Putting it all Together

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What does it mean to have a fully integrated solution?

Putting it all Together

Central Challenge: 240 Points Team Choice Elements: 60 Points Instant Challenge: 100 Points

Storyline

       Technical Challenge Scientific Challenge Fine Arts Improvisational Structural Project Outreach Rising Stars 45 points out of 240 55 points out of 240 100 points out of 240 40 points out 300 70 points out of 240 N/A N/A

CHARACTERS

STORY MAP

SETTING CONFLICT RESOLUTION IMPORTANT EVENTS THEMES

Friday, May 1, 2020

Storyline

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Can someone understand the story without reading the Challenge?

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Integration.

Costumes

Stage costumes can provide audiences with information about a character's occupation, social status, gender, age, sense of style and tendencies towards conformity or individualism. As well, costumes can:

 reinforce the mood and style of the production.  distinguish between major and minor characters.

 suggest relationships between characters.

 change an actor's appearance.

 suggest changes in character development and age.

 be objects of beauty in their own right.

Example

These costumes are made completely out of recycled materials. No cost items on the DI budget!

Props and Sets

 There are many different ways in which backdrops can be used in the theater. One of the most important considerations is how easily backdrops can be moved and set up. Every Challenge except the Improv Challenge has a time limit that includes set-up.  Props are items that actors can use to make the story come to life, while backdrops help put audience members in a specific frame of mind. Although backdrops are not necessary, they definitely make the play more interesting to watch. 5/1/2020

Example

Team Choice Elements

• Team Choice Elements give your team a chance to really show off your specialties! • Specialties are the skills, talents, interests, and areas of strength of your team. •

Your team may create anything they wish for Team Choice Elements.

Goals

• Know

that Team Challenge is comprised of the Central Challenge and 2 Team Choice Elements

• Locate

helpful information about Team Choice Elements in the Rules of the Road

• Understand

how Team Choice Elements contribute to the Team Challenge solution and how they are scored

• Understand

how Team Choice Elements can contribute to the Instant Challenge solution

• Use

the Team Choice Elements Specialties Inventory to identify strengths of the team members and the team as a whole

What to choose

• Your team must create two Team Choice Elements, each worth 30 points, and present them as part of your team’s Presentation. • Team Choice Elements should have a meaningful connection to the team’s Central Challenge solution

Evaluation of Team Choice Element is subjective..

• • Each Team Choice Element will be evaluated in three ways: • for the Creativity and Originality of the Team Choice Element; • for the Quality, Workmanship, and/or Effort that is evident; • and for the Integration of the Team Choice Element into the Presentation Please note that no Team Choice Elements are required for the Improvisational Challenge, Change in Realitee

Evaluation

• Each Team Choice Element must be capable of being evaluated as a standalone item.

• Appraisers must be able to quickly and easily identify your team’s Team Choice Elements. • The way in which the Team Choice Elements are written on the Tournament Data Form is very important.

Example

What to choose?

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A Team Choice Element may be presented at the same time as another Team Choice Element only if both can be easily identified and scored separately.

• For example, a team might choose to present two Team Choice Elements in the form of an original dance set to a piece of original music. Both Team Choice Elements (the dance and the music) can be easily identified and evaluated as separate items.

Make it Unique!

A Team Choice Element may not be a specific item that is required in the Central Challenge that is already being evaluated. A Team Choice Element may be a single unique part of a required item, as long as an Appraiser can identify it by itself.

The Team Manager’s Job Is to Help Team Members

• • • • • • • Recognize that together, team members possess a unique combination of interests, talents, strengths and skills Discover and respect the individuality of one another Celebrate diversity Learn to value and utilize the wide variety of abilities and interests on the team Figure out ways the TEAM is unique and exceptional Design Team Choice Elements that showcase those unique and exceptional intelligences of the TEAM and all team members Help the team actually to be evaluated in practice Team Choice Elements or situations practice writing clear instructions as to what is

Time Management

• Do Not wait until the last minute for your team to decide on their Team Choice Elements!

• They should keep them in mind as they develop their Central Challenge.

• 60 Points or 15% of their overall score is from the Team Choice Elements. Make sure the team chooses the strongest elements.

Steps: What the Team Needs

Help the team brainstorm:

 Create a list of the things they absolutely need.

 Create a second list of things they would like to have.

 Prioritize items on the lists.

Steps: Materials

Help the team brainstorm:

 What makes a prop noticeable and memorable?

 How can they use old materials?

 How can they use materials in unusual ways?

 Where might they find free or inexpensive materials?

 How can they embellish or combine things?

Steps: Construction

Help the team brainstorm ways to construct their backdrops and props.

 Team members have to do all the work themselves.

 Safety is a concern. Don’t allow team members to use tools they can’t use safely. Teach them how to use the tools or have them figure out a different construction method.

 Team Managers or other adults cannot do construction for the team under any circumstances.

Questions