16 April 2012 ( Monday)
Today, Mr. Rey wants to help the Wednesday group students with their final play because last week's Wednesday is our country's Ah-Gong's birthday so is a public holiday. So, me and the other students in the Friday's one either we stay in class watch them to perform or go outside the class and do our rehearsal.
I want to look what is their play about and also we're kinda lazy to rehearsal for now. So we find a place to sit and watch their play. The 1st group is Celine and Teck Sern's play. Starting scene, Celine open the door and she mumble a sentence to Teck Sern which I can't hear it clearly. Yeah, Mr. Rey also says that to them. REPLAY! So again, Celine opens the door and says to Teck Sern that don't walk to loud. Ok from this sentence, I can see that most probably is talking about a baby and probably they are husband and wife. Then the line continues that Celine is like showing Teck Sern the baby but surprise me is Teck Sern actually say the baby is ugly. WTF?! And they start mumbling again, man this is so tiring and boring I can't really stand it if they keep continue doing like this. Thank God! Mr. Rey keep improvising them with that few sentences that I just mention. From the open door part and then the way of their talking-tone. I seriously still can't get it what are their relationship are they best friends or husband and wife or what? =.= Man I'm losing concentration now.
No longer, their turn end. Now is Wei Lim and Filza's turn. Also another one, mumbling =.= but this mumbling is loud but not clear LOL! So Mr. Rey improvise them with emotions,feelings,tone and also spacing. I'm getting sleepier =.=
Lastly is Lih Seng and Valerie's group. They are pretty good but not really realistic that's what Mr. Rey said. Their play is like talking about a guy and a woman their secrets have been dug up and the guy is frustrated about this and the woman came and sort of like convince him. Their scene is at a bar. So their improvisation from Mr. Rey is not that much but he said to them that they need to improve more.
So from all this play and improvisation that Mr. Rey taught them. I sort of get some idea about my play.
Monday 23 April 2012
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Pre-show time
13 April 2012 ( Friday)
Today is the day we need to present 2/3 of our scripts and also we need to set our scenes. Ish! I hardly can memorize it, there's too many long sentences OMG! Ishhhhhh!!!! C'mon just memorize it before the class starts!
Memorize, memorize, memorize! YES!! Finally get it down. Hope that my partner also get his lines down. Mr. Rey is here! And he gave us 20 minutes time to make ourselves be prepared. Nice one! Me and my partner quickly take our scripts and walk out from the classroom to get an empty space. Ok let's begin! We practice as usual.
No longer, one of our classmates tells us times up. Crap! Hope everything will be fine later. 1st group is Eric and Joshua. Their set up scene is a table and they both sit facing each other. Begin with Joshua eating his imaginary burger so the scene is sort of like McDonald's but the scene they set up, for the audience they only can see their side face and hardly can see their emotions. So they kinda forget the Theatre 101 exercise-blocking. They should've adjust the chair at 45 degree so that the audience can see what they're doing. Besides that, I can't hear what they're saying. No projection. Of course, Mr. Rey comments them about their voice projection and also their actions and tones. So far of Mr. Rey's improvisation, they only manage to complete not even 1/3 of their scripts. HAHA! Yeah! This also goes to everyone including us.
Next is our turn, we set up 2 blocks as a bar scene and the most shity part is we can't find any stools for our bar scene so end up we standing and we use 2 empty bottles as the whiskey glass. Once we start, Mr. Rey starts to giving comments about the tone and yeah we did it. COOL! Like it! But... man, things just screw up like this-Forget lines. I seriously don't know where to continue. So we just continue. HAHA! Before Mr. Rey stops us, he tells us that we have to used up the space that we have when we're on the stage. Then is Vhina and David's group. Their set up is kinda cool, I dont know how to describe it but is like 2 of them stand on their own positions and do their own monologue. After that is Sam and Lycel's turn. Their play is about a woman stuck in the elevator and she was asking for help. Thus, a conversation begin with sort of like a guard. Something interesting happen, I can't believe that Mr. Rey actually wants Lycel to take off her clothes and left bra and panties because it is part of the script. Man, I feel pity on her. If she really does this on the performance, I wonder what the audience will think.
