Bethany Loves Theatre.

 

This week we were finally in the theatre for 100. Yay! I was so happy to be in the theatre because I could finally feel useful.

 

Monday:

Was our longest day, I awoke with a headache but was soon forgotten when Tasha, Josh, Gem and I got on the train at broady, That then led us to North Melbourne where we swapped lines on to the Upfield line. It was marvellous. When we arrived at Jewell station we walked to Illy, for the daily caffeine hit. Why we didn’t get off at
Brunswick station I do not know. When we got to the theatre about 9:10 we were greeted by a very cold and bored Jarrod and Erika after discussing how far away we thought cooper and co. were, we decided to take a much needed trip to savers. I had a ball. I bought the majority of costumes then, or so I thought, and I was really happy with what I was able to get. When we got into the theatre, we started to paint the Boxes and the set; I decided to get people to try on costumes. It all went really well, we went for lunch, came back and continued to paint and just generally get set up in the theatre; it was a good day, and a productive day. Well done guys.

 

 

Tuesday:

On Tuesday, the girls: Gem, Jordy, Lisa and I left for the theatre at recess. When we got there Gemma and I started to patch all the lights, and work out a system for me to work with, it took us just over an hour, but it didn’t feel that long, it was good to finally do some work on lighting. When cooper arrived again after doing another trip to school, he came and fixed all the mistakes we had made which weren’t many, but it was good to have him there to help. I was really proud of Gem and myself as we patched it on our own. When then did a much needed coffee run, I think our chosen destination was red Box, Nice choice Jordy J . After we enjoyed our coffees, we did a run through of the show and I plotted the lights and put them into their presets and Jarrod used the audio. It was a basic run through, but it was good because we were starting to get the feel for it, finally being in the theatre, having lights, audio, and some costume, it was really coming together, After we finished the show, we did a quick notes session and went to dinner. After dinner we decided to do another run of the show, it was a long run as Jarrod and I were still only getting used to our equipment. We did another notes session, cleaned up and went home. A really productive day guys, it was great working with you. I love you all. 

 

Wednesday:

 

Once again, Me, Jordy and Erika went to the theatre at recess. We basically did nothing until, Jarrod, Lisa and Gemma arrived after completing their Chemistry sac. Tasha and I went to savers, again, for our 5^th trip in 2 days. I’m sure they almost knew us by name. There we bought pairs of pants, and finally costumes were complete. We then went to red box, went back to the theatre and drank our coffees, by that time the others had arrived and we did a run of the show  in complete costumes, its was a fantastic run, everything went smoothly and we hit our mark with the time being about 2 minutes over an hour. We took a little brake and went to dinner. After dinner, we decided not to do another run, but instead we did some technical stuff, and we started painting the grey specs on the set.

 

Thursday:

 

Thursday night was opening night. We did nothing during the day, as we worked hard at school. But when we arrived at the theatre, you could feel it was going to go well. When the audience arrived, Jarrod and I were very nervous, the crowd was about 50 – 60 people which was awesome for opening night, especially considering I was expecting that for the entire three nights. Mainly because no on knew about it. Anyway, getting back on track…opening night. Our first performance went really well in both ways, technically and performance wise. The Highlight for me that night, apart from finally showing our work to an audience was the question and answer section at the end of the night. Having people like Angus, and Christian who ask real Questions really helped me reflect on not only my performance but everyone’s. 

 

 Friday:

 

Friday night, our second night. I wasn’t nervous as I had done the lighting obviously the night before and all was going well… until I it came to “WELCOME… TO DEATH”… And the lights didn’t work correctly, so I had to improvise something. It was alright. I thought, okay problem solved it can be fixed for tomorrow night. Next thing I knew… Sophie was about to leave the void. One hand is on the ‘Grab’ Button, the other, ready to fade the lights, the place went silent, and Sophie said her final line… “Everyone… And everything was… new” I went to hit the grab button. Nothing. Just utter panic. Luckily we sorted it all out. I figured if I just slid the fader up and down, I would pretty much still get the same effect, minus the flash, it worked for me for that night, until I could try and figure out what went wrong.

