Hi
So, this is my last blog...
My trip to London was great fun!
I visited the V and A Museum and saw the theatre and performance section, which was very interesting and enjoyable. It had costumes from shows and set design models on display.
I went to see "We Will Rock You" and "Matilda the Musical". Both were very good but "Matilda" was especially wonderful. The cast, set and songs were fantastic!
Hoping to get my photos from my session with Louis Flood soon so that I have professional photos to use when applying for jobs.
I would also like to get some recording done this week for graded unit.
Sweeney Todd opens on Friday night, so this week is filled with rehearsals, tech and dress.
Farewell and wish me luck!
LcB
Sunday, 1 April 2012
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
The sun has got his hat on...
Hello and what a glorious week it is!
This past week ...
1) I received all the books I ordered and have been reading up on acting techniques, audition experiences and recommended monologues
2) I found out that I failed theory again (but signs of definite improvement!)
3) I have made great headway with my website design and I am now adding content.
4) I have arranged to have my headshot photo taken today with professional local photographer Louis Flood.
Later this week I am going to London! I'm hoping to take in a couple of shows while I'm down there, all in the name of research, of course!
LcB
This past week ...
1) I received all the books I ordered and have been reading up on acting techniques, audition experiences and recommended monologues
2) I found out that I failed theory again (but signs of definite improvement!)
3) I have made great headway with my website design and I am now adding content.
4) I have arranged to have my headshot photo taken today with professional local photographer Louis Flood.
Later this week I am going to London! I'm hoping to take in a couple of shows while I'm down there, all in the name of research, of course!
LcB
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Platinum
Hello
Just a quick update today.
In the past week I have
1) Sat my music theory exam (and there is a chance I might have done OK, even if I haven't passed)
2) Done my first study assessment (which, unfortunately, didn't go as well as I had hoped)
3) Stood down from doing Star Wars: A New Hop, as I have no time to commit to it.
4) Signed up to Star Now!
5) Ordered some books on acting techniques ("So You Want To Tread The Boards" and "Actions:An Actors Thesaurus")
6) Ordered a couple of Music books ("Cole Porter the Platinum Collection" and "George Gershwin the Platinum Collection")
The Sexy Stragglers plan to take to the recording studio in the next week.
I plan to get some more solo video recordings done this week and do some video editing.
I have contacted my friend Mark, a photographer, to see about getting some headshot photos taken. I hope to have these done soon.
Rehearsals for both Sweeney Todd and Streets are going well.
LcB
Just a quick update today.
In the past week I have
1) Sat my music theory exam (and there is a chance I might have done OK, even if I haven't passed)
2) Done my first study assessment (which, unfortunately, didn't go as well as I had hoped)
3) Stood down from doing Star Wars: A New Hop, as I have no time to commit to it.
4) Signed up to Star Now!
5) Ordered some books on acting techniques ("So You Want To Tread The Boards" and "Actions:An Actors Thesaurus")
6) Ordered a couple of Music books ("Cole Porter the Platinum Collection" and "George Gershwin the Platinum Collection")
The Sexy Stragglers plan to take to the recording studio in the next week.
I plan to get some more solo video recordings done this week and do some video editing.
I have contacted my friend Mark, a photographer, to see about getting some headshot photos taken. I hope to have these done soon.
Rehearsals for both Sweeney Todd and Streets are going well.
LcB
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Fat Sam's, 2012
Greetings.
Last night's gig in Fat Sam's went really well. Our band, The Sexy Stragglers, were on first. The band comprises of myself, Alissa Toolan (also vocals), Jack Stevenson and Christy Mcintosh (both playing acoustic guitars). I asked Hannah Shovlin to video a couple of the songs on my camera and several people were taking photos. This means I will have plenty of evidence to use in my graded unit.
I thought all the bands did brilliantly, I made sure that I was there on the floor to support every band. I had a great time!
On Friday I will have First Study, followed by a meeting with Alex McKeating about "Star Wars: A New Hop", and then I have to head in to town to buy a costume for my "Streets" character "Brooke" as we are having a photo shoot on Saturday. Her taste is going to be pretty much the exact opposite of my own and so I'll have to find the things I think are hideous and try them on! This should be quite fun though.