Another New lessons
9 April 2012 ( Monday)
Another day of lessons again~ What is it again~... Everyone is here warm up again. Ish!
Now, Mr. Rey freezes us again. He said imagine a character which is heavy and slow, directly. He gave us about few minutes to think about it. Of course we have to walk around and think of it. This really stucks in my head-"Who am I?". Hmmm... Yeah! Think of one! After that, Mr. Rey tells us to show how is your character walks, how is your character wake up and be prepared. Well, my character is a gym trainer and he walks quite slow with his shoulders open widely. How is the character wake up? HEHE, mine is easy. He woke up, straight go to the bathroom brushes his teeth and take a shower then go to gym. But before that, " Something unexpected happened!" Mr. Rey said. So, while I'm brushing my teeth, I saw a cockroach under my legs. Yeah! Shocked! And straight step on it but it ran away. Never mind, continue preparing... Next, what is your character doing now. My character is now building his muscles, slowly, take his own precious time. Again! "Something unexpected happened!". Ok, I actually like heard someone is arguing something, so I just take a quick look and then back to my own business. Last part, Mr. Rey says that our character now is in a karaoke room and we need to pick a song for our character. Great! I don't know what to pick, so I just simply sing a japkor ( japanese + korean) song. HAHA! Unexpected! Mr. Rey points some of the students and want them to sing it. He wants to see how our character sings. OMG but lucky, I didn't get picked. *Phew*
Next character is light and fast, direct. Easy! Within a few minutes I've already got one and that is gangster. Yeah! Like the previous exercise. Of course this character is a fast but lazy. Lazy in don't like to wake up early and room is messy. What is his job? My character's job is collect money-loan sharks. Freaking fast when doing his job. Unexpected happened! I ran away because the cops are coming. Now in karaoke room. My character sings like hell, he yells and he dances.
Another one is heavy but fast. Yeah! Who am I? I'm a businessman, manager rank. Always in a rush. He is a strong and powerful character. Wake up, rush to toilet then to work. In the office, unexpected happened. I receive a phone call from a client. Karaoke room again. Well this time my song is slow and lovely. HAHA! This character loves it. XD
Last one is light and fast but indirectly. Great! I don't know how and I just do it. LOL! I'm a runner. So Mr. Rey asks us to count 1-20, how our character counts it. Yeah! my character counts like he is doing a warm up. What my character do, he always jog every morning and he is an athlete. Something unexpected happened again. I accidentally sprained my ankle. Karaoke time, my character sings energetically ( High). He sings Justin Bieber's "Baby". Mr. Rey wants me, Adam and Wei Lim to sing together. LOL! So is like a triplet. HAHA!
Before class end, Mr. Rey asks us our comments about this exercise. This is freaking cool! And Mr. Rey said that we can actually use this exercise to find out what is our character look like for our final performance.
Another day of lessons again~ What is it again~... Everyone is here warm up again. Ish!
Now, Mr. Rey freezes us again. He said imagine a character which is heavy and slow, directly. He gave us about few minutes to think about it. Of course we have to walk around and think of it. This really stucks in my head-"Who am I?". Hmmm... Yeah! Think of one! After that, Mr. Rey tells us to show how is your character walks, how is your character wake up and be prepared. Well, my character is a gym trainer and he walks quite slow with his shoulders open widely. How is the character wake up? HEHE, mine is easy. He woke up, straight go to the bathroom brushes his teeth and take a shower then go to gym. But before that, " Something unexpected happened!" Mr. Rey said. So, while I'm brushing my teeth, I saw a cockroach under my legs. Yeah! Shocked! And straight step on it but it ran away. Never mind, continue preparing... Next, what is your character doing now. My character is now building his muscles, slowly, take his own precious time. Again! "Something unexpected happened!". Ok, I actually like heard someone is arguing something, so I just take a quick look and then back to my own business. Last part, Mr. Rey says that our character now is in a karaoke room and we need to pick a song for our character. Great! I don't know what to pick, so I just simply sing a japkor ( japanese + korean) song. HAHA! Unexpected! Mr. Rey points some of the students and want them to sing it. He wants to see how our character sings. OMG but lucky, I didn't get picked. *Phew*
Next character is light and fast, direct. Easy! Within a few minutes I've already got one and that is gangster. Yeah! Like the previous exercise. Of course this character is a fast but lazy. Lazy in don't like to wake up early and room is messy. What is his job? My character's job is collect money-loan sharks. Freaking fast when doing his job. Unexpected happened! I ran away because the cops are coming. Now in karaoke room. My character sings like hell, he yells and he dances.
