Maybe some of you guys would be curious enough to answer these, hahaha.
1) This question popped in my head last Wednesday afternoon. In today's society/world, what's the difference between an artist and a designer? Because there are some artists that cross the threshold and can be designers as well. Designers, on the other hand, are sometimes considered artists as well. *shrug*
2) From a lecture on directing I attended several years back, I remember the speaker saying, "You want the actors feel like they did/created it themselves." So to actors and directors alike, what's your take on this?
3) A friend is writing a musical for a children's workshop showcase, and had said, "I started with the songs because it's a musical. I'm working my way around the music, instead of the words." So I've been wondering about this as well. When writing a musical, which comes first, the spoken dialogue or the songs? Now that I think about it, in musical theater, the songs are also lines that are just put to music (I don't know if I'm making sense, hahaha). Aren't they? So shouldn't the spoken lines be written first?
There are so many stuff on my desktop that's waiting for me to be read. Aristotle's Poetics has been sitting there for weeks now, but so is an ebook of Twilight, hahaha. I'm putting off the latter for now, but I'll let it sit there as well. At least couple of projects still in the works are also in line, asking for my input. Oh well.
Nikki and I met up again yesterday just to catch up on each other's news. Because she went shopping already, plus it was raining, I chose not to go to the mall and decided on hanging out at Starbucks in Harbour Square. Still poised as ever, based on the stories she told about her training in PAL, I can actually imagine her running up and down the aisle, shouting emergency instructions at everyone, dodging everything she runs into, HAHAHA.
Darn, sitting there at Starbucks, so near, yet so far from Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah rehearsals. Ahehehe.
1) Artists put their souls in their work and will not cave under pressure when it comes to the opinions of their viewers for their product is a reflection of their whole being, and it doesn't matter whether society will accept their concepts, ideology or characteristics as long as they create something out of the passion for their art. A designer on the other hand, befalls under the rules of what society prefers the piece, structure or the artwork in general should be. A good example would be comparing a graphic artist to a graphic designer. Artists are commissioned to "create" something based on the artist's interpretation, style or "soul" like a concept, portrait, painting or sketch of the subject; while a designer is commissioned to follow the exact instructions of the one who commissioned the designer, with the goal of pleasing or at least upholding his or her client's requests and standards. An artist is an unbound designer. A designer is a chained artist.
ReplyDelete2) Everything should be a learning experience for both the director and the actor. The speaker probably meant that creativity isn't based solely on the interpretation of the director of a certain piece, rather a collaboration of inspiration of all the people involved in the production. Freedom of expression should be present, but the success or failure of any production is in the directors hands. This is an undoubted fact that few exercise. It is true that no man is a one man production team, but the director has full responsibility of the outcome of any production. An actor can suggest script or acting revisions based on his or her take on the character he or she portrays and the director "guides" that idea so that it would be in harmony to the whole production. So it in turn would be like the actor having a creative part on the piece as well.
3) It all depend on the writer's creative process. If the writer is more musically inclined, he or she would instinctively write the music first and let it grow from there, or base the whole piece on the flow of the music. But this would greatly affect the whole story-telling part of the production. It will take time to create a story from the music alone, since lines of a musical conveys the story to the audience. There would be great sacrifice to the integrity of the story-telling process, so to speak. A writer should never "work around" something, rather a "create with" attitude should be applied. It all boils down to the writer's creativity and how he or she relays his or her ideas by means of his or her work.
Huwaw, "haba-ness" nga. Thanks for sharing, Drei!
ReplyDeleteAw, c'mon people, share din kayo. I just need other people's opinions here. =)
sorry ha... i was just sooo hooked by the questions eh and i couldn't help but answer em...
ReplyDeleteWahahaha. Ano buh, it's okie. =P
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