Take a Bow

Music: Tainted Love - Marilyn Manson

Well it is the holidays and I have one week and one day to get my solo perfect.
HAHAHA… sorry… Not that confident that that will happen. I’m trying my hardest!!!

I finished writing my script and have rehearsed it with script in hand, I HATE having a script in my hand so I can’t wait to be able to get it out of my hand and use both hands. And it was around 20 minutes cause I hadn’t done it fully and needed to stop a lot.
But it’s getting there.

There is still the contrast between the old metal and new metal and contrast between father and son. I am having a lot of problems trying to get a second dramatic element, but I am thinking conflict because the father and son don’t get along so well and they clash a lot about their different generations.

I have started to write down bit and pieces that relate to the criteria, such as:
Symbol: Rock hand symbol, tatoos - metal symbols. etc etc.
And I have an idea of what I am going to do for costume. Hopefully it will come together and actually look metal more than it looks like emo or goth.
So costume I was thinking, black System of a Down tee, black pants, black boots of some sort then have tattos drawn on me. Ok, it better look better than it just sounded.

So, I needed help from Cashy a couple of times. And I just have to say.
Do you EVER get off the computer?
It only took a VERY short time for you to respond to the two emails I sent you. I expected an answer like the next day… not 10 minutes later.
But thanks for the help!

Anyway. At this stage that is all I needed to say about my solo.

I have to work in two and a half hours. For a nice long six hour shift [3-9] (it’s long for the deli).

Cheers,

Music: Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity) - Incubus

Music: Love Today - Mika
(^^^ Not really metal though is it? Haha)

Alright, today, Tuesday the 27th of March, three days before the formal, on the day of my first 3/4 subject sac with I was scared about, we had drama class. For the majority of it we were working on our solo’s.

I spoke to Jac for a while and we performed a little for each other and she helped me a lot in terms of some of the stuff cause she is like me and a massive music freak! (hugs Jac) And so she was a great help and I managed for work out the thing that just wasn’t sitting with me and know I know what I am going to go with the Work scene cause it wasn’t working from one angle, so that is where my secondary character is planning to come in.

Is a third character going too far??

Then I had a really good talk to Nadia about my script, what I had done and what I needed to work on. At this point I had no idea what I was going to be doing for my introduction and beginning but then Nadia gave me an awesome idea and I have gone with that and I am a little relieved.
So I wrote the first three scenes in RE because I was absolutely bored out of my brain. Drama is better than RE =P

I still need to work on the writing of my Satanic/Pagan scene. I have no idea what to do for that yet, and then I need to work on the ending and pretty much finished the order and everything.

Then I shall start to work on transition from scene to scene and character to character and then start on all the small things, such as the expressive skills and the details of the characters personalities and stuff like that. That will be done over the holidays so I have the time to watch metalheads in movies and on the streets and such and find characteristics of them that I may be able to replicate.

I have an alright story plot thing, its just the life of the boy and then the father is in contrast, but I need to work on the criteria soon and base the play around them and with them in it. Soon… I’m GETTING THERE… slowly but surely!!!

Trust me, I’ll do lots of drama on the hols cause its like my release. If i’m angry, i’ll do drama or listen to music so do both cause of my topic and i’ll be happy in an hour or two.

~*~*~

 In the second half of the lesson, or the end 20 minutes of so we watched a couple of the top acts performances from 2005 which were absolutely fabulous. I had seen them last year but they still amazed me at their talent.
This also made me look at my solo and go… amatuer, lets work on this more…

Oh, its 10 30 and I still need to have a shower and eat food before going to bed…
I have never gone to bed at the 10 30 limit Avila set. Haha, never going to happen!

Peace out!

Music: I don’t Feel Like Dancin’ - Scissor Sisters

(YAY, I’m back into writing my really long responses again. Well I spose its for the lack of ones I have been doing lately).

Music: Echelon - 30 Seconds to Mars

Today in class, and probably yesterday too, I have made a little bit of progress with my solo. Which is actually a good thing. I was freaking out in the last blog, and I’m not too bad now, but still I’m really stressed at the moment. 

Alright, well I have in fact decided that I am going to take someone I know off, but it isn’t in a bad way. Just a story that will be included in some way.

 I have written pretty much ALL of the middle and I just need to work on the beginning and the end and then it will be pretty much complete other than the improvisation of a couple of the scenes that will have very very little talking and a lot more headbanging, moshing, air guitar and slamdancing. Which can’t be written in script.

That’s all at the moment….

 Cheers,
Heath (Deli Girl)

Music: Welcome to the Universe - 30 Seconds to Mars

PS. It’s thundering and raining! YAY! I love it…

Music: I can’t actually write the title, its a little rude… - System of a Down

Well, to begin with, I have a lot going on in my head right now! And drama isn’t helping because I keep getting all these ideas but I have NO idea how to put them together into a neat little bundle of solo.

