Thursday, August 25, 2011

First post!(excluding the first post)

LA roleplay today, was actually rather nervous! I mean, really, kissing Emily who happens to be a girl is plain DISGUSTING!!! At least i know I am not les:D Yeayea, its not real kissing. And Im proud to say I am one of the founders of "how to fake kiss"....with the help of a censored sign to make it look real:P. Hey!!! so many people said that it looked damn real! But as usual, the desired audience enthusiasm was not reached. Not that I wanna criticise anyone, but I really need to say it out, or at least type it out. The process of preparing the LA roleplay was really.... well, not the best experience ever. The whole process started with writing the script. Surprisingly, we managed to get the script done in like, 15 minutes I think. Not boasting, but truthfully, I was the main script writer, with the others editting at times. I was rather...fearful of what they would think. Maybe they would think that I am trying to take leadership, or maybe they don't like my script. But non of them said anything, not out at least. Then all the while I was imagining about how we were going to do it. I tried to make the script such that it fit the personality of my group members. Ok, so that's settled with a few edits. Then, its time to get started !! We met at Changi airport(I know, of all places, but its rather nice:P) and I went late. I went there and I find only two people. I forgot what they were doing, talking or doing something lah. Then the rest went shopping. Ok, you were working just now, you nidda break. I started doing. They came back and they told me they only complete the CENSORED sign. Ok, at least it was something done. Then we tried out the whole thing. I really wanted everything to be perfect, to get good grades for this roleplay, to pull my LA grades up. But...let's just say that some people are rather shy. Well, that's the case at changi airport at least. But they responded well to fake kissing! Whew, that was one big problem solved. And then we did it a few times. Only a few times. A few times = 2/3/4 times. Then we went home. If it was a free day, I had nothing to do, I would say this day was rather ok. The things done were ok, enough. But maybe its for the fact that I had to skip my violin lesson when my exam was just 2 weeks later and having to go to the extreme to make up for that lesson, I felt that this whole meeting was rather a waste of my time. I could have not been there at all! Maybe its my fault, I should not have went. Then we had to practice during school hours too! But...digression was very common in our group. If you are not suddenly roped into something, I am talking to someone else. It was hard to get everybody to seriously practice and rehearse. Then till the day of performance.... I think we did quite ok. Since we did not rehearse properly everytime. But as I have said, the desired audience enthusiasm was not reached. The audience was only engaged at Bassanio's and Portia's part(thankfully, my part). The rest was sort of diao. So silent. In my opinion, from my eyes, the other actors were like reading off script. Hai, sad. Anyway, I still thought we did quite well. But my "did quite well" changed to "did okay" when my group recieved their result. Hai... a 15/20. I am not trying to say that I am so good I should have gotten full marks or 19 or 18, but....Okay, I really think we could have at least gotten an A*(16/20). My english teacher said that it was cos our change of scene was very messy. Oh well, the only reason I could think of was that we only practiced scene by scene, we did not prorperly rehearsed the whole thing. But, I am still upset, I tried to make this perfect and put in effort to try to make it perfect and I got a not so perfect score. Oh well, bad luck.

Note: No offence was intended at anybody, I am just COMPLAINING, like every other Singaporean.

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