Think of a happy place…

 whoa what a year it’s been so far…

full of action, excitement, fake tears and big smiles. from the hours spent on my computer (good ol’ lappy) (it’s normal to have a name for your computer isn’t it? lappy, short for laptop? ey? you dig?) researching and developing ideas to the hours spent running through scenes again and again, getting things right and perfecting movements and actions.

it’s not over yet though, no, we’re still a ways off as there’s a few weeks perfecting (and in my case, learning lines, but, hehe, that’s almost done…) and getting everything set to ensure an A+ performance.

i think when we worked seperately, at the beginning of the journey coming up with ideas etc by ourselves it perhaps wasn’t as effective as when we all get together and collaborate on things. that’s probably what I’d change if I could ‘do over’ this whole experience, I’d make sure that our ideas, our individual scenes, flowed together better and we worked more in tandem instead of coming up with our own things and trying to fit them all in together, which fortunately did end up working for us (and it must be said we still did do a lot of group work it’s just some people had different ideas in their own minds as to what was going on and what the finished product was going to look like).

most effective was when we stood around in a group, discussed what we wanted to happen, what we wanted from the scene and just did it. it may not have worked every time, it may not have turned out perfect, but we got things done quicker that way through improvising and throwing ideas around. being active and proactive is a big part of drama and i think complacency is the enemy as far as achieving our goals goes. i’m so lucky to have such a good group though, i was thinking about it the other day and it could’ve been way harder to achieve such a top performance, we could’ve been stuck with some apathetic, lazy workers who didn’t really want to be there in the first place.

but, luckily for us, we’re all energetic, willing kids prepared to put in the hard yards, go away for a couple of days if necessary (at the beach, geez, what a drain) (not) and give it our all!!

RHYS is awesome

FIONA is awesome

ALYSSA is awesome

MR BORBS is awesome

I am very awesome

and everything’s going great

what’s left now.. now is just the easy part. well, easy? no. metally easy, yeah, but now its just ‘practice practice practice’ as they say and turning what we’ve got at the moment and polishing it and perfecting it until it’s so polished and so perfected that anyone who watches it, their heads will explode. and their arms will fall off.

it’ll be that good

so hours and hours left of full run-throughs and practices and eating but that’s what it takes!! and it’s gonna be worth it when we get there, thumbs up team..

and when we’re done… when we’re finally done and feeling HAPPY it’s a party at my place..

then an after party, also at my place.

i’ll DJ if that’s alright with everyone and I’ll play ‘One More Time’ by Daft Punk and it’ll go like this

One more time
One more time
One more time we´re gonna celebrate yeah
Oh yeah all right don´t stop the dancing
One more time we´re gonna celebrate yeah
Oh yeah all right don´t stop the dancing
One more time we´re gonna celebrate yeah
Oh yeah all right don´t stop the dancing
One more time we´re gonna celebrate yeah
Oh yeah
One more time
One more time we´re gonna celebrate yeah
Oh yeah all right don´t stop the dancing
One more time we´re gonna celebrate yeah
Oh yeah all right don´t stop the dancing
One more time
You know I´m just feeling
Celebration
Tonight
Celebrate
Don’t wait too late
You know
You don´t stop
You can´t stop
We´re gonna celebrate
One more time
One more time
One more time
Celebration
You know we´re gonna do it right
Tonight
Just feeling
Music´s got me feeling the need
Need
Yeah
Come on all right
We´re gonna celebrate
One more time
Celebrate and dance for free
Music´s got me feeling so free
Celebrate and dance so free
One more time
Music´s got me feeling so free
We´re gonna celebrate
Celebrate and dance for free
One more time
Music´s got me feeling so free
We´re gonna celebrate
Celebrate and dance so free
One more time
Music´s got me feeling so free
We´re gonna celebrate
Celebrate and dance for free
One more time
Music´s got me feeling so free
We´re gonna celebrate
Celebrate and dance for free
One more time
Music´s got me feeling so free
We´re gonna celebrate
Celebrate and dance for free
One more time
Music´s got me feeling so free
We´re gonna celebrate
Celebrate and feel so free
One more time
Music´s got me feeling so free
We´re gonna celebrate
One more time
Music´s got me feeling so free
We´re gonna celebrate
Celebrate and feel so free
One more time
Music´s got me feeling so free
We´re gonna celebrate
Celebrate and feel so free
One more time
Music´s got me feeling so free
We´re gonna celebrate
Celebrate and feel so free
One more time
Music´s got me feeling so free
We´re gonna celebrate
Celebrate and feel so free

it’s gonna be awesome!!! and you can all dance with me. actually i’m thinking it’ll probably something like this party

that’s enough from me, well more than enough from me, have a good one and gooooooo draf!!!

swanny