Practice PPP

I went to Kaitlyn's house today to work on this thing. I still don't really understand how we're supposed to take something as inspiration and expand on it. Like I understand that we'll need to research on what our idea is, the setting, the clothing of the time period, etc. but where does this expanding on the actual inspiration thing itself come from? Our inspiration is the cartoon from last year of Calvin and Hobbes.

This is what we eventually came up with:

Background of the Great Depression
• Started in October 1929 with Black Tuesday (crash of the stock market)
• 25% unemployment in the United States
• Establishment of Hoovervilles, usually around the railroads
• Bank robbers such as Bonnie and Clyde become heroes because bankers were so unpopular
• Many fathers left home to find employment
• Coincided with Dust Bowl in the Great Plains
• Bonus Army kicked out of DC by General MacArthur on the orders of Hoover
• New election of F.D. Roosevelt and his New Deal
• Many people lining the streets selling apples to try to make money.
• This background information wil be used to

General Storyline
• A family is forced to leave their home because they are no longer able to pay for the housing
o This is because the father has currently lost his job store clerk
o Now, they have to move into a Hooverville
• At this time, the father is distraught while the boy remains optimistic
o The boy will have a stuffed animal which will later be used as a parallel to the son and the father. The stuffed animal is inspiration for the boy to remain happy while the boy is inspiration for the father to work.
• The father then spends days looking for a new job
• He is disappointed because he cannot find one
• He comes back ill-tempered and unhappy while his son cannot understand why
• Then, he finds a job at a candy store. He is a candy boxer.
• He meets the boss—who is very generous
o He is benevolent and he wants to lower his work load, thus he looks for a manager. However, while he is observing, he does not tell anyone he is looking for a new boss of the company.
o The problem: the father is at a very low level of work. He has to work his way up to prove that he can be the manager.
• He works hard and he quickly is promoted because the boss is impressed by his diligence.
• There is an antagonist. There is a co-worker, named Louis, who wants to please the boss.
o He tries to sabotage the father. However, he eventually is caught and is on bad terms with the boss.
• Ultimately, the boss favors the father in the end. And in the end of the story, the boss reveals that the father will be able to take over the company.


Setting:

Source: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://arizona.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bf80c53ef011168d02683970c-500wi&imgrefurl=http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2009/03/bushvilles-the-new-hoovervilles.html&usg=__Yo1hd241NBiWtHD_iH_H8WBm-MY=&h=340&w=437&sz=27&hl=en&start=0&sig2=ETindzVOEqO8t4u6T3piSg&zoom=1&tbnid=1aVoZBaEv08VCM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=158&ei=iGKQTPHKPJHAsAOTubx8&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHoovervilles%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D571%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=289&vpy=106&dur=923&hovh=198&hovw=255&tx=114&ty=119&oei=iGKQTPHKPJHAsAOTubx8&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0 -- In this picture, we learned how the setting should look like.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/radicalunionism/548_154_hooverville_umsl.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/radicalunionism/unemployed.htm&usg=__pivp_ZT8Qp9lQh3SPBTDEbEMISU=&h=484&w=502&sz=33&hl=en&start=0&sig2=Nm7NLgkPavK9OvLviWYxMg&zoom=1&tbnid=HC7Lv6Nb28GuCM:&tbnh=126&tbnw=135&ei=BmSQTKTCLovQsAPf0sF6&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhooverville%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D571%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C3&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=293&vpy=260&dur=1415&hovh=220&hovw=229&tx=181&ty=195&oei=BmSQTKTCLovQsAPf0sF6&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:0&biw=1366&bih=571 – from this image, we learned what an individual Hooverville looks like.
Hooverville like the one pictured above.
In the play, the focus family specifically living in a particularly shabby and quickly thrown together house made of wooden planks and a cardboard box.


http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://arizona.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bf80c53ef011168d02683970c-500wi&imgrefurl=http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2009/03/bushvilles-the-new-hoovervilles.html&usg=__Yo1hd241NBiWtHD_iH_H8WBm-MY=&h=340&w=437&sz=27&hl=en&start=0&sig2=ETindzVOEqO8t4u6T3piSg&zoom=1&tbnid=1aVoZBaEv08VCM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=158&ei=iGKQTPHKPJHAsAOTubx8&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHoovervilles%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D571%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=289&vpy=106&dur=923&hovh=198&hovw=255&tx=114&ty=119&oei=iGKQTPHKPJHAsAOTubx8&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0

The factory will somewhat look like this in the production. This will be part of the setting because the father will spend a lot of time working there.


http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://arizona.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bf80c53ef011168d02683970c-500wi&imgrefurl=http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2009/03/bushvilles-the-new-hoovervilles.html&usg=__Yo1hd241NBiWtHD_iH_H8WBm-MY=&h=340&w=437&sz=27&hl=en&start=0&sig2=ETindzVOEqO8t4u6T3piSg&zoom=1&tbnid=1aVoZBaEv08VCM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=158&ei=iGKQTPHKPJHAsAOTubx8&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHoovervilles%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D571%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=289&vpy=106&dur=923&hovh=198&hovw=255&tx=114&ty=119&oei=iGKQTPHKPJHAsAOTubx8&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0 – This picture helped us imagine what the line for getting the job looked like. Setting up what the Great Depression looks like.

This image represents many men during the Great Depression lining up for the job. This image will help us set up the scene in which the father is waiting in line hoping to get picked for the job in the candy factory.
Staging:
• Either in theatre in the round so that the audience can see the full set.
• Or in a proscenium theatre depending on which would work best for blocking.



http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.playhousecompany.com/images/drama.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.playhousecompany.com/drama.html&usg=__13_dJyiFizQ_pNMLw8eU5khtHp4=&h=428&w=640&sz=35&hl=en&start=21&sig2=N23hHwK9Z7rOEz2lpZBkGw&zoom=1&tbnid=Zr9loqbrZtzCKM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=205&ei=SmiQTJn0K4vEsAPey-SxDg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtheatre%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bround%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D571%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C342&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=239&vpy=225&dur=7481&hovh=183&hovw=275&tx=175&ty=86&oei=CGiQTKuZMoL4sAOwifV5&esq=5&page=2&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:21&biw=1366&bih=571 . – This gives us an image as to what a theatre- in the round looks like. This gives us an idea with the amount of space the staging has.

Costuming
• Still presentable clothes at the beginning
• Clothes gradually become shabbier and more patched up
• Only one outfit per character but with clothes layered on so the outfit looks slightly different depending on the season.
• Father and sons: winter coat (younger ones with more secondhand), wool pants (different lengths, some look like they have been outgrown), beat-up looking shoes, newsboy caps for sons.
• Mother and daughters: winter coats, leggings/ tights, very simple dress with minimal decorations, similar shoes to the male characters possibly a hat similar to a sunhat.













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This is the costuming for the men and boys. Each of them are dressed in shabby brown clothing and do not have many decorations. They are not wearing suits, but rather some overalls, and some heavy torn-looking clothing. The clothes are undersized, for the most part.


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Women, like in this picture will also be dressed in shabby clothing. They mostly wear dark colors and sweaters. Others might wear light coats.


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Toy used as the center of the piece, held by the son. Does not necessarily have to be a tiger but it must be a bit worn to look like it has gone through everything with the boy. The tiger will show up over and over again to show that this is the inspiration for the boy to remain positive just like he is the inspiration for his father to keep working.

*I feel like they didn't understand when I said theatre-in-the-round because our picture is of a proscenium theatre but since Eric is writing the actual proposal part, maybe he wants to change it? I don't know. Whatever, it's not important.