HEY BABY! (Drop it to the Floor) - Pitbul

Last weekend

1) Fui al one act play. Vi The Other Side. No me gusto. porque? porque:

a) aunq la idea estaba pajasa me aprecio que pudo ser mejorada de las sieuigentes maneras.

a.1) yo creo que debio haber sido toda una historia y toda la otra. Eso hubiese reducido los tiempos tan largo de cambios de escena que malograban el hilo de la historia.

a.2)Los personajes no tenian character: eran losa ctores mesclados con su personajes de down to earth.

a.3) MAS ENSAYO! hubiese qeudado pajasa.

a.4)espejo, pineda y jordan! caminaban same side.

good things:

a) scene INCREIBLE.

b) concepto del espejo! BUNASO.

LA JAULA DE LAS LOCAS.

el sabado fui a ver las jaulas de las locas lo cual me parecio PAJASA. En una parte estaban en un bar /restaurant como mi independent entonces me ayudo bastante.

a) la mesa...con mesas atras. un farol? ...

b) mejor cubos? o mesa de adeveras?

Pregunta: seria mejor ... scenary de verdad? o ...cubos! PROBLEMS!...veremos.

Hoy me quedo a independent. Ya tengo script (finaly) el lunes comenzamos los ensayos con script. vamos bien ...necesito hurry up. TODO FRESH.

Dj got us falling in love again - Usher

Holler! so today we went to watch the play GOLDEN HAWK which was rather a Cirque Du soleil performance. It was this incredible actions that told the story of bird? maybe? ..don't know. the thing is it as a mute play ..so no words rather than APU -------(quechua word).

Gudshi about play-oh:

1.- The guy-oh was painted blanc-oh. Good! it made me think of my independent project and how it would look to have painted actors on stage. It look kewel...and the thing is a realized personaly i like all the actors painted ( he had his plantadelpiei skin color). Now! why was he white? no idea... but it look cool so ..let him be.

2.- Flying bed! THAT WAS SOOO AWESOME! The images that the play had were great! the light and feathers! ah i liked it so much. Howeever i thought that maybe the same thing could've been used in a differente way (a differn situation for exampl) and it would have worked bettah.

3.-physical work- respiration, oppositions and body control. GUSHI. take that in mind gives strenghts as well as ...awes the audience.

4.- LIGHT-ah .- i tought for the first time that light was good-ah. Blue light = mistehriow. yellow light: ..well normal ligh? ...circle light= MY AMiX! light from above: holy thingy.

BADSHI about PLay:

1.- No words.ah: (noentendeeneemierdah) no words create confusion and makes audince understand the play as they want. Music in the background..didn't like. CHanges were to abrupt.

2.- Second Character: ..why would you use a second character (to create conflict?) if

he does nothing...he just...DOES nothing.

3.-Face: no like face. was to ...Nouba ish. THey reminded me of the four nouba guys of the cirque du soleil.

SO! refleXX(X)ions:

SO as the play went by, many things came up to my mind specially the VISUAL theatre that i like. So i know i say that it is more important the visual than the text. THat doesn't mean that text is not important. ok..so ..this play was Visualy GREAT but with no text and so the main idea wasn't delivered as clear como hubiese sido con texto. NOW.. what i also mean is that it whatever the text is it has to be visualy appealing. FINALLY, when you decide not to use texts and make the audience create it in his heads..the message is lost ..well sometimes and for some people. SO...is there plays that don't have a specific message? is it just ...actions to tell a story..which is not specifi either way?...so what is the diffrence between cirque du soleil and this play?

One less lonely girl - Justino Castor

July Holidays

Buenosdiashpapai. So... we've came back from Paucartambo, but this time i went with the IB nexteles. Interesting points i discovered:

1) IDEALY you shouldn't dance drunk since it is disrespectful and the virgin sees and knows all. so..watch out on that.

2)Practice: they practice only four times (officially) and four (outside paucar) per year...

3) Mask: you can see perfectly with mask (i wore one original one) ok so..it's not like having eyes but i could see better than i expected.

4)negrillos rock

5) costumes: each year you buy a new costume (at leat in majeños) and you do it seperatly (not as a group).

6) if you don't go to the rehearsals then you get 3 typs of punishment: 1) talk 2) written...3)the donald trump "YOU'RE FIRED!".

