Drama nerd NOT GEEK

Haven’t posted in a while, lots of stuff’s been happening. Creative Arts was a brilliant night and the group that performed for Year 11 were fantastic! The energy of the performance definetly increased a notch from rehersal, most likely because you guys were so pumped Jess don’t worry about your mic! You were loud enough for everyone to hear and everyone still laughed at your jokes! It is disappointing but sometimes annoying things like that don’t work out… Good work and I look forward to seeing the new and improved solo at Bunjil! (Not that you guys need to change anything :P)

 Our ensemble. Well apparently we have been labelled ‘the group of procrastination’. Not exactly the label I would have wished for but hopefully we can learn from our mistakes and pick up the pace of our progress. We are slowly getting there. Cashy recently allowed us to focus on a more ‘dramatic’ response to the technological revolution topic which for us, was a relief as our group are not the most comically able. I’ll explain…Some of us can do comedy but only when someone else comes up with the plot We are a thinking group…an over thinking group who unfortunately likes everything to be perfect. Being the perfectionists that we all are.

So, therefore, with our new approach to the ensemble we have decided to intertwine an actual plot into our ‘decade’ theme. We should have done this from the beginning as we now realise that tension cannot possibly be incorporated into 20 second - 30 second mini skits. We also realised that we really should have start from the beginning of the 20th century. The 1900s. We started from the end which is pretty silly considering we did not even know how we could start our ensemble. Basically, for the beginning, Heather acts as the narrator and Leah, Jess and I are sitting on chairs watching television. While we are frozen, Heather begins to explain our simple example of how the television has revolutionised the way the world spins. Leah, a child, Jess, an Aussie and I, a proper ‘french lady’ all different people but united by the revolutionising technology. Heather then intervenes and directs, ‘Now we will venture into the 20th century and discover how technology has revolutionised our world.’ She holds up 1900s placard. Meanwhile, Jess, Leah and I resemble a factory conveyer belt and begin to operate in sequence of putting a car together. Heather leaves her narrator role and takes on the supervisor claiming we will not have food on the table if we don’t do this right. The cars we are making are for the extremely wealthy (contrast) we switch to a scene where Heather and I are driving in all our prestige in the car, ignoring the beggars on the street (Jess and Leah).

Somehow we need to connect with our earlier scene. At least we have a beginning now