howdy sports fans!! I mean...... Drama fans!!

I've had 3 extremely lazy weeks (school wise) and thought hell with school back tomorrow, i should make an effort and do something.

We had two rehearsals in the last week of the holidays. Well i wouldn't call them rehearsals, more workshops. And thank you Kane for passing on your fantastic knowledge during these. In the first day, we went through the 8 forms of movement. I won't go through them now seeing as though I'm too lazy to get off my bum and find the sheet. In learning these, we were put through different and weird looking movements that i think some people didn't feel comfortable doing without laughing or complaining. To be honest, this really disappointed me. I think a few people needed to just accept we were doing something silly and just do it properly because I definitely feel I could have got a little more out of the exercises if my focus wasn't interrupted by people laughing or pointing out we looked stupid.

The weird thing was that it wasn't until the second day that these movement things came into play for me. After first doing it, I thought of how I could place these on my character and all i got was that I would punch and that was it. (Punch meaning strong, direct and something else that currently escapes my mind.) But on the second day, I spoke to Kane about how I would move and how it would change etc. and it was then that I understood what I could do. Kane and I were talking about my monologue in which I am talking about how my sisters anorexia is affecting me which led to the conclusion I could wring throughout the monologue (Wring being light, sustained and flexible i think). Realising this little factor wasn't the big deal. The big deal was that I understood really how i need to think of my movement through the emotions and thoughts of my character. It sounds really small but until then I was really struggling with this movement stuff in relation to my character eg. when we were coming up with five different stances for different emotions for our characters, I could only find two and I till felt too much like myself.

Lastly was the hot ring. Each of us got into the centre of a circle as our characters and were asked questions in like a arena theatre forum sort of thing. In doing mine, I actually felt real emotion coming out of me. Just thinking of my characters sister and how i as the brother feel about her and how I'm dealing with it and everything just made me feel almost real. As I stepped out of circle I felt an almost overwhelming emotions. Sounds lame but it felt extremely powerful. I feel a lot more confident with my character.

Wow that was long. GO ME! Enjoy sports fans!!