Abusadora - Wisin & Yandel

Thursday 24th

Today in class we read a script of the play we went to watch at 8 pm. I imagined it with my own touch and like this: in a garden made of leafs full of it but in BLACK, and GREYS. the characters of Monica I personally pictured it as an emo girl and like with a mixture of tarzan, (hair n face and stuff) also, the girl i pictured her as LULU (from la pequeña lulu) aaaand the boy as the principito.

BUT

we went to watch the play "en el jardin de monica" to miraflores (where i went to watch HSIII remember? well my family goes to that theatre to watch plays for children) and it was the opposite as i pictured it. and It was a clear example of HOW NO TO DO A PLAY, why? because:
costumes: they were so NOT appropiate, the girl flashed me 3 tmes (yes i counted them) and it was an stereotype of a girl (but wth a P*ta style). The boy had a costume that i boy now a days could use, it was normal. AND MONICA?! well nothing to say, she looked lke a nanny ora nurse, she was SO not good.
Characterizaton: rehearse people! at least once before presenting it! Let's keep that n mind. Now, I realized that the actors chose to do the performance more of a graphic and "designing" the characters, however they didn't accomplished it ...not even close to bad. When the play strated rodrigo told me "she acts like.." and I have to agree, she does. The same exact way as the other person, breathing, face...everything. So no good. Now the other thing, LEARN THE LNES! please, i read it once before the play and i could tell all the mistakes, and the ones who didn't read it as well, so then ...THAT's NOT GOOD. so, so far we've got: lines, rehearse and at least try to act! or pretend that you can...
Scenery:well, that was the aspect that was OK, not good but OK. it was not as I imagned as i said with blacks and grey..not brown and bottles. And, a box wth a sort of "TREE" ...personally i would have used a BIG somehow "real" tree, not a ...really thin one.I didn't lke the bottles think, i thought that was not ...not. And the wall?! I liked the wall (on the script!) i want my wall.
Lghting:well, i really lked the lght that was strong from the center, but not the other at the back. I thnk that the idea was good but not well used. THe intese light gave a dramatic light, but the others blew the effect away.
Music: NO MUSIC!! please stop it...wtf! it was not a children play not a funny one, so why that type of music. THey also used live music, uhm ok..........we'll see if we used it for next time.


so, I think that that overall the play sucked, really sucked PLUS! i don't like reading the script before watching the play, it persoanlly ruins it. I really don't like it because i imagine things as me, not as what the director of the play thought. meeeh, I ratther don't read it...or read it afterwards..or atleast express all the ideas we had first in a breif summery and then watch the play, uuuhm..i don't know, maybe i have a very "cinematographic" mind. Is this good? will this affect the way of percieving a play? and how this helps for production!?!?!?!

answers:What i mean a a cinematographic is that, i PICTURE the imagine i want to do as a movie and like photos inside my mnd. Like extract of the MOVIE i'm "reading". I think that well, a cinematographic can be a plus. first you can tell when i'm thinking as cine when pongo ojos chinitos...why? becuase i imagine the thing, i picture it in my mind as a creator and then a audience. and then like really quickly ask: will i like it, will they like, can we make it, how wll it look made, and colors ...and so i think that helps me a lot wiht the scenery, and so i have ot be able to portray the idea i have in my mind in a paper (and i can do it) but for example, i don't like to watch another proposal than mine ...i don't. say it, but still don't show it to me, why? because i need to imagine it!! it has to be like that..that's how i work. what i mean is like propose an idea (a drawing and stuff) but not make it. And I think that (above all factors of the play) that is why i didn't like the play, because it doesn't full fill my imagination.

Kingdom Hearts Theme - KH

well people, we've returned from Gamarra. YES, we survived... however not with too much success. First of all, a representative from Scenery, the two costume-rs and our director went, so we really couldnt make that much of an advance.....so, we didn't know for sure if we had a budget for costumes so our main goal was scenery with claudia. ok, we asked all over the place, my mom and the Junior Achievement people and they all told us that the best place was..."LAS MALVINAS", we went and it was closed....yup, (however we know it is on Cuadra 6). so next, we walked gamarra 3 times looking for something that we might use....for example we asked for vest or pullovers..and they were 20 soles each, however we found one gallery that could give us the vest for 18 soles (felipe's got the card) and we also asked for gloves (mitones) but ...Felipe had a very good idea, why don't we use "football" gloves, that will make it more of a newton ish, our world more than a paucartambo, however, we couldn't find it. Then, we went to a place where they sell wigs, for 20 soles each. and that was as far as we could do for today!.

