So today we saw raisin in the sun. And I apparently know nothing about it. After listening to everyone else's opinions I guess I had completely wrong ideas of the play.
My thoughts were pretty much the blocking,with everyone's backs toward the audience was a way to bring the audience into their home. Like make it seem as if the audience wasn't there, but now I know it's just bad directing. I thought I figured out the directors idea,but nope,he was just bad. Yay I get to direct and would so something like he did.........
And I liked the set, but I guess it wasn't fully time period. The acting if course was fantastic, an it was amazing to see the booth and get the catwalk and sound system explained to us. I liked the show and all aspects but I guess some things were just bad?
All and all, it shocked me how wrong I was I guess? Like I felt no one liked the set or blocking and I really liked it. Or at least I thought I understood it. GUESS NOT.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
tuesdays and wednesdays post
Stayed after for auditions on Tuesday
Wednesday:
I started fuente today,and got to about act 2.2. So far I enjoy the play a lot. The dialogue was hard to catch on to at first, and I had to look up a couple of words. I also hated how every character would have huge monologues that go on for pages! The commander especially, he had a few and they were confusing and made the play move very slowly for me. But it started to pick up speed in 1.2 with the townspeople dialogue.
I did like the interaction between the commander and the master,since the master is so much younger and is doing the same thing as the commander,and that seems to bother the commander,so I think that will cause more conflict later on in the play.
Pg-100
Today we ran auditions and im very happy with my cast. I wasn't sure though how to run auditions and I was kinda scared once you started watching. We also took a really long rime apparently thanks to our camera having issues and us not having a fire wire. I saw lea freaking out in the same way I was, because neither of us actually know what were doing,so I'm defiantly looking forward to more of that.
Wednesday:
I started fuente today,and got to about act 2.2. So far I enjoy the play a lot. The dialogue was hard to catch on to at first, and I had to look up a couple of words. I also hated how every character would have huge monologues that go on for pages! The commander especially, he had a few and they were confusing and made the play move very slowly for me. But it started to pick up speed in 1.2 with the townspeople dialogue.
I did like the interaction between the commander and the master,since the master is so much younger and is doing the same thing as the commander,and that seems to bother the commander,so I think that will cause more conflict later on in the play.
Pg-100
Today we ran auditions and im very happy with my cast. I wasn't sure though how to run auditions and I was kinda scared once you started watching. We also took a really long rime apparently thanks to our camera having issues and us not having a fire wire. I saw lea freaking out in the same way I was, because neither of us actually know what were doing,so I'm defiantly looking forward to more of that.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
thursday's post
today we worked on bringing the curtains back up, which was insane.
post mortem:
this one i actually tried really hard on. its not as scattered and it makes actual sense.\
Accomplishments.
I managed. There were days that it just worked! I have no idea how or why but it did!! I hate to say I got all of compliments but did and that kept me going. I felt like there was a point of just "time to step up to the task".
Most likely when katelyn lost her great grandma,because she was out of it for about 4 days understandably, and I just said, time to pick up more weight,my friend needs it.
I learned to work with people in a more professional way. To take any prior feelings about the individual out and just stick to the business at hand.
I called a show! I did that. Yeah its kind of easy and anyone with a good eye can do it. But it as a huge fear of mine from the start and I did it. Small accomplishments make bigger ones feel better.
I felt I supported the actors very well,I made sure they were all okay physically and made sure that they were okay mentally. I made sure my tech crew did their jobs efficiently. Though I wish I could have had time backstage to make sure their responsibilities were being carried out back stage as well.
I worked well with our professional artists. I respected them while working and always welcomed them into our theatre.
pg-100
today i helped sweep the stage. i set up the genie even though we didn't need it. i helped get the 1,00000 pound curtains on stage, and thought of the bridge idea to get them across easier. when we were lifting the curtains up, i made sure everyone kept holding some part up. and i checked up on people who had held the curtian for a long time to make sure they were okay, because i was seriously scared someones are was just going to give out.
post mortem:
this one i actually tried really hard on. its not as scattered and it makes actual sense.\
Accomplishments.
I managed. There were days that it just worked! I have no idea how or why but it did!! I hate to say I got all of compliments but did and that kept me going. I felt like there was a point of just "time to step up to the task".
Most likely when katelyn lost her great grandma,because she was out of it for about 4 days understandably, and I just said, time to pick up more weight,my friend needs it.
I learned to work with people in a more professional way. To take any prior feelings about the individual out and just stick to the business at hand.
I called a show! I did that. Yeah its kind of easy and anyone with a good eye can do it. But it as a huge fear of mine from the start and I did it. Small accomplishments make bigger ones feel better.
I felt I supported the actors very well,I made sure they were all okay physically and made sure that they were okay mentally. I made sure my tech crew did their jobs efficiently. Though I wish I could have had time backstage to make sure their responsibilities were being carried out back stage as well.
I worked well with our professional artists. I respected them while working and always welcomed them into our theatre.
pg-100
today i helped sweep the stage. i set up the genie even though we didn't need it. i helped get the 1,00000 pound curtains on stage, and thought of the bridge idea to get them across easier. when we were lifting the curtains up, i made sure everyone kept holding some part up. and i checked up on people who had held the curtian for a long time to make sure they were okay, because i was seriously scared someones are was just going to give out.
wednesday's post
today we struck some more set, and it hurts less. its just like going back to normal, back to the old stage and the begining of the year.
more post mortem! and this is basically leaving off from tuesdays writing.
