Thursday, December 11, 2008
Cheryl again.
The Audience Know Feel Do is what we use in SS to test for purpose.
Who is the intended audience? What does the author/person doing the action want the audience to know, feel and do? Apply this to newspaper articles etc. Very useful.
The Audience Know Feel Do is what we use in SS to test for purpose.
Who is the intended audience? What does the author/person doing the action want the audience to know, feel and do? Apply this to newspaper articles etc. Very useful.
we had a smashing good day, 4:40 PM.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Hey everyone! It's me again!
Thanks Cheryl for your entry. You are indeed very right and I am very glad to see your quality reflections. Better late and good than early and poop! :) Hmm bad rhyme? :s
Okay thought I'll post some pics that I really like from the trip cos TOO MANY WORDS! TOO DREARY! .............
SO here's some colour and action captured in time :)
ENJOY :) Mdm N
Morning at GLENELG, the beautiful seaside town
Drama Workshop with Allison of the State Theatre Company
Smelling Eucalyptus leaves at Kangeroo Island
The fearsome Sea Lion :)
Thanks Cheryl for your entry. You are indeed very right and I am very glad to see your quality reflections. Better late and good than early and poop! :) Hmm bad rhyme? :s
Okay thought I'll post some pics that I really like from the trip cos TOO MANY WORDS! TOO DREARY! .............
SO here's some colour and action captured in time :)
ENJOY :) Mdm N
Morning at GLENELG, the beautiful seaside town
Drama Workshop with Allison of the State Theatre Company
Smelling Eucalyptus leaves at Kangeroo Island
The fearsome Sea Lion :)
we had a smashing good day, 9:36 PM.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Hey, this is Cheryl. I know this is kind of late, but yeah.
This has been my second time in Adelaide and I'm very grateful for the chance to have dualistic experiences. With the second time, there is a certain self awareness about what I've learnt and how I've evolved as a pokemon, no, I mean person and drama student. Right, you have a long post ahead of you so I suggest you grab some snacks before you start. NOW.
My general cultural experience in Australia
Firstly, before you go on about how warm and kind and open random Australians on the street are, please do remember that we look like tourists and that's a probable reason for their reaction. However, Australians are definitely more open with their feelings and expressions of affection than conservative Asians. Service is definitely better too, but keep my previous point in mind! Yeah. Learning point? Always put things in perspective. Like, you know in SS, the Audience Know Feel Do thing? But I'm probably being overly cynical as always.
The other thing is, Australian culture is markedly different from Singaporean culture. We tend to place our guests on a pedestal, while they erm... how do I put this? Ah, expect their guests to be more independent. It's just a general feeling of mine lah, I'm not saying that they are bad hosts; just different. So a very important thing is having the ability of adapting quickly. Learning to be like water!
I confess I wasn't looking forward to the home stay because I thought that they were vegetarian and I'm not that hot on the idea of eating vegetables for five days straight. And also because of my previous experience in Sec 1, when I recalled being constantly hungry (cos of the veg) and feeling constantly awkward because I'm a forced extrovert. But, time's a great teacher, I guess. My home stay this time was definitely more enjoyable due to the fact that they actually ate meat now and that I had Gabe as my home stay partner.
Catriona's family regularly hosts foreign students who are here on exchange programmes or scholarships. Basically, Australian schools don't provide dorms for foreign students so they either have to get a home stay family, have their own place or forfeit the places offered by the scholarships. Catriona's mother, Carolyn feels that it would be a waste if a foreign student cannot come to Australia to study just because there isn't someone to host them. Therefore she very generously opens up her home and heart to receive them. I feel very ashamed and asinine for dreading the home stay with them now. Heh. Learning point? To not assume that things would be the way they are before going over to experience things the way they actually are. Basically, keep an open mind about new experiences.
The drama workshop at the Adelaide Festival Centre
The Adelaide Festival Centre is their version of our Esplanade. Every country or state has something like this. An all in one venue for performances, cafes and whatnot. Although the 小巨蛋/Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan ups the ante by having an Olympic-size ice rink measuring 61m×30m in its premises.
Well, I thought that Alison showed the fundamental aspect of Stan's theory in a really clear way. Remember how she had us all walk around the room greeting each other "but you don't like this person", "because you want to make friends", etc.? What she was illustrating was that, on stage everything you do stems from how the character feels and that stems from all the profiling you do beforehand. And those make up the general idea of Stan's system. So, I thought that was really neat. We could incorporate this idea into future auditions for S1 members or in O drama lessons, I guess.
The performance at MHS
Again, I acted as a guy because apparently I look enough like one. Which is okay, because rather a female with unique girlHAMSOMEness than an ordinary female looking female. And did I mention Hamsome? Okay. The Forge is amazing. Their technical expertise, performances, props, lights, costumes are amazing. It's a little wah-they-so-good-we-not-that-good-how? BUT they have the resources and as a school they focus on the performing arts, while Anderson is a science school. That probably explains the very easy science lessons at Marryatville.
Still, the process of devising a story out of nothing was great. The main thing was to not lose faith and to keep at it till the story surrenders with both hands in the air. And I think we did really well. I think the maid performance which the Marryatville students put up provided several great learning points about puppetry. This could be utilised in our SYF production.
Revelations about people and things were made. Good or bad; revelations nonetheless.
In conclusion, I had a really lovely time. Special thanks must be made to our two wonderful teachers who expertly guided us through and lovingly provided their always-very-hungry how-in-the-world-can-they-eat-so-much little monsters with truckloads of really fantastic food.
PS: I lost 2 kg in Adelaide which I promptly gained back within 3 days of my return to Singapore. Now, that says a lot for my preferences in food. Rice is nice.