Successes of the day:
1) Diego bought 2 great t-shirts.
2)Sandri bought 2 earings.
3) we bought black socks!
4) we've got the special places to go one day and do it fast.
5) we found a GAMARRA version of paucartambo, yes....it follows us!!! we couldn't asked them where they got their costumes, but we saw how they were..more or less imitating the idea of paucartambo, and felipe said "I've seen this the real version, this can't be better". and it kept me thinking, will people think the same of us??? why can we make to make it more interesting!?!?! ...sucks huh?.

So we have a problem, NO BUDGET. and as we talked in the taxi, we kept on thinking what to do.....and we concluded in the following:
a) NOT TO PAY FOR SCENERY because we think costumes is more important.
or
b) buy fabric that can pass as scnery and make our own vests. Just make the outline and cut them and make them
How to solve this problem!?!?! budget...I was forgetting about that little detail. To make a play we need to have a budget, and if the budget doesn't cover all then..what to do?! this is a problem i've never thought of, how does pro solve this?...and how are we going to solve this!??!?! problems..problems.

Bojangles - Pitbull

Sunday 20th

****RANDOM PLATYPUS*****

the random playtpus of the day, Naomi Mabita is getting a cameleon today...yup and aslo! sandri is a very PRO playing ICE AGE.

****RANDOM PLATYPUS****

so this is the deal, we've started a new ....."chaos time", The Paucartambo Play. We've decided to make it a newton ish and paucartambo ish play, SO.... it is going to be the origins of detention. And we are going to perform it in 3 days. so finally, i'm not encharged of the scenery...fiuf. The thingies are as follows:
Sandra: director
Melissa & Valentina: props
Diego & Felipe: Costumes
Rodrigo: Music
Sebastian & Claudia: scenery...(JA! SUCKERS)
so anyway, the thing is that we've planed .. very cool costume sketches, however our teacher just told us that our poor low budget school don't want to spend to much on the play, THUS..no money for costumes. TODAY, we are going to go to gamarra to find some fabric to see what we cand do with that for scenery (roofs and stuff) however, i don't really get the point on going and looking for fabric to make costumes if we CAN'T. anyway, i'm wating for my IB fieles to come and see what happens.

Doing costumes now its really creepy, i really think i'm more artisctic when it comes to STAGES than CLOTHES. for example watching sebastian and claudia struggling with their ideas vs. our teacher's ideas is funny because is like watching myself. when LVeS was consuming my life...and so i try to help them the most i can, giving ideas, telling them "maybe we should.." bla bla bla" ...i know how stressing is to build a scnery, been there...know that. However, COSTUMES...well costumes is more of a...ok, this is my sketch...and the other person has to make it happen (Cajas..that is). and that is not the way i work, i'm more of a DOer than a TELLHIMTODOITer...becuase if you make a mistake then it's you fault, and your fault only and its like well "my idea was not that good" however, the costumes is more of a CAJAS thing really. I don't like it....give me back my scenery please!!..I wonder why do I this is happening! ironic huh? ...but well, i''m missing my stage, HOW COME!?!?!?! will i find more differences bewteen costumes and scenery!?!?! how are we going to solve the budget problems!?!? H.E.L.P.

Under the Sea - The Little Mermaid

Masks by debora correa

this yuyachkani actress came and talked to us about masks.
her objective was to teach us "como entrenar cuerpo a traves de las mascara
She started by warming up as we do. WHAT! so rupert does make us warm up as real actors? I thought we only did that...and that that was only ruperts way of doing it.
The thing that she told us was that your column help us with the AGE, WEIGHT and VOLUME of your character. Rupert never really told us that...but that was obvios wasn't it? i never really though about it. She kept repeating DISEÑO, and i figured out that DISEÑAR was giving little details to you character using hands and parts of your body, and the other word was PRESENCIA and she told us that a PRESNECIA was = energia diferente a la cotidiana, and you achived that with a mask.

