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On the train coming home from a 4th of july weekend in NY! Ate way to much seafood

zee final vorkshope

well, this vas zee final workshop with mr.Jim Bonne. I absolutely loved all of them. There is nothing bad i can say about that workshop or about him for that matter. I learned many things and gained a lot from these workshops. Through this workshop i have become a more open person because I now know that there is nothing to hide from. I also learned that to fully become my character i have to connect with him on an emotional level as well as a physical one. For example i have to figure out what my character wants and want that (or act as if i want it) also. My favorite part of this particular workshop was when we did scenes from plays. At first we read them directly from the page, but then we were told to put them down and use our own words to convey the scenes message, and THEN after using our own words, we created scenarios that weren't even a part of the scene but, in some convoluted way, were the scene's subtext. I found the workshop as a whole to be liberating and ultimately beneficial towards my future career as an actor.

well even though i was sick for one of the workshop days i was told to do a blog so......not entirely sure about what to say here. I was told that we did some script work on that day....so thats interesting, i can only assume that we did some more "energy work" which i find both refreshing and enjoyable. Again, not entirely sure what to say other then that pollen sucks as do allergies and that i really did want to attend that particular session after hearing the events that transgressed during it.

today this week

so tuesday was VERY productive for my group.

we:

finsihed 3/4 of our script and got nearly an entire dance number down.

not bad for a full days work

tomorrow we will finish our script and then finish and learn some more dances (and hopefully learn how to film dancing)

i am super excited to (learn how to) dance, as well as act in this movie. To put it mildly: this movie is AWESOME and will blow your mind....

more later

katzy

the photo workshop?!

zomg the mystery workshop! Mr.Rob Goldman was the leader of this one. In it we basically wrote down our secrets and took pictures of people when they are thinking about them and were in their most vulnerable states. It took me a while to find what my revealing secrets were.....i find myself to be a fairly open person without a lot of skeletons in my closet. But lo and behold i found something that wasn't exactly a secret, but not exactly something i publicize about myself. It was a ton of fun posing for a camera. When i get to pose on my own terms i find that i am a lot happier then when someone says "stand there and smile". I also leaned that a photo can reveal more about a person then just what they look like. It can reveal their personalities as well as their insecurities and other various aspects about that person that you don't normally perceive from merely looking at them.

workshop #3 whaddap

so this one was primarily focused on the energy, or as i like to call it "chi" of the group. To recap the experience, the group basically got into a circle and each individual person channeled their own respective energies through the circle. it really got me feeling emotionally connected to, as mr.bonne likes to call it, my inner child. What he said really holds true. That society pressures you to become more mature, and to really be a great actor you must be true to yourself and channel your inner child and let loose all of the feelings that you have.

big project!

For my big projet i am doin a "dansicle". Which is basically a movie, that instead of having songs, has dances to convey feelings and scenes. I am doing this project with Becky, Cassie, and Mich. this project will give me chance to actually learn how to dance........as well as act a bt and learn a different style of fiming




Today (tuesday) my group and i are going to research how to properly film dance, by viewing various dance films and reading about how to film it. Thursday my group and i will most likely still be researching how to film dance, but we will also be reaserching various dance styles, and how we can incorperate them into our plot.