Think of a happy place…

I’m excited about this thing too. It’s finally coming together. Having the whole script is really comforting. We went through a lot of stuff to get here. Thanks to our extensive research we knew what we were doing– exactly what happiness was according to those who thought they knew. I wasn’t exactly sure that I knew what it was, but we wrote our Statements of Intention anyway, and more ideas soon flooded in. Now we knew pretty much where we were headed. Improvising, workshopping etc didn’t really work for us although we did try it a few times. We found that we didn’t really know where we were going once we started and it all just ended up repeating itself and we just sort of stopped, having got nothing constructive done. So the scripting came before the ideas of exactly how it would go. Once we had a basic idea for a scene, we acted that out and then somebody would have an idea and we would add that or decide on something else, depending on what was appropriate. After many extended due dates for our working script, we finally had one. Much aditing happened after that (and is still happening occasionally when we find something doesn’t really work eg props etc). the major rehersals have just begun. Now is crunch time and we really need to get cracking and rehearse this thing to be the best that it can be. Apparently it’s and A+ script, so the rehearsing is what is going to make or break our marks. I really need to work on my expressive skills to improve my performance and not get embarrased about things so easily. We can do this thing if we put our all into it and I know we can!

Alyssa

WELL…..
its been a long few months. some highs and some lows. some yelling and some hitting. but its finally looking like things may work out.
three weeks to go and the script is finalised and the full rehearsals have begun. no goin away this w/e. or next w/e…or next w/e..
or last w/e for that matter… but it wii\ll all be worth it. not long to go now.
looking back it feels like aaages ago when we first begun our research and started improvising on scenes, to see how far we have come is really a surprise. when i spent the few hours time on my research and reading on “happiness” i didnt really think of how much work it would actually be. countless hour have been put in by everyone including mr borbelly. even by some of the group. thanks to Fio for putting the final product together and dave for lending us the beach house for the weekend and letting us get some real work done! (thanx Susan Swan love you)
throughout the play we hav been basically blocking scenes and improvising with ideas. now, our rehearsal scedule is pretty tight. GOOD FUN!
AND NOW THER IS NOTHING COMING BETWEEN THE MIGHTY DRAF! AND THE BEST F@#$ING DARN PERFORMANCE THAT ANYONE HAS EVER SEEN!
The next three or four weeks im sure will be tuff! but im willing to put in my all! and as long as the group stik together ive got a mighty force behind me!

wish us luck yo!
rhysie

omg drama

sooo intense

but soo way awesome

its kinda weird, cause i feel like we’ve just started, but then i was like thinking, and i realised we’ve got a full script, we just got our marks back from our sack (hell yeah) and its like 3 weeks till we perform our ensomble. omg im freekin my self out just saying that.

although after saying that, you’d really hope we’d be up to now, afta all that work put in. spending all those hours researching, and then converting the facts in to something thats actually interesting, (hm, not that im saying that nirvana and science stuff isn’t interesting ). i’ve gotta say though, i don’t think that we would of got half the stuff we have in our ensomble,  if we hadn’t spent so much time brainstorming and workshopping small ideas as a group, and then expanding then and actually forcing our selves to commit to an idea.

we’re now at that, important, but omg soo frustrating stage, of refining our ensomble, cracking down at every lil detail. since we’ve only got, omg 3 weeeks ahhh, i guesse we just gotta do it again and again and haha guesse what david, again. im allready at the point where i never want to hear the word happiness again, (our stimulus) in saying that, omg im gonna be so happy when we finish this and apsolutly kick bum.

 lots of love dra (no f for now) and mr b for all yor awesome help from fi,

Gettin’ there..
Monday February 12th 2007, 5:41 pm
Filed under: Progress update

Ok so after having spent the good bulk of my weekend doing research and thinking about the upcoming ensemble performance, I think I’m really starting to appreciate how much work it’s going to take over the next couple of months.

Having officially said goodbye to my Monday afternoons, I’m anticipating at least two or three more to go before the task is done. But that’s what it’s about, its a Year 12 subject after all and I’m certain the great reward at the end will more than make up for the hard yards. And yeah, part of me is missing Year 10 Drama with its’ constant, well, not bludging, but prac work and lots of improvising (and when we did slapstick, yeah that was a laugh, i liked that). But there’s something else great about drama now, it’s very different but I’ve got a feeling it’s gonna be just as fun. Especially when that curtain opens for the first time on the big night and it all comes together, I’ve got no doubt you’ll see a big smile on myself and my classmates faces (and not just because the stimulus is happiness, don’t get the wrong idea!).
But yes given the stimulus of happiness and a number of different dramatic elements to incorporate (as well as things like a montage), at the moment me and the rest of the group (class of 4, it’s nice and cozy) are just throwin’ around various ideas and plots, and forming the base of our performance. And hey with a great team and a pretty damn good teacher as well, everything’s lookin’ good. Fun times ahead. Hard.. but fun times.
But oh this is just the beginning….

I’ll be in touch.