 

Saturday:

 

Our final performance. I was happy it was going to be all over. But only slightly sad that it was over. I was ready for this show, In terms of lighting, I had had one good night, one bad night, and this night was going to be my best. The crowd was in, our biggest audience yet. I think our Saturday night performance was our best yet. Everyone was on the ball, and that included Jarrod and I. The Question and answer session was a little disappointing, as was the fact we didn’t get to reunite with the Mt Scopus kiddies. At the end of the night, I was both happy and sad it was over, as I knew it would be our first ever and last year 12 theatre performances. Bump out was good; it went quickly and was efficient.

 

Overall, I was incredibly proud of everyone. *how corny* we worked so hard and I believe it paid off which is awesome. Now we have our folios to look forward to.

Joy O Joy!!

 

Love you all. J

 

 

 

Okay, so  i have been lazy lately in terms of keeping this up to date, but considering  musical took up our lives for about two weeks, i think we should be forgiven.

WEEK 2.

Week 2 we did our Macbeth sac, it went well i think, and i can’t wait to see the results. *hint hint* That, and the few 100 rehersals we did, i think the week was a progressive one, which can be a rarity with our class.  Honestly i can’t really remember what we did 4 weeks ago, so i shall move on to week 3. 

WEEK 3 

 Week 3 was  a hard one there was lots of work to do, and hardly any time to do it in. I presume we had 100 rehersals, as it has been a priority for us for something like 10 weeks now? I know some of the cast spent some of their time at musical camp learning thier lines, and i think it has paid off, having the show run more fluently makes a huge differnce and helps us as an audience see it clearly, and where it is going. so well done to Gemma, Joshy,tashy and lisa. and im sure to burak and Erika too, cept i didnt see them.haha. well thats about all i can think of for this week. see you in week 4 ..

WEEK 4

 we did nothing…… Thanks to the musical.  No really, i have no idea what to write for week 4.  The musical was the best, i am so sad its all over. :(  no more Aitken musicals for bethy… or Jared, or jarrod, lisa, tashy, gemma, lucas, Liana, emily, Jordy, bloky, dovile, teigs, Erika and cass( even though it was only their first).. and any other yr 12 i have unintentionally forgotten. thats all for now. Bye.

WEEK 5

okay, im going to be honest, I am going crazy. Im so bored with 100, i just want to get into the theatre so i ” can actually contribute” RIGHT COOPS?  ( i hope that offended you, because it offended me) considering im there every rehersal. and that at least the cast is in white even if it isnt perfect, or is completly what they are wearning, and i cant do any work on lighting untill we get into the theatre next week. im very sorry if that came out rudly, but this blog is for expressing ourselves right? other than all that, i think rehersals are going well. A bit of refigning with the lines, and some of the movement, such as the tube and it will be fantastic. 

Thanks.

Love Beth.

well well well, term two already.                                                            Mood: Burak.

 I cant belive 100 is in like 4 weeks, i think i shall finally do something about costumes. spotlight seems to be the way to go in terms of buying the material, because they are cheap, and they also have the patterns, even if the lady on the phone was a mean mean B****h, who hangs up on people.

 I really liked the theare, i think its perfect for us, just the right size and blah blah blah. Macbeth was the best!! haha i have never been so scared in my life.. well only once.. when i went down the Wild Wild West in Queensland. I disliked the guy who played macbeth, and Lady macbeth, but i loved Banquo and the way in which the turned him into the ghost,the blood looked real. hahahahah I absolutly loved the part when the ‘ alarmn bell’ rang and everyone came out of their bedrooms.. and lady macbeth was followed out by another chick, who was holding her hands… talk about sussness. ANYWAY.. back to business… maccas was yum.

I thought the top acts excursion was really benefical on saturday, i had a great time, and i loved it because i knew what was going on and i could relate, not only to my monologue, but everyone elses.. In saying that.. the last perfomance.. the Michael one.. was that the one Jarrod did? because i couldnt remember which one he did. ta. I thought our discussion in the caf’e was really good, everyone was able to say what the wanted, and how they felt theirs went in comparision to what our was like. Without being vain.. i saw a lot of similarities between mine and the girl who did hers, when i performed mine, i had a feeling i was taking mine to Litrally, but i was able to breathe when i saw the girl had also done the same, Ummm.. The thing that i felt made hers a standout and More humerious than the actual script is, was the… i suppose personality traits she put into it, such as the arm and the but waggle thing when she sat down, so if i learnt anything from it, it was to remember to include those types of things, as well as silence and moving around, rather than simply reading off the words. For once i am actually looking forward to the monologues, i dont feel so scared. soo.. There is my thoughts for the week, see you all for the sac.

