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.

today was with mr.jim bonnie

it was one of the most reliving and aweosme experiances ever. Its amazing how calming it could be to scream your lungs out and releasing raw emotions even if it does leave you with a sore throat. I was amazed at how good it felt to be able to actually let loose and belt out "no's" and "yess's" and its amazing how you are able to pull out emotions from your everyday like that atre pent up and direct them at someone doing the same. Not onlt was it fun and relieving, but in the grand scheme of things, i thihk that it actually helped my acting. It made me see that not only do i need to put the character's emotions into a piece but my own as well. I literally need to become my character in mind and body.

What i got out of that second session with Mr. jim bonnie was that an line can be said in many different ways. It was really all about the subtext of a line that really gives it its meaning.For example the like "you have such pretty eyes" can be said angrily, gleefully, sadly, or fearfully. It really doesnt matter how you say it al long as your point gets put across and the character that you are trying to portray is protrayed correctly. If you say that line with fear, the subtext anger the subtext may be jealousy. If you say it with glee the subtext may be sincerity. If the line is said with fear, the subtext may be that the person is afraid of fejection. If the line is said with sadnessm the subtext may be that the person remembers somoene that they miss.....with lovely eyes....