To work with a mask, you need to analize it first and ask question: WHo is this!? WHY!? WHEN, HOW WHAT and so on, understand it...and treat is with respect.She also said that for her characters she compare them to animals (done...we do that too) and also she relates it to the activities she did. For example, she showed us "THe CAPORAL" a character from la Diablada Puneña. and she first, learned the dance of it and also she related it to martial arts. (breathing and rythm...) Interesting, i never though of this..relating it to activities...So, the activities that i'm good at and that i do the most are SWIMMING and MARTIAL ARTS (we had something in common)...and by this a realised that can i use next time. WHen we do super heroes....and even paucartambo. Martial arts makes you develop sincronisation and that might help to do the dances. ALSO martial arts pudo haber sido a biggg help for the one act play to keep a rythm and not to lose it..making it sort of a rutine as well as for my character of Astolfo...!! what a stupid...but now i know..uhm..

Now, the thinkg that i asked her was...that how does maks affects your character if you first build it up and then choose a mask. She said it really was the other way, yo usually get the maks first and then develop a character. Also! i asked her about facee expresion! how do you manage to express your feeling to the audience with a mask if you ahve already an establish face expresion ...she answerd me with actions...move arms use your traingle (neck, shodlesr and arms) and with that you can make also good expresion. Finally i notice that it is a rule that when you have a full mask you don't SPEAK!! (that is fay in paucartambo the only one that speaks really are the Qollas...

Anyway, what is interesting and keeps bouncing in my brain is what she called teh feline look! i'm trying it everywere...and i want to manage to do it well!! i think it is really helpfull. And my question is: will it be better for character building to use a mask and start from it and the when you've got the character take it of?! or will that make another different character!? uuuuuhmmm..

I gotta feeling! - BEP

One Act play big night!

Tonight is the night, w'ill live it up!!!

It was our big night today, and we were supposed to be ready at 1.30 to go to San Silvestre...however felipe and Claudia were not there, BUT becuase we are good patas......we lefts without them. (yup, i know...to actors less) So we arrived at Santil and we began to get ready!. our scenery end up great, we tought it would not fit on quit good because it was a little bit to big, but in the end it was great. All the details of last minute made a decent scenery and i think the audience liked it. Anyway, Rupert asked us if we could go over some scenes so me and sebas ...we were his victims. Although this helped a lot because he reminded us about all the actions we had to do and we didn't do it....Finally Felipe and Claudia arrived (fiuf) and the team was complete. Now the actual thin really was about to start...Actually i was not nervous at all, and really i was confident..well i thought i was. I was ready of the last rehersale, we went over the play 2 times that makes a total of 6 times) and with that i notice and learned to hear my ib fieles. Not necesarily listen to them and LOOK at them but, just to listen and have all my sences ready for action according to the others.. this i notices when sebas had to say "hey flash" and he had to do it when sandra was right in front of claudia...and he really couldnt see her. I was...and at he did said when she was there...HOWCOME!? was it the MANY times we did it?! or was he used to lsiten to sandris foot steps!? or...he counted!? any way it was....he managed to do it..and it was pretty amazing.

Another thing I discover in this one act play, VOICE and MUTE is very different...we all agreed that doing you scene with voice was better thatn without it. In mute, we did it 100 times faster ....and sometimes we didn't pay attention to what we were doing....I, for example, felt that whenever i was acting as MUTE, i'll become diego inmediatly...i lost posture, attitude...nothing, it was ME sitting there..i was completely disconected!!! this might be because i was paying more attention to the other stands than to my actions ...but..uhm..

Until now, I was confident...however ruperts comment bleeeeew it all. "NO TE ENTIEEENDO NI UNA SOLA PALABRA"..."DIEGO" esto, "DIEGO" lo otro, "DIEGO" "DIEGO" "DIEGO"...and then i exploted...i didn't want to be around anybody, i went to my stand...will the audince be able to understaaaand me!? (roberto was right, i was not as good as i started)... i was thinking about all of that stuff, then came sebas and said: "dieguis!? que ahces aca! oe vamos!! no te preocupes"...and well, yup we were ready to kick some ass off right!?

