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notta paper #10

LAST ONE

lets do this~

SOOOOOOOOOOO for my last notta paper I thought I would close it out with my delirious "im tired/sick/i just took some shiz for allergies so this is gonna get weird" ramble of a notta paper.

Its FINALS. and i want to start by saying good luck to everyone on the upcoming hell week that is upon us.

I will be done by tuesday and while that sounds like paradise, I know that these next few days are about to kill me because EVERYTHINGGGGGG is due and final tests and ahhhhhhh!

WHY

I WILL NEVER USE ALGEBRA IN MY LIFE! and yet here I am about to slave away studying a bunch of useless crap in life so that I may get my degree in THEATRE. boo math.

anddddd

this will be the shortest notta paper ever because after minutes of rambling on I am about to pass out.

so adieu lovelys...and may the odds be ever in your favor

-Bitchcraft

Teaching Theatre

I’ve known for years now that I would become a theatre teacher. As much as I love theatre, I know that won’t be enough to teach a class. There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t think about how I want to teach my class. In high school, I loved how I could be open with everyone, but I wasn’t always challenged as much as I wanted to be. I loved my teacher and she was a wonderful, but she was more interested in the tech of the shows than the acting. I know that I am more into the acting part of theatre so I try to learn as much theatre tech stuff as I can because I don’t want to favor one side because I love it all and don’t want my students to think one is better than the other. They are equal when creating a show. Well, as I said I liked the openness of my high school theatre, but the openness and easygoing energy sometimes lacked structure. I don’t want to be a teacher who just basically goes “Fuck it all, just do what you want.” There has to be structure. I think this class has helped me take a huge step forward towards how I will run my class. Neil made sure there were rules, but at the same time we were able to explore and be challenged. It was also at each person’s pace. It was also great hanging out and discuss theatre with my classmates. I do think that this class has made me a better actress and it has also helped get me closer towards becoming the teacher I want to be.

THANK YOU ALL!

-BitchTits

Gonna get a little mushy on you guys just one last time. I wanted to post some more art since I posted my painting a couple days ago, but then I came across a bunch of photos and decided to post this. This is a picture from when I was pledging Alpha Psi Omega my JR year. And the two ladies next to me are two of the most amazing people I've ever met in my life. I wanted to post this mainly because when I came across it I thought: "wow look how time has just flown by" and it really has. There we were.....pledges...not very long ago. It's crazy because I feel like I look different, I am different, and I've learned so much. Next year we will be leading the way, and I'm glad that i get to with these two girls by my side (plus ryan whom missed the photo opp). This next year is my last but I'm gonna make it my best. Super senior status =] 5 years of college isn't a bad thing.

-Bitchcraft

So I've said in my posts before that this class was probably my favorite because I've learned so much. But the one thing I didn't really mention was that I was glad that everyone was really open with each other. There wasn't a single person in our class that was ever rude and judgmental when we all went up to act, And I'm thankful for that. There is usually always that one person in every theatre class....at least almost every theatre class ive had......where they think they are the bees knees. And in almost every case, people go up to preform and have to feel judged and criticized by this one person or few people or whatever. I learned to ignore those people really quick because who are they to judge? but I was so glad that when i walked into this class that there was a sense of welcome and acceptance. I wasn't really bold in talking to everyone and getting to know them outside the class except maybe a few people, but I consider everyone in the class to be amazing people who I'm sure I'll get to know better in the future.

Also I'm glad that we will be getting together next week at my place to hang out and just kick back as school is coming to a close. See you guys soon =]

-Bitchcraft

#7 being sick and working

I think the hardest thing that I've ever really had to come across while acting was not what most would think. If you were to ask people it would probably be something like stepping outside a comfort zone, or all the crazy exercises actors do, or maybe even the hectic crazy schedules. However, for me, its being sick. I have always been able to still work when I'm sick because I have a way of just trying to push myself through and tell myself it will only be a little while. And sometimes it doesn't show in my performance and sometimes it does. But no matter what.....it sucks.

Today I got up super early to go help a friend film something for his editing class. I've been kinda sick the past few days but when I woke up this morning I knew it was gonna be hell. My throat was scratchy and I just wasn't excited for the day. It wasn't the worst sickness I've had to push through but I was trying to give myself energy as we went from each place to film. By the end of filming for today, I was exhausted.... completely done.....with finals to still study for.

It mainly sucks for me personally because I can work through the day and get what i need done, but once I am done....I AM DONE. I came home today feeling even worse. Mainly because I pushed myself.

I would say it's not bad to push yourself through things like this because it's not really. And sometimes as an actor you're gonna have to do it. But if there is something I learned from today in particular it is that 1) I need to stock up on day quil 2) I need to pace myself when I am sick and 3) don't commit to a million things on finals week.

ha but really you guys stay healthy...cause everyone's getting sick!

