Wow

In all this time, I've never even thought about using my blog. It's just sitting there unused while I'm meant to be keeping it up to date. I suppose it's because I was hoping to fix it up and make it look really nice, but then discovered that it wasn't as easy as I had expected because whenever I thought I had a code correct, there was a problem with the way that the code was composed because it didn't seem to work very well at all using blogger (even though I have used some that work quite well using a lot of other websites).

Things won't be in order of occurrence, I'm afraid, so I'll start with today's lesson.

Today we did puppetry. I missed a small portion of the lesson because I was busy trying to sort something else out, but I got that everybody did a small group devised piece using their hand as a puppet. It was crude, but effective and fairly useful in looking at how puppetry works. I didn't do a piece because of the things that I was busy working on beforehand, but I got the gist of it; looked like fun.

Now, in previous lessons we have done other things. In particular, we did an ISP (Individual Study Presentation). It wasn't looking too great for me at first, but I finally managed to get it together and present a nice piece of scriptwriting. I think what was holding me back most was, like usual, I didn't know exactly where to start. Once I had a starting point I got everything done rather quickly. We also did a mini project on 3 areas of our choice and I chose to do scriptwriting, publicity, and lighting. Once I had that off the ground, I also got that done rather quickly and I think it turned out quite good. I find that there is nothing more satisfying than completing an assignment and getting it in before the due date; even though I'm not necessary always good at that (haha).

We have also done movement. We did group pieces that involved movement without speech and some of it went alright. I did one once with a group and it worked out fine. But the last one I had to do just fell apart because of my common lacking of the ability to work well in a group. There are some people that I work well with in a group, and others that I don't; but it was very good insight. I discovered that I don't always work well with my close friends. In fact, I found that one of my close friends just wasn't very easy to work well with in a group. At the same time, I also found out that there are plenty of people that I don't know altogether too well that I work really well with in a group, even if they are female! (I tend to be a little bit shy at times, but in drama I don't seem to get that very much when I do drama.)