7) Arianna when sleeps moans, snore and ...throw peds a.k.a Farts

Now, the other interesting thing that was discussed during our Cusco Trip was my I.P. And the point i'm going to reflect on is ... my culture reflected on art. I still don't really get why i can't do the disney princess idea...ok i know its now peru's reality but why is it not mine? I've never seen one but i mean ..i've seen like 120000 times each movie and i like them so much. I KNOW that i'm taking about something that happens in US and i'm not going to see i the streets but listen: hey! I don't want to reflect anything in this play (i know... its not the IB thingy) but personally i see theatre as just a way of entertainment ...going outside your daily rutine remember? ...LET'S TAKE PAUCARTAMBO for example... they adore the virgin 365 days a year however ...they have a special festival once a year...and i don't now lets take for example ...the qollas and the maqtas...ok...they dress up as NOT THEIR REALITY!? so they are not doing it right? not at all...i think that you need to ..focus on the audience then! since there are gringous (world cup, last year it was michael jackson)...BUT ARG..i hate you roberto. (i'm not doing the princess anymore and i'm not working with manuela either...so i need to rebuild my I.P. AGAIN) . I still don't fully agree with all this personal thing culture and stuff....since we are half USAnians...but anyway...

NOW... the question is... when you do a play you focus on the theme? or in the audience? ...what's your aim? to leet you message through? or to entertain the audience? BOTH? ..but then what if you don't really want to teach something ..that just comes along but its not important? ...do AUDIENCE need to RELATE to one in order to be part of the play? or that is just to understand the message? ..and if there is no message? does it because less of a theatre and more of a movie that is just actions in a story? ..... complications complications.

ps: I do get your point by the way..i just don't fully agree with it.

25 best mashup - Dj Earwarm

Ok. SO la play paso. y creo que este proceso tubo un gran final sinembargo ese "PROCESO" fue un, como diria la señorita ari, un oscilar de altas y bajas. Comenzemos analizando wa por wa.

PRODUCTION:

Bueno creo que uno de los MAS GRANDES ERRORES que pasaron por mi mente fue el de termino el script y CHA. taquenopeshwon. fue totlament lo contrario. EL script fue como un basis para toda la obra y luego termino siendo completamente diferentes. La razon mas importante obviamente fue el tiempo. la obra era muy larga (por eso quitamos escenas... remplazandola por la cancion) uhm ... o cosas asi. hubieron otras razones como : no tiene sentido ahora, o ... ala el chiste hubiese sido mejor asi. CREO que eso se debe 1) a que cada uno le mete su propia chispa a la obra. 2) ese era el juego no?. entonces yo creo que mi produccion eventhough el script de la obria termino siendo memory script (ya que los cambiamos nunca loss apunto ni vale ni yo) y que a la gente le gusto puede considerarse como un SCRIPT FAIL.

Ahora si analizo el proceso de production de mis patas en las cuales yo participe como Costumes, Skenary y makeup podria decir que fue masomenos lo mismo. Por ejemplo, arianna tenia un album con las fotos como debian ser... y era todo muy ordenado sinembargo en el ensayo general nos dimos cuenta qeu era muy poco fantasioso. asiq eu yo me insipire en los Kohlas y BIM salio todo una cosa totalemente inesperada. Makeup llego a tal punto de un: chapa el pincel y pintate lo que te de la gana. AUNQUE FUNCIONO...supongo que algo mas pensado y elaborado pudo haber temrinaod mejor. EN Costumes, yo solo forme parte del proceso de la creatividad en verdad yo solo ayude a sebas a dibujar sinembargo el era como el que decia no guta si guta. asi que creo que ahi no me meti tanto. VI COMO EL COLORSKIM QUEDO PAJOLA OCN LOS VILLANOS BUENAXERS. Y skenari...bueno este año creo que si ayude bastante dibujando etc.... y creo que tb termino siendo un concepto paja. PERO ...a la vez fue algo de ultimomento, que el diseño nos permitiera hacerlo MAL no justifica qeu lo hagamos mal verdad?

ACTUACION:

BUENO, yo creo que overall mi actuacion no fue tan geneal como pudo haber sido debido a que:

1) no me sabia mis lineas

2) estaba mas en production que en actuacion

3) creo que me confie mucho.