-Bitchcraft

Final Notta Paper

Variety, in all its variations, is a technique. Letting go is an attitude. We must dare to go from OK to better and then after better must come the courage to make the Grand Canyon leap into “best.”

Having embraced the need to let go, next comes a list of basics:

1. Have a polished technique

2. Intelligently and imaginatively explore the script, remembering the powerful word “variety"

3. Diligently over-memorize the lines

4. Discover a believable delivery that does not sound actory.

5. Search for every possible line reading and opt for the most interesting delivery, given the context of the scene.

6. Over-prepare and tune yourself up into a bundle of energy.

7. Insist that you have the right to be great but that right is not given–it is earned.

Neil,

I'm grateful you taught me Intermediate Acting.

Thank you,

Morning Sky

Get Practice

In addition to improving your abilities, working consistently keeps  you on directors’ and agents’ radar and increases the number of  people you’ll meet. Work leads to more work.

Do not be afraid to take on projects that aren’t perfectly  interesting or don’t pay well (or at all). Remember you can learn something from every acting experience,  no matter how dismal.

As in all industries, personal connections play an important role  in progress. Agents and directors work with actors that they  know, like, and trust. So make sure people know you, and earn their  respect. Always be professional and  positive. The more advocates you have, the more work you’ll be  offered.

People like to be around those with a positive outlook. So don’t be  grumpy, especially on set or backstage. Do not bring personal  problems to your job. Not only will the project be more enjoyable  and rewarding for everyone involved, but you’ll almost certainly do  better work. And nothing helps get recommendations down the road than being remembered as a person who was a joy to work with.

Actors are eminently curious. They are full of wonder at the  world and the people who inhabit it. I ask questions, listen, read, watch plays, films and great television.  And even more important, I watch myself.

In all these activities, actors take notes and reflect, constantly  sharpening their craft.

-Morning Sky

not a paper

#2...

This class has been the most useful theatre class I’ve ever taken. Anytime I’ve taken a class, at the high school or college level, and my instructor has told me to imagine my personality, or my character’s personality as an animal, and then crawl around the classroom as that animal (which happens surprisingly often) I mentally check out. And perhaps that’s close-minded of me, but I don’t discredit it as a method like Mamet might because I believe it probably is genuinely helpful for some people. I just know that I’m not going to get anything out of it that’s going to help me in any practical way. And that would be okay if I was then presented with tools that would be helpful to me personally but that’s never happened before now. There’s irony in the fact that I now want to be a high school theatre director since I thought my acting teacher in high school was one of the most pretentious people I’d ever met. I think I stopped attending class right around the time he decided that, in our short, suburban, upper-middle class lives, we hadn’t faced enough pain to draw upon as actors. So his solution was to manufacture some. By isolating, blindfolding, and yelling at us. He also had our other classmates wrap us in chicken wire (the scar from which I still have), spray water on us while pointing an industrial fan at us, and poke us with bluntish sticks. If it sounds insane, it’s because he was. But he was a “good” director that won awards for the school and was generally idolized by the students so there weren’t repercussions. And I’m pretty sure some of my classmates probably effectively utilized some of that manufactured trauma and terror in their acting. But I am not an ethereal, spiritual person. I’m a literal person. I’m literally a person. But also, I appreciate things being explained to me in a functional, practicable way.

I think what impacted me most from both True and False and Practical Handbook was the explanation of acting being such a shameful process. That if you can’t work yourself up into an emotional frenzy or do so consistently, then you’ve failed. And I’ve always thought the goal of genuinely convincing yourself that you are someone you aren’t as silly and futile so when an acting teacher told me to set my script in front of me on the ground and feel my character rise up from the page and inhabit my body, even with the most genuine, uncynical effort, I’m completely unaffected.

Whenever scene mates were able to access some really primal, emotional part of themselves and produce these impressive performances where they need a full day of recovery and trauma therapy afterwards, I was simultaneously envious and so incredibly not. Envious, because I thought they were a much better actor than myself, and not because I don’t want to convince myself I’ve been raped. That sounds terrible. So when in Practical Aesthetics I was informed that for this method, not only was that not necessary, it’s discouraged, I was very excited. Don’t even choose an as-if if it’s going to be too personal or hit too close to home. That’s awesome, because I’m not a broken enough person to want to constantly relive the most difficult parts of my life for a living.

-LouiseLavasier

As a society, we're losing our presence.

Do not be frightened of creative choices. (The ones that feel a bit risky, that may get us into a bit of trouble) They leap out of the imagination unexpectedly, and they feel right but we don’t quite understand them and we are not sure whether they will work or not.

