PPP brain thinking stuff in a train like fashion

Saki story- image of the lost soul- about ademon and bird- demon is a grotesque- theatre of the grotesque- bird= fear for some- Alfred Hitchcock- another short story- the whole idea of short story- going back to statue and bird-unlikely friendships- death- capture and howjit kills relationships- whjen we lose some one we hold dear we mostly lose connection to them- is the loss of connection to another synonymous to death- birds are free statues are frozen- personification of objects- idea of cold represented in eing frozen as a statue

Hoffman

i have not watched a single any of the movies that were shown that he was in, this basically was the first time i have ever heard of him at all.
hoffman worked with guirgis- the guy who wrote judas iscariot

Pitches, Please

Directors justin sabrina
international message, talk about the global issues and themes open the eyes of the audiences. relationship between china and america- chimerica
media- the play also focuses on the importance of the role of media and how control over it can control many people

concepts
exaggerate modern society
cramp it hide it
"nothing is true everything is permitted" hide in plain sight
red?-love passion maybe communism too
american idiot
papaer under the audience
trap the audience
mood- daunting, obscurity
bright light of america
realistic costumes
realistic sounds
older demographic- by theme and some "comments"

set- reca
motivation of play- china relationship
motivation of set- visual and theatre mix, immerse audience, engineering practice
in yo foice, suspend belief, i dont actually like that personally
china is so close to us
TOK
"which tv is turned on"- more than one tv
noise of set changes
refusal of acknowledging its there- is also true for the tianmen square debarcle
apartment-small
standard office and police station
brick floor
lights change scenes

lighting austin
change from brechtian to what?
china-red, merica- blue- but what themes do apply to the countries
red- oppression, claustrophobic
blue- tranquil,
get high, intensity of lighting
varying levels of blue and red
maybe videos to give context to scenes

media

i just had an idea what if you had a video of a tank approaching the audience and then the tankman stopping it-if scrim used

tppp tips

transitional words, get that flow, don't transition with and and and so but give however and therefore.
intro outro, i have a symbol at the beginning and end
reference pics and transition of pictures- talk about the picture itself
analysis not facts- dont get stuck telling what you learned or experienced but rather what you developed
because of it
citation is pretty important
2 world theatres- korea, japan so far off the top of my head

the film list (2013) dir. david park

the list is interesting.
mostly since i have only seen two of the films, i do not have that much of an opinion on the list. the two that i have seen are in fact the top two, vertigo and district 9. the one i saw many years ago and am not sure i remember the cinematography of it and district 9 i have certain qualms about since of the true life event that it is based off. in terms of the ones i have not seen, movies like the mirror and a man escapes sound interesting enough for me to try and follow up to them

why Voice Acting

Some people may think that it is weird for me to do voice acting, some may think I have no experience with my voice and understanding vocal experimentation, or most commonly people say “yes your voice in naturally calm and soothing” but that not just all of what I can achieve. I really enjoy making weird noises with my voice, as well as deconstructing accents and understanding how they tick, but I don't express the noises and voices I can make out in public very often, I'm very shy. But I want to change this; I want to start to show that I actually have a great voice in singing and have many different characters with all my other voices. This is just very clearly and plainly, the why. I also have a deeper level of why in that this kind of acting is the kind I want to pursue later in life and want to increase and grow my repertoire and characters, so I may need to start taking notes and learning from other voice actors. This leads into why do this for the ippp, for me it is a case of this is how I’m going to improve my voice acting, and once I have made myself better I can help others to become better as well. So it is a matter of I’m going to help myself to help others, which for an IPP is actually a good thing, gives more incentive to record the process leading up to the workshop or performance. Which actually makes me wonder, workshop or performance, I want to share my knowledge and help, but I think I may want to create a performance or vocal snippet in addition to the workshop, not for IB but for myself.

acting workshops

Daniel Foley: our artist in residence this year was a Shakespearian actor by the name of Daneil Foley. our time with Daniel was actually quite short and I would have liked to have spent more time since i quite liked the vocal focus he had, at least in the second workshop we had. The first workshop was mixed with a freshman class and was lacking in information and interactive. The second session was focused on the voice and how to speak and to interpret Shakespearian text. The exercised were a great way to wake up the face for projection and for singing, because they were what they were, exercises. I now still do some of them to kind of wake up my face in order to get ready for the day. the last session was more physical and tied more closely to the play we are doing right now, Romeo and Juliet. we were having trouble with stage fighting so Daniel Foley helped out by showing our class how to do simple sword fighting techniques that look good are easy to remember which we in turn taught to the cast. one thing that was not so great was that there was no specific topic it was more opportunistic than structured.
chad Austin:
a surprise workshop was had after Daniel Foley left and he next class period there was another actor from New York who did some activities with us to find ways to stretch our acting techniques and how to be more aware of our body and even mentioned Australian actor F.M. Alexander and his technique for good posture, even though he said he did not agree with it. most important out of all was the final excerisize when he told us how to properly present ourselves to prospective directors;

• don't fidget, hand to side 
• stand tall-don't slouch
• smile- look happy and make the "judges" feel good
• don't look down- confidence will then proceed to exude from your presence
• answer with confidence=don't second guess yourself
• when you recite a piece just recite it, don't take pause to change into character,just say it