Aunque creo que cuando tome conciencia de esto comenze a poner mas de mi en las funciones de las que habia puesto al comienzo. Lo que si me di cuenta es de que somos un equipo. al igual que teatro tiene sus production. nosotros como actores somoso iguales. MEDIO que dependemos del otro. si el otro no pone yo no puedo responder. y si yo doy el debe responder....algo asi...una maquina? ...uhm si. A la vez me di cuenta qeu el ritmo que le dan las acciones la hacen ver como una coreografia. LA pelea no era tan diferente a lo que acutabamos. por lo menos yo senti eso.

ENTONCES: con esto nos damos cuenta que si, o BLACK OR WHITE. O PRODUCTION O ACTUACION. cuesta bastante hacer las dos cosas. en eso si tienen razon. AHORA yo tb creo que es una cosa de organizarse. que somos medios que flojos y bueno...17 years...aunq no es excusa pero bueeee.

AHORA ...volviendo al tema de ..maquina y coreografia? es eso? o va mas aya. SUpongo que si se queda ahi es muy vacio. no se si me explico. es algo marcado y sin intencion...o no? ...pero si no tampoco funcionaria...o al darle la intencion cambia. AHORA... a qeu reacciona el actor en la escena!? a lo que pasa? a lo que se dice? o a lo marcado? porque si es a lo que se dice entonces de qeu sirben los ..PIES . para tal caso la improvisasion seria ..MEJOR? ..o no. o simplemente es cuestion de orden. que paja ... odio el teatro.

When I look at you - Miley Cyrus

Friday 4th June

Today we went to watch the play EXTRAS at the Biblioteca Nacional near my crib. Unfortunately for us we went with form II. SHAME ON THEM. they won my "THE LOOK". anyway. Some ideas.

1) The change of characters by the two actors i think was great. The first time i didn't understand what happened but i then catch the idea in no time. Actually i liked it, i think it was great like for example when the other actor hold the others hat. It directly appeals for the audience imagination and attention. Bad thing: sometimes the characters got mixed up. So it was an argentinean talking like a gringa or a guy talking like a girl. But overall i liked it.

2) SCREEN! ..(chupala). marks off for this play. The video in the middle could've been acted or just ...mentioned. no need for the video. (great video btw..)

3) Skenary and Crops. ... the box with wheels wasn't necessary,... nose. didn't like it.

4)The part when they said "OK? OK?" i thought it was brillaint since you where the audience as well as characters and one character whas the acort was well as the audience. Brillaint. I liked that mucho mucho.

SO now, the question: When there is a play where actors change character like clothes. The convention is that there is no character and you are watching the actor change? ...right? I think it makes the play less of a "similar to reality" sort of play because you understand that ... AH! matame. ya me perdi. TOK. but you get the idea right? ..SO, if i change character infront of the audience ..does't that affect the "level of reality" in between the play and does the conection between the audience and the actor is lost since you are watching the actor change. I think it is like the masks huh? ?????

Happy Go-Bday to you - Drama group

Friday 28th May.

Mi cumppleaños niños. Bueno el dia viernes fuimos a ver una obra que se llama Concierto Olvido en Ashkani. La verites es que no me afano tanto como obra, al final todo el mundo se paro a aplaudir pero ..yo creo que (es mi punto de vista personalk ..no fue tan WOW como para pararse). Nevertheless, hubieron cosas BIEN pajuelas que seria rescatables.

1) yo creo que todos agreearan que los sonidosk de la naturaleza fue uno de las cosas mas pajas. y me hizo pensar bastante en GLEE (una actividad en la cual participo) y como estas dos cosas Drama y Glee pueden complementarse para crear algo bien paja. Tambien me di cuenta con esto, que cada actor recurre a su confort zone. me refiero a que Debora Belt siempre usa los sonidos ImaSUmakianos y pajariescos, y la otra amix usaba la oveja "beeeh". ENTONCES ... el actor siempre se basa de sus confort zones? .. nose, siempre veo que rodrigo masomenos actua igual, velantina igual, yo igual .. puede ser. O debora belt uso al viejito...pinguinon.

