March 27th, 2012

Today was the day we finally got our Jaberwock plays done... I think they both went over pretty well. They both had good acting and they both had some metaphorical stuff in it that made it deeper (But I guess you can't really be literal with Jabberwocky). One good example was Mohamed being Lorenzo's concience. I didn't get it until afterwards, but in hindsight, it was a very good move. Also, Ours was pretty good too. We had to make some emergency last minute switchups because Jean-Louis wasn't here today, so we shrunk it down to only one Jabberwocky and I replaced Jean-Louis' part as the police officer. I was a little unsure as to how to act, what facial expressions and emotions and stuff to do since it didn't used to be my problem, but I think I got it down, and I'm glad that there were few (if any) small mistakes in both plays and thats it. (I hope those videos don't end up on YouTube or somewhere...)

March 15th, 2012

Today, we started with choosing a made up Jabberwock word and moving about as how that word would seem as a movement. That was only the first part though. We then did some improv to warm  up. After a few rounds people seemed a little hesitant and I hadn't gone yet, so I just flung myself across the room and landed pretty hard on my side. I had no idea what was going to happen after that, but I just waited until someone came in for the next part. Then I just rolled with it. That is what we were supposed to do for all the improvs, but this time seemed to be a time that I really got it, and literally just went with whatever happened. Also, for the majority of class, we continued to practice jabberwock. We changed a few things around and added more of an intro to it to give a bit more of a story. I think we changed a lot today and we sort of need to take some time at this point and just take in what we have so far. Plus, we will really need to get Gaia up to speed after the break which may take a bit of time considering all we've changed the past week.

March 13th, 2012

Today we continued to work on our Jabberwock play. We caught Jean-Louis up to speed on what we were doing since he was absent the first practice. Also, Mr. Mouck came out and observed our practices today. We added a whole bunch of additional setting into our play. Before it was pretty generic and a little too literal to the poem. Now, we will have to catch Gaia up when she gets back because we changed it some again, but that isn't that big of a problem. Also, I focused more on facial expressions so I don't look stupid just standing up there. I think I did better on it than last time.

March 12th, 2012

Today, we worked more on the logistical, technological side of drama by working on our blogs. Since Mr. Mouck couldn't send comments before, it was a real problem for feedback and doing redo's and stuff. But, the tech guy came over and switched a few settings around so that the comments will appear in a different format and that we moderate our comments posted to our blog. He also recommended doing comments on Chrome. Um, I will take these tips into consideration in the future and will probably use them when doing work about drama.

March 8th, 2012

Today we almost exclusively practised our Jaberwock Play. Since Jean-Louis wasn't here today, we were short an actor which is significant since we actually changed parts of our play today and switched up a few roles. Since he wasn't here we'll have to catch him up next practice. We will have to over come that, but the major thing we did was that we finalized our roles and setting. This is good because we can focus more exclusively on what applies to us now. However, we did do a quick skit in partmers before we went out to practice. We were to act out a time. The most important thing that taught me in that was the.... Something Smile people can get when they are on stage. I got that and didn't even realize it. A little while into the practice of Jabberwocky, I believe Gaia and Taob told me I had the smile and I didn't even realize again! It has occured to me that I should really work on this as I don't want to look rediculous on stage. My role won't be believable if I have a dumb smirk plastered on my face (unless im supposed to, but that won't be often, especially in Jabberwock), so I will try to focus on controlling the smile in the future practices, skits, and such.

March 7th, 2012

The general setting for the Jabberwocky skit we will do. P.S., sorry about the bad art, I did it in Paint tool on computer... It's not very cutting edge...

March 1st, 2012

Today, we played zip zap boing again, but that was just for kicks I think. The important part was that we continued to practice the jabberwock play. We had to make sure that we had at least a little bit of it down, enough to give a teaser (but we ran out of time). That being said, we did assign roles, and acted out the first stanza or two, and we know how we will do them. I specifically will be playing a half of the 'mimsy'... plant thing (I can't remember the full name) with Jean-Louis. We will then sort of morph into the antagonists of the story, the Jabberwockys. At first, when we were being the mimsy things, When the narrator says we are mimsy, we will start sort of swaying, 'flimsily'. Me not really acting as anything in my life, it felt really awkward at first to be just hunched over and swaying. I think Jean-Louis felt generally the same way; to just sort of sway like that and to make that the action your brain is focusing on just took some getting used to. Swaying is usually a thing I do absent mindedly, sub consciously, and if I realize I'm doing it I'd stop, so doing it on purpose wasn''t hard but felt wierd. I did get comfortable swaying like a plant in the wind after a few takes as we worked bugs out though, like where the others should be. Jean-Louis and I then had to grab Gaia and drag her off somewhere. She said we were being a little too rough, so we need to work on finding the right blend of gentleness so no one gets hurt and roughness so it'll look believable.