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.