Journal Writing Experience

Friday 27th October 2011.

Today I met with my director for a meeting. We went through my script to get the song titles for "Cinderella". I then purchased the backing tracks. We couldn't get all of them, but we tried our best. The songs that we had were then burned off onto CD for the cast. We also had a talk about things that were coming up, for example our next promotional event for the company, going to see Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and having the company's annual Christmas dinner. We are holding a Christmas Bazaar soon, and we want people to come and buy cakes, enter a raffle, donate things to sell etc... We then took a break and had some lunch which turned into a conversation about my Wedding Dreams. What my dress is going to be like? Who my maid of honour is? My walking down the Aisle song? How I want to walk down the aisle by myself? We then got back on point and spoke about the annual Christmas Dinner party for the company. We looked at several restaurants, some expensive and amazing, some in mid price range and not too bad, and some cheap and not great at all. We decided to check out the Holly Bush Gastro Pub in Hampstead, North London and it is about £25 per head for a 3 course meal minus drinks. This seemed really reasonable.

We then prepared everything that we needed to take to rehearsals with us, and travelled down to our rehearsal location. It was a good walk as it wasn't cold or too warm and I got a chance to catch up with my director on how her week had been and vice versa.

At rehearsals:

We shared with the company the things we discussed earlier which were:
- The Christmas Bazaar
- Priscilla Queen of the Desert
- Christmas Dinner
- The CD's with the songs for "Cinderella" on

Everyone liked these ideas and that was a relief as I knew that our director wanted to get right to our point of being there. To rehearse scenes from the Pantomime.

The scenes we rehearsed were:
- The Kitchen Scene with Buttons.
- The Stepsisters Scene with their ball gowns.
- The Kitchen Scene with Buttons and my Stepmother.

In the Kitchen scene you see Cinderella interact with Buttons and later on in the scene with Buttons and her Stepmother. As we had just done a huge promotional event in which I did most of the background Technical stuff,  I was just re-getting to grips with the way my lines needed to be said and how I need to act/perform in order to make the scene solid and set in stone.

It was tough at first as I hadn't been concentrating on it that much. Some parts of the scene needed going over and over, but it's only for the benefit of the actor/actress and the company as a whole. You have to do things over and over until you get it right.

So busy rehearsals, busy technical work, busy with uni, and busy with serving God.

But it's manageable and I feel amazing to be working again. It will be tough now and again, but what job isn't?

I look forward to see what tomorrow brings as I have a one on one rehearsal with my director.

Hi all,

I won't be blogging much in the next few days. I have been poorly all weekend and I haven't felt any better. I will blog again very soon.


Have a good week all.

Lily
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My new single "A Love That Will Last"

Enjoy!

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This is for Phil!

Here is a link to the Graffiti Cake recipe I was telling you about earlier on today.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/graffiti_cake_96777

I intend to bring one with me next time. :D

A Love That Will Last & Need You Now

My new singles are coming to Blogger soon.


I would love it if you guys would take a look

Lily

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"Cinderella" Rehearsals 14th October 2011

Today we were auditioning one guy for either the Prince, Cousin Henry or Dandini. It was good but it's up to the director so we just have to wait. After this we rehearsed some of the crucial scenes for the pantomime. It felt funny to do them after we'd been rehearsing so long for our promotional event at the beginning of the month. Some of us (who've had the script longer than I have) carried their scripts instead of letting our director prompt them if necessary. By this Friday we have to have our lines learnt word perfect. This sometimes would be a challenge for me, but surprisingly I have no problems (for now).

We now have to up our game because we have to learn all the songs and the dance routines with 10 weeks to go to the show. I just hope we find our Male Lead and our lines are learnt otherwise the plug might be pulled.

If anyone wants to take part and can Act, Dance and Sing please let me know. Auditions will take place this Friday 6pm.

See you all tomorrow.

Hey all! I am looking for budding actor's, dancers and singers to become part of the ensemble to


take part in the pantomine production of "Cinderella". Must be able to do all three requirements 


and must be 18-80. If you fit the bill please email me at lilycorrigan@hotmail.co.uk Thankyou :D

Meeting on the 7th October 2011

The Moonlite Players met on Friday 7th October to discuss some things. Due to Copyright I cannot disclose these things. However we talked about how well Saturday 1st October went.


Will blog again after Friday!


