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i emailed my 2nd draft out last night so today i continued reading oleanna.besides that, we didn’t do much today in class because everyone was mostly done with their 2nd drafts or were emailing them out today.so not much happened today in class.
today lou worked on individual scenes which were napkin and departures aka kp and dan’s scenes.anyone who wasn’t in the scenes took notes on the scenes and the notes given at the end to use those notes when working on our scenes.
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i took notes on both scenes and i did find notes that i could apply to my acting
-find your different tctics, and change them so it doesn’t become boring
-think about your intentions when saying lines
-find your point of view about characters
i’m going to think about these and when we get to work with lou i’ll have some things prepared.
so today we worked with lou again and on our scenes.we warmed up with the dancers today since ms.mack was busy. then in our groups we had a couple of speed throughs and ran the scene a few times.plus we finally started blocking.
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i did well in the warm up today.and i remembered most of my lines during the speed thoughs.i worked hard when we ran though our scene, and with the new blocking we started.
today we worked on our papers or monologues.i got corrections on my first draft from emily, so i worked on finding a new monologue.i got oleanna by david mamet.i read it once and i’m in the process of re-reading it and i’m looking at some of the monologues carol has.
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my 2nd draft is coming along,and i read a play.so now i’m re-reading it and searching for monologues.i’m debating on changing it or continuing to use my original from fat pig.plus i’m going over my scene for freshman showcase everyday.
day 2 of acting.we played the hacky sack game again.i really like that as a warm up.then we broke up into our scenes to work on them for a bit.then we got to see some of the other scenes work which was fun and interesting because i tried to listen to try to find anything that i could use in my scene.
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so today we worked on our scene.and liu gave me alot of things to work with.i’m starting to figure out and like define things about my friend and her baby.and its starting to flow alot better i think.
today we didn’t really have class, instead we helped tech for national honors society.so it was a pretty boring day.i helped clean,sweep,and started to clean up the costume loft.
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i cleaned a wing today with lexii and katelyn.i also swept the whole wing by myself.i helped sort wood with john for a bit,but then i started cleaning and reorganizing the costume loft with katelyn and dasauna,which has made some progress.
so today i worked on my 1st “body paragraph”.its the only thing i can think of calling it.its easier than i thought with the outline as a guide.then today we were also reminded of our auditions at the end of the year.i’m seriously thinking of getting a new monologue,i like mine but i think i should try something new.so i’m going to search through the norton for anything.
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today i worked more on my paper and i worked on refreshing my memory on my old monologue.plus i thought of other monologues for me.
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today was sort of a down day.i didn’t have my newer outline,but i worked on my paper as much as possible.plus i think i’m going to start writing this weekend because i have the beginings to some points in my outline.
today i presented, i guess, my homework on martin scorsese.he has done so many movies its absolutely insane.i didn’t even list all the movies he’s directed,because i left out all of his documentaries, and there are still alot of movies,which won and were nominated for alot of awards.like holy jesus martin scorsese.
and i came prepared today with my first attempt at my outline.and while i was attempting a REALLY rough first draft, i realized that i needed so much more information than i had.even though there isn’t alot i could find about the director and cinematographer at my first google-ing, i wrote a list of all the questions that i had to answer to write my report and that was my self assigned homework tonight.
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today i assigned myself a page full of google-ing,reading,and comprehending homework.plus i came prepared with my 1st outline today,which after all the homework, will be fixed up and have real useable information.i’m going to rock this report if it kills me.
so monday we had a math and english test to take in the computer lab,and i can’t remember at all what it was called.but we were only in class for about the last 5-10 minutes,because it went from the begining to the end of shop.
then on tuesday i wasn’t feeling good in the morning so i stayed home from school.
then comes wednesday.where i found out about the homework assignment on a director that i missed from tuesday.then we went over how to outline for our reports on all the president’s men.plus the seniors told us who to look at for our reports.i decided to write on the camera work and structure.so i looked up information about the styles of alan j pakula and gordon willis,the director and cinematographer.
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today i took notes on how to write our outlines for all the president’s men,plus i went over my notes and found what i could apply to my report.then i went home and did alot of research on all the presidents men and i also finished my director homework on martin scorsese.
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today we wrote a soc for the first time in a long time.i wrote and read mine.then i compared notes with some other freshies,and i thought about what topic i could write my paper on.i have a somewhat good start on the report.
today we finished all the president’s men.i really enjoyed the whole movie,though sometimes it was fast with all of the names that were thrown around during the investigation,so i was a tad confused by the plot so that why i’m thinking of focusing my report on something visual.obviously thats what movies are about, is what you see.i just felt that the visual was easier to talk about plus i thought about that alot because it was different from what i’m used to seeing.the lighting and color of the set,i guess you’d call it.the acting was very realistic and honest but i was just way more interested in the visual and the camera angles and that side of the film.
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today i paid attention and enjoyed the movie and i really tried to follow the names more this time as apposed to yesterday.i took more notes on the movie and i participated in the after movie discussion.
we got to see all the president’s men!i really like it so far.i mean the plot is kind of confusing me, just because they jump from person to person so fast.but one thing i really like is the dialogue and how fast it moves and how realistic it is,like they stumble over words and change them around and talk over each other.it just seems very realistic to me.plus the camera is really interesting.sometimes it stays in one place for a long time while the action moves around in an out of view.plus there seems to be alot of voice overs,you see some character or something,but you hear another person’s voice.i thought those were very interesting points.and the lighting was also really natural,like the main characters carl and bob were in their car,and the camera was looking at them straight on,the only light on them was the street lights or other car’s headlights.for the most part you didn’t see their faces at all.
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today i watched the movie and took notes on the camera angles and the lighting as well as any thing the seniors hinted at us about the character,plot,or camera choices.i’m really enjoying the movie itself,and i’m starting to notice alot more on my own.
today we took notes on the watergate scandal as our backround for all the president’s men.which helped alot because i had only a vague knowledge of the watergate scandal with nixon.but since we didn’t have the movie we couldn’t start watching it.so instead we watched catch me if you can so we could start noticing things we have to use in our analysis of all the president’s men.which really helped because the seniors were constantly pausing it so we could talk about what we saw and what we could use to write better in the future.
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today i took notes on the watergate scandal and on how to write better essays/analyses on films.hopefully it improves my writing when watching films and reading plays because im always lost on what to look for and write about.
so today we took notes/learned about film.i don’t know which interests me more.theatre or film.theatre just seems more simple to me.obviously both are extremely difficult and complex.but film is such a larger production than theatre.we learned about the people in a film crew and what they do exactly.like the director,editor,producer(s),director of photography/cinematographer,and more people.then we went over the powerpoint.
one major question i have about film is would the acting be different than on stage?and if is is then how do you train for that?or is it the same acting just one is live the other on screen?
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today we took notes on film history.film is looking interesting to me.its just such a different world than theatre,and thats all i’ve ever done.what i found was the most interesting was how they viewed films “back in the day”.like the magic lamp.its just cool to see how to it was and how it is.
