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Now we’re talkin’
Although this is technically our second week of the program, it is really our first week of actual classes. It is starting to feel like Montreal was forever ago, but London and school are still new and exciting. This week I will tell you a little bit about all of my classes, so that in the future I will just mention them if something scary or amazing happened 😉 Mondays, my little group will generally have Voice, then Acting, before finishing off in Stage Combat. For Voice, we went over a monologue that was luckily from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, so I knew what was going on. This is the…
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Keep Calm and Make Art
A few weeks ago, I filmed a short called Keep Calm and Make Art. It is a Concordia student film and super awesome because Carolyne and Lorraine were both in it with me 🙂 I forgot to take pictures when we were actually filming, so now I am making a big post on my entire experience with the project. My first night of filming, we did interview scenes. The film is sort of a mockumentary, so I am really enthusiastic, and I felt like I did a horrible job. I am currently reading War of Art, and it specifically recommends that we not seek validation for our ego, but mine…
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Last night’s class was pretty intense. Although the first scene was a nice comedy, the second got back to the fighting we have been accustomed to this month, and the night ended with my two scenes. First, we did Rachel Getting Married. I know you are supposed to come in, ready to cry your eyes out on the first take if that is what is required of you, but I definitely needed to warm up and get there. We did the scene a lot of times, but every time, I felt like I had so little time to get from being angry at her and dismissing her reproaches, to taking…
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Greys & Her
Last night’s class with Suzanna was so much fun. Not only did I really enjoy the scenes I was working on, but we spent at least half of the class (and then went over by more than a half an hour) discussing on set experiences and the industry. It was such an interesting topic we couldn’t drop that Brittany suggested we have a class dedicated entirely to getting to know the industry better, through Suzanna. I made a special request for her to have the class before I leave for London 😉 This week was our audition-style class, so I started out being the reader for Carolyne. I don’t think…
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Reversed Scenes
This weekend, we had a table read and a meeting to discuss costumes and scheduling for the student film that Carolyne and I will both be participating in at the end of the month. It went really well, and I can’t wait to start filming 🙂 As for tonight, I have training for the new job I got in order to help pay for my semester in London, so I can’t make it to Suzanna’s class. Instead, I went last night. Suzanna had asked me to come in because she knew someone else wouldn’t be there, which worked perfectly for me when I found out I wouldn’t be able to…
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Feel the Awkwardness
On Tuesday, we did our scene from Her. We had come to class an hour early so we could run our lines together. It didn’t take anywhere near that much time, but it was fun to talk about life as well. The first time we did our scene, we did it very quiet. Very sad. We skipped through everything except for the hurt and the ‘I miss you’. It wasn’t bad, but why play one thing when you can play 30? The second time, we worked on incorporating all of those feelings, like the awkwardness at the beginning, the comfort of an old friend, the sadness of realizing it’s over,…
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LONDON CALLING <3
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I had applied for something that I would tell you about later. That thing was to study for a semester in London, and I am so excited to let you guys know that I got in! Come January, I will be studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, also known as LAMDA. Anyone who has spoken to me recently probably heard me going back and forth on the many different programs I was interested in, but I decided to just bite the bullet and do my first choice, the 14 week semester. It is equal parts exciting and terrifying for…
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Class, med school and helping out :)
Tuesday’s class was a lot of fun, like it always is. We had a new guy in class, which is always interesting, to get to meet new people and find out about their different experiences. I am his scene partner, and we are working on Her. No, I am not the operating system. I had been a reader for this scene once before and I absolutely love it. There isn’t enough information in the movie to know exactly what happened in their marriage, who did what and who blamed who, which means you have to discover it for yourself. It can also be played so many ways, with me simply…
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Another Fear Off the List!
I had a busy couple of days this weekend. First, I spent Friday night in Cornwall for a movie screening with my parents. Then I spent Saturday on set. It was for the MIP that I worked on Thursday night as well. The day started with an unfortunate mishap, since the school they had rented was locked when we got there at 8. It took a little over two hours and about a million phone calls for us to get started. Luckily, we had good company for the wait 😉 I got my makeup done, we did some close ups of me going through a locker, and then I did…
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Be Loose…But Just to an Extent…
I had my afternoon planned on Tuesday. I had a list of things to accomplish, one of which was reviewing my scenes for class that night. Unfortunately, I got carried away with my first task, which was finishing up a story before Nanowrimo starts on Sunday. Let’s just say I got inspired and only had a few minutes once I got to class to reread the scenes. Instead of panicking, since I knew my lines, I decided to be loose. Instead of cramming to make sure that I had the lines down as well as I thought I did, I decided to just let it go, listen to my scene…