Bye Kiddies.

Love Bj 

WEEK 5. Well well well… Week 5. I think we have pretty much done the same thing this week that we have in week 2, 3 and 4. But its okay, it’s a little bit boring when I can’t do much more on costumes.

Acting: I think the blocking of the play is coming along awesomeingly. I can see Lisa, Tasha, Gemma, Josh, Burak and Erika too are all working really hard and it shows, and I would like to congratulate them all for working through lunchtimes and stuff because it’s looking awesome.

 Publicity: Okay… I’m going to be slightly honest… I would really like to see a design for the farmhouse logo because I think it’s fairly important and should really be a priority to Erika and Burak.but, in saying that it’s great to see that the have rang he ages and s-press and stuff and a trying to get some info on ads for them.

 Lighting: I think Gemma and I will need to do some planning in relation to lighting, I know we cant do anything really until we get into the theatre, and that’s not for some time, but I think we should start talking to Gem, and at least discussing colours or types of lights or something, so I shall keep that in mind.

Set design: Apparently it’s coming along really well. I now know what Jarrod and Tasha want to do, colour wise so Teigan and I can do some more work on costumes.

Costumes: I have been doing some more thinking in relation to colours, and although I originally wanted to have creamy/ off white or “champagne” coloured clothing, but more I think about it, the more I want the white. Ill have a look at some materials as soon as I can. Well that’s about all I can remember for now… considering it was about a week ago. Catch you all later.

- Bj! xx

Ps: Week 6 is complelted ill copy and paste it from the word document.ta. =]

 Here is a link for a lighting slide show, i thoughtit could maybe help Gemma and i out. so, gem if you would like, check it out <3

http://www.skillslibrary.com/troop3262/stagelighting/stagelighting.htm 

 

I dont know why i included this, i think it was mainly because i wanted to include a picture somewhere, but it remeinded be of the void.

 http://www.hsvwoodlands.com/images/stage-188S.jpg.

^ CAN WE SPELL  P-E-R-F-E-C-T ? I think we can. ^

yeah, thats right Teigan, first IS the worst, and second REALLY is the best.

well week 4.. Why can i never remeber what we did? lol

Once again, as usual i think we have made great progress this week. considering we missed out on mondays class. to get what we got done in 4 lessons isnt half bad.

The production meeting: Was great i got some insight into what everyone else is doing which was good. Im reallly really happy to finally find out that the set design people have decided on a light grey with dark grey colour scheme, it helps Teigan and i a lot. We were really confused with what to do with costumes as we tried our best to plan it around the set. I think we have pretty much decided that we are going with the white/cream/off white/champagne colours for costumes and just designing differnt looks for all the different characters.Tho, in saying that, after much discussion with Teigan, i think the only real conclusion we have come to is that Burak will most definatly be Shirtless. ROFL. i also have some other basic ideas with what to do for the ” voidee’s” as i have now offically named them. although im slightly stuck on how to dress the Guide, id actaully like her in colour, i want her to stand out, anyhoo ill keep thinking about it.

The double lessons this week i particulary found very well used, well for me anyone, in the first lesson, when coops wasn’t there, teigan and i spoke to joshy for a while on what he thought Alex was like, just i could get some idea on what to put him in, and he gave teigan some insight to make up. This was really great, So thanks Joshy.  I the second lesson i did week 2 and week 3 blogs. hilarious. oh and chatted to joshy on how Nice the new student teacher is. lol.

Todays lesson ( friday 2nd) i sat by the radio and listened to the music jarrod and Joshy had come up with. .. mainly that was because i had a TERRIBLE headache and wanted to chill for a little while. i think the Music they have chosen is awesome, and espically the first track ( they will understand) is absolutly perfect. If you guys would like more music, I have found a fanstastic royalty, or Copyright free music site its called : freeplaymusic.com its reallllly good just clink on the style of music you want and it gives you lists and lists of differnt songs.