Another one is heavy but fast. Yeah! Who am I? I'm a businessman, manager rank. Always in a rush. He is a strong and powerful character. Wake up, rush to toilet then to work. In the office, unexpected happened. I receive a phone call from a client. Karaoke room again. Well this time my song is slow and lovely. HAHA! This character loves it. XD
Last one is light and fast but indirectly. Great! I don't know how and I just do it. LOL! I'm a runner. So Mr. Rey asks us to count 1-20, how our character counts it. Yeah! my character counts like he is doing a warm up. What my character do, he always jog every morning and he is an athlete. Something unexpected happened again. I accidentally sprained my ankle. Karaoke time, my character sings energetically ( High). He sings Justin Bieber's "Baby". Mr. Rey wants me, Adam and Wei Lim to sing together. LOL! So is like a triplet. HAHA!
Before class end, Mr. Rey asks us our comments about this exercise. This is freaking cool! And Mr. Rey said that we can actually use this exercise to find out what is our character look like for our final performance.
Friday 6 April 2012
Practising
6 April 2012 ( Monday)
Everything is just as usual. Early wake up, reach campus, walk in classroom then sleep while waiting for class to starts. When Mr. Rey came in, he saw me and Sam sleeping but I woke up 1st and he asks us is this a hospital. LOL! Speechless.
Today we're gonna practising our scripts. Mr. Rey says he will more focus on text and emotion and tone. Before that starts, he calls us to warm ourselves up then say our lines. Next, face your partner then hold hands and say the lines. Then use both hands put on your partner's shoulder, make eye contact and say the lines. After that, while saying our lines we can use our both hands shake our partner's shoulder act as an emotion.
Now the real lessons starts. Mr. Rey orders us to take 2 chairs and 4 blocks. Then Mr. Rey chooses 2 groups to do 1st and the other 2 will go out from the class and practise their own script. So 1st is my group and Vhina's group. They do their script 1st. Mr. Rey wants them to face each other, make eye contact put down their scripts, both hands on top your thigh whereas me and Zong Yong help them to read their line, each of them. When we read their lines, they have to repeat it again with tones and emotions. Mr. Rey also will help by questioning them. Such as " What is this word mean to you? Is it angry?" , " What do you feel when she speaks like this to you?", " Try to use other tone for this sentence." and others. Is kinda annoying if you didn't get what Mr. Rey is teaching you and you always stuck there repeating the same line.
Now is my group's turn and is their turn to read our lines for us. I can't believe that this exercise really helped a lot! With those questions that Mr. Rey gave us, we exactly manage to identify character's tone and interruption. Time is running up so Mr. Rey have to stop us here and he calls other groups to come in whereas we all go outside the class and rehears our lines like what we did just now and we continue it. Me and Zong Yong actually like try and error for the lines. CRAP! Some sentences I really can't get it and I do it again and again, still can't get the tone. Zong Yong is just like " do it again, do it again, do it again". Come on if you just call me to repeat again and I still don't get it why don't you just tell me how is the tone like but I didn't say that to him I just stay calm and ask him to demonstrate for me.
No longer, Mr. Rey calls us to come in the classrooms and he tells us that we need to memorize 2/3 of the lines and the play for the next week's class.
Everything is just as usual. Early wake up, reach campus, walk in classroom then sleep while waiting for class to starts. When Mr. Rey came in, he saw me and Sam sleeping but I woke up 1st and he asks us is this a hospital. LOL! Speechless.
