These are photos which I found for the possible poster background
Larissa
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Running Order
Hello everyone
Here is the running order - there are still some loose ends and maybe scenes at the bottom. I have made some suggestions about how I think the maybes might work. Please spend Friday running this as much as possible and discussing the maybes. We will run the show on Tuesday and I will come in for a work-in-progress on Friday 12 December.
Thanks
Michael
Preset - Chairs are upturned onstage
Scene 1 - Chairs stood up / drawn around / removed / standing in squares / Danielle's choreography [Audio: Pilote]
Scene 2 - 5 movements [Audio: Scenes from childhood]
Scene 3 - Amish scarves [Audio: These people are a disgrace]
Scene 4 - Adam routine forwards / backwards [Audio: Raindrop prelude]
Scene 5 - Adam ties scarves round wrists and lines up victims [Audio: Your father your family / woman praying in the street from YouTube]
Scene 6 - The Ordnung [Audio: French Canadian]
Scene 7 - Phone Call [Audio: Olbermann voiceover]
Scene 8 - Hostage scene [Audio: Ave Maria / You Tube Amish Grace audio]
Scene 9 - Family Snapshots [Audio: John Cale]
Scene 10 - Lord's Prayer [Audio: Fur Elise] - Adam writing list
Scene 10.5 - Amish School House description
Scene 11 - Monday Monday [Audio: Monday Monday] - Adam packing bag
Scene 12 - Timeline [Audio: Clock]
Scene 13 - List [Audio: 4 minute Warning] - Adam turning
Scene 13.5 - Olbermann
Scene 14 - Letter [Audio - Paradise] - Adam writing letter
Scene 14.5 - Second phone call
Scene 15 - Media Questions and Answers [Audio: Horn - Nick Drake / interview in street]
Scene 16 - Video montage
Maybes TBC:
Amish makeover
Olbermann
Second Phone Call
Blue Sky Thinking
Amish School House Description
Media questions and answers
Here is the running order - there are still some loose ends and maybe scenes at the bottom. I have made some suggestions about how I think the maybes might work. Please spend Friday running this as much as possible and discussing the maybes. We will run the show on Tuesday and I will come in for a work-in-progress on Friday 12 December.
Thanks
Michael
Preset - Chairs are upturned onstage
Scene 1 - Chairs stood up / drawn around / removed / standing in squares / Danielle's choreography [Audio: Pilote]
Scene 2 - 5 movements [Audio: Scenes from childhood]
Scene 3 - Amish scarves [Audio: These people are a disgrace]
Scene 4 - Adam routine forwards / backwards [Audio: Raindrop prelude]
Scene 5 - Adam ties scarves round wrists and lines up victims [Audio: Your father your family / woman praying in the street from YouTube]
Scene 6 - The Ordnung [Audio: French Canadian]
Scene 7 - Phone Call [Audio: Olbermann voiceover]
Scene 8 - Hostage scene [Audio: Ave Maria / You Tube Amish Grace audio]
Scene 9 - Family Snapshots [Audio: John Cale]
Scene 10 - Lord's Prayer [Audio: Fur Elise] - Adam writing list
Scene 10.5 - Amish School House description
Scene 11 - Monday Monday [Audio: Monday Monday] - Adam packing bag
Scene 12 - Timeline [Audio: Clock]
Scene 13 - List [Audio: 4 minute Warning] - Adam turning
Scene 13.5 - Olbermann
Scene 14 - Letter [Audio - Paradise] - Adam writing letter
Scene 14.5 - Second phone call
Scene 15 - Media Questions and Answers [Audio: Horn - Nick Drake / interview in street]
Scene 16 - Video montage
Maybes TBC:
Amish makeover
Olbermann
Second Phone Call
Blue Sky Thinking
Amish School House Description
Media questions and answers
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Tragedy in Amish Country
These Photos are the last letter wrote to his wife and his list of objects.
Below is a rough timeline that police have been able to piece together of events leading up to the attack, after interviewing Charles Roberts' wife. Details of the girls' injuries are spotty, since the families asked the hospitals not to report on their medical conditions and the hospitals agreed to respect their privacy.
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Monday, Oct. 2, 2006
3 a.m. — Roberts is home from work after finishing his milk run, picking up milk between Amish farms.
7:30 a.m.- 7:45 a.m. — Roberts and his wife, Marie, are up with their children getting them ready for school.
8:45 a.m. — Roberts walks his children to the bus stop.
9 a.m. — Marie Roberts leaves the house before her husband. She heads to a prayer group at the Presbyterian Church, picking up a friend along the way. Charles Roberts was to leave for a random drug test as required by his employer for his license to drive a truck in Pennsylvania.
9:15 a.m. — Marie arrives at the Presbyterian Church.
10:30 a.m . — Marie leaves the church with her friend.
10:45 a.m. — Marie drops off her friend.