2) Paucartambo! incluyeron cosas divertidas como los negrillos y otra cosa que me parecio pajasasa fue cuando vistieron al señorito con el terno y se escuchaba la voz del narrador, de la actriz y el susurro de todos los personajes de atras.

3) Colorscheme, funciono bien , sinembargo no me agradan los zapatos. creo que hacen que se vean deformes. Ahora con esto (ya que estaba haciendo mi PPP y queria ver como se veria el fondo negro y vestuario negro ...y yo creo que si funciona. me ayudo a tomar la decision.

4) Mientras la obra pasaba me parecia genial como cada personaje reaccionaba, pero, no parecian personajes isno los mismos actores hablando. facil esa era la intencion de la obra.

5) mientras acuataban estaba pensando en mi IP y ya que voy a usar solo actrices mujeres me di cuenta que debora belt y sus dos amixes (justo de sus costados.. no mike wasawski) era geniales y funcionaban juntas bien. se complementaban, y me parecio genial.

6) en la vida actuamos tanto que para hacer teatro deberiamos dejar de actuar. WIN.

7) no parecia una obra sino ..musica tras musica y cha.

now, BACK TO the comfort zone.... es bueno hacer esto? ..siempre relai en el mismo basis para tus personajes / obra ... yo creo que es algo natural. Si sabemos que esto funciona entonces siempre vamos a tender reaccionar de la misma manera. PERO, que pasaria si lo cambiaramos? ...y como? ...intentando? posibilidades? y a cuantas posibilidades te limita tu confort zone! a matame.

oops....lo escribi en español....bueno es mi cumpleaños, dejenme.

It's My life / Confessions - Glee

Friday 23rd - Saturday 24th

After school, Sebas and I we went to Gamarra to look for "telas" samples for our plays costume. Sebas is in charge of costumes, so, he had already a color scheeme, we just needed to go and ask for prices etc. Luckyly for us, we found telas licradas which was moreorless what we were looking for. There were so many colors, so in the end we took around 40 samples of telas and we paste them on a cartulina to watch them all.

After that, we went to Sebas house to make all the sketches for the costumes. We stayed up all night drawing and coloring, and in the end we made almost all the costumes. There were some that look great such as Nighthawk and arrow, however, there were some that sebas has to change everything (Sparky) or add something (superhereos 1,2 and 3) or change the colors (lievenesses). Doing this i think helped my friend a lot, in the sense of expierence of doing stuff by our own (gamarra) and also in the sense that we are finally working as a team an we know our strengths and weaknesses and we can complement each other with the group. however, i know that i can't do all the work for him and he has to do some himself, and that is exactly whaat happened this weekend. Overall, great job sparky!

The Saturday rehearsal helped me alot in character building, in the sense of how would my character talk, moves and thinks. Now nighthawk is a complete bird, he has no fingers, his arms are wings, and he is like a mistical bird. It reminds me again of Raven, but also of SOMBRA in ppg. And then the "pasada loca" helped us making some cool things such as the "QUICK HIDE!" and the hiding behind the squirrel. I think the play is going to be cool.

Now, I wonder, how much of the adult audience would be entertained by this play? because...we are changing it a LOT making it more and more to a children's play (which is our main aim) BUT, there is not going to be also parents! and those are the ones that chiritsize aren't they. I don't know. I'm really not a big fun of the "SHOULD I BELIEVE THEM? YEESS!" but would it work for both audiences?

Rap Das Armas (Parapapapa) - Cidinho y Doca

Wednesday 21st

so, we went to watch a play at San marcos with Veil, negro, sebas, fea y chachi. It was called "con el bulto en la espalda" and it was a spanish concert, oops, sorry play. I really didn't like it at all. It was a good example of a text just said graphically instead of read. However there were some cool stuff that might come in handy for our play.

1.- Before entering the theatre, they made us stand in two lines and each lines had a sticker "GO HOME" or "HOME SWEET HOME". So, each line had to sit on different sides of the theatre and in one part we had to shout what was written in our chest against each other. Our idea is do the same, making the same thing with Arrow, Sparky and Nighthawk or maybe in the battle VILLAINS against SUPERHEROES. but it could be cool because that way children will feel like "fans" of one side just like in a series, futbol match or play station game.