Although the research is pretty good, =D Listening to music and watching movies about music, such as School of Rock and Queen of the Damned. Get better homework? I think not. The only problem is that the research is making me think of things I don’t want to because it distracts me and makes me miss things…. so yeah its bad in a way as well.

This isn’t really a lot of drama related stuff is it? Well… I’ll get onto the ideas and see how they pan out. Maybe someone might be able to help me… *wink wink*

Well, I was thinking:

- Father telling the son about his days as a metal head
- Contrasting Satanism and Christianity
- Contrasting old school metal head and current metal head
- Including a concert setting
- Including a music shop setting
- Including an arguement with a girlfriend about alcohol or drugs or something similar

WANT TO KNOW THE PROBLEM?

I have NO idea how to tie them all together and make a good solo.
See what I mean about having a lot of ideas in my head, I just can’t get them to work together.

I need to do something NOT drama related so I don’t get frustrated like I am (and between you and the people reading this, I get annoyed and frustrated easily and it ain’t pretty when it happens!!!)

Any ideas would be FABULOUS! If you don’t have any, *shrugs* I’ll find some way…

Cheers,
Heath xoxo

Music: Darkness - Disturbed

Guess what!? Guess what!?

Without actually knowing what I was doing for my drama solo, my sister borrow a book from the Library called “Heavy Metal”

How awesome is that? IT DEFINES IT ALL!! And some bands…. Woo!

 Cheers,
Heath xoxo

Music : (Still) Darkness - Disturbed

(Took me 1 50 minutes to write this!)

Music: Forsaken - Korn (and Distured)

Who does Drama homework at 10 30 on a Wednesday night? Seriously!!!

Alright, so my solo isn’t really coming together as much as I would like it to at this stage.
As my last post suggested I was planning on doing a metal head. This hasn’t changed in the slightest.
And I can’t write much more about my solo except for the research.

We had a research lesson, oh it was so long ago I barely remember it.
This is where I decided on metal head. I researched metal head and in the class highlighted the notes that I had and read up on how metal heads are perceived in culture and such. It was actually really good because I was surprised at some of the information about them, because I didn’t know half of it all.

Something that shocked me was the amount of paganism, but then the contrast with the christian metal heads. OMG just typing that gave me an idea for me solo!!!
SEE BLOGS ARE AWESOME!!!!!!

Sorry… back on topic…

So the thoughts that I am having about metal heads and the storytelling that is involved will obviously be the story of a metal head and his life. Possibly from the angle of flashbacks. Flashing back to something like Paganism but secrectly Catholic, or flashing back to a hardcore Slayer or Trivium concert or something.
Just finding the right way to express it will be hard.

Second half of the drama SAC tomorrow, I was going to try and study for it. Or do something for it… I’m too tired!!! (oh yeah, from talking to the grocery boy who stocks Brechtian Cans… =P… not really that was a phone call at like 5 30… cause he was at work from 6 - 10 so he’s prob tired and wouldn’t talk at this hour…) … (DON’T YELL! I KNOW KEEP IT DRAMA!!!)

Cheers,

Deli Girl

Music: Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepplin (Grocery boy would be proud…. SORRY!)

Music - Time is Running Out - Muse

Alright, well to begin with, GUESS WHO’S BACK ON THE VINEBLOG CIRCUIT!?
Oh… I remember the days well…

Alright, to begin with Drama has all up been pretty good for the first five weeks of the term. Initially starting with skits of the twelve dramatic elements with meant that we had a thorough understanding of them and, as Cashy told us, would help us for our solos that are coming up and for the rest of our dramatic future.
Jac and I struggled a lot at the beginning of our small skits, we had no idea what to do but when we ended up getting an idea and doing it, it went really well and included all the dramatic elements.

After the skits we were given our solo criteria. Yay! I can’t wait…
Anyhoo…
We are to play ONE character (that’s going to bug me a lot. My best parts from my solo last year were my transformations from one character to another. Anyway, I am a drama student and I can work with whatever) from a particular ’sub-culture.’
Alright, so I am planning to do a metal head - which may be a little hard.
Most metal heads seem to include a lot of drugs, sex and alcohol (am i allowed to mention these things on here?) so I had to find a different angle that didn’t include any of those.
I think I have managed to find one, I just have to talk to Cashy about some things.
I also have to include the use of tension, timing and symbol and two other dramatic elements throughtout the five minute solo. We will see how it all goes…

As a class, and with the year 12 class, we saw a university play called Destin last Monday. It was really really good, and included so much that we will be able to write about in our Sac on Tuesday. There was a lot of symbolic implimentations and symbols throughout and the use of stagecraft and dramatic elements and expressive skills was really brilliant.

Anyway,
I’m annoyed and buggered. Working takes a lot out of mee…
Oh man, I was serving a lady some Coles Ham today… and nearly laughed in her face cause I thought of Epic theatre and Brecht… (that and I told a lady to have a good night, when it was like 2 or 3 in the afternoon, tell i was out of it much?)

Cheers, Heather

 Music - My Enemy - Cog