Dodo. (leah)

OK well i dont know WWHYYYY i havent been blogging, sorry guys, but i really have no idea why i havent been, but ANYWAY.

things look like theyre going great for all ensembles so far! im really liking our plot, the way our scenes work out but sometimes i feel like theyre ending kinda weirdly lol.

today me and maddi also perfected our little ipod-boombox scene to make it funnier and go for a bit longer by adding in more lines and gestures and stuff, and instead of just me being shocked, she is also shocked! haah we also added in a bit of justine timberlake LOLLL nah its funny

we also did a bit of just correcting scenes and making them funier at proper and stuff like that, working on how she show our focus and incourpourating (yeah i KNOW i spelt it wrong lol) dramatic elements and stuff like that. But we did have heather today wich was a little bit harder but we still worked just as well as what we would have before anyway!

looking forward to performing it alreadyy

love leah xxx

wooooooo i performed my solo the other day!!

finally its all over! i hope i dont have to do it for the showcase.. i dont really know what the go is i cant really remember haha but i think i remember cashdizzle saying something like only some people are performing their solos.. i mean come on i swear in mine! hahaha.

well i felt like i performed it really good, sometimes i have good and bad run throughs.. i suppose thats how it is with everything really, but im really happy with the turn out of my performance because it was just like a good run through!

i ended up not actually doing the cartwheel that i put into my mini routine, only because when i landed (in splits) i had to adjust the outfit and as soon as i adjust my clothes, im being leah. not nikki!

everyone else did such a great job aswell, i feel like the standard has gone up so much since last years solos and everyone has improved so much!

Perko: OH MY GOD u have improved soo much, your focus was amazing it really was, i truly believed that you were a middle aged wog working in a fish and chip shop, i really did! your memorisation was great and i never heard u stuff up one singles line, and there were a lot of lines! words cannot express the greatness! ..and you KNOW that therer will never be a day that i wont laugh at ur performances even if they are serious.. well i mean i was serious when ur characters were serious but en u said the slightest thing funny.. i was like in hysterics!

Maddi: i had already seen your solo twice before because we rehearsed together and what not! but u really did perform it so well and ive never concerntrated on somebodys lines so much in my life, with ur biosomething.. soemthing.. something engineering course.. haha see! i cant even SPELL it at all let alone say it fast during a drama performance and not stuff it up! good work!

Boxy: well i had already seen thise one as well! lol but i didnt hear any stuff ups, and i loved urs because, obviously, i could relate because my character was kinda of similar to urs. i loved the random break outs into song haha i couldnt controll my laughter! u also had great focus!

im really bad at remembering things but i THINK nadia was after me..  sorry if i stuffed it up haha.

Nadia: my god! you are such a great actor! you have improved sooo much! and i dont even have to say it coz everyone knows how great it was, but the symbolism! my god! everyone was just like.. wow.. !!

Heather: wowie! Heather i honestly cant believe u stressed so much! lol it was just so great, it must have been something about the way u performed it that day because i understood everything! i think the reason i didnt understand it could have been because u said, my sister didnt understand it, so i was watching it with those thoughts in my head! and remember.. u have the FOCUS OF STEEELLLL

Merca (sorry if u stuffed up the order!): your acting is so funny! it was a really really good script id have to say, the lines that u had and the way that u just kept them coming and didnt stuff them up! the ring thing was good aswell.. how u just chucked it off haha, great work!

well im really sorry if i forgot anyone coz im pretty retarded sometimes and if i do ill write a whole seperate blog just for you!

im looking really forward to seeing everyone elses peformances on tuesday, so goodluck! and have heaps of fun with it all xxx

OK so im reallyyy starting to stress and feel very nervous about my soslo now.. i have everything down and dont but i find myself sometimes stuffing up or struggling to remember a random line. i know that its just nervesgeting to me but i am still very pessimistic a lot of the time.. and i always tend to think of the worst things can can possibly happen (i hope pessimistic is the negative one.. haha.. i should have just said negative duhhh) ANYWAY, It’s just scary to think that i only have obne rehursal day left! i timed my solo and it goes for exactly 7 minutes and one second so im set! lucky im not in year 12 haha.. it doesnt even really feel that song but as long as its longer than 5 then im confident!

WISH ME LUCK!

my solo seems to ge going alright now, i’m starting to feel a bit anxious and nervous again, just like i was last year! I’m just getting scared that im gonna forget my lines and stuff them up and haver to START AGAIN like i did next year.. although this year who knows if cashy would even let me lol. i just really have to think about what im doing and relax before hand whilst getting into character, i think my main problem last year was that i just jumped in too early. if i hesitate and worry about what my next line is gonna be then i know ill stuff it up.. i just have to stress less and pretend im in my bedroom!