This has been my second time in Adelaide and I'm very grateful for the chance to have dualistic experiences. With the second time, there is a certain self awareness about what I've learnt and how I've evolved as a pokemon, no, I mean person and drama student. Right, you have a long post ahead of you so I suggest you grab some snacks before you start. NOW.
My general cultural experience in Australia
Firstly, before you go on about how warm and kind and open random Australians on the street are, please do remember that we look like tourists and that's a probable reason for their reaction. However, Australians are definitely more open with their feelings and expressions of affection than conservative Asians. Service is definitely better too, but keep my previous point in mind! Yeah. Learning point? Always put things in perspective. Like, you know in SS, the Audience Know Feel Do thing? But I'm probably being overly cynical as always.
The other thing is, Australian culture is markedly different from Singaporean culture. We tend to place our guests on a pedestal, while they erm... how do I put this? Ah, expect their guests to be more independent. It's just a general feeling of mine lah, I'm not saying that they are bad hosts; just different. So a very important thing is having the ability of adapting quickly. Learning to be like water!
I confess I wasn't looking forward to the home stay because I thought that they were vegetarian and I'm not that hot on the idea of eating vegetables for five days straight. And also because of my previous experience in Sec 1, when I recalled being constantly hungry (cos of the veg) and feeling constantly awkward because I'm a forced extrovert. But, time's a great teacher, I guess. My home stay this time was definitely more enjoyable due to the fact that they actually ate meat now and that I had Gabe as my home stay partner.
Catriona's family regularly hosts foreign students who are here on exchange programmes or scholarships. Basically, Australian schools don't provide dorms for foreign students so they either have to get a home stay family, have their own place or forfeit the places offered by the scholarships. Catriona's mother, Carolyn feels that it would be a waste if a foreign student cannot come to Australia to study just because there isn't someone to host them. Therefore she very generously opens up her home and heart to receive them. I feel very ashamed and asinine for dreading the home stay with them now. Heh. Learning point? To not assume that things would be the way they are before going over to experience things the way they actually are. Basically, keep an open mind about new experiences.
The drama workshop at the Adelaide Festival Centre
The Adelaide Festival Centre is their version of our Esplanade. Every country or state has something like this. An all in one venue for performances, cafes and whatnot. Although the 小巨蛋/Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan ups the ante by having an Olympic-size ice rink measuring 61m×30m in its premises.
Well, I thought that Alison showed the fundamental aspect of Stan's theory in a really clear way. Remember how she had us all walk around the room greeting each other "but you don't like this person", "because you want to make friends", etc.? What she was illustrating was that, on stage everything you do stems from how the character feels and that stems from all the profiling you do beforehand. And those make up the general idea of Stan's system. So, I thought that was really neat. We could incorporate this idea into future auditions for S1 members or in O drama lessons, I guess.
The performance at MHS
Again, I acted as a guy because apparently I look enough like one. Which is okay, because rather a female with unique girlHAMSOMEness than an ordinary female looking female. And did I mention Hamsome? Okay. The Forge is amazing. Their technical expertise, performances, props, lights, costumes are amazing. It's a little wah-they-so-good-we-not-that-good-how? BUT they have the resources and as a school they focus on the performing arts, while Anderson is a science school. That probably explains the very easy science lessons at Marryatville.
Still, the process of devising a story out of nothing was great. The main thing was to not lose faith and to keep at it till the story surrenders with both hands in the air. And I think we did really well. I think the maid performance which the Marryatville students put up provided several great learning points about puppetry. This could be utilised in our SYF production.
Revelations about people and things were made. Good or bad; revelations nonetheless.
In conclusion, I had a really lovely time. Special thanks must be made to our two wonderful teachers who expertly guided us through and lovingly provided their always-very-hungry how-in-the-world-can-they-eat-so-much little monsters with truckloads of really fantastic food.
ATC IS LOVE. <3
PS: I lost 2 kg in Adelaide which I promptly gained back within 3 days of my return to Singapore. Now, that says a lot for my preferences in food. Rice is nice.
we had a smashing good day, 5:24 PM.
A Shout From Mdm N
Hi all, planning to work on some school stuff but thought I perhaps I should say "Hi!" first.
I suppose everyone is busy enjoying the holidays! I certainly am! Busy and enjoying the holiday. But not too busy to do this (you can too Yu Jun! :D)
Wondering what's happened to our beautiful photos? Mr Kilvert was asking about them. He emailed me the website where we can find the photos taken by the Marryatville people. I saw some photos on Anderson-Marryatville FaceBook Group uploaded by Gabriella and watched the video of our performance. Makes me feel a warm glow all over. Very nice. :) I'll see if I can link it here.
Okay just checked. Can't do it. So if you want to watch the video, you've got to wait till Aaron or Mr Kilvert gets the DVD to us or join the FaceBook group! :D
That's all folks! Hope someone else will blog before I do the next time...
Cheers,
Mdm N
Hi all, planning to work on some school stuff but thought I perhaps I should say "Hi!" first.
I suppose everyone is busy enjoying the holidays! I certainly am! Busy and enjoying the holiday. But not too busy to do this (you can too Yu Jun! :D)
Wondering what's happened to our beautiful photos? Mr Kilvert was asking about them. He emailed me the website where we can find the photos taken by the Marryatville people. I saw some photos on Anderson-Marryatville FaceBook Group uploaded by Gabriella and watched the video of our performance. Makes me feel a warm glow all over. Very nice. :) I'll see if I can link it here.
Okay just checked. Can't do it. So if you want to watch the video, you've got to wait till Aaron or Mr Kilvert gets the DVD to us or join the FaceBook group! :D
That's all folks! Hope someone else will blog before I do the next time...
Cheers,
Mdm N
we had a smashing good day, 12:01 AM.