Line TESTS. Some actors didn’t memorize their lines. what the flibberdy-gibbit. I told them in every rehearsal report, and and andddddd during class. but still 4 people completely failed! I was so unbelievably pissed off. just memorize them! how hard could it honestly be!!!!! Like what the hell guys! 2-3 months with these lines and you know 20% of them? But eventually, like another month, they got them.
February was crazy timee! I always had this feeling that the show would somehow fall apart. There were so many times when i was going to. During re-casting of Miguel and Fernando (which though I understand why it happened, I feel like it was such a pain in the ass at the time.) and the rescheduling disaster (I HATE SCHEDULES. HATE THEM. And let me be clear, that I MADE that schedule, I worked on it in Barnes and Noble for 3 hours, while Lea talked to Abbi, Katelyn looked at me and helped some times, and Miguel typed everything up. Then I went home and re-did the whole thing because it was wrong, THEN after all of my work, it was still wrong and people still had stupid conflicts.) schedules can go in a hole and stay there.
pg-100
today i worked on taking down and re-filing the gelsi tried to work around the building trades kids, and i thought i did a good job of keeping the gels organized. when i went home i mounted 4 of my pictures for my sm book.
more post mortem! and this is basically leaving off from tuesdays writing.
Line TESTS. Some actors didn’t memorize their lines. what the flibberdy-gibbit. I told them in every rehearsal report, and and andddddd during class. but still 4 people completely failed! I was so unbelievably pissed off. just memorize them! how hard could it honestly be!!!!! Like what the hell guys! 2-3 months with these lines and you know 20% of them? But eventually, like another month, they got them.
February was crazy timee! I always had this feeling that the show would somehow fall apart. There were so many times when i was going to. During re-casting of Miguel and Fernando (which though I understand why it happened, I feel like it was such a pain in the ass at the time.) and the rescheduling disaster (I HATE SCHEDULES. HATE THEM. And let me be clear, that I MADE that schedule, I worked on it in Barnes and Noble for 3 hours, while Lea talked to Abbi, Katelyn looked at me and helped some times, and Miguel typed everything up. Then I went home and re-did the whole thing because it was wrong, THEN after all of my work, it was still wrong and people still had stupid conflicts.) schedules can go in a hole and stay there.
pg-100
today i worked on taking down and re-filing the gelsi tried to work around the building trades kids, and i thought i did a good job of keeping the gels organized. when i went home i mounted 4 of my pictures for my sm book.
monday's and tuesday's post
monday-stayed after for the auditions that didnt happen.
tuesday-
oh my god welcome back to blogging. its been atleast 2 months.something like that. that means reading again, and participation and all that jazz.
but for this week i'm working on my sm book, and my post mortem.
POST MORTEM:
So life as a stage manager. To start from the beginning I was scared,to manage a whole show? to manage the seniors and freshman once they came to Rehearsal? Even the juniors;most of them know so much more than i do and I didn’t want them to think of me as stupid. it was a rough start to say the least. But we started off easy, without much tech and just taking notes for Aladren. Katelyn and I worked out our rehearsal report schedule, and everything went okay.
Thank god for Katelyn! I’m extremely thankful that I had Katelyn to fall back on. That's one thing I really liked about this experience, I had another sophomore who knew exactly what my head was like because her head was the same way! I knew that we would help each other in times of huge stress.
we started in-class rehearsals in January I think. It was mostly everyone finding their character,finding how they would walk, talk, fall, run. I liked observing the actors work, and I think in the end I taught me some things as an actor and director. Rehearsals were always funny to watch. We were going to record all rehearsals and eventually create a documentary type film, but we could never find time for transferring film from the good cameras to the Mac. Looking back though I wish we continued filming because it would be great to see my personal progress as a stage manager.
pg-100
today i worked with the building trades kids on taking apart walls. i helped un-screw screws from all of our walls that we worked so hard to spackle, paint and put up.it hurt a bit, but like a band aid you just have to pull it off. i also started taking down some gels and black fabric from the traveler. when i went home i worked on finding pictures that i can used for my sm book.
tuesday-
oh my god welcome back to blogging. its been atleast 2 months.something like that. that means reading again, and participation and all that jazz.
but for this week i'm working on my sm book, and my post mortem.
POST MORTEM:
So life as a stage manager. To start from the beginning I was scared,to manage a whole show? to manage the seniors and freshman once they came to Rehearsal? Even the juniors;most of them know so much more than i do and I didn’t want them to think of me as stupid. it was a rough start to say the least. But we started off easy, without much tech and just taking notes for Aladren. Katelyn and I worked out our rehearsal report schedule, and everything went okay.
Thank god for Katelyn! I’m extremely thankful that I had Katelyn to fall back on. That's one thing I really liked about this experience, I had another sophomore who knew exactly what my head was like because her head was the same way! I knew that we would help each other in times of huge stress.
we started in-class rehearsals in January I think. It was mostly everyone finding their character,finding how they would walk, talk, fall, run. I liked observing the actors work, and I think in the end I taught me some things as an actor and director. Rehearsals were always funny to watch. We were going to record all rehearsals and eventually create a documentary type film, but we could never find time for transferring film from the good cameras to the Mac. Looking back though I wish we continued filming because it would be great to see my personal progress as a stage manager.
pg-100
today i worked with the building trades kids on taking apart walls. i helped un-screw screws from all of our walls that we worked so hard to spackle, paint and put up.it hurt a bit, but like a band aid you just have to pull it off. i also started taking down some gels and black fabric from the traveler. when i went home i worked on finding pictures that i can used for my sm book.
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