The only thing that remains to be said is that on Monday I started constructing the bare bones of my website and I think I am getting to grips with iWeb quite quickly.
LcB
Last night's gig in Fat Sam's went really well. Our band, The Sexy Stragglers, were on first. The band comprises of myself, Alissa Toolan (also vocals), Jack Stevenson and Christy Mcintosh (both playing acoustic guitars). I asked Hannah Shovlin to video a couple of the songs on my camera and several people were taking photos. This means I will have plenty of evidence to use in my graded unit.
I thought all the bands did brilliantly, I made sure that I was there on the floor to support every band. I had a great time!
On Friday I will have First Study, followed by a meeting with Alex McKeating about "Star Wars: A New Hop", and then I have to head in to town to buy a costume for my "Streets" character "Brooke" as we are having a photo shoot on Saturday. Her taste is going to be pretty much the exact opposite of my own and so I'll have to find the things I think are hideous and try them on! This should be quite fun though.
The only thing that remains to be said is that on Monday I started constructing the bare bones of my website and I think I am getting to grips with iWeb quite quickly.
LcB
Sunday, 4 March 2012
One of the Boys
Hello
At the moment I am being very 'arts and craftsy'. I am creating some mood boards for songs and for my website. The song ones are to help me get behind the mood of the piece which should help me in the performance of the song and the website one is to give me ideas about what I would like my finished website to look like.When I have finished these mood boards will be used as evidence of research on my website for graded unit.
I have been using today to practice a lot of the songs I have been learning recently. I have run through all my 'Sweeney Todd' songs, a couple of 'Streets' songs. I have also practiced the songs I am learning for college, including my first study pieces ('Sooner or Later', 'Spark of Creation', 'Sound of Silence', 'The Winner Takes It All', 'Fascinatin' Rhythm') and my songs for the Fat Sam's gig ('Emergency', 'One Of The Boys', 'Trust', 'Kiss From A Rose' and 'Master Exploder').
Last week we had the music history exam, I think it went well but we will have to wait and see. Still don't know my results for my history essay :/.
This week my session skills band recorded 'Higher and Higher', I sang backing vocals again.
I am taking my video camera and hard drive along to rehearsals and college just now so that I have every opportunity to get some footage for Graded Unit.
That's pretty much it just now.
LcB
At the moment I am being very 'arts and craftsy'. I am creating some mood boards for songs and for my website. The song ones are to help me get behind the mood of the piece which should help me in the performance of the song and the website one is to give me ideas about what I would like my finished website to look like.When I have finished these mood boards will be used as evidence of research on my website for graded unit.
I have been using today to practice a lot of the songs I have been learning recently. I have run through all my 'Sweeney Todd' songs, a couple of 'Streets' songs. I have also practiced the songs I am learning for college, including my first study pieces ('Sooner or Later', 'Spark of Creation', 'Sound of Silence', 'The Winner Takes It All', 'Fascinatin' Rhythm') and my songs for the Fat Sam's gig ('Emergency', 'One Of The Boys', 'Trust', 'Kiss From A Rose' and 'Master Exploder').
Last week we had the music history exam, I think it went well but we will have to wait and see. Still don't know my results for my history essay :/.
This week my session skills band recorded 'Higher and Higher', I sang backing vocals again.
I am taking my video camera and hard drive along to rehearsals and college just now so that I have every opportunity to get some footage for Graded Unit.
That's pretty much it just now.
LcB
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Nowadays
Hello.
Sadly, last week I was absent from college and rehearsals as my Grandpa passed away at the weekend.
Here is my update of this week and the fundraising cabaret.
The fundraising cabaret for PAOS was very successful. I was asked on the day if I would also do a duet at the cabaret as well as my solo. I sang "Nowadays" from "Chicago" with Holly Stanford. It sounded really good and I am happy with the way we managed to pull it off after only two run throughs. My solo performance went well also, I did make a couple of mistakes but covered them successfully. I felt that my stage presence was good and I portrayed the emotions in the song. We raised about £500 for our production of Sweeney Todd at this event.
