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WHERE HAS TASHA BIN ALL MY LIFE? LOL :) 

Well, this week has really been a blur!

Firstly unfortuantely vineblogs wasn’t working last week so i wasn’t able to write week 5 to its full potential. This is what I can remember-

We started blocking the memory scenes as Cooper was not present one of the days, so Lisa realli  was the director. She is doing som,e fantastic work, keep it up. So with most of the memories blocked all we needed was Cooper to block the voids in between. What really worried me was that it actually took twice as long to block the voids then the memories. But having said that in the blocked memories it took us just as long because we had to go over them again as I personally didnt remember what i had to.

 Audiowise

Well, tracks are present on the CD. Not actually sure what will go with what but we do both(me and Jarod) have a good idea of where each sound(actor-made or not) is going. Soon after a class, Jarod, we’l have to agree on what song will go for what so bring in everything that day. I’ll also bring in the other theme song I’m considering by Coldplay.

 Ok, week 5-done to the best of my ability.

WEEK 6

Our double (my one lesson,sorry guys!) had been blocking the voids. We had also gone through lunch. I’m trying reali hard to keep focus that Nia is Alx’s boyfriend, and that they’re facing eternity and everything is serious. I CAN’T. I’m in a room full of Theatre Studies budz laughing and everytime I look at Tasha i try to act serious- but dammit I can’t. I don’t know why. She cracks me up! Its something i’m gonna have to work on. On Cooper’s actual  birthday we did more blocking. It was good. I admit that lesson was the first lesson I realised I was struggling to keep up with everyone. i was listening but to be honest I dont think anything was actually registering, sorry.

 Friday, we through Coops a surprise birthday, YAY. I had fun even if others didn’t(which i’m sure wasn’t the case). But I already can’t believe that all of my yr 12 theatre family won’t be here next year…

My Audit 

AHHHHHHH! I have so much to work on now. That lunchtime gave me such an information overload. But I am so thankful it actually happened because like u said Coops now I have a better idea of what is expected of me and what I can contribute to future classes.

U guys (and Coops) have meant so much so far, u’ve all helped me out sooo much. i don’t think I could be coping without you guys.   

Sorry didnt have much time yesterday lol

So I am just continuing on what i should have said about last week.

I think that in the first couple of scenes as they have now been blocked we can already see the start of the close bond between Alex and Nia. I only think that is coming through because me and Tash are already so close

Rehearsals are going well and although it does take a LONG time to block things we are slowly getting through it. I can say though that what we have already blocking is starting to look really good.

This week,
It went by so fast, sheesh!
We focussed this week on the beginnings. We blocked on the first void and Alex’s memory. We also celebrated BeTHaNY’S 17TH BIRTHDAY! She deserved to have a whole lesson 2 herself
We also had a lunchtime rehearsal 2 block ‘the race’. At that time it was when I saw Lisa’s true potential to be a director. I was blown away by her intellectual ability to put forward her ideas and her understanding of what was going on around her. She really was a Mini Cooper! I was really impressed by Lisa’s work because it reflected the work that Coops had put in.
I was also impressed how the run through the scenes on Friday. It went so smoothly and everyone was really getting into. For a second i actually belived in what we were doing.
I can’t wait 2 see the boxes in, because it wil be a lot easier. Also, Jared maybe you could bring in the CD i lent 4 you to play for everyone in the production meeting on wednesday?
Wel i can’t wait to see what this week brings…
Josh

This week I thoroughly enjoyed…

It started off with a production meeting. In order to be able to start blocking the actors we needed to discuss how we wanted things to look. We debated the topic of having boxes or not, how the set would look, how the actors would look with the set and lighting. When we came to some sort of understanding we started blocking. To my surprise blocking physical theatre takes doubly if not triply a longer time. At first I thought that we were just wasting time discussing things and taking up half a lesson before blocking but then i realised we wouldn’t be able to without the discussion.

 I can already see characters coming through really well in Sohie and the Guide as they already send shivers up my spine.

I liked Lisa’s idea of accents but i think that if we worry about it too much it may take away too much of the audience’s concentrate if it’s too strong, so maybe we could all me Aussie in the void?

To me, Alex came across as an over-confident man who was ready for anything and made it look like he was scared of nothing. He was always striving for his dreams and achievements letting nothing get in the way. I think he loved Nia, but in the end he realises that he loved her only because he wanted to- maybe not being true love…”It is a real revelation for bothto find out their true feelings for eachother. This makes their choice of a joint Nirvana impossible.” Thanks to http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/100-rev.htm

I think the Guide has already started to come across as a scary yet sensitive character. And in the start I think Alex is almost reluctant to get to know Ketu as he thinks he is a loop. He talks to Sophie only because he can relate her but as soon as she starts to talk about her scar he thinks she is a bit weird too. Basically he knows there are others around him but he’d rather do what he wants to.

Audiowise-Jared i went through my CD’s and found and African mixed album and i think i might have the 100 theme song. It’s not on the computer yet so we’l have to have a listen…

As time progresses I think all we will need is focus and teamwork. Once we all start agreeing on  things and know what every single person is doing at every single moment things will be a lot easier. We all just need to focus and worry about ourselves.

 I saw Alex as a man based in London but travelled around Europe on his motorbike. Which was how he could relate to Nia. But I also saw him as a dominant character who always liked to lead in a relationship and know where it was going.

I liked looking at the photos taken of the theatre so that we could already visualise what was going on around us. When you have a vision and you can already see it in your mind it’s not so bad once you actually get there. Plus we cann add on ideas.

Lighting ideas are cool with the whole making things lighter and darker. I think either make the void lighter EG ‘i can see the light” which is what people think of ‘almost there’. Or we could make it a dark void. Depending on how we costume the actors. I think the actors all need to look the same, opposite to the Guide. But the characters also need to have an individual piece that shows who each character is.

We have a lot more work to cover. I can see lunchtime rehearsals coming…thanks to school photos. Grrrrrr!

Ok wel thats all i can really say but this week I hope to post a lot more comments. 

Ok, I’m guessing how to use this-so i hope it works

Otherwise i’m wasting my time lol

This week in class we read through 100 and overall it is by far the best play to pick…i’m biast because its the only one i’ve read!

We still have to work a bit more on budget and stuff but it all sounds good. We may still need to work on vineblogs a bit more because i am so not confident with it

But yeah things will progress next week i guess, so until 2moro

Josh

 

I can now know how 2 post a comment/journal entry

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