These events include a video production, a musical, and a Shakepearean play. Theatre at St. Michael's also celebrates diversity, community, and encourages respect, awareness, and acceptance of one's uniqueness and the appreciation of others. A Video Production . Over the course of this workshop, students work in small groups to learn the basics of video techniques, create a script for aproduction, perform, record, and edit their piece. They have access to professional instruction in scriptwriting, acting for video, and videography.
Students also have personal use of our state of the art video and editing equipment.
Digital camcorders allow our young filmmakers to up load their clips into iMovie on our iMacs, where they experience the editing process firsthand. By the end of the session, students will have written, starred in, and edited their own performances. Students work with the faculty to create their own story and characters, write scenes and themes of songs. Songs are composed, based on student input, by a professional composer. Everyone creates his or her own role in the musical.