This week I started researching musician websites in ICT to get ideas for my own website. I plan to make up a mood board of my favourites to inspire me.
Band rehearsal was productive this week, we have all decided what song we want to perform at Fat Sams and we made a start on all of them. We are lacking a drummer in our band and so we are going to be doing an acoustic set. I was happy with this as the song I had chosen is acoustic, "Trust" by Bitter Ruin.
Today we had our music history exam. I think it went ok, I passed the mock test and had revised quite a bit and so I went in pretty confident.
Graded Unit
I have finished plotting the bare bones structure of my website and have now created a time plan so that I can start ticking things off and getting on my way towards completing it by the deadline (18th April).
LcB
Sadly, last week I was absent from college and rehearsals as my Grandpa passed away at the weekend.
Here is my update of this week and the fundraising cabaret.
The fundraising cabaret for PAOS was very successful. I was asked on the day if I would also do a duet at the cabaret as well as my solo. I sang "Nowadays" from "Chicago" with Holly Stanford. It sounded really good and I am happy with the way we managed to pull it off after only two run throughs. My solo performance went well also, I did make a couple of mistakes but covered them successfully. I felt that my stage presence was good and I portrayed the emotions in the song. We raised about £500 for our production of Sweeney Todd at this event.
This week I started researching musician websites in ICT to get ideas for my own website. I plan to make up a mood board of my favourites to inspire me.
Band rehearsal was productive this week, we have all decided what song we want to perform at Fat Sams and we made a start on all of them. We are lacking a drummer in our band and so we are going to be doing an acoustic set. I was happy with this as the song I had chosen is acoustic, "Trust" by Bitter Ruin.
Today we had our music history exam. I think it went ok, I passed the mock test and had revised quite a bit and so I went in pretty confident.
Graded Unit
I have finished plotting the bare bones structure of my website and have now created a time plan so that I can start ticking things off and getting on my way towards completing it by the deadline (18th April).
LcB
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Bleurgh
Hello
Not much to report as I have had a horrible cough and sore throat for the past week. I am on the road to recovery, however, and am trying not to overstretch myself before Friday. I have decided that the song I am doing for the fundraiser will be "If My Friends Could See Me Now" from "Sweet Charity", I decided on it after getting my hair cut as my new style reminded me of the character Charity. Also it is more of a character song and not very vocally demanding, so I should be ok even if my throat is still rattly.
Still have yet to hear the results of my history essay.
First study, I have to choose a Simon and Garfunkel song to sing and a Jacques Brel one too. I already did "J'aimais" for my last singing assessment so I think I need to choose a different one to do for this one. Also doing "Fascinating Rhythm" which is, unfortunately, probably my least favourite jazz song.
Other than that I'm a bit fed up of the course to be honest. As soon as I can get more recordings done and the sooner the 2nd semester gets up and running, the sooner I can start creating this graded unit website and doing something that feels creative and productive.
Streets rehearsal and Sweeney Todd rehearsal both physical workshops this week and so my voice was not put under strain. I felt like I gained a lot from both and I am really excited about the shows.
LcB
Not much to report as I have had a horrible cough and sore throat for the past week. I am on the road to recovery, however, and am trying not to overstretch myself before Friday. I have decided that the song I am doing for the fundraiser will be "If My Friends Could See Me Now" from "Sweet Charity", I decided on it after getting my hair cut as my new style reminded me of the character Charity. Also it is more of a character song and not very vocally demanding, so I should be ok even if my throat is still rattly.
Still have yet to hear the results of my history essay.
First study, I have to choose a Simon and Garfunkel song to sing and a Jacques Brel one too. I already did "J'aimais" for my last singing assessment so I think I need to choose a different one to do for this one. Also doing "Fascinating Rhythm" which is, unfortunately, probably my least favourite jazz song.
Other than that I'm a bit fed up of the course to be honest. As soon as I can get more recordings done and the sooner the 2nd semester gets up and running, the sooner I can start creating this graded unit website and doing something that feels creative and productive.
Streets rehearsal and Sweeney Todd rehearsal both physical workshops this week and so my voice was not put under strain. I felt like I gained a lot from both and I am really excited about the shows.
LcB
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