Augh; I have so much to write about! It's been almost two weeks since my last entry; maybe I need to make myself a "blog for five minutes a day" rule or something as I don't know how to fit everything in now.
But first of all YAY I have my first follower; I love you Melissa! :)
I am thinking perhaps I will put my blogs into several posts based on the subjects they are....right now I am trying to choose what scenes to do for class. On Fridays we get to work with Tony Bonner and shoot basically any scene or monologue we want but we have to challenge ourselves. There are sooooo many good scripts out there and way too many that I want to do!
I just want to do Legally Blonde & Mean Girls and Bring it On for fun, and then for challenging pieces that are more violent and gritty than my normal "sweet girl next door" look I found some good ones; V for Vendetta, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, and I found this Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo that has some really cool and fun scenes in it. Comedy's my fav though; I'm trying to find some comedy scripts that aren't the typical girly ones that I like; so far I've gone through 500 Days of Summer and Tin Cup, and then we are supposed to do one piece that the part is more like a "Lady", so I've gone through Cold Mountain for that. So many scripts; so many choices! I hope I can originate one of these amazing roles someday! :)
OK so one of the things that has happened which I thought would be blog appropriate; last Monday (I know that was ages ago!) we had a new scene to learn where each of us in class need to learn both sides of the script; the detective and the murderer in jail. Easy enough but I'm kind of freaked out as we have to be able to do not one but TWO accents! The detective needs to be done in a British RP accent and the other needs to be done in a Midlands north accent, which frankly I didn't even really know there WAS that specific accent! In voice class on Wednesdays I am learning how to speak proper Australian which is kind of interesting as an American, and then for the last hour or two of the day the rest of the class is learning an American accent. I was sooooooo excited; one of the sentences we had to read was "Wisconsin may be the dairy capital of America, but it is also where they make Harley Motorcycles" or something like that. I was seriously like BOUNCING up and down; Melissa let me read that sentence first to the class. :)
This is going to sound very stupid and more than a little blonde but I'm just not sure how to say things anymore. Melissa was telling the class how to say something American and asked me to say it, and whatever aspect of the word I said the Aussie way. I said how I kind of just don't know how to say words because for the majority of the day we talk about the proper way to say things Australian and that's what I'm trying to learn, but then I'm trying to learn the British but not too British accent and then the less refined one and my natural speech is obviously American.... As Melissa said I am having a "vocal identity crisis", which i found to be super funny and couldn't stop laughing at since it's so true and it was also getting to that late part of the day and I was feeling a bit loopy.... :-p Every time I talk in class I'm not really sure what should come out...
Anyway, the other thing that happened with that script we need to do both sides for in different accents is that we need to have a cigarette in our mouths for the detective part. OK so I have never smoked anything before in my life, (which isn't too common among the acting/theatre circles,) and John told us to practice speaking with the cigarette in our mouth before class. We don't have to actually smoke it or anything, but we have to say four or five lines with the cigarette actually in our mouths. (haha I find this funny as I type this the Simpsons is on in the background and Flanders and his kids are saying how bad smokers are and the kids are going "Smokers are jokers! Smokers are jokers!" Anyway, I knew this would be difficult for me so I tried to practice with a pen cap. (I don't have any cigarettes, okay?) Yeah, I don't think that did me much good.
First, I put the cigarette in my mouth not even knowing that there was a filter end and the other end and only one of them is supposed to go in your mouth! Whoops... Then I had the same problem as someone else in class trying not to be distracted by it bobbing up and down between my lips while talking; its just so weird! I think if it was actually smoking something it might be easier, but who just talks with a cigarette in their mouth? They light it and smoke it! So as I was attempting to say my lines and not be distracted by the bobbing up and down cigarette someone in class said how I had it too far in my mouth, and then they noticed that I was actually biting it and THAT'S how I was keeping it in my mouth. Umn, yeah, so I guess you're not supposed to do that either... It was a little better last week (despite the fact that I was amazingly hungover and had 3 hours of sleep and possibly still a little bit of alcohol in my system...) but I'm totally dreading filming on Monday. It will definitely be a good experience and a good challenge but oh my gosh what will my acting be like between the cigarette and the accent and the other stage directions.... Good challenge; that's for sure! If I get the dvd from my scenes and there are any amazingly good because they are so amazingly bad shots I'll see about uploading it online ;)
I'm still looking for other scripts if anyone has good suggestions; I love super girly stuff but if anyone has good suggestions for good female parts that are prostitutes/mentally insane/violent/lesbian scenes let me know. Oh boy what does that make me look like....but the fact that I just typed "oh boy" is why I need to do these scenes!