10:45 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. — Roberts' wife tries to call him from their home phone. He has taken her cell phone.
10:48 a.m. — The Lancaster County emergency communications web site shows 20 incident calls listed to the normally quiet Bart Township.
10:50 a.m. — Charles Roberts calls his wife and will not tell her where he is but says he is not coming home and that the police have arrived. He then tells his wife the location of his suicide notes. She finds some of the suicide notes and calls her mother and 911.
The Aftermath
Seven girls are airlifted and one is transported via ground ambulance to various hospitals.
Marian Fisher, 13 is deceased at the scene; however, she is transported by ground ambulance to Lancaster General Hospital, where she is officially pronounced dead. She reportedly requested that Charles Roberts shoot her and let the other ones go. Barbie, her 11-year-old sister, s aid, "And shoot me second."
Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 12 is pronounced deceased at the scene.
Naomi Rose Ebersol, 7 is carried outside by Pennsylvania State Troopers. She dies outside the school, shortly after they arrive .
Barbie Fisher, 11 is sent to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The extent of her injuries is unknown at the time.
Rachel Ann Stoltzfus, 8, sustains a shattered jaw and wounds in her shoulder and side.
Esther King, 13, sustains injuries, the extent of which are unknown.
Sarah Ann Stoltzfus, 8, is sent to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The extent of her injuries are also unknown.
tlc.discovery.com/convergence/amish/timeline/timeline.html
Alison
Morning the Amish Tragedy.
Milk Truck-Driver Executed Children in Pennsylvania Amish Schoolhouse
Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk-truck driver carrying three guns and a childhood grudge, stormed into a one-room Amish schoolhouse on Monday, sent the boys and adults outside, barricaded the doors with two-by-fours and then opened fire on a dozen girls. Roberts killed some of the girls and critically injured others, before turning a gun upon himself and committing suicide. The latest reports state that six of the girls have died and the death toll might rise. Most of the children were shot execution-style at point-blank range after being lined up along the chalkboard inside the schoolhouse, their feet bound with wire and plastic ties. The shooting occurred around 10:45 a.m. on Monday in Nickel Mines, which is located in the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country.
On the evening of the shooting, Amish neighbors from the Nickel Mines community gathered to talk about their feelings of grief with each other and mental health counselors. According to reports by counselors who attended the grief session, the Amish family members grappled with a number of questions: Do we send our kids to school tomorrow? What if they want to sleep in our beds tonight, is that okay? But one question they asked might surprise outsiders. What, they wondered, can we do to help the family of the shooter? Plans were already underway for a horse-and-buggy caravan to visit Charles Carl Roberts’ family with offers of food and condolences. The Amish don’t automatically translate their grieving into revenge. Rather, they believe in redemption.
The Funeral Services
Funeral services for many of the children are being held on Thursday. In the aftermath of Monday’s violence, the Amish are looking inward, relying on themselves and their faith, just as they have for centuries. They hold themselves apart from the modern world, and have as little to do with civil authorities as possible. Amish mourners have been going from home to home for two days to attend viewings for the five victims, all little girls laid out in white dresses made by their families. Such viewings occur almost immediately after the bodies arrive at the parents’ homes.
Typically, they are so crowded, ”if you start crying, you’ve got to figure out whose shoulder to cry on,” said a Mennonite midwife who delivered two of the five girls slain in the attack. At some Amish viewings, upwards of 1,000 to 1,500 people might visit a family’s home to pay respects. Such visits are important, given the lack of e-mail and phone communication.
Update: In Thursday’s Amish funeral ceremonies, made even more touching and heartbreaking by centuries-old simplicity, four of the little girls were buried as the Amish of Pennsylvania turned the other cheek. With television and newspaper cameras kept at a distance, and police helicopters enforcing a no-fly zone overhead, one of the few non-Amish guests invited to the funeral of seven-year-old Naomi Rose Ebersole, the first little girl to be buried, was Marie Roberts, the killer’s wife.
With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Roberts sat in the back of one of the 34 black horse-drawn carriages that were part of the funeral cortege behind Naomi’s horse-drawn hearse. On the way from the church to the hilltop cemetary, the procession passed Mrs Roberts’ home where her husband, Charles, loaded up his guns before heading for the little village school on Monday.
On Saturday, Amish mourners joined family and friends for the funeral of the Pennsylvania truck driver who killed five Amish girls before taking his own life. Charles Carl Roberts IV was laid to rest in the graveyard of the Georgetown United Methodist Church, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The cemetery is not far from the school where the shootings took place and the Amish graveyard where his victims are buried. The Amish who came to the burial gave condolences to Roberts’ wife and three children.
Also on Saturday, local Amish leaders met to discuss the future of the West Nickel Mines School. Mike Hart, one of two non-Amish members of a board set up to handle donations following the killings, said the plan is to build a new school in a different location.