Some people only hear what they want to hear or see what they want to see. We tend to respond to a work via the prism of our own value system: a scene could be hilarious for one person, but utterly obscene to another. If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be engaged. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of existence.

There’s always more work to do. It’s never done. The problem with overloading ourselves with too many tasks is that it leads to panicky decision-making, a decline in our level of performance, fatigue and the placing of too much meaning on the trivial.

-Morning Sky

"While there's life, there is hope." -Dr. Stephen Hawking

Perhaps the most well-recognized living scientist, Dr. Stephen Hawking is probably less well known for his actual scientific accomplishments than for his best-selling book, “A Brief History of Time,” or his disease, which has confined him to a wheelchair and forced him to utilize a computer to speak. The idea that one of the brightest minds on the planet is trapped in his own body is fascinating and tragic. But like anyone suffering with a disease, Stephen Hawking’s sickness is not who he is, just one of his more noticeable aspects.

“The Theory of Everything,” a film based on Hawking’s life and his marriage to Jane Wilde, sets out to give us a wider glimpse of the man, scientist, husband and father. Supported by two phenomenal performances by Eddie Redmayne and Felicty Jones as Stephen and Jane, the film is a powerful look at two lives connected by love, tragedy and everything else that binds two people together in marriage. It is heart-warming at times, heart-breaking at others, and utterly compelling from start to finish. Director James Marsh is able to tell an intimate story across multiple decades, giving us an intimate look at a marriage without ever feeling intrusive. Most importantly, it feels honest.

-Morning Sky

finals

So its basically finals week right now and i am freaking out because i'm not sure ill be able to pass all my classes this semester. It's been a tough one.

At this point i'm just glad it is almost over.

Looking back acting has been my favorite class. I feel like i actually learned a lot and then learned how to apply my knowledge while in other classes ive just been doing what I have to to get by.

I've had a lot of fun in this class and met some pretty awesome people and I appreciate all i got to learn about and I can only hope that my theater classes next semester are even half as good as this one was.

Thank you,

Tigger

Not ta papers

I don't know why it's so hard to keep up with these...like, I'm annoyed at myself because here I am waiting til the last minute again to do these. I literally wait until the last minute to do everything....it's annoying!! Why can't I be organized!!?? I'm ranting....I'm sorry. -The Phantom of the Opera

Notta Paper ep.10: The Last Notta Paper pt.2

It has finally come to that time. The last Notta Paper, where did all the time go. But as the old saying goes, all good things must come to an end. When I first came into this cast, I thought it would be just another run of the mill theatre class. There'd be monologues, some scenes, group activities, and daily warm ups. But like Miss Cleo, I'm shitty when it comes to predictions. Here's a fun fact by the way, if you say "beer can" in a British accent, you'll be saying "bacon" in a Jamaican accent. Go ahead, do it. Are you doing it? It's fun, right? Do it again. We miss you Marley. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, the sorrow of leaving one of the most coolest classes I've ever had in my academic career. I got the privilege to go on an acting journey with some really beautiful people. If we were all casted in a show together, whether it'd be a comedy, a drama, classic or contemporary, I know we'd bring down the house. And trust me I got some plays in mind that I'm convinced we'd portray brilliantly. You have all touched me, both physically and emotionally. I couldn't of asked for a better rag tag group of individuals to create this crazy, insane menagerie that we call "Intermediate Acting". There we had lions, tigers, lemurs, peacocks, monkeys, owls, worms that are licensed practitioners, and above all else, we had a bear. A bear, on a bare stage, naked and bare. I know that that is hard to bare, that we had to bear witness the birth of a completely unbearable pun that will not die. But I digress, as usual. Of course, nobody could have enlightened us better on how to act intermediately other than Neil. Although I know there could've been another instructor to teach us the art of intermediate acting, but I think the flow of the class would've completely different. I'm glad to know that I'll be keeping contact with most if not all of you. I want to keep this bond we have all made together strong and healthy. You all will forever have a special place in my heart, as I hope I'll be in a special place in your individual hearts . Be weird if we all shared the same heart, don't you think? Either way I'm happy that I got to know all you guys and I can't wait for our future adventures together. As so we reach the end of this 10 part miniseries. Hopefully AMC or MTV will pick it up and make it into a show, starring us. MTV sure could use it, I'm starting to think their getting tired of filming teen girls talk about how hard it is to be pregnant. They need something new, something fresh. Or maybe they can go back to the good old days where all they showed was music, hence the name Music Television. I think that just about wraps it up right there. "I love you all." - Mr. Feeny THE END? - Park Ave.

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