Take a Bow

Music: The Mile - Dead Letter Circus.

Alright so I shall complete a check list…

[√] Showcase
[√] Sac
[√] Exam

So clearly that shows that I have OFFICIALLY finished Unit 1 Drama. Woo. Which is in fact a little freaky cause that means it like 6 months till the end of the year and my 3/4 exam and yeah… shoot me.

Ok so the showcase went really really well. While there weren’t that many people who actually came and watched the performances, the people that did had a very positive feedback for it all which really boosted all of our confidences.

My solo went a lot better this time than when I performed it for assessment. I’m not sure why, although I do believe I am more comfortable performing to people I don’t know/ and a large crowd rather than performing to a small intimate friend network. But I was a lot looser and my movements and gestures were more noticeable, as were the distinction and contrast between my primary and secondary character with the use of facial expression and gesture.

The sac. The sac was alright, considering we did it the day after performing and we had to analyse some of the performance and stuff like that it was quite easy to recall all of the information that I needed to. GRADE, absolutely SMASHING :]
Although it was disturbing that during the sac I was blowing my nose like it was a trumpet and I distracted a few people doing it, but hey! i had/have a cold. leave me alone =P

The exam. Long, quite long. At one point I needed only TWO more dramatic elements and then I would have the full twelve. I read over my stuff and started tapping my fingers and im like ‘hey cool rhythm’ inside my head and then it clicked… i had forgotten rhythm.
and then I dunno, i was sitting there going over them in my head and i’m like… have i done climax… no! yay all twelve!!! :] quite happy, quite happy.

All up, this semester with Cashy has been brilliant. Learnt a lot from him.
THANK YOU Cash for everything you did for us this semester. MUCH appreciated.

Music: Under My Umbrella - Incubus.

Music: Sexxxy - Gyroscope. [can’t wait to see them live — BUT SINCE I WROTE THIS FOUND OUT THAT ITS SOLD OUT AND I WONT SEE THEM LIVE JUST YET]

Sorry this post has been WELL overdue. It’s been a rather hectic couple of weeks and I think the working like 3 - 4 times a week is really taking its toll on me. That is why I said I am not working for the next couple or weeks [that and exams are then.]

To begin, Top Acts. OH MY GOD! They were like, I have no words to describe how much I loved Top Acts, and I think what made the night even better was the fact that one of my friends, Kathleen, got into it for Theatre Studies and was on the cover too. Such a lucky girl that one and so damn talented - even Mez said it to us before.
All of the performers at top acts did such an amazing job, no wonder Jess is like in love with the gossip =P.

Alright, if I go on about top acts then i’ll just ramble and that is not what this blog is all about. this is an academic blog that shows that i am a drama student who has no gramatical abilities. haha.

Ensemble.
Or in French… ensemble`.

Our ensemble was FINALLY finished in Tuesday’s class the other day and we were all so relieved. Unfortunately it only goes for like 8 - 9 minutes when it was said that it could go for a lovely 15 minutes but that didn’t happen.

Well we were able to stick to our original idea of technology through the decades which was a bonus and finally came up with scenes for each.

Intro - TV stuff
1900s - Automobile
1910s - Titanic
1920s - Cinema
1930s - Airmail
1940s - Atomic Bomb
1950s - TV
1960s - Breast Implants
1970s - Pong
1980s - Boombox vs. Ipod
1990s - MSN/Computer
Outro - Power blackout

We have started to refine it with the help of Cashy and it took so long but we will get their eventually with the help of Cashy and everything and will hopefully get some things done fine tomorrow

We have started to incorporate expressive skills into it now and should have it refined for monday when we not only perform it for a crowd but also get graded on it.

Ok… solo.

I have in fact tried my solo again recently and lets just say i’m freaking out about it a little bit. Yes i do have like a weekend but I just need to remember everything and making it better than what it was is proving to be a difficult task…
We’ll see how tomorrow afternoon goes.

Cutting it short.

Music: You’ll Go - Sneak.

Music: Favourite Things - Incubus.

Woah, its been quite a while since I last posted. And I noticed that Maddi told me to write a blog that was better than the last one where I was stressed and everything. But we are getting better so onto ensemble stuff…

Well creative arts the other night I spoke to Cashy and he told me that our group just had to stop thinking about it so much. Which was true. So on Thursday we started to just not think that much about the actual ways and script writing of ensemble and we came up with some good opening scenes which we will continue to work on and improve a lot of.

It begins with focuses on TV and the technology and then flashes back to the 1900s, and still goes through the decades and everything like that which is what was our original idea.
We also found that it is a lot easier to work from the beginning to the end of an ensemble rather that backwards where we got stuck on some things because we were working backwards.

The 1900s scene is on the automobile and the first one made or close to first made called the Model T by Henry Ford. It then goes onto a scene where we talk about Titanic and have newspaper advertisments. We are yet to work on the rest and Maddi, Jess and I miss tomorrow’s class as we are in fact on an excursion but we are making up for it on Wed afternoon by having an afterschool rehearsal where hopefully we will work our bums off.

We also need to start looking at the stagecraft elements, dramatic elements and expressive skills and incorporating them into what we are doing so that we don’t leave all that type of thing until the end and then start stressing about it.

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Just like to say a massive congratulations to the girls who did creative arts and especially to the ensemble group who performed and did an excellent job and highly entertained the audience and to Jess for her fabulous MCing and Jac for her beautiful singing of Sometimes and Jess and Jac for Cause of Distraction. Brilliant performance guys!!

Cheers,

Music: Sweet Dreams/Hell Outro - Marilyn Manson