2.- Still pictures with different levels. It looked great when all the actors stood in the thrust stage in different levels and AS A WHOLE it looked great. I think this is the first time i see it with my own eyes, so in the play we want to do that in for example when the flashbacks happen. hopefully we don't upstage anyone *we have to be carful*. golpe! (golpe).

3.- Some movements were cool. For example when they walked in circles it was very cool, and when they spinned like the ballerina that was also cool.

4.- Color Schemes, the costumes where more or less the same however each had its own different aspects, hopefully we could manage to do the same, maybe with colors.

Golpe! (golpe)

La Foto se me borro - Elvis Crespo

Saturday 19th April

just before i start i have to tell you something. " TE ODIO Y ME MEO EN TI". now, we went to watch a play that THANK GOD was free. It was called "El Album" - Grupo Tecal (colombia). It was OK. The play was like a photo album and made only by still pictures. THAT was cool.

Good things about the play:

*color schemes: the characters were great! i like that the skin was painted and the clothes matched the skin tone. its was great (tho... if you knew that the jumper is too short for your belly and at some point might rise above the skirt...then you should've painted your belly too.... but is was ok).

*Props: I liked that everyone had an umbrella! I thought that gave them the link between the characters since they really didn't interacted with each other in most of the play. I aslo liked that each character had a prop that related a story and that it sometimes represented people (as the TV) or a part of te body (guitar).

*Blue girl: the blue girl was my favourite character, when it was in still picture (for me) it was the one who expressed more her own history, past...just by looking at her you knew what she felt.

*Text: the text whas good. I liked it... I would've presented it differently (not narrated by that girl) but ... i liked the text. (as the invisible mother ..that was great!!)

*Still pictures: my had is removed (me quito el sombrero) for them....they were great on that.

Bad Things:

*music: sucked horse balls. if you are going to put a song then PUT IT! don't cut it in the middle of the action...plus don't keep on repeating the same mistake over and over again.

*main character: I'm sorry, but nah nah my amigous colombianus. I didn't like at all the main character. It was sooooooo anoying. It was like a Bembos animadora. Hated it. (tho..her pronunciation was gooood goood! )

*Black guys singing: ...i though that killed the play because the still picture (in that ...context) should be mute ... because everyone were mute. BUT NOoo... he decided to sing. so i was expecting that at least each character spoke once ...but they didn't.

how i would've presented the play:

without the girl speaking...maybe ...each character speaking. Or ..... if the character spoke... then not as "animadora" as it sounded...it gave no seriousness to the play.

NOW! I wonder...if i didn't like the girl for beeing such as ..."animadora de Bembos" then ... if we do the same for our play..then it wouldn't be taken seriously..BUT THEN! how serious would we want to make our play? (and what techniques do we want to use? BUT IF IT IS NOT SERIOUS!? would they ever take our message as serious? or ...... OH SNAPPLE! this is way too confusing.

I'm like a Bird - Nelly furtado

actually ... I'm trying to be like a bird. When i wrote Nighthawk i really wasn't thinking on my character i just thought "NIGHTHAWK" sounded very cool for a -nature-superhero. SO, the first thing that comes to my mind is obviosly is G-Force (Gatchaman) here some images:

http://api.ning.com/files/9N2IJ5DoUCGkwWh8PTWlKGBIZVeHXoStZkYbLZq7YYRZ6hGjQMZhHLhemMr15z0Cfa1QO237qXE6aWTGfLx7Q3SJkvP-S9F*/gatchaman.jpg

http://www.marchandler.com/images/import%20gatchaman.bmp

http://www.henshinonline.com/images/gatchaman_dvds_01.jpg

http://artisticthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/gatchaman_dvds_03.jpg

http://dailypop.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/gatchaman-by-ross.jpg

http://www.butterboom.com/wp-content/uploads/mar07/gatchman2008.jpg

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs37/f/2008/288/8/0/Gatchaman_by_garang76.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c130/DanXeno/gatchaman.jpg

and some videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjuN5Bn-RCo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csXAvcQwxq8&feature=related

