Creating shared folders for submitting drawings, class notes, and research project

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Please set up a shared Google Drive or Dropbox folder dedicated to this class. Make sure you put your first and last name in the title of the folder (see below). Within the course folder, create three subfolders: drawings, class notes, and research project. Please make sure that all these folders are shareable and can be viewed by all. I should not have to ask for permission to view the documents or folders. 

FOLDER: Theatre History 2280ID, Section ___, Christopher Swift
   SUBFOLDER: Drawings
   SUBFOLDER: Class notes
   SUBFOLDER: Research project

Once you have set up the folders, simply post a link to your master folder (Theatre History 2280ID, Section ___, First Name Last Name) by replying to this post. Going forward, all you need to do is upload your drawings, class notes, and research project assignments into the appropriate folders. You should not post links to the files themselves. Post only a single link to your master folder by replying below. Nothing more. I will be going into your folders throughout the semester to check on your progress. 

Thank you for setting up your folders in this manner and posting links to folders only (not to individual documents). Please make sure that your folders can be “viewed by anyone with this link” when you share.

58 thoughts on “Creating shared folders for submitting drawings, class notes, and research project”

    1. Christopher Swift Post author

      Drawings: You have included all the required drawings, but I think you needed to take more time with a few of them — particularly the Kiesler stage (final drawing) and Serlio’s Tragic Stage. You seem to be rushing to complete the drawings. Have you seen the tutorial on drawing a straight line? I think drawing a free-hand straight line is your biggest challenge: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/swiftthe2280d273spring2024/resources/ If you want to improve your grade on drawings, redo these two drawings after you practice drawing a straight line.

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      Research project: I think you need to do a more careful observation of the area around the theater. It is not equally industrial, commercial, and residential. You will discover this when we do the GIS analysis. Also, there’s little attention to the level of tourism in the area. The area is extremely expensive (Madison, Fifth, and Park avenues are the most expensive in the city). Your research questions are excellent. See if you can find the answers in Act II. Drawings are very good as well.

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    1. Christopher Swift Post author

      Drawings: Since your pencil is quite heavy, you were unable to draw some of the finer details in Serlio’s Tragic Stage. Also, the Hellenistic Theater is not drawn accurately (single point perspective). For full credit, please redo these two drawings using a finer pencil to get the details. If you need help with single-point perspective, please see me during office hours.

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    3. Christopher Swift Post author

      Act I: Good observation about the industrial past that lives on in the contemporary urban scene. I think you could go deeper in describing the particular nature of the place — what kinds of people inhabit the space? Think about class and ethnicity. Do the shops cater to a certain group? Are the locals lower, middle or upper class? How does the urban situation reflect class tastes? The transportation situation is unclear too (be more specific about train and bus depots — and this could have been mapped on your birds-eye view drawing). Finally, your research questions need work. Are you sure there is an active theater community in the area? Perhaps people come from other neighborhoods to attend productions at the Chocolate Factory. Are there other theaters in the neighborhood? If not, this suggests that the Factory is unique.

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    1. Christopher Swift Post author

      Drawings: Serlio’s Tragic Stage is excellent — I can see that you have improved in single-point perspective drawing since the Hellenistic Theater (which is not correctly drawn). Your sketch of Kiesler is rushed. Please redo for full credit. Remember to anchor your drawing in the most prominent attributes so that your drawing maintains its integrity.

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    2. Christopher Swift Post author

      Class Notes: Good. You might want to flesh them out some more to improve your quiz scores. For instance, the most important information about the IRT subway in terms of our class is the impact it had on creating the Broadway district. (This is just one example). Make sure you make these connections in your note taking.

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    3. Christopher Swift Post author

      Act I: Very strong in-person observations about the neighborhood. The high-end restaurants and boutique shops, residential aspect, and height of the buildings. Your summary analysis seems like it was AI generated — where did you get all that information about the diversity of all the high end downtown neighborhoods? Or families and comparisons with adjacent neighborhoods? Please make your own observations, and if you do research, make sure you cite your sources (ChatGPT is not a “source” — it just steals from sources around the internet without giving credit and monetizing the information for its own profit). Your research questions are excellent. See if you can find the answers in Act II.

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    3. Christopher Swift Post author

      Act I: very good work. Terrific drawings. There really is very little Art Deco architecture directly around Lincoln Center — you need to do a bit more careful research here. Your research questions are very good. When you work on the next stages of your project, pay special attention to two things. 1) Look to the west of the Lincoln Center area. There is some subsidized housing and a high school. In other words, the massive performance space (good observation about the calm created by the wide open spaces) divides two different kinds of neighborhoods. 2) Discuss DS&R’s redesign aspects of the LC spaces. There was a idea behind the redesign of the original architecture — see Liz Diller’s Ted Talk.

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    1. Christopher Swift Post author

      Act I: Excellent work. You have conducted thorough in-person analysis of the spaces around the Flea. Research questions are good — just make your second question more specific. Do you mean architecturally or do you mean the artistic company at the Flea or the mission statement?

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    2. Christopher Swift Post author

      Drawings: the drawings are very professional, but I wanted everyone to avoid using a straight edge. It appears that you also drew the Serlio stage using a transparency over the original. The sketches should have been done by eye and free hand. You are missing the Appia sketch. If you’d like to do a couple of drawings over again free-hand, please let me know if you submit them.

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    3. Christopher Swift Post author

      Act I: Overall, a good report. Nice point about BAM serving as a visual anchor for the area. I wouldn’t say that the street patterns are “normal” at all. Flatbush is a diagonal street that cuts through the rectangular grid and its intersection with Atlantic make the area a major traffic hub. I was surprised you didn’t mention the Barclay’s center or the MTA station. Nearly every train the city goes through the Atlantic/Flatbush stop and it’s also a station for the Long Island Railroad.

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    3. Christopher Swift Post author

      Act I: Excellent observations of the local buildings and people. Your hand-drawn map needs more landmarks. Please also use typeface that’s easily read and give yourself credit for the photographs (not “student”). You did not write two research questions.

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    3. Christopher Swift Post author

      Act I: Excellent work, overall. A few notes:

      • Your particular neighborhood is not at all homogenous, and this needs to come out in your report. It’s on the edge of Ft Greene which is heavily residential, and on the other side (Flatbush) — there’s BAM, Barclays, and the shopping center. Make sure to include this diversity in your report.
      • Your research questions are excellent and will help you understand the history of the area from the last 40 years. It was not always upper middle class or a commercial center. It would be interesting to know how the theatrical activity followed the redevelopment. Did Barclays and the shopping center come before TFANA?
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    1. Christopher Swift Post author

      Act I: Incomplete. Please use the “Site Report” as a template. You need to include photographs (and attribution), drawings, your name, name of the theatre, etc. Will wait for you to resubmit. Please let me know when you do. /p>

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