But first of all YAY I have my first follower; I love you Melissa! :)
I am thinking perhaps I will put my blogs into several posts based on the subjects they are....right now I am trying to choose what scenes to do for class. On Fridays we get to work with Tony Bonner and shoot basically any scene or monologue we want but we have to challenge ourselves. There are sooooo many good scripts out there and way too many that I want to do!
I just want to do Legally Blonde & Mean Girls and Bring it On for fun, and then for challenging pieces that are more violent and gritty than my normal "sweet girl next door" look I found some good ones; V for Vendetta, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, and I found this Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo that has some really cool and fun scenes in it. Comedy's my fav though; I'm trying to find some comedy scripts that aren't the typical girly ones that I like; so far I've gone through 500 Days of Summer and Tin Cup, and then we are supposed to do one piece that the part is more like a "Lady", so I've gone through Cold Mountain for that. So many scripts; so many choices! I hope I can originate one of these amazing roles someday! :)
OK so one of the things that has happened which I thought would be blog appropriate; last Monday (I know that was ages ago!) we had a new scene to learn where each of us in class need to learn both sides of the script; the detective and the murderer in jail. Easy enough but I'm kind of freaked out as we have to be able to do not one but TWO accents! The detective needs to be done in a British RP accent and the other needs to be done in a Midlands north accent, which frankly I didn't even really know there WAS that specific accent! In voice class on Wednesdays I am learning how to speak proper Australian which is kind of interesting as an American, and then for the last hour or two of the day the rest of the class is learning an American accent. I was sooooooo excited; one of the sentences we had to read was "Wisconsin may be the dairy capital of America, but it is also where they make Harley Motorcycles" or something like that. I was seriously like BOUNCING up and down; Melissa let me read that sentence first to the class. :)
This is going to sound very stupid and more than a little blonde but I'm just not sure how to say things anymore. Melissa was telling the class how to say something American and asked me to say it, and whatever aspect of the word I said the Aussie way. I said how I kind of just don't know how to say words because for the majority of the day we talk about the proper way to say things Australian and that's what I'm trying to learn, but then I'm trying to learn the British but not too British accent and then the less refined one and my natural speech is obviously American.... As Melissa said I am having a "vocal identity crisis", which i found to be super funny and couldn't stop laughing at since it's so true and it was also getting to that late part of the day and I was feeling a bit loopy.... :-p Every time I talk in class I'm not really sure what should come out...
Anyway, the other thing that happened with that script we need to do both sides for in different accents is that we need to have a cigarette in our mouths for the detective part. OK so I have never smoked anything before in my life, (which isn't too common among the acting/theatre circles,) and John told us to practice speaking with the cigarette in our mouth before class. We don't have to actually smoke it or anything, but we have to say four or five lines with the cigarette actually in our mouths. (haha I find this funny as I type this the Simpsons is on in the background and Flanders and his kids are saying how bad smokers are and the kids are going "Smokers are jokers! Smokers are jokers!" Anyway, I knew this would be difficult for me so I tried to practice with a pen cap. (I don't have any cigarettes, okay?) Yeah, I don't think that did me much good.
First, I put the cigarette in my mouth not even knowing that there was a filter end and the other end and only one of them is supposed to go in your mouth! Whoops... Then I had the same problem as someone else in class trying not to be distracted by it bobbing up and down between my lips while talking; its just so weird! I think if it was actually smoking something it might be easier, but who just talks with a cigarette in their mouth? They light it and smoke it! So as I was attempting to say my lines and not be distracted by the bobbing up and down cigarette someone in class said how I had it too far in my mouth, and then they noticed that I was actually biting it and THAT'S how I was keeping it in my mouth. Umn, yeah, so I guess you're not supposed to do that either... It was a little better last week (despite the fact that I was amazingly hungover and had 3 hours of sleep and possibly still a little bit of alcohol in my system...) but I'm totally dreading filming on Monday. It will definitely be a good experience and a good challenge but oh my gosh what will my acting be like between the cigarette and the accent and the other stage directions.... Good challenge; that's for sure! If I get the dvd from my scenes and there are any amazingly good because they are so amazingly bad shots I'll see about uploading it online ;)
I'm still looking for other scripts if anyone has good suggestions; I love super girly stuff but if anyone has good suggestions for good female parts that are prostitutes/mentally insane/violent/lesbian scenes let me know. Oh boy what does that make me look like....but the fact that I just typed "oh boy" is why I need to do these scenes!
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