And so, that was my base for Nighthawk. For the personality i thought first of a goofy character. The superhero that seems to be brave but he is not. (like, King Julian Madagascar) and but then i thought that will be sort of FLASHish. so ...then i said..ok so, i've done Astolfo (douchebag machoman), Flash (goofy, nerdi ratman) and.... why not make nighthawk sort of mistical. SO, i tought of raven (teen titans) ... some pictures and videos (DO LOOK THEM PLEASE!!! SO YOU CAN KEEP TRACK OF MY CHARACTER BUILDING (and compare the process with my end result)):

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2006/312/d/b/My_Raven_____by_tinkerbell_rae_fan.jpg

http://media.photobucket.com/image/raven%20teen%20titans%20meditating/AnimeRocks99919/Teen%20Titans/Ravenmeditating.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Raven's_Meditation.jpg

so...that's what i'm working on... I hope that somehow this stuff will help with nighty.

NOW! on the rehearsals, we've been doing scenes with our minies (carlos) wich have to act the same as we do...and its very helpful when starting to build a character. It is helping me a lot. we chritique each other, not only with mini-nighty but also with sparkies and arrows. I like this exercise.

I wonder, is carlo's thinking the same as I do...or it is just doing what i'm telling him to do? and is this mini work good because i can see my same exact character ..actually LOOKING at it..or its because i'm building another character that i like and adapting it to my own?

Memories - David Guetta ft. Kid Cudi

Production IB II year: Play Write

So, this year as i said i was encharged of writing the play. So, in order to decide a plot we had the idea that "any problem you have, you can solve it as human" so...to write a concrete plot we did a brain storm and we came up with words such as: independence, responsbility, profile points, human, self determination, goals, aunteticity. SOOO our plot is: A girl name sophie wants to save the planet and she thinks she can only do this with the help of an extraordinary power such as a superhero’s or a villain’s power. Nevertheless, as the play advance and the superheroes and the villain come to earth they only bring chaos and destruction. In the end, she realizes that she has the power to save the world as a human.

So, when im writing the play with Maurice (Ib nextel) so, we stayed after class one friday and we decided more or less who was going to write what and shared ideas. SO, he was writing the villains parts (..since he is a villain) and I'll write the rest of the play. Act 1 was very easy to write, some scenes were written by felipe and it was a pleasent thing to do. Our ideas were solid, and so it was finished quickly. NEVERTHELESS, act II , ...that B*tch. I'm still struggling with. I really don't know how to make the play end ...with a good ending... its complicated. so the first time i wrote act II was DOG POOP. ... and now i'm writing the second draft and hopefuly this time it will be a good draft...or at least a decent one.

Let's see how does DOWN TO EARTH ends.... June baby!

Telephone- Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce.

Saturday 13th March.

So today we went to watch four puppet shows and only one word can describe my feelings towards it. BORING. jeje.... out of the four only 1 could be .. decent, (in a paralel world were digimons rule over humans... but yeah...decent).

As the puppet show was aimed at children it was a very interesting "PLAY" to watch and see how the children reacted to it so we could learn stuff for our play. My observations:

1) The audience's seats were divided into two sections, at the back (chairs) for parents and in front puffs and a carpet for children. Before starting girls walked around the children talking with them making them comfortable and all as creating the bonb needed for a play to start.

2) Laughter is the main purpose of a childrens play I think. Well, children laugh about anything but mostly of the bad things that happened. SO, CALAMITY AND BAD LUCK (golpes, caidas, planes frustrados) = laughs= attention of audience. gotit.

3)As my seat was in between the children I could feel how the felt. First i notice that watching at the same thing opened conversation between them. (proving that theatre has a social purpose) as well as i noticed that if someone says something the next kid will do the same. so, if one laughed everybody else did.

4) Effects, i liked the visual effects like for example the smoke as well as when the fox jumped the actual puppeteer also jumped making the floor tremble (good).

5) You could clearly see the difference between a show for kids and one for adults (1st and second) the jokes, tone everything was different.

6)Interaction with audience. the children could scream shout laugh and the puppets will have to react with the childrens reaction! so improvisation was needed.

7) It was funny how the first show had barely no dialague but was the most attention catcher, while the third one had no voice but it was boring as hell.why was this? would it be different if the third play was first instead?

