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?