crew members, producers, directors, and vendors; email and social networking to stay informed about rehearsals, costumes, set construction, prop information, as well as to share ideas, purchases, and scenes examples. Students used HD digital and still cameras to create the silent movie scenes for this show, take archival photographs, and shoot the cast headshots. Finally, Theatre Production students created the highest quality production and promotional materials by using the following programs and attending these professional development opportunities:
- Adobe Photoshop 5.0
- Adobe Illustrator
- Paperless post Apple Pages, Keynote, and Numbers programs
- iMovie
- Final Cut Pro
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Go Daddy web hosting
- Apple iPhones, 3GS, 4
- Apple Powermac
- Apple iPad
- Disney Institute in Marketing Training Session sponsored by Eastern Maine Development Corporation
We are proud of the student work and learning that has occurred because of this real world project and know that our students will take the skills and techniques learned in this inspiring theatrical experience with them in whatever career they choose to pursue. We are lucky to have worked with state-of-the-art, 21st Century tools and to have had the opportunity to apply this work to real world business, marketing, development, technological, and theatrical experiences.
It will be raining on the stage during the performance and certainly happy rain drops. Just three short years ago Hermon High School had no musicial and only one theatre class. Today there are four theatre classes, and for the first time ever a STUDENT produced musical from our Theatre Production class. This is a great example of interweaving media arts with the others arts disciplines. The picture for the poster was taken by a student, photoshopped by other students and finally other students negotiated with the printing company on the cost. This post information was contrbuted by Cami Carter.
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Thank you Argy for this awesome publicity for our show!
A quick update, and it’s my fault for sending the wrong poster to Argy–I can see my students rolling their eyes at this mistake now–the extension number for tickets is 1162 and the email address is actually hhsperformingarts@gmail.com.
Come see a great show!
Great stuff! I maintain through conversations with Casey Rush (MDI High School) and Rebecca Wright (Ellsworth HS) that theater is in fact the bringing together of all the arts and should get the kind of push and recognition it deserves from all of in the various disciplines. I do video with students and see this as an extension of theater and requiring some very similar learning such as with sets, body movement, music and “acting”, to say nothing of the “fine art” of framing creative shots. So kudos to Cami and all the students and others who were involved in this production!