As part of their traditional manner during times of crisis, the deeply-religious villagers of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, turned inwards for support yesterday with prayers before, during and after each of the three ceremonies. As a Quaker, I have an empathic sense for the devout, private and quiet commitment to passivism and peace shared by members of The Old Order Amish. My kindest thoughts are with the Amish people as they embark upon the mutually reciprocal journey of healing themselves.
Here is the link from where I got this infomation from.
disembedded.wordpress.com
Alison
Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk-truck driver carrying three guns and a childhood grudge, stormed into a one-room Amish schoolhouse on Monday, sent the boys and adults outside, barricaded the doors with two-by-fours and then opened fire on a dozen girls. Roberts killed some of the girls and critically injured others, before turning a gun upon himself and committing suicide. The latest reports state that six of the girls have died and the death toll might rise. Most of the children were shot execution-style at point-blank range after being lined up along the chalkboard inside the schoolhouse, their feet bound with wire and plastic ties. The shooting occurred around 10:45 a.m. on Monday in Nickel Mines, which is located in the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country.
On the evening of the shooting, Amish neighbors from the Nickel Mines community gathered to talk about their feelings of grief with each other and mental health counselors. According to reports by counselors who attended the grief session, the Amish family members grappled with a number of questions: Do we send our kids to school tomorrow? What if they want to sleep in our beds tonight, is that okay? But one question they asked might surprise outsiders. What, they wondered, can we do to help the family of the shooter? Plans were already underway for a horse-and-buggy caravan to visit Charles Carl Roberts’ family with offers of food and condolences. The Amish don’t automatically translate their grieving into revenge. Rather, they believe in redemption.
The Funeral Services
Funeral services for many of the children are being held on Thursday. In the aftermath of Monday’s violence, the Amish are looking inward, relying on themselves and their faith, just as they have for centuries. They hold themselves apart from the modern world, and have as little to do with civil authorities as possible. Amish mourners have been going from home to home for two days to attend viewings for the five victims, all little girls laid out in white dresses made by their families. Such viewings occur almost immediately after the bodies arrive at the parents’ homes.
Typically, they are so crowded, ”if you start crying, you’ve got to figure out whose shoulder to cry on,” said a Mennonite midwife who delivered two of the five girls slain in the attack. At some Amish viewings, upwards of 1,000 to 1,500 people might visit a family’s home to pay respects. Such visits are important, given the lack of e-mail and phone communication.
Update: In Thursday’s Amish funeral ceremonies, made even more touching and heartbreaking by centuries-old simplicity, four of the little girls were buried as the Amish of Pennsylvania turned the other cheek. With television and newspaper cameras kept at a distance, and police helicopters enforcing a no-fly zone overhead, one of the few non-Amish guests invited to the funeral of seven-year-old Naomi Rose Ebersole, the first little girl to be buried, was Marie Roberts, the killer’s wife.
With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Roberts sat in the back of one of the 34 black horse-drawn carriages that were part of the funeral cortege behind Naomi’s horse-drawn hearse. On the way from the church to the hilltop cemetary, the procession passed Mrs Roberts’ home where her husband, Charles, loaded up his guns before heading for the little village school on Monday.
On Saturday, Amish mourners joined family and friends for the funeral of the Pennsylvania truck driver who killed five Amish girls before taking his own life. Charles Carl Roberts IV was laid to rest in the graveyard of the Georgetown United Methodist Church, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The cemetery is not far from the school where the shootings took place and the Amish graveyard where his victims are buried. The Amish who came to the burial gave condolences to Roberts’ wife and three children.
Also on Saturday, local Amish leaders met to discuss the future of the West Nickel Mines School. Mike Hart, one of two non-Amish members of a board set up to handle donations following the killings, said the plan is to build a new school in a different location.
As part of their traditional manner during times of crisis, the deeply-religious villagers of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, turned inwards for support yesterday with prayers before, during and after each of the three ceremonies. As a Quaker, I have an empathic sense for the devout, private and quiet commitment to passivism and peace shared by members of The Old Order Amish. My kindest thoughts are with the Amish people as they embark upon the mutually reciprocal journey of healing themselves.
Here is the link from where I got this infomation from.
disembedded.wordpress.com
Alison
Amish Forgiveness is Christ Like
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qjJt3wKXdRc
This is another News footage from the last one i posted about Amish Forgiveness is christ like.
Alison
This is another News footage from the last one i posted about Amish Forgiveness is christ like.
Alison
Amish Forgiveness
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=drLx40tKZpg
Here is another link to another bit of footage about Amish Forgiveness.
Alison
Here is another link to another bit of footage about Amish Forgiveness.
Alison
Amish School Shooting Photo Essay
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WgJ5uLRfMmk
This is an idea of what I could do to edit for footage.
Alison
This is an idea of what I could do to edit for footage.
Alison
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