As we progress through the development of our business, we are looking at getting ourselves a website. After all, these days, how can a business function without a website??
We've been in touch we a couple graphic design firms, looking for quotes and such. We hammered out what kind of format we want and what kinds of pages we would require. We've also designed our logo~which I am very excited about!~and want to get that on an electronic file.
The designer whom we have decided upon (I think), his name is Justin. He has presented us with some nifty ideas. We want to have regular access to our site to post event updates, and talk about our feature speakers and stuff like that, and he has suggested that we have a blog-like site, where it will be easy as pie for us to manage it. Hmmm...I think I can handle that!!! LOL!!
But now we are faced with the content of the site. Meaning, we have to write it up and hand it over. I sat at my laptop the other night, drawing blanks of what I wanted to say about our company!! I couldn't believe it!
Let's think about this. We need to write up a page about who we are, what we offer, and why. This is where I keep getting stuck. I can't decided if we should have the home page list this info right away, or if there should be a link on "about us"...and then additionally, what should be separated from the "about us" to the home page?? Does that follow very well, or have I confused you as much as I am confusing myself?
Ironically, I think I need to work out all this website stuff on paper, not on my laptop. I think technology is not going to help me get organized for this. Eek!
Here's keeping my fingers crossed that I can get this sorted asap so we can move forward and get this up and running. Thank heavens I don't need to worry about the technical stuff, just the words...
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“As You Like It”
By William Shakespeare
School Code: BP
As you can tell the play we chose is “As You Like It” by William Shakespeare. The genre of “As You Like It” is a pastoral comedy (“Pastoral" describes literature, art and music which depicts the life of shepherds). We chose the 1920’s as our time period for this costume. The clothing of the 1920’s was much different from today. Women became more masculine wearing shorter dresses and showing off more leg and having short haircuts, while men started to wear sweaters with knickers. The 1920’s came to be during the Jazz Age, the period from 1918-1929, the years between the end of World War I and the start of the Roaring Twenties; ending with the rise of the Great Depression.
Background on the story
Rosaline, daughter of Duke Senior, has been banished by her uncle Duke Frederick while Orlando, a young gentleman, is forced to flee his home after being persecuted by his older brother, Oliver. Both end up going to the Arcadian Forest of Arden. Rosaline goes with both Celia (her cousin and her best friend) and jester Touchstone. Rosaline and Celia disguise themselves as men, Ganymede and Aliena to prevent them from being identified. They rent a cottage from Jacques, a shepherdess, to hide away and. During their stay “Ganymede” meets Orlando; they have counsel session in which “Ganymede” pretends to be Rosaline. Eventually Orlando discovers that “Ganymede” is really Rosaline. They as well as Celia and Oliver, Silvius and Phebe (two shepherds), and Audrey (a dull-witted goatherd girl) and Touchstone get married. In the end all goes well and Duke Frederick repents his faults and adopts a religious life.
Character
Rosaline (Ganymede)
The hero/heroine of the play, Rosalind ranks among Shakespeare's unforgettable characters and is definitely one of his most interesting female creations. She is outspoken, quick-witted, bold, and creative. When faced with a difficulty, she will come up with some surprising way around it, and never loses her superb confidence in her own mental agility and power of fast-talking. Shakespeare wanted this play to be a crowd pleaser and make the audience happy. As You Like It breaks with the courtly love tradition by portraying love as a force for happiness and fulfillment and ridicules those who revel in their own suffering.
Our Design
In our design we are trying to make our costume look lively and different to make it go with the play because the play is a comedy so we wanted to have colors that stand out but not too much. We were going for a simple/ kind of different sort of way to put a girl into a guy’s costume. We also wanted to make a loose fitted costume in which our model would be comfortable in both the girl and boy part of our costume.
These designs were also useful helpful, and helped us create our costume:
In As You Like It Rosaline finds clothing for men in the forest and changes into a guy and so our concept was that we make a girl costume that can be changed into a guy costume, otherwise known as a quick change. This quick change could happen on stage with some sort of distraction going on away from this change or the actor could simply go of stage and do the quick change.
The cost of our costume was $59.53, with this money we bought;
*Lots of Fabric
*Velcro strips
*A zipper
*Buttons
*Elastic waistbands
We had lots of left over material which we didn’t use. If you buy cheaper and less fabric to make this costume, it can be affordable and useful.
For our fabric we chose fabrics that are useful and go with the play. We chose dark blue and light blue squared fabric that balances the color of the shorts, we chose soft materials for the sweater, the inner sweater is thick, while the sleeves are made out of the same material but thinner. We made this choice because we wanted to make the sleeves more movable instead of them being stiff, and we made the dress out of white fabric to showcase the dark blue fabric just below it. In conclusion we made a creative and fun costume that is comfortable, cheap, and perfect!
Bibliography
We got much information from the following books and websites:
Books:
*Herald, Jacqueline. Fashions Of a Decade-The 1920’s.New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1991.
*Fashions of the Early Twenties-The 1921 Philipsborn’s Catalog. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1921.
Internet Sites:
*http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/
*http://www.1920-30.com/fashion/
*http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/fashionhistory_1920mens.html
*http://www.murrayonhawaii.com/nolan/fashionhistory_1920mens.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It
*http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/asyoulikeit/canalysis.html
*http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/asyoulikeit/summary.html
*http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com
*http://www.globe-theatre.org.uk/summary-of-as-you-like-it-and-characters.htm
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoral
*http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/3/1053/frameset.html
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