Today we're gonna practising our scripts. Mr. Rey says he will more focus on text and emotion and tone. Before that starts, he calls us to warm ourselves up then say our lines. Next, face your partner then hold hands and say the lines. Then use both hands put on your partner's shoulder, make eye contact and say the lines. After that, while saying our lines we can use our both hands shake our partner's shoulder act as an emotion.
Now the real lessons starts. Mr. Rey orders us to take 2 chairs and 4 blocks. Then Mr. Rey chooses 2 groups to do 1st and the other 2 will go out from the class and practise their own script. So 1st is my group and Vhina's group. They do their script 1st. Mr. Rey wants them to face each other, make eye contact put down their scripts, both hands on top your thigh whereas me and Zong Yong help them to read their line, each of them. When we read their lines, they have to repeat it again with tones and emotions. Mr. Rey also will help by questioning them. Such as " What is this word mean to you? Is it angry?" , " What do you feel when she speaks like this to you?", " Try to use other tone for this sentence." and others. Is kinda annoying if you didn't get what Mr. Rey is teaching you and you always stuck there repeating the same line.
Now is my group's turn and is their turn to read our lines for us. I can't believe that this exercise really helped a lot! With those questions that Mr. Rey gave us, we exactly manage to identify character's tone and interruption. Time is running up so Mr. Rey have to stop us here and he calls other groups to come in whereas we all go outside the class and rehears our lines like what we did just now and we continue it. Me and Zong Yong actually like try and error for the lines. CRAP! Some sentences I really can't get it and I do it again and again, still can't get the tone. Zong Yong is just like " do it again, do it again, do it again". Come on if you just call me to repeat again and I still don't get it why don't you just tell me how is the tone like but I didn't say that to him I just stay calm and ask him to demonstrate for me.
No longer, Mr. Rey calls us to come in the classrooms and he tells us that we need to memorize 2/3 of the lines and the play for the next week's class.
Wednesday 4 April 2012
2 April 2012 ( Monday)
Lessons. Lessons. What lesson Mr. Rey gonna teach today? Hmmm... Straight away, while waiting for the class to start I sleep in the classroom again. Almost 8am, Mr. Rey is here but again seems like some of the students getting late again. General excuses- Traffic Jam but what I heard from my friend if not mistaken is somewhere KL or Subang area is flooded because of heavy rain so I guess most probably is this reason they came late for class. Eventually, Mr. Rey wants Celine to make a " No Entry" sign n paste it outside the classroom door. I thought today we'll have very less people in this class. No, most of them ignore it and walk in the class. HAHA! Mr. Rey didn't scold them that's nice.
Before the class starts, Mr. Rey wants 3 blocks and place it in different places. Then warm up~ shake yourselves, walk around, imagine imagine imagine... After this, Mr. Rey wants us to be in character. The character for our play. He orders us to imagine our character way of walking then say out some of our lines. Besides, he also tells us that while we walking we can look at the mirror so that we can see our character. After that, Mr. Rey calls us to lie down on the floor. This exercise is like Theatre 101-Imaginary. This exercise is not imagine a scene but is imagine your character. Imagine your character's attire, character's habit etc. I almost sleep but I'm not and I seriously blur when I always do this exercise. I don't know when need to wake up all those and Mr. Rey wakes me up, he thought I was sleeping. LOL! I'm NOT!! But never mind. Then he calls us to stand up without opening our eyes. He calls us continue imagining our character slowly from the leg then the attire then preparing to bed. How the character sleep then suddenly something happen. Other than that, Mr. Rey then slowly calls us to open our eyes then he gives us a condition is before your scene starts, what is your character doing. He asks us how your character wake up and do his preparation and then something unexpected happen then continue preparation. Mr. Rey gave us 10 minutes to do anything before our scene starts.
After my preparation then I have a phone call from my friend then I head to a bar. While waiting for my friend I order a drink at the bar. Times up. This exercise finish very quickly after that is the last session. Discussion. Mr. Rey asks us is this exercise helps a lot for characterization. Seriously yes!