NOW, the show became borinng and boring each minute that passed, so i wonder was it because of attention spam? or ... was it because of the play. I'm sure if a kid could stay focus 30 mins per chapter on a tv series it could stay for a play....right? I wonder, how can we make a children prefer to watch our super heroes play instead of tv? will costume, scenery and props make it more appealing for children than actors intention? do they reaaly understand plays (because dthey don't understand eglish) or are they the prob look the play as pictures? AND A VERY IMPORTANT IDEA THAT WE MUST KEEP IN MIND: "CHILDREN MIGHT BE YOUNG, BUT THEY ARE NOT STUPID".

Fireflies - Owl City

Today we presented a very short scene during assembly period. It was a serious thing and it required a lot of concentration..... BUT the public laughed. Before the thing i was not nervous, during and after not at all (it was the first time in front of people and not nervous... funny huh?) but i was angry. What went wrong? they laugh. maybe because they were children that laugh. so that mean that we need to make the same thing in the School play in order to capture the attention of children? laughter is the key? well my sister got the idea that we were shadows of rosaura or something like that so I know that she was fully concentrated on watching us perform. ... i think overall the white costumes were good against vale so. good.

Is the intention of the play lost because of the audience laughing? how much do you keep to yourself when your suppose to make them reflect and they laugh (i mean ...you want to stop so you do less obvious the thing that you are doing so they don't laugh?) ...matame.

Hello Goodbye - The Beatles

Hello Hello AMIGOUS!

I’m kinda sad because this entry, as the title suggest is my “last First Hello” of the year, thus it is considered as a Hello Goodbye right? Anyway! Today (wed 3^rd march) was my first IB year two theatre class and it was something that I missed … a lot. The sad thing is (as you can notice to you right) Sandra, Claudia and Meli are no longer Fieles… they are always gonna be in our hearts as Sexylia Gonshalesh and I’m sure they’ll come to watch our play en June. (btw… e los oblige a venir, sino ya vayan ahorrando para la pizza de diciembre, asi de simple) However we have five more smart people that chose Ib theatre and they are form fivers, but for the sake of peace we are not going to call them our CHULIS…but the “NEXTel” people (since they are going to be the next people to suffer) and they are Carlos, Ari, Mauricio, Spetz and LD, they are also going to be doing production and acting in our play…. Ah! (I’m stanDARK level this year, I hope I’ll do good in the end)speaking about the devil, THE PLAY.

During the holidays (even this sounds the fakest thing ever) we got together and we decided more or less what the play is going to be about but we were not sure if Rupert would like it or not… and … dun dun dun… HE DID. ..(fiuf) .. and we are glad. Yeah, so, then we decided our production tasks! I AM NOT DOING SCENERY (at first I was shocked to, but know I’m happy since I wont be stressed about anything production later ((I mean… not as much as it would be if I was encharge of scenery, I know its team work and you have my support!)) and now… IM WRITING THE PLAY. FML? ….(if you don’t know what fml is you should enter to: www.fmylife.com , its my drug) but its fun and I like it. Now so far I’m thinking about the characters, just as a reminder this is the ideas we agreed today in class:

1) SUPERHEROES

a. Masters (IBers since we must be main characters) so far we are, Sebas, Di and Ari

b. Pupils (which includes the teacherspet and the squids)

c. Sidequicks

2) HUMANS

3) VILLIANs

a. Masters (IBers since we must be main characters) Felipe and Rodrigo.

b. Pupils (which includes the teacherspet and the squids)

c. Sidequicks

4) HEROE VITAGE (I’m not sue about this ones but) they are

a. Wonderwoman – vale

b. Batman- Felipe

c. Superman – Rodrigo.

AAAAH! COMO QUEDARA ESTOY NERVIOSO. EN QUE NOS EMOS METIDO MIE*DA! FE CHICOS FE! (in spanish so you wont understand Rupert, its for your good)

Ttyl peeps, we’ll talk (jajja “hablamos” manyas? Que Buena)

