Last week, we had to pick our top 3 characters in Commedia, and we have to act and know about this character for the next few weeks.
My top 3 picks were Il Dottore, Pantalone and Targalia.
I ended up with Pantalone.
We watched a little movie about the Commedia characters.
I'm scared of doing this project, because we have to perform ourselves (in front of the class) with the character that we have. I'm not really comfortable of being Pantalone, because it is kind of hard to act like him, especially his voice.
My partner is Michelle, but I can't act with her on stage, so it is even more embarrassing.
But I hope doing this project can make me brave, even though i'm super nervous.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Nov. 17, 2009
Last post, I didn't talk about the filming, editing and the converting...so I made another post just to talk about that. :)
Last week, me and Christie filmed in the green screen room. It was SUPER cool and SUPER fun! We got these mics and the person listening to the earphones can hear us really clearly.
Christie missed one line (I'm sorry i'm talking about you), but overall it was good! We finished filming in one take, since we memorized most of our lines. It was fun to look at ourselves while filming in the little tv screens...
It was really easy when me and Christie was filming together. But I didn't like filming the solo parts (which was only 1). It was also kind of uncomfortable because Adam and Victor were filming us.
For the editing part, we had to do it in like 20 minutes or something, but of course we couldn't edit and convert in 20 minute, so we had to stay for Mr. Smeed's remedial.
After the remedial we finished editing, with sound effects and converting. Overall, it was really successful, because everything worked out, even though we only had one class, 80 minutes, to film, edit and convert, which was pretty much impossible..(not really).
I'm just very nervous if we have to show our movie to the class, because it's really embarrassing.
Last week, me and Christie filmed in the green screen room. It was SUPER cool and SUPER fun! We got these mics and the person listening to the earphones can hear us really clearly.
Christie missed one line (I'm sorry i'm talking about you), but overall it was good! We finished filming in one take, since we memorized most of our lines. It was fun to look at ourselves while filming in the little tv screens...
It was really easy when me and Christie was filming together. But I didn't like filming the solo parts (which was only 1). It was also kind of uncomfortable because Adam and Victor were filming us.
For the editing part, we had to do it in like 20 minutes or something, but of course we couldn't edit and convert in 20 minute, so we had to stay for Mr. Smeed's remedial.
After the remedial we finished editing, with sound effects and converting. Overall, it was really successful, because everything worked out, even though we only had one class, 80 minutes, to film, edit and convert, which was pretty much impossible..(not really).
I'm just very nervous if we have to show our movie to the class, because it's really embarrassing.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Drama Oct. 13 (Drama Class)
In Drama class on Oct. 13, our class went to the LLAC backstage to work with a workshop called Zen Zen Zo. There was a women there to teach us.
That day, Mr. David was our sub, and he was really funny and dramatic during the workshop.
It was really fun, but there was also hard parts.
It was hard when we had to be really silly and dance nerd-ily to Spice Girls. (even though it was pretty funny) It was also kind of hard and embarrassing when we had to do the level 6 in the energy levels activity. I'm not usually like that and it is very rare that that would happen. All I did was look crazy and jump around, even though I knew I could do better than that. (Maybe it was because it was in the morning) There was also a part which was easy, it was when we had to imitate the first person (in our group) that walks out and walk normally. I was the last person, and we had to make that first person's habits and make it really really really dramatic. That was fun so I thought that was easy.
The other things we did that week was to write scripts for the interviewing project. Me and Christie are in a group, and we chose to do a Late Night Talk show. We are going to use the green screen, and i'm kind of nervous because someone else is going to help us film. But I think it is going to fun. We also took more notes on Commedia dell Arte, which helped us write our scripts.
That day, Mr. David was our sub, and he was really funny and dramatic during the workshop.
It was really fun, but there was also hard parts.
It was hard when we had to be really silly and dance nerd-ily to Spice Girls. (even though it was pretty funny) It was also kind of hard and embarrassing when we had to do the level 6 in the energy levels activity. I'm not usually like that and it is very rare that that would happen. All I did was look crazy and jump around, even though I knew I could do better than that. (Maybe it was because it was in the morning) There was also a part which was easy, it was when we had to imitate the first person (in our group) that walks out and walk normally. I was the last person, and we had to make that first person's habits and make it really really really dramatic. That was fun so I thought that was easy.
The other things we did that week was to write scripts for the interviewing project. Me and Christie are in a group, and we chose to do a Late Night Talk show. We are going to use the green screen, and i'm kind of nervous because someone else is going to help us film. But I think it is going to fun. We also took more notes on Commedia dell Arte, which helped us write our scripts.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Nov. 8, 2009
This week in drama, we had to pick groups and then read and practice our Commedia Dell'Arte scripts and also present a presentation about it.
My partner is Christie and we were talking about the Lovers. It was actually kind of hard to read the scripts, because we had to read them with feeling. I mean the reading part was easy, but we had to read with actions and emotions. So when we were reading we had to do actions (tried to), and we ended up doing some silly actions. I'm not really sure if i'm ready to present on Monday (tomorrow), i'm pretty nervous, because I don't know if I should really do the actions that we thought of..
We did the presentation in Google Docs so me and Christie could share it and do it together. We are done with the presentation, so I guess i'm not really that stressed about the presentation part.
On Friday's drama class, we did an activity where we will have to "argue" and then someone will become the higher status and then that person would stand on the chair and then the other person would want to over power him. But also remembering that if someone has a higher status (than you), then you would listen to that person, but you would have to use a smart and polite way to overpower that other person.
It was kind of hard, because I couldn't think of a topic to argue about, plus i'm not a good argue-er....so the conversation was really awkward..
+ the masks came!!! They look pretty :)
My partner is Christie and we were talking about the Lovers. It was actually kind of hard to read the scripts, because we had to read them with feeling. I mean the reading part was easy, but we had to read with actions and emotions. So when we were reading we had to do actions (tried to), and we ended up doing some silly actions. I'm not really sure if i'm ready to present on Monday (tomorrow), i'm pretty nervous, because I don't know if I should really do the actions that we thought of..
We did the presentation in Google Docs so me and Christie could share it and do it together. We are done with the presentation, so I guess i'm not really that stressed about the presentation part.
On Friday's drama class, we did an activity where we will have to "argue" and then someone will become the higher status and then that person would stand on the chair and then the other person would want to over power him. But also remembering that if someone has a higher status (than you), then you would listen to that person, but you would have to use a smart and polite way to overpower that other person.
It was kind of hard, because I couldn't think of a topic to argue about, plus i'm not a good argue-er....so the conversation was really awkward..
+ the masks came!!! They look pretty :)
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