Australian Theatre Assessment - ADDENDUM

Alright so it looks like I needed to mention things like "directorial skills" and "research", neither of which I really mentioned at all in my previous entries at all.

So, to hopefully remedy that, let me instead provide a link to our group's Google Doc - which essentially served those purposes for us, working better as a shared space for that sort of stuff than individual reflections. I hope that this satisfies those requirements, because it would be silly to go back and edit each of my previous entries just to copy over what's already written in there.

--Yes this is all going to go fine what are you even suggesting that it won't be perfect,

Alexander

FINAL WEEK PANIC MODE ENGAGE - Australian Theatre Assessment, Week 4 (T4W9)

AAAAAAAA IT'S ALMOST DUE AAAAAAAA

So yeah, this is our final week of working on this assessment. In fact, as I write this it is approximately 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon and this whole thing is due in just a little over twelve hours.

What a comforting thought. Why did I think that to myself.

So, things we did. Something I missed out on in last weeks journal because I decided to be a good boy and write it up on Friday evening, and also because I forgot some stuff, was that we recorded and edited a few voice-overs on the Friday and over the weekend of last week. We will be using these for various monologues and such, often with some form of loose justification for them - such as the shadow puppet scene. Anyway, those have really helped lighten the burden on us to learn lines, which has been really helpful and I'm sure won't at all be problematic on the day.

SURE. LET'S JUST ENTRUST THE ENTIRE FLOW OF OUR PERFORMANCE TO A BUNCH OF AUTOMATED RECORDINGS IN A PLAYLIST, CONTROLLED BY SOMEONE WHO I'M PRETTY SURE HAS NEVER EVEN HEARD THEM LET ALONE KNOWS WHERE THEY SHOULD BE IN OUR PERFORMANCE. IT'LL BE FINE.

...I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled like that. I'm a little nervous about tomorrow. And excited.

Nervicited.

So aside from that, we also rehearsed. A lot. Over and over. And that is a good thing, don't get me wrong. But what it means is that there's really nothing too interesting to put here, because the rehearsal process didn't really have any interesting techniques, or moments of revelation and sudden clarity, or anything like that. We just... rehearsed. And that was that.

So... fluff?

Yes, fluff. Turns out Neighborhood Neighbourhood Watch was written by Lally Katz. Why do I mention that, you ask? Silly you. You should know by now that it was for the sole purpose of being able to add a loosely related cat picture.

Katz => Cats. See. It's related.

And as you can tell, I'm really, seriously, out of things to say here. It seems like all things considered, tomorrow's going to turn out fairly well barring some horrible last-minute disaster involving Kate's laptop, three birds and a jar of peanut butter.

Yes, that is oddly specific. No, there's no reason for it.

--Always calm and collected and AAAAAAAA IT'S DUE TOMORROW AAAAAAAA,

Alexander