THE PLAY: during the play...well they laughed the most at my stand and at felipes, however ...i was almost sure that they wouldn't laugh at me or sebas...maybe it was because we went through our scene so many times that the jokes were not funny, HOWEVER it was the total opposit!!! out scene was great! everybody loved it...and well... I realised that by that, i was relaxed...everybode else was sweatin but me..and that kept me thinking: why!?..why was I so confindet!?. I think it was because my personal goal was accomplished. LAUGH. I think that when you can make someone at least smile..you can die in peace.



In my case, i think the audience made me confident, however it was the first time we presented the play in front of the audience!!! that influenceed aa lot. Well, it is true that we did our scenes 200 times faster thaaan when we rehearsed but they didn't notice, only us and rupert...but the audience did was a major factor. I liked it, but i think rupert didnt. i guess it was 99% of our true potential...was it?. I felt that the one act play came out wwwaaaay better than lVeS. why is this!?, could it be the number of actors? time (was not, we had lest time), audience?, type of play?... anyway, i enjoyed it..and as i said to sebas: THE OSCARS GOES TO: CAPTAIN AND FLASH. jiji ...and you know it.

Hotel Room - Pitbull

One Act Play V
Recently ..on One Act play, (i've always wanted to say that)

The scenery its ok, it is not WOW but it is not ugly...It must be simple I guess. Rodrigo chose the colors, for me and sebas = grey, felipe= nogalina and for claudia = light blue. We are thinking of filling that with poster and ...repisas and stuff.!! I sware i'm so not doing scenery never ever of the nevers. Rupert's expectations of my skills as architect are waaaaaay to high for reality, but for some reason he chose me and rodrigo...let's see how it ends up. The last time, scenery for lVeS turned out really great and it was 10 times bigger than It's all business one!! wtf!? whats going on! howcome i don't feel like the one act play is going to turned out good!!! (about scenery that is) The other one, had a spinning tower of 3m height and ...like 2 story castle aaaand all of those emo stuff...and this is just 3 stands!! how ironic is that!...Let's see how it ends up, miracles happen you know?!

Flash news from the random platy!: a new member of the IB fieles...it is MELI!!! she is going to be another stupid person that chose drama HIGHER lever..jiji (i'm changin though...i can't stand it anymore).

Another thing that i learned during the 10000000 rehearsal of this play was, fisrt I HATE REPEATING PHRASES OVER AND OVER AGAIN and im starting to hate "WAIT STOP"...i am. and second our work as a group has become crucial for this play and that our bond as IB fieles has grew stronger. This saturday, sandri was struggling with ehr Black accent and we all helped her with movements, voices, words and each one of us gave helped her create a very fun set of actions.
But, this kept me thinking, does this helps!? because...how much of that came from sandra!? Does the character becomes unpersonal when this happens!? does suggestion of people influence on the OWNING of your character!? will the audience notice that!? is it possible to create you character as well as listening to the others ideas!?...and my final question: HOW MUCH A DIRECTORS IDEAS INFLUENCES UPON CHARACTER BUILDING OF AN ACTOR AT A PERSONAL LEVEL?? because no always they have the same idea....uhmm..

Bata Bata - Latin Fresh

One Act play IV

* este es el BLOG vale *

Today we helped valentina with her character Sammy because she doesn't gets it. However as a personal opinion i admire vale as an actress and i also thought she could manage to perform and control any role she would want, vale reminds me a lot of Jennifer Aniston....and watching her struggle and be frustrated about this character was a low blow. In order to help her, we all turned into childern and it reminded me of the tiny toons or The Flinstone kids, and it was really obvios that out of the 7 Sandri was the only one who really managed to be a child. I personally decided to help vale more than the others by asking her to tell me stories and if i didn't like the question i asked her again and again. At the end, vale was ...not able to managed it today! However I'm sure she will do it soon!

So then why did Sandri managed to do it fasted than anybody else? is it stereotype characters that valetina always chose (old people or mature) that made her struggle with a child? was it sandra's personality? was it RoCHE? It makes me think of how come i was able to create FLASH very fast in a comparison to the rest of the IB fieles? And i'm still thinking of how to make Flash more interesting!! I brought a light saber to help him...let's see how he goes.

Question of the day: What is that stops you as an actor to achieve a character!? Is it fear of failure?! Roche? skills? is it your personality? maybe...the audience? your mind? or are you not able to perform as one type of character never in your life!?...uhmm..