Fire Burning - Sean Kingston

Friday 2nd

Today we went to watch a play that was somewhat an Opera. It was a obra colombiana and it was WAAAAY tor creepy. My comment about this play is: TIM BURTUN's PLAY and there was something there, something that really was praying to be seen however, it was boring. So let's analyze this play:
1) Face expression: there were TWO actresses that were amazing at this. First it was the fatty one, she made faces that you couldn't recist to laugh. However, whenever she did it when she was not important it distracted me from the main action. The other was POLI, her face was amazing, her eyes were open and she even viroleaba un pooco and her mouth was closed like a tiny bird's beak.
2) Posture: again, the postures were tim burton some how. the two that i liked the most were: 1) the dad's posture, that whenever he listened to the other he turned his face like upside down and he bent hiw back backwards. the other was Poli's: her posture was SOOOO difficult that i was impressed she could keep it forr a loong time. Her walking was amazing too.
3) Scenery: The part that i liked the most was the wedding part, that was amazin, like the scnery + the costumes fit perfectly and it was like gorgeous to watch, and it reminded me to the "ultima cena" and the levels were good also. NOW, the house scenry well it was ...ok, i like the idea of a tall deks where the dad could write, however whenerver he came off it it will move like a freak and that distracted me all the time. I think that for a scenery to work it must not distract the audience from the action but it must be noticed too.
4)Costumes & Make up: i think that this why the play looked so gloomy and tim burtonish, however i liked it a lot. It helpped to distinguish from characters and even when the actor changed character, you knew it was the same actor but you also knew that is was another character isntead of a GREAT CONFUSION. the make up was great also, i mean great if it's idea was an ODD one, i liked it.
5)MUSIC: music was used as the transition form one scene to the other, but it was not a short one, it was a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong musical part sung by the actors and so at first it was cool, but thenn it started to become a heavy play to follow, and i think this shows that if you put too much music (or dance) you will bore the audience. However, i liked the music (well the first songs) they were great, and the voices were also funny.
6) I HAVE TO SAY MY "WTF" OF THE DAY BECAUSE THEY USED A VIDEO!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH! I HATED IT!! why tell me! why use it?!?...i think it was a low blow for the play...it was...URG! and the worst part is when they saaid about going to bed and SHOWED A PICTURE OF A BED...that was pathetic really.

I think that is all i have to say about this play,..and so this was a freaky play to watch and too long. So, let's see...the thing that i could rescue is make up and POLI. however, i'm thinking why did all the other people at the play stood up to clap, and as i went out the theatre i heard them say WHAT A GOOD PLAY. ...maybe is because..i really don't know. So how to rank a play? good? bad? and on what it depends?...is it a good play when 50% or more of the audience likes the play?

Fly Fly Fly TO THE SKY!! -peter pan's song.

Thursday 1st

Peter pan kinder's play.

This is just a plus for the blog. As prefects we had to help tonight in the Kinder's Play. This year it was Peter Pan. And as i watched it I kept thinking about the play for next year, and this lead to several ideas.
1) There is a difference between a CHILDREN's PLAY and a PLAY FOR CHILDREN. there are many aspects about this:

• Mistakes: since the Peter Pan was a children's play and the actors were childs then it was reasonable for them to make mistakes, however, US doing a play for children it is not acceptable to make anymistakes, because they are not stupid, the audice (grown ups and kids) will notice if we make mistakes.
• Relationship with audience: how far can we go there? i mean, if there is a relationship with the children then how much of a Theatrical play will it be? will they still consider it a play? or a show (like the ones at Bembos) and if so...if that is a play to? AND also, if we treat the audience as stupid like "LOOK AT THE MOUNTAIN!+ point at the mountain +"do you see it?" sort of a Dora la exploradora thing, will they like it? personally, i wouldn't, i'm not stupid see? soo why treat me like one.
• Music & Dance: I still think it MUST be there,however later on i will talk about a play that we are going to see tomorrow so, let's see how does music affects the play. We need to learn to put the right amount of music to not bore the audience with too little but also with too much. I think that Disney movies will teach us HOW and WHEN to put music.
• Scenery: in Peter Pan it was just a telon painted but very COLORFUL. however, will that is a convention that we will follow?. I think it should be a real scnery and maybe not that "complex" in the sence of metaphoric or so, but still be a real/solid scnery.
• Effects: ok so the special effects to make them fly were awesome for a childrens play, but if we make it that way will they understand? or will they think that they were holding on to a rope. THIS IS THE TROUBLE WITH CINE, it shows what they want to show and it reduces the imagination of the audience, however...I really don't think this might be a problem (I'm trusting on the audience!!).

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..