Ideas for a Final Performance

Hey people, and welcome back to my blog. Before we start, I want to pass an "introductory greeting" for my teacher. (who may not want to be provoked after a small "incident" with a previous piece of work) This homework was made just this morning due to some "unavoidable complications". First of all, when I logged into my blog last night I didn't get to find any posts about the "Design Cycle Ideas", so being the guy who doesn't typically rely on notebooks to write down in advance on my blog, I instead relied on others' blogs to write mine. (That's how I typed the "statistics of the students" down. Thanks for the post, Rasyid) I didn't see their blog updated until this morning, so you can tell I went into some kind of "panic mode".

So here's the post, despite its simple appearance and lack of humor or whatever. I didn't have enough time to write this, sorry. All I can do is write down the stuff the class wrote in record speed. I've got no other choice now. Here's what the class thought of...

• Big band
• Beat box
• Choir
• Body Percussion
• Rap Battle
• Medley
• Drama Crossover
• Slow music to upbeat music
• Sister Act
• Street themed musical
• Cultural Medley Music/Dance
• Musical Story
• Acapella
• Kolintang Orchestra
• Instrument Choir
•  Modern vs. Traditional music
• Cultural Medley Music/Dance

Later that day, we came up with EVEN MORE ideas about what the final performance was going to be like. Here's what else we came up with...

• Marching band
• Disney songs
• A short film (with us performing the music in the background)
• Musical
• A "magic carpet ride" (think Aladdin)
• Musical cartoons (you know, cartoons with our music playing in the background)
• A tribute to the great (now deceased) singers such as MJ, Elvis, etc.
• Short film (once again, assisted by some music in the background by us music-players)
• A small "presentation" (assisted by our music, apparently) about legends in music.
• One hit wonders
• A "horror musical"
• "Back to the Future" musical adaptation (but this time we go into the 19th century, when music was all the rage)
• "Breaking the fourth wall"

MY TOP PICKS

5. Rap battles are an awesome option for me, especially with the added fact that these battles can be music-related, (e.g. old music VS new music) which will be great for the audience rather than your stereotypical choir. Here are a pair of guys who've really convinced me of rap battles being a great thing to watch and probably something we should use for the final performance.

4. Musical Stories are more "my speed". As a guy who likes stories, there's nothing better to pump up the mood of a story than an exhilirating story assisted by an even more mood-setting music score in the background. I suppose you guys know Tom and Jerry? (duh, most of you should, never mind that) Around 75% of what makes up the show is the musical score. Now if we added that to our OWN story. Hmm, wonder how that'd go? All I know is that it's gonna be great...

3. Horror Musicals are basically just like its musical counterpart, only with a different "feel" to it. Instead of the joyful and cheerful sounds of music assisting a nice, peaceful show, we've got a tense show about horror and terror accompanied with an EVEN MORE terrifying and tense music score. The perfect choice if we want to really captivate and enrapture the audience.

2. Slow music suddenly changing into upbeat music; have any of you ever seen those videos (music or otherwise) with a (seemingly) slow and monotonous musical tone? (and before you ask, I'm not talking about those slow songs that maintain their beat throughout the entire song, no) And when you got bored and tired, the music suddenly ERUPTED into a barely audible and ear-deafening blast of music? That's the kind of music that takes the audience by surprise, and therefore a great option to keep the audience interested and astounded.

1. And finally, Breaking the 4th wall. Why just stand there and perform like your common-or-garden performers in those theatres when you can just let the audience join in the fun too? Now (according to my opinion, of course) there are great examples of 4th wall-breaking (Deadpool, who seems to interact with the audience A LOT during his appearances, be it on screen, on comic books or otherwise) and not-so-very good examples. (Dora the Explorer or any other stereotypical childrens' show) At least according to me. If we were able to apply this element to our performance, we could let the audience in on the action, exciting them EVEN MORE and letting them be even more interested in our performance.

Well, that's it then: The ideas for the final performance and my best picks for them. I hope other than fulfilling its purpose as homework, it'll alos give you readers a bit of insight about what I think about these ideas regarding the final performance. So as usual, see you until the next post and goodbye.