Week Fourteen


This week the office messed up and so I had no note taker during this lecture, so trying to go on memory alone is tough. Luckily we had a more "hands on" approach (if you'll pardon the pun), we had a work shop with Chris and actress Rhoda Lopez on castings and rehearsals. Probably the most fun I've had in any lecture so far, we actually got to get involved with a professional actress and get an insight in to what goes on in castings, script read throughs and rehearsals in the industry.

Reading through the page from Chris' script we were previously working on, I was pleasantly surprised to see Rhoda's interpretations and the subtle changes on each read through and there impacts on the the other character's (played brilliantly by classmates I must note) interpretations. Hopefully Chris if you read this know that everyone enjoyed the workshop and I noticed the class slowly coming out of it's shell and really getting involved even though it was during a Monday morning lecture...so yeah more of this would be great. But seriously it was a bit of a revelation actually doing a read through, doing it on paper so to speak just doesn't give a realistic representation.
There were lots of subtle nuances I noticed just by watching Rhoda listen to Chris' direction and listening to her explaining her thought process behind her decisions was invaluable. Hard to articulate exactly what I'm talking about, but was great to get away from purely theoretical lectures and start getting in to lectures where we can attempt to put in to practice what we've learned to date.

Hint hint, wink wink.