Shots - lmfao

One Act Play III

Today we begun with an exercise that i like very much. As usual, we begun balancing the space however this time we had to move as a whole group, or maybe follow one leader and following his way of moving through out the space. Whenever we do this exercise, i ALWAYS picture myself as the avatar controling the moolescules around him (me) with every part of my body. Then we proceeded to play with the state of matter of our bodies, we were SAND, ICE, WATER, AIR, FIRE, WATER, ICE and SAND again. With this we learned about the density and the weight of each element as well as how it moves? does it flor? ....Finally, we played with ANIMALS. We had to chose and animal that ressembled our character. Thinking of Flash I always think of a rat, maybe that's becasue i think of Wormtail...HOWEVER, inmediatly i arched my column and made a posture ofa hunch back...and this also entered into the concept of nerd, and so, i decided to play with a Gorilla. This helped me also, because i pictured flash as a very angry character and so the breathing of the gorilla helped me with that, I remember that in Tarzan whenever the gorillas got mad, their noses grew big big big and sort of smoke came shooting out of their nostrils!! Then little by little we had to turn into a person, and finally i could see how flash moved and his posture.

With this exercise i realized that i used the upper parts of my legs (muslos) to move like a gorilla and that i have very strong ones too, however, it made me realise that humans don't normaly use those in such a way....PLUS, i noticed that whenver rupert asks for a "posture" my first reaction is always, BEND KNEES, ARCH BACK, ELBOWS BENT, FACE UP, ANGRY FACE and mouth close...ALWAYS, and it remind of wolverine...ready to attack. The question for today came when roberto told me: you managed to act as flash, but maybe you will fall from the level you are...WHAT?! will it be possible not to do as well as i was doing it now!? howcome!?

Loba - Shakira

One Act play II

Remember last post? "who will be doing scenery"? well...I AM..what are the odds, it sucks, I really don't know how to do it. I have a vague idea how is it going to end up but all the details? Ironically this is beeing harded than scenery of lVeS becuase: the stage is smaller, the scenery has to be able to be built in 10 minutes (and also removed in 10 min) plus! the decitions are beeing taken by me and Rodrigo!. Maybe he might push me to the limits, let's see how it ends up like.

Now, Flash. I was thinking lately about my character DORKY NERD...and so i related (as i always do, to Disney or Cartoon characters) and i found out all this characters that can be an influence to create Flash:
-Ratman (dexter's lab)
-Mole (atlantis)
-Wormtail (harry potter)
-Sam (rocket power)
-Woody (Zack n' Cody on deck)
-DUFENSHWK DCB (phineas and ferb) HE IS MY BEST OPTION SO FAR.
-Calamardo (Sponge Bob) / when mad
-Mojo Jojo (PPG) (for the laugh)



Still I don't wan't to copy the characters, ...I'm still confuse!! the voice has to be more nasal i figured it out and i've been practicing a lot.. posture? not yet..actions!! props!! meeen. If i base my character on cartoons will that make my character a cartoon to!? and would that be ok and be accepted in the play or will it be seen wrong or out of place!?!?!?

If you Seek Amy - BS.

One Act play

So the one act play is about to star, stress all over again. For this year, Rupert decided to make us write our own script. We finished writing it and it is based on a famous market center in our contry, Polvos Azules. Each one of us is creating it's own character and so until now we have:
Diego - Flash - Dorky nerdie
Sebas- Captain - (maybe ultra perve)
Vale - sam - boy ish girl
Sandra- Sunshine - hippie
Claudia- Mrs. Middleton - British worklady
Felipe- Totsy - Bi polar
Rodrigo - Kawabata - Asian porn addict
We decided to act the play 3 times, each on a different setting and you only get to hear each scene pere time. My concerns about this play are:
1) Who will be encharge of scenery because I WON'T.
2) Are we going to be able to make people laugh and still make them take us seriously as actors?
3)How in the world are we going to manage to rehearse all the play in 2 weeks (me huele a que otra ves estamos short of time)
4)FLASH! about my character: voice? Breathing? posture? Is is going to be like Astolfo (lVeS) same techniques to find my character!? how am i going to end up like flash?!?!?!?!?