Umm.. well thats about it for me this week.

catch you all later.

- Bj! 

Ps: Cooper i will come and see you Monday about making an Audit appointment. thanks =]

well well well… week three.. The Magical week?

Number of things that were fun : 3.

 * My Birthday.

* My birthday Party

* Oh and The progress to.. I guess :p

 This week i feel we made HUGE  progress how many scenes did we block? about 5? the void 1, Alexs memory.. and some other stuff, i think its coming along really well and i can honestly see where its heading, and im excited. Like the musical, if this is what we have 2 weeks into the rehersals i can only imagine what it will be like when its on the stage in 3 odd months time ( im bad at maths) with costume, lighting, makeup and props.  Im a little confused about Alex’s memory How Nia pop’s in and out of the scene.  Maybe i should just pay a little more attention.. haha. =]  All good yall.

Okay, slightly off track but i think we should have more, and a variety of Warm up games. i think ” WHATS IN THE BOX” should go out the window, because its a horrible game, and clearly upsets members of the class… LMAO.. im sorry teigan, but thats the funniest moment so far this year. i hope your not toooo scared.

 Anyhooo, back on track.. when we were blocking Sophies memory, i dont think the mirroring mother thingamabob.i just dont think its worked, and i feeel if it confused me, and i know whats going on with play, im only hoping that its doesnt completly throw the audience.

 Ummmm… Anyhooooo thats about all i can remember for this week, so untill nex time.

KEEP ON TRUCKIN’

love you all. &beth;

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How are we all? okay so im two weeks late, shoot me.  I dont really remember what we did in week 2, but im guessing we had productions discussions and started blocking  “void 1 “

I think it was week 2 that i described my costume designes to everyone, and the whole class basically shot me down in flames, so it was back to the drawing board.  Being completly honest, that actually kinda hurt, not what was said, i handle constructive critisism just fine, it was the way the class complelty disreguarded them and all started talking about being in white, without i guess, aiming to compromise.. even though i know  it was only inital design. that is the reason i  “CBF” jarrod, Im not giving up, i was simply annoyed.

Okay, i know this is short and sweet, but i have week three to write about, i hope this was enought food for thought. Im sorry if you all got the impression i had given up on costuming.. i havn’t so you will all have to put up wiht me a little bit more.

Thanks. Byee &hearts; &imcool;

Okay, so i have already done this one time, and somehow, it deleted, im so pissed off.

Okay, so week one has been and gone, and now coops has signed us up with this stupid thing. seriously, what’s wrong with good old Pen and paper? This thing is so hard to work, its worse than myspace, and that took me months and im still working on it.

Okay.. so 100..   What do i write about? Damn, should have read the email properly.

 100.. I Love it. i love everything about it, the way it is written, the concept, the characters, everything. i thought the way it was written is humerous and witty, .. and that’s everything im not. When we initially read the script i imagined the viod being completly black, but as i thought about it, i imagined the void being similar to a reception area ( i got my inspiration from the foyer at altona theatre lol) But then i was thinking, (yes i was actually thinking) that that might have too much of a comical effect on the play, and besides that, doesn’t it say at the beginning of the script the void has no recignisable features? well.. theres that idea gone.. NEXT!

My main stagecraft is costume. As we read the script I imagined the characters in fairly natural, casual clothing, the lovers, Nia and Alex would be in basic streetwear, I imagined Sophie as a sophisticasted Business woman ( no pun intended lol) so she would be in a suit. As for… Burak’s character ( whos name i have temporaly forgotten) as a real tribe member , grass skirt and all, No, im only joking. But i imagined body painting etc.

I really enjoyed the class where we read the script, Its was good like. Also, i can’t remember what else we did last week.. It’s not that i dont pay attention… I’m not erika… LOLZ. I just have a terrible memory.

 

well.. that’s about all i can be bothered writing since i have already written this once, and then deleted it somehow.

 

Cheerio

 … Omg, i feel like Cereal now

 

LOVE YOU ALL.