Lily

The last chaotic week of September & Show Day

So continuing on with the show preparations, things got tough. People stopping and starting and changing their minds on what backing track they want to use, Saying that I should of had all tracks completed ages ago and more. I'm wondering if those in the company who have said these things know's more about how many hands and brains I have than me??? Someone in the group wanted to change their backing track 5 days before the show. Everyone knew I had Uni work on, Committee work (for the company) on, and not enough time to change things around again. On the day before the show, two people in the company started arguing with our director and our director walked out really annoyed. It was over the fact that we (as a company) weren't smiling or flowing with the music. But as any amateur or professional knows when you perform in a shopping centre you aren't always going to have an audience placed in front of you. There are going to be times where people will walk straight past you and not care. I think we were merely preparing everyone for a public reaction.


I know that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I was even late home and got in trouble with my mum because I was supposed to be home at 8:30pm for our Bad Taste Party for Macmillan Cancer Charity.

At times in this group I feel prejudiced.......


Anyway to the day of the show. It was ok, with a few technical hitches, and some songs went a bit wrong. But everyone pulled off a great performance. A new light was seen in some of the company members who at first appeared shy (when they first came into the company), and have now blossomed.

And we all said "That's Showbiz Kid". (not really but I had to put a happy ending on...)

Arms Of The Angel

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My first single "Unfaithful"

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Rehearsals for the 1st October w/c 30th September - 1st October 2011

30th September - 1st October 2011

We had rehearsals 3 times in the week beginning the 30th September. This was at our director's house. Not everyone could be there due to length of travel, allergies to cats and in some cases no excuse at all. But hey ho, we all have our showbiz "I can't be there due to....." moments at some point in our lives. (Laughs). Things never stopped being stressful this week, but I never seemed to want to burst the cork on the champagne. All I heard was "I can only sing it in this key, if you could find the track for me", "It goes like this, not this", "Can you get this track for me?". I know I'm the technician for the show, but I wish that people in the company would have a bit of integrity and respect towards me. I am not a super human. I am just human, and things take a while. We rehearsed the groups mostly and a few solo's (but not mine, we didn't get around to them until the last day of rehearsals in this week, and besides I wasn't ready to show them yet..)

Later on in the week I rehearsed my 2 solo's which were Rihanna's "Unfaithful" and Duffy's "Warwick Avenue". From a singing aspect my performance was great (with a little pitch issue) but it lacked an actresses performance. So in order to get me there my directors are going to help me.

Part 2 on it's way......

Rehearsals for the 1st October

15th September 2011- 23rd September 2011

During this time, I ended up running around trying to get backing tracks and sorting out the set list with the director. This proved to take ages as not everyone had decided what songs they were singing as solos. And some of the tracks I picked with the soloists ended up being the wrong ones and they ended up stressing me out. I almost blew a fuse. I dislike it when people other than the directors tell me how to do my job. I know what to do, and I sometimes feel smothered. Its showbiz and I have to let it flow over my head. Words of advice from my director.

1st official Rehearsal of songs for our promotional event on 1st October

Wednesday 14th September 2011


After yesterday I was tired, stressed, annoyed, and just frustrated more than I had ever been in my life. It took roughly 2 cups of tea and 2 coffees to wake me up today. I had never drunken so much caffeine at all. I went back to my director’s house for rehearsals. In the time we had, I was getting all the backing tracks in the order they should appear in, making sure I had all the correct tracks by going through them with my director, and working on the group songs that I sing a part of. It was a great rehearsal with challenges that made me feel angry. But I realised that the challenges shouldn’t get to me, but that I should be strong and courageous. So hopefully I will be back to my normal self tomorrow. I am praying I will be my normal self tomorrow.

Meeting on the 13th September 2011

Tuesday 13th September 2011

I went to my Director’s house to have a meeting about our promotion event that will take place on the 1st October 2011. I am in charge of getting all the background music for the show and the event. In presence at this meeting was a friend of my director (who I am hopefully performing a duet with), and my director. It was a tough meeting as the three of us had to decide on a song for the duet and this took quite a while as we couldn’t stop quarrelling about it. In the end we gave up and moved on to the downloading of the songs we required for both the show and the promotional event. It took from 6pm till midnight.