My secondary character is a very annoying sory or obnoxious, yet funny teacher, called mrs woods, who has a veryyy irritating voice. so when i act as her, i always over acts! as a small costume change… well more of a symbol usage, i put on a pair of classes which are big and round and as a guesture i always stuck my bum out and squint my eyes to really show a different between nikki and ms woods. It’s probably one of my funiest parts so i really hope that it works out on stage the way that i planned it!

toodeloooooo.. xx

Today i had a run through of my solo act and attempted to perfect my second scene which is actually being out in the pep rally and performing my little routine. i have coreographed a tiny little routine, which consists of a few basic cheerleading moves, so i decided on steps and a basic cheer line to go along side with it. im kinda confident with this part because its something that i can say that im good at and im comfortable doing those things infront of an audience because out of all the sorts of performing pieces ive done, ive been doing that the longest! the only issue is, that when i get up from the ground and start my next line, im out of breath! and i am going towards my water bottle, but cheerleaders are meant to be hot and fit so im not sure if that ruins the atmosphere or emphasises that my character has been working hard!

i also ended my act today just by adding on the last scene that i had previously scripted. i timed the performance and it roughly went for 5 and a half - 6 minutes but since it was only a breif runthu, it may likley go for longer next time.

catch ya xxox

today i worked on my solo again, i had left it for a couple of days to have a small break from everything and also because i left for phillip island, where i am now!

so today, i ran through a few times but it wasmainly just to ensure that i had memorised what i had done so far. i then broke down the first scene which is only small, its thescene before i run out to the pep rally for a cheer, so i mainly just perfected that. i decided on guestures to do right at the start, obviously because im anxiously and nervously waiting to go and perform, and im trying to make the girls behind me shut up, which firstly fails and then later on is a sucsess.. mainly because my caracter is outstandingly rude haha.

next rehearsal (sorry jess i donno if i spelt that one right or not!) i will progress further with the breaking down and stuff and start to perfect the next few scenes that i have started acting with.

peace out! xxx

hey everyone!

now you may see that i havent been blogging for a while but dont stress! i havent been slacking off, i went away on the first week of the holidays and blogged on paper, and i just kept doing that, so i still have the entrys which i am about to seperatley post straight after this blog but i thought i should let you all know why the dates are going to be incorrect and stuff.

love to all! xxx

CHELLOOO (you got yo self a bass!)

Today was a good class because Cashy, suprisingly, didnt talk for all that long.. I KNOW you thought it wasnt possible.. but it was! jks cashy jks =]

annnyywayy, i got a fair bit done on the old solo.. i practised a whole new scene as my secondary character and worked on things like transitions between my primary and secondary characters. I havent got it properley memories or anything but i wrote down a lot of pointers about what to do and i’ll have a practise later tonight on it.

I also made up a minature routine for my primary character, bing the cheerleader ofcourse! It’s gonna be right at the start just for about 15 seconds or so to show Nikki (my character)’s personality vary from being on stage infront of everyone and being in a confrontation with other girls. Our last rehursal class is on thursday and im starting to kinda FREAK OUT a little bit but i’ve got the holidays and ive kinda put aside a bit of time to rehurse and perfect things.. whether i will actually go through with these plans is a whole different thing lol but we’ll see how it goes.

catch ya on the flip siiiide xxx

hello kiddies… and cashy..  …and whom ever else may be reading this post!.. ANYWAY

Sorry i havent blogged since last class, i cant really explain why i havent lol but there’s been a lot on.. but the good news is that i HAVE practised the solo.. i MADE time for that part!

Last class, Jess B, Maddi and I decided to work as a three to give advice and tips to each other and also just to watch and see how far in each other were and the standard that was being set. This helped because rather than just rehursing to myself and trying to think of new gestures or ways to enhance things, i had two totally different minds interpereting what i was doing. This was good to get suggestions from the other girls but also sometimes when a person says something it makes you think on to something else which gives you more and more ideas and this ALWAYS happens to me lol so i found it good rehursing with other people, and it also really does help with confidence! And we know that nobody in the class judges us by our performance but practising infront of each other makes it a lot less nerve wracking in the end!

I have scripted just over hald of the act now, two scenes at the start, and one in the middle. I am yet to make up my little cheerleader “routine” but i think the important thing for now is scripting and once ive got that down and done ill start with the routine, and being a kinesthetic person it doesnt really take me all that long to learn movements. I’m not that great at coreography but it wont be too hard to do a few basic moves!

 anyway its my bedtime now!

love to all xxx

dear readers =]

today in class we did an excersise to help us “get to know” our solo characters. For me, this was slightly easier because i had already thought of a few small guestures and facial expressions but it still helped me a lot because i got to learn a lot more! I think this was a really good excersise and id like to do it again, because it is so much more helpfull than sitting down with a pen and paper and just deciding what your character is like, you get to feel it and its totally impro, and even though i stuffed up at one point, i didnt think of a lot of good lines and a few guestures just came out, luckily i rememberd them!

we did a bit of acting in the last few minutes and im feeling confident about it but at the same time im nervous because, although i have played characters like this before, its SO easy to loose it because this character has so many different sides to her!!

 see y’all later xxxx

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