Class end. Now, me and Zong Yong need to read the scripts for Mr. Rey. Finally, we finish and Mr. Rey thinks that the 2 plays that we read to him are good but we choose Woozey Woo is far more easier than the other play.
Lessons. Lessons. What lesson Mr. Rey gonna teach today? Hmmm... Straight away, while waiting for the class to start I sleep in the classroom again. Almost 8am, Mr. Rey is here but again seems like some of the students getting late again. General excuses- Traffic Jam but what I heard from my friend if not mistaken is somewhere KL or Subang area is flooded because of heavy rain so I guess most probably is this reason they came late for class. Eventually, Mr. Rey wants Celine to make a " No Entry" sign n paste it outside the classroom door. I thought today we'll have very less people in this class. No, most of them ignore it and walk in the class. HAHA! Mr. Rey didn't scold them that's nice.
Before the class starts, Mr. Rey wants 3 blocks and place it in different places. Then warm up~ shake yourselves, walk around, imagine imagine imagine... After this, Mr. Rey wants us to be in character. The character for our play. He orders us to imagine our character way of walking then say out some of our lines. Besides, he also tells us that while we walking we can look at the mirror so that we can see our character. After that, Mr. Rey calls us to lie down on the floor. This exercise is like Theatre 101-Imaginary. This exercise is not imagine a scene but is imagine your character. Imagine your character's attire, character's habit etc. I almost sleep but I'm not and I seriously blur when I always do this exercise. I don't know when need to wake up all those and Mr. Rey wakes me up, he thought I was sleeping. LOL! I'm NOT!! But never mind. Then he calls us to stand up without opening our eyes. He calls us continue imagining our character slowly from the leg then the attire then preparing to bed. How the character sleep then suddenly something happen. Other than that, Mr. Rey then slowly calls us to open our eyes then he gives us a condition is before your scene starts, what is your character doing. He asks us how your character wake up and do his preparation and then something unexpected happen then continue preparation. Mr. Rey gave us 10 minutes to do anything before our scene starts.
After my preparation then I have a phone call from my friend then I head to a bar. While waiting for my friend I order a drink at the bar. Times up. This exercise finish very quickly after that is the last session. Discussion. Mr. Rey asks us is this exercise helps a lot for characterization. Seriously yes!
Class end. Now, me and Zong Yong need to read the scripts for Mr. Rey. Finally, we finish and Mr. Rey thinks that the 2 plays that we read to him are good but we choose Woozey Woo is far more easier than the other play.
Sunday 1 April 2012
Do Nothing But listen
30 March 2012 ( Friday)
Today everyone must have already choose 2 scripts from the book that Mr. Rey gave us and we need to read it. Not just read it normally, we need to know the characters in the script. Hence we have to be in character when we're reading.
Whole day night before today, 4am started to rain non-stop. Seriously can't sleep properly not because of the rain is because of the thunder. Ishh! Time to wake up, still raining. My area is almost flooded, thank God! Great! I wonder how am I going to campus if I reach at Subang station and is still raining although I have an umbrella with me but I still don't want to get any part of my body wet. Pray! Pray! Pray! Lucky me, the rain get small a little at least but pity Vhina because she can't made it to the train station. Her place is really flooded! This is the 1st time our area get flooded!
Reach campus, LUCKY!!!!!! Seems like everyone is gonna be late I guess because of the rain yesterday. ( No one is inside the experimental yet) So I continue my sleep when I'm in the classroom. Almost going to 8, finally everyone is arrived so as Mr. Rey.
