Term3, Week4

Monday - This lesson we did sort of a backstory check on the dude who wrote "The End of the Golden Weather," (Bruce Mason). The student teacher guy, Liam I think his name is, made a powerpoint and gave us details about him and his life and his plays and stuff and we all wrote down notes on it. Not really an exciting lesson.

Tuesday - After school rehearsal was pretty sweet. We ran the production from the start, because we were on the hall and got about a quarter of the way through. Paul came up with a new idea too. We are now going to have bits of flat wood with pictures on them presenting what England has brought to NZ or something then stsick them on the back wall during the introduction. S'gonna be cool!

Wednesday - Had our weekly double. During this double though it was more really to do with getting our costumes set up. Tanya, our costume lady, cam in and started working her magic. Also we had Sasha and this other kid doing the lights for our show. It feels kinda weird going over the scenes infront of them though cos its not the full production but it will look cool once its done. Also after school me and Riley had a special rehearsal thing where we went over just the scenes of Firpo and Boy.

Thursday - Had rehearsal after school. Abby wasn't here but some of us had a little bit of there costumes so we decided to run as much as we could before we ran out of time. It went AWESOME!!!! We're doing really great. We did the whole first half of the show and Sasha and stuff did some lighting stuff. It's going to be sooo cool!

Friday - First period drama. Everyone got their costumes!!! We all look really silly because its supposed to be set in the 1930's. Especially me. I look So weird and out of place. which is good because i'm supposed to. After school we did a tech run. All the light work and other technical stuff, set up by Sasha and other kid, were put up officailly and its looking pretty good. We just fast forwarded though everything so we could see where we're going to put the lights up. It was kinda hard trying to get changed fast enough and we kept loosing our props but we'll set that out properly and get everything together before Tuesday.

Saterday - Had our Tech Rehearsal today!!! it took ages, but we got the lighting set up pretty great. Its gunnu be super epic. We started at 10am and went till about 6:30ish pm. We did a whole run through of the play after we had the lights set up and i think that was our first time running through without breaks. We had to go over a couple scenes like, twice because the settings on the light michine thing screwed up. It was hard remembering all the cues for when we're supposed to come on and getting changed into our costumes for different scenes were hard because of the limited amout of time we have to get changed.. but it was all sweet. Props and stuff we kept forgetting too. We'll be alright though.

Sunday - Fixed up the rest of the props that we needed today. Slates, paper-mache (however you spell it, i dont really care) then we did another run through after rehearsing a couple scenes that needed touching up. We wrote notes afterwards on just small props we needed and what we could do better and stuff. We seem like we're almost ready to perfom... in 2 days

Term3. Week3

Wednesday - Wednesday we had our weekly drama double. We had that student teacher guy (I can't remember what his name is) run a warm up for us which was kinda weird but fun at the same time, then started working on some Firpo and boy scenes.


Friday - James hadnt learnt lines.


Saterday - Saterday was pretty intense. We had rehearsals from 11am all the way through to 5pm. It was cool though. We started the day talking about how we thought we we going in the production individually and as a whole. I told the group the trouble I was having with playin Firpo and that i find it quit hard to get what he's feeling across because of the way i see him.. or something like that. Then everyone else talked about their troubles and feel of the group. A couple people had the same problems about playing their characters too.

Then we started a character help warm up thing. It was cool. it was helpful i guess. Afterwards we took a lunch break then for the rest of the time worked on Act 2 of the production. When we did the Joe Dyer bit, James hadn't really gotten into, or in fact created a character. So Sully made Manoa and I hold him and try to make him get into character or something. It was tough work but it paid off for him.