Hey all if anyone would like to add me on Facebook or follow me on twitter you can :

Facebook: search lilycorrigan@hotmail.co.uk
Twitter: @lilycorrigan1


Have a great weekend

L
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Ma double vie de Cendrillon

Bonjour à tous! Je vais avoir un faire croire l'aventure à Paris avec le prince Edmond  charmant! Comme Cendrillion, je suis si heureux! Nous avons beaucoup voyagé au cours des dernières semaines. Nous Avons été à Londres, Venise, au Népal. ll a été tellement romantique! Prince Charmant Edmund aime-moi comme je suis et c'est un sentiment incroyable d'être sa femme! Je t'aime Edmund! X

Link to diagram of yesterday's group discussion

Here is the link to the diagrams from yesterday's group discussion


https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcmrb73q_0cfhvzmhn


Hope anyone will find this helpful

Lily

Grad Jobs

http://www.gradjobs.co.uk/recruitment-exhibitions


It says it all. If you want to find a job this might help :D

Yesterday was a good day. We had little group discussions on our first reader "Professional Communication Technology Reader".

I was in a group with Alice, Jo, John, Charlie, Mary and Rhoda.

We had to discuss:
A- The key concepts within the core idea of the reader
B- The key speakers of the reader
C- Examples of Web 2.0 that apply in practise
D- Comments/Arguments about the limitations of these concepts in practise (what are the pro's and con's?)
E- Any other thoughts on these concepts (your own opinions)

This is what we came up with

A- Key Concepts:
Generation- We take work from the original source and post it elsewhere without copyright getting in the way- Mary

The creators have jumped to far forward with the pro (for people to social network) and not think of the cons- Lily

We have a different look on things- John

B- Key Speakers:
1. Valtysson
2. Bruns
3. Rennie

They are encouraging people to do it- Jo & Mary

C- Examples of Web 2.0 that apply in practise

You-tube
Photoshop
I-movie
Facebook
Blogger
Movie Maker
Teaching
Writing
Lesson plans

D- Comments/Arguments about the limitations of these concepts in practise (what are the pro's and con's?)

Pro's:
Keeping in contact with old friends, relatives etc.

Finding friends, relatives or even celebrities.

Cons:
You are remixing ideas, evidence, and more.- Mary

Are you acknowledging the source?- Rhoda

Other peoples opinions shading yours.- Mary

Real Communication has stopped- Jo

What happened to writing a letter? Or going round to a friends house for a cup of coffee and a slice of cake?- Lily

I blame Blackberry's- Lily

There is more Bullying now that we have Social Networking- John

E- Any other thoughts on these concepts (your own opinions)

It's like a mexican wave effect- Alice

Communication lacks in the workplace- Jo

Pro- Networking for Business is easier with the internet- Charlie

It all balls down to Generation- Everyone

Will the Generation, the excellent networkers and technical staff all communicate but lack social skills in social situations- Everybody

Age- people sign up for Social Networking sites as young as 8 years old. Because you can fake your birthday.- Alice

Things like Limewire- are they causing artists to be unpaid?- Mary

What about the safety?

You have safety on Itunes- Lily

You only have safety for a few seconds on Itunes, as soon as someone buys it, they can upload it with pictures on lots of websites- Rhoda

Diagrams to follow :D

I've just seen the most incredible programme

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b015psyz/The_Truth_about_Child_Brides/

It might not be related to BAPP, but I think it has some relevance to Web 2.0 and how there isn't enough of it in the areas discussed in the programme to prevent Child Marriages.




What are your thoughts?

Lily

Task 1A- Professional Profile

Lily Corrigan has been a performer since the age of 8. She has performed in various Productions, Films and has been a freelance Director for the last 3 years. Her studies in Drama began in College when she completed a BTEC Intro Drama and Theatre Production and a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts (Performance). In between these courses she did a BTEC First Diploma in Health and Social Care.

After this she went onto the FDA Performing Arts (Drama and Theatre Production), run by Barnet College and accredited by Middlesex University. This brings her to her current point. BA Professional Practise.

Here is a list of her recent work:

1. Susannah Walcott- "The Crucible"- FDA- 2010
2. Co Director & Co Writer- "Underground Zone"- FDA 2010
3. 16 Year Old Pregnant Woman- "In The Ghetto"- Fourstarprodutions- 2010
4. Friend of Rape Victim-  "The Life of Brain Swan"-Fourstarproductions-2010
5. Ensemble Member- "Is That Right"- FDA-2011
6. Ensemble Member/Persephone- "Guantanamo of the God's"- FDA- 2011
7. Director and Co Writer- "Just Manny"- FDA- 2011
8. Cinderella- "Cinderella"- The Moonlite Players- 2011- Current Job

Had a great day today at uni! I learnt a lot and met a lot of great people. It was good that we had a group discussion on the Professional Communication Technology Reader because everyone could freely express their opinions about Web2.0. It was good for networking purposes as well.


More on today to follow

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This is "Unfaithful rehearsals take one" :D