This time no warm up and Mr. Rey orders us to take a chair for each of us. We need to sit with our partners. 1st is Sam and Lycel. Their 1st script is about the elevator, a woman traps in the elevator and a man who is in the security cam chat with her and make her calm down. Their 2nd script I can't really get it because I'm not concentrating >.<. After that, Mr. Rey asks our comment whether which script is better. I prefer the 1st one because is interesting but their setting is one people on stage and the others not, Mr. Rey recommend that this kind of play is kinda hard. Next is Joshua and Eric. Their 1st script is "Guys". This whole story is talking about a guy's topic-girls while both of them r having their lunch at McDonald's. The characters name is Ty and Duff. When they are chatting, Ty noticed a pretty girl behind him and he asks Duff to help him. Ty wants Duff to say "Hi" to that girl and then he will join in the conversation but Duff refuses and he calls Ty to do that for himself and he challenge him to do that. At the end, the girl is gone when Ty wants to say "Hi" to her. HAHA! I like this story, so cool! Next script is " Woozey Woo". This story is talking about Salazar teaching Aaron about how to spike a drink and weird and interesting stuff happen. HAHA!
Next is Vhina and David. 1st script is about a student and a teacher. The student actually call for a consultation because of her attitude and then the student actually talks back to the teacher. I can't remember their 2nd script and now is our turn. We've no choice to choose the 2 women play because there are no 2 guys play in the book. Well we have one but is one on stage and the other off stage. So Mr. Rey calls us to take another book and find 2 new scripts again and read it to him at the Monday class.
So that's how is it. Mr. Rey then talk about how are we gonna act well in this play and is for our FINALS! So he recommend us to Google our script and understand their character's background. Such as what is the character's age, day of birth, the way of talking, movement...etc.
Class End!
Today everyone must have already choose 2 scripts from the book that Mr. Rey gave us and we need to read it. Not just read it normally, we need to know the characters in the script. Hence we have to be in character when we're reading.
Whole day night before today, 4am started to rain non-stop. Seriously can't sleep properly not because of the rain is because of the thunder. Ishh! Time to wake up, still raining. My area is almost flooded, thank God! Great! I wonder how am I going to campus if I reach at Subang station and is still raining although I have an umbrella with me but I still don't want to get any part of my body wet. Pray! Pray! Pray! Lucky me, the rain get small a little at least but pity Vhina because she can't made it to the train station. Her place is really flooded! This is the 1st time our area get flooded!
Reach campus, LUCKY!!!!!! Seems like everyone is gonna be late I guess because of the rain yesterday. ( No one is inside the experimental yet) So I continue my sleep when I'm in the classroom. Almost going to 8, finally everyone is arrived so as Mr. Rey.
This time no warm up and Mr. Rey orders us to take a chair for each of us. We need to sit with our partners. 1st is Sam and Lycel. Their 1st script is about the elevator, a woman traps in the elevator and a man who is in the security cam chat with her and make her calm down. Their 2nd script I can't really get it because I'm not concentrating >.<. After that, Mr. Rey asks our comment whether which script is better. I prefer the 1st one because is interesting but their setting is one people on stage and the others not, Mr. Rey recommend that this kind of play is kinda hard. Next is Joshua and Eric. Their 1st script is "Guys". This whole story is talking about a guy's topic-girls while both of them r having their lunch at McDonald's. The characters name is Ty and Duff. When they are chatting, Ty noticed a pretty girl behind him and he asks Duff to help him. Ty wants Duff to say "Hi" to that girl and then he will join in the conversation but Duff refuses and he calls Ty to do that for himself and he challenge him to do that. At the end, the girl is gone when Ty wants to say "Hi" to her. HAHA! I like this story, so cool! Next script is " Woozey Woo". This story is talking about Salazar teaching Aaron about how to spike a drink and weird and interesting stuff happen. HAHA!
Next is Vhina and David. 1st script is about a student and a teacher. The student actually call for a consultation because of her attitude and then the student actually talks back to the teacher. I can't remember their 2nd script and now is our turn. We've no choice to choose the 2 women play because there are no 2 guys play in the book. Well we have one but is one on stage and the other off stage. So Mr. Rey calls us to take another book and find 2 new scripts again and read it to him at the Monday class.
So that's how is it. Mr. Rey then talk about how are we gonna act well in this play and is for our FINALS! So he recommend us to Google our script and understand their character's background. Such as what is the character's age, day of birth, the way of talking, movement...etc.
Class End!
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