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fandomhigh2019-01-14 05:47 am
not_a_bird) wrote in fandomhigh2019-01-14 05:47 am
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Acting 101; Monday, First Period [01/14].
Well. Sweet Dee was officially at this teaching gig longer than her last one, unless, she guessed, you were basing it on hours put in instead of time elapsed, but, either way, she did not know what to make of that. The class itself wasn't bad, but this whole town was just weird and boring and she wouldn't go so far as to say she missed the gang, buuut...
...but she was still there, and she was still trying to smile like she wanted to be there, but her ability to do even that was fading fast.
"Hey, you guys," she said. "Good morning. Welcome baack. Now, so far, we've covered scripted with your monologues and improv with the activity from last week, and I was thinking this week, maybe we can get a discussion going and have you guys chime in on what you'd like to work on. Why are you taking this class? What are you hoping to get out of it?"
In other words, please give her ideas. At this point in the game was probably about when she tried proposing a trip to Broadway so those uncultured little snots could actually see live theater, which might not be a bad idea to try with these guys, it would definitely be a lot cheaper with the three of them, so...maybe! But she'd been lazy about potentially putting that together.
Little did she know that this school's field trip policies were way more lenient.
"And," she continued, "I figured we can also tap a little into the idea of character creation today, too. Remember the first week, when I mentioned stage names? Well, sometimes, the person you portray to the public is just as much a character as something you might play for on the stage and screen. People like a celebrity who's interesting, which isn't going to happen if you're just some Joe Schmo from Kokomo, am I right? So I thought, today, after we talk about where you'd like to see this class go, we can take a moment to think of some good stage names," because your names, kids, they're bad. They're all bad, "and maybe a little about who this dramatis personæ," a little preening for the Latin there, yes, "might be.
"Okay, then, who wants to go first?"
[[ocd is....up! Have at it.]]
...but she was still there, and she was still trying to smile like she wanted to be there, but her ability to do even that was fading fast.
"Hey, you guys," she said. "Good morning. Welcome baack. Now, so far, we've covered scripted with your monologues and improv with the activity from last week, and I was thinking this week, maybe we can get a discussion going and have you guys chime in on what you'd like to work on. Why are you taking this class? What are you hoping to get out of it?"
In other words, please give her ideas. At this point in the game was probably about when she tried proposing a trip to Broadway so those uncultured little snots could actually see live theater, which might not be a bad idea to try with these guys, it would definitely be a lot cheaper with the three of them, so...maybe! But she'd been lazy about potentially putting that together.
Little did she know that this school's field trip policies were way more lenient.
"And," she continued, "I figured we can also tap a little into the idea of character creation today, too. Remember the first week, when I mentioned stage names? Well, sometimes, the person you portray to the public is just as much a character as something you might play for on the stage and screen. People like a celebrity who's interesting, which isn't going to happen if you're just some Joe Schmo from Kokomo, am I right? So I thought, today, after we talk about where you'd like to see this class go, we can take a moment to think of some good stage names," because your names, kids, they're bad. They're all bad, "and maybe a little about who this dramatis personæ," a little preening for the Latin there, yes, "might be.
"Okay, then, who wants to go first?"
[[ocd is....up! Have at it.]]
Sign In - Acting, 01/14.
Re: Sign In - Acting, 01/14.
Re: Sign In - Acting, 01/14.
Listen to the Lecture - Acting, 01/14.
She wasn't a good actor, no, but she was dedicated.
Class Discussion - Acting, 01/14.
Anyone? Anyone?
...Bueller?
Class Activity - Acting, 01/14.
Well. Half of that was actually correct.
"But fresh faces such as yourselves still have the opportunity to determine who you might be in the acting world, so let's hear it. Who are you, where did you come from, what's your story? Everyone loves a celebrity with a good story to reel them in, so what's yours going to be?"
Re: Class Activity - Acting, 01/14.
Look, it seemed like a good backstory to Norman.
Since it was true.
Re: Class Activity - Acting, 01/14.
"I can see that," she concluded with a nod. "But...ghosts?"
That's where he lost her.
Re: Class Activity - Acting, 01/14.
... Like his insane, now dead hermit great-uncle.
Oh no. He'd made an error.
"Just to keep people guessing, of course."
Re: Class Activity - Acting, 01/14.
Magnussen, however, she could see someone making a case about, and she shifted slightly. "So maybe...Astrid....Starr." A little on the nose, but a slight homage to her born-again stripper former foster mother who, in another life far distant from this one, would have shot her in the stomach for sleeping with her boyfriend. "And...I guess, I'd have gotten into acting to escape my past, where..." She paused, to make it seem like she was making something up instead of literally just picking from her own life, which no one here knew about anyway and was almost wild enough to seem like it was a lie, "my poet mother was incarcerated for murdering someone, and acting was an opportunity to start on my own way."
Re: Class Activity - Acting, 01/14.
Although, considering those acting chops and those looks, Deandra would definitely put money down on that's what Astrid would be doing in about three years.
"But I do like the incarcerated mother angle. Moms are the worst. So stick with the story, keep working on the name. I'm sure you'll come up with something. I mean, unless that's where you want your career to go...?"
Talk to Sweet Dee - Acting, 01/14.
OOC - Acting, 01/14.