Take a Bow

Music: Life is a Highway - Rascall Flatts.

Ok. To start off, I would just like to say I am totally screwed, in everything at the moment. I am forgetting things I shouldn’t and feel so bad about it (i am SOOOOO SORRY ms lewis!!!!!!!!!) and I don’t sleep and I’m feeling sick, and i’m stressed about EVERYTHING. So if this is brief or bad…

Well Tuesday’s class wasn’t very productive because we are struggling to get things done and get them the way that we want them. We are having MASSIVE MAJOR problems with comic everything and considering the four of us are sick and just blah at the moment we aren’t coming up with anything and that makes us even more stressed which then makes us worried and sicker. So it’s a LOVELY little circle at the moment.

We also haven’t even begun to look at the dramatic elements to put in or expressive skills, but we do stagecraft as we go in each scene.

The only bonus that has been working for us in the group has been the scrapbook we have kept with everything about our ensemble in it including any jokes or lists of research. But the research doesn’t help us when we can’t come up with storylines that are funny.

Anyone with ideas for decade comic stuff for us would be appreciated.

Cutting it short.

Music: Baba O’Reilly - The Who. 

Music: Wait… its a change over… No More Sorrow - Linkin Park. Off their new album. So different but so good…

Moving on.

I was reading Maddi’s post just before and yes there are some aspects of what she was saying that I do agree with. Sorry I haven’t been there for one of the lessons. It was Tuesday and literally couldn’t drag myself out of bed except for the doctors appt that I had. But if I had been well enough I would have come.

I did hear that some things were done in Tuesday’s lesson which progressed some of the scenes that needed tightening of such. Which was good in a way, but it was also said to have been quite an unproductive lesson from the word that I heard… (De La A.P is NOT drama Jess and Leah!) It would have been better if maybe some more scenes had been done on Tuesday but what will be will be. So we move onto today (Thursdays) lesson.

Alright, we were missing Leah today, which was a shame as she was sick and couldn’t be with us and rehearse with us before we show Cashy what we have in order to even have a chance at Creative Arts.

We managed to come to some small conclusions, after quite a while. We came to the conclusion that Maddi can’t play a guy … shes just too much of an English woman. So proper. Haha, and she acknowledges that too. And that Jess may need to not be in the 1960s scene as to allow her to be in earlier scenes and balance out the distribution of the scenes.

Maddi and I stayed in the drama rooms at lunchtime to rehearse and organise our script and such. I was feeling awful by this stage… I was sick, leave me alone.
But we sort of sorted a little bit of stuff out and came to some conclusions about some stuff.

Hopefully we will get some work done early in tomorrow’s class and tighten some stuff so that Cashy can be impressed by us. haha. sorry…

We have rough ideas for the 50s, 40s, 30s and 20s now which works. But we’ll see what Jess and Leah think of what Maddi and I have discussed and come up with and take it from there.

Cheers

Music: Last Train Home - Lost Prophets.

Music: Simple Design - Breaking Benjamin.

Sorry about the lack of posts this last week. Usually I am better than this but I worked Wed, Thurs nights and I’m really sick, i feel like I’m coughing up my lungs at the moment,  so mum cracks it when I’m on the computer. You know what mother’s are like.

Anyway, we have made quite a bit of progression in the last two lessons for our ensemble. I love it, I just hope that it is funny enough as the criteria asks for.

We have now managed to complete 4 out of 9 scenes. And our 5 scene is pretty much getting there, just needs to be majorly tweaked and put with movement and such and it will be good. So we have been working backwards actually, we began with our 2000s scene and have completed (without perfecting them yet) the 2000s, 1990s, 1980s and 1970’s and we have been working on the 1960s which will hopefully be good and funny.

We are yet to focus on any of the expressive skills or dramatic elements, so we will eventually begin for work these into our performance once we have gotten the script and scenes down to what we want them to be like and then we can enhance it all.

Sorry, short post. I can’t be bothered typing much. Sorry if it’s not up to standard.

Cheers,

Music: The Mile - Dead Letter Circus

Music: I don’t know… let me check… I know its Incubus - Out From Under.

Alright. So we have finally begun to work on our Ensembles which is good because it will help us to use a range of dramatic elements, and expressive skills in a different way and working with people rather than in a solo where it is on your own.

So I am in a group with awesome people. Maddi, Boxy and Leah. And we are all pretty disverse in our acting abilities and strengths so that will be a massive bonus for when it come down to impro and script work, as some of us a comic and some dramatic.

We have a theme of Technological Revolution (Cashy I better not have to say that at any time… I can barely type it without feeling fatigued after. Although I learnt a big word today… 8 syllables. Institutionalisation. And NO it was not in reference to my mental health either…)

After having an inital idea of contrasting the 1920s with present day Tech Rev, we realised we wouldn’t be able to come up with a strong enough plot and so we talked to Cashy who helped us and now I think we plan to have the contrast between the different decades of Tech Rev. Eg. 1920s = Airplanes.

We are still researching at this stage, but next lesson we already have a few ideas that we can start to work with and impro and script and work to get a comic (as it has to be) interpretation of the theme.

Anyway. Best be off…

Can’t wait to get really into it.

Cheers,

Music: Bling - The Killers.