10 Jun 2004
English Journal Entry #3
Thursday, June 10, 2004
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Today was really productive! We matched people to the roles we developed yesterday, and made minor alterations to our dialog, so that the roles were consistent with the elements of jealousy demonstrated in soliloquies (that is, so everyone has a decent soliloquy which matches their character within the play) — we managed to throughly confuse ourselves with the idea (perhaps it was too twisted?), but eventually got our heads around it.
There are three types of jealousy demonstrated (thank goodness we had no more people to try and script for!), these being jealousy of confidence/conviction, ideas and imagination, and leadership abilities. Those three roles correspond to Tori, Kim and myself, respectively.
We wrote intermediate dialog (the key features of the play being the soliloquies), decided how we were to end the play, and cemented the basis of what was to be said in our soliloquies. After school, I sat in study hall and scripted what Kim had written today — she wanted to do her own soliloquy, so there is still a gap where that is to go, but the play is complete with that one exception.
It shall be interesting to see how it all goes, once we rehearse it in its complete form. Due to the nature of it (i.e. we’re playing ourselves), not much rehearsal is required, which is useful.
10 Jun 2004
English Journal Entry #2
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
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I’d jotted some notes down on the bus about ideas and whatever else, in terms of what should happen – obviously, if it’s going to be recursive, we still need to have stuff happen to make it interesting – imagine a mirror reflecting into infinity without an image to reflect.
So we got a basic start to it all slammed up, because that is invaluable, just for the sake of getting the ball rolling. I think Tori was writing everything down, and we developed a plot up to the first soliloquy — and we also established a list of character attributes (and aspects of jealousy associated with these). We didn’t decide who these attributes would be assigned to, that happens tomorrow.
Essentially, the play starts with us sitting down and saying “So, what are we going to do for this play?” – giving an impression that absolutely NO preparation has gone into it. We start bouncing ideas around, and then hit the one that we’re going with — at that point, Tori launches into soliloquy. She doesn’t think it’ll work, and is jealous of the apparent confidence of other characters. We’ve only written down rough notes… I’ve borrowed Tori’s book, and typed + emailed copies of what we have so far to everyone.
10 Jun 2004
http://www.chilout.org
There were some excellent speakers, I especially thought that the refugee speakers were… powerful. I was impressed that there were representatives from all significant parties there, regardless of the official policy of their respective organisations.
It’s reassuring to know that there are some people in politics capable of compassion over paranoia and selfishness. Asylum seeker does not mean terrorist, nor does it mean queue jumper, in many, many cases.
When I arrived at the rally, a little late, one of the first speakers I heard was telling of how a fourteen year old kid had tried to hang himself, and then to cut himself, and starve himself. Our detention centres are doing this to children – from a purely selfish Australian perspective, seeing that nine out of ten of these kids will eventually be let in to this country anyway, think about the kind of people our centres are turning them into.
I’m not going to convince anyone either way on this one, anyway. People dodge the issue by saying “but what about the parents” – what about the children? But it’s okay to put them in detention: if we do it long enough, the problem will go away.
Do corpses need visas?
Compulsorary viewing: http://www.chilout.org/gallery/childrens_art1.html
08 Jun 2004
At least, that’s what it feels like. Sort of. I just went to go to bed, then realised I hadn’t stuck anything up.
I guess this is sort of a good vent for the day, helps to wind-down and whatever else. On the other hand, I am only able to post the stuff I won’t mind people reading here, which means that all the crap is left floating in my head… meh, it’s nice to have some people share in the little good things that happen, if not here in the form of comments, then in the real world.
A good thing happened today, which I cannot share with the world, because of the not-so-good things surrounding it. I’m thankful that there were other people there also, so at least there are some people who I can share with and talk to about it… it’s kind of like that with many things, but especially in this instance.
With things I will freely talk about, however, thanks heaps to everyone who has been kind enough to comment on my story, both here and on the Dalegroup forums. Especially to Soolie :)
07 Jun 2004
Okay, so, as of right about nowish, there are THREE styles employed on this website.
http://sc.dalegroup.net/?style=1 is the original;
http://sc.dalegroup.net/?style=2 is my favorite, Clouds, and;
http://sc.dalegroup.net/?style=3 is the original with the “Full post | Comments (number of comments)” thing aligned left.
So, style one for people that aren’t change addicts. Style two for people who are, or who like clouds more than random CG’d watery looking grey stuff (I used to think it was cool), and style three for Dale. Hehehe.
Time for you to change that bookmark?