This weekend was fun, albeit long. I was asked to do the costumes for a film entitled "Capital Punishment". I read the script and since the costumes were easy, I did it. They filmed up in Northern Utah, which for me is at least a 2 hour drive, so when they said the call time was 6:30am, I realized that I had to get up a 4am to get on the road by 4:30am to make it to that call time. And that was Saturday and Sunday. Long days, but I had fun. Most people don't realize that if you're not acting, lights, directing, or camera operator you have the "hurry up then wait" syndrome. You have to get everyone and everything ready before hand while people are telling you to hurry up because they are needed on set and then once they are on set you are just waiting until someone needs a touch-up or wardrobe fix. Other then that, you have a lot of time on your hands.
The other thing is my dad's work had a party on Saturday night. I wasn't able to make the food section, but I was able to make everything else. It was fun. We were able to see some of the dancers that we worked with at the performance a few saturdays ago. It was nice to be able to see them in their element. They also had some dancers/performers from the Broadway Stomp come and perform. They did pretty well. There was one girl that I wasn't too fond of. All she would really do was a few flips. The street dancing wasn't all that good. But there were some amazing performers. I'll see if I can get the video posted. I took a little bit of video, not from the best angle, but at least I had something.
This week is going to be interesting to say the least. I've actually got time for myself in the afternoons. Jakob is at rehearsals this week so I'm a theater widow once again. He's in Antigone which will be going up at UVU within the next month or so. I'm not too sure of the dates, but once I have them, I'll post them.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
My "adventures" blog
So since I'm not teaching CTE this year, I was thinking about shutting down the blog, but then I thought "wait, I'm still instructing, so maybe I can still have things to write about" so I'm going to continue to use my blog, just chronicling the stuff I do with the P.E. class I'm teaching. Its only been the first two days and I've already got a few things written on there and I'm sure there are going to be many more.
I'm hoping that this year I won't have as many parental problems, but it is amazing what the teachers say about the parents and what the parents try to get their kids out of when it comes to P.E.
But now I've got to get over the hives. I had to use bleach to clean something up in the gym and I'm allergic to bleach. Yep, what a start to the year.
I'm hoping that this year I won't have as many parental problems, but it is amazing what the teachers say about the parents and what the parents try to get their kids out of when it comes to P.E.
But now I've got to get over the hives. I had to use bleach to clean something up in the gym and I'm allergic to bleach. Yep, what a start to the year.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Show went well
Well, the show last night went better than planned. Despite all the problems, it seemed like the general audience enjoyed it. The first show was bigger than the second, but it seemed like the performers were ready to stop anyway. I'm just happy that I don't have to work with some of the people again. Jakob and Brad did well with their fight; although the first performance went better than the second one. Jakob did his dance stuff on que as well.
The only thing that went wrong was I dislodged a few fingers on my right hand when the costume rack went bonkers. Story goes that the costume rack was only supposed to have 15-20 lbs of clothing on it and we overloaded it a bit. The first time it cracked was when we were trying to get it in the elevator. I felt something in my hand kind of pop but didn't think anything of it right then because I've hyper-extended my fingers before and that is all it felt like. But then we were moving it into the room that we were going to stage everyone out of and we didn't see the vent in the middle of the floor (who puts a vent in the middle of the floor?!) and it caught on that and there was a loud snapping noise that made me turn around and I saw the rack coming down so I reached out to stop it and that wasn't a good idea. The rack was heavy and came down wrong on my hand. When everything was over, I was on the floor with the costume rack on my hand and my pointer finger on my right hand pointing the wrong direction. I was able to pop it back into place, but that was a really rough night for me. I still had to costume everyone and trying to tie a bow with your ring and pinkie fingers is really different. I taped everything together, but it was still a rough night.
But my marathon day is over and now I've got another project to work on, but while I'm working on that I've got to get ready for my new "teaching" post . . . elementary physical education. Yeah, it isn't teaching as much as instructing. This should be interesting.
The only thing that went wrong was I dislodged a few fingers on my right hand when the costume rack went bonkers. Story goes that the costume rack was only supposed to have 15-20 lbs of clothing on it and we overloaded it a bit. The first time it cracked was when we were trying to get it in the elevator. I felt something in my hand kind of pop but didn't think anything of it right then because I've hyper-extended my fingers before and that is all it felt like. But then we were moving it into the room that we were going to stage everyone out of and we didn't see the vent in the middle of the floor (who puts a vent in the middle of the floor?!) and it caught on that and there was a loud snapping noise that made me turn around and I saw the rack coming down so I reached out to stop it and that wasn't a good idea. The rack was heavy and came down wrong on my hand. When everything was over, I was on the floor with the costume rack on my hand and my pointer finger on my right hand pointing the wrong direction. I was able to pop it back into place, but that was a really rough night for me. I still had to costume everyone and trying to tie a bow with your ring and pinkie fingers is really different. I taped everything together, but it was still a rough night.
But my marathon day is over and now I've got another project to work on, but while I'm working on that I've got to get ready for my new "teaching" post . . . elementary physical education. Yeah, it isn't teaching as much as instructing. This should be interesting.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Trouble in Paradise
Well, I wouldn't say that around here its been paradise, but I'm in a creative mood and that is about as creative as I can get with blog titles. First off, I do want to say Congrats to Court and Coryn for graduating!! Woohoo! Yay ladies! (even though you didn't let me know when graduation was for you . . . =p). Now I can get into the meat of my post.
I've been off busy these past few weeks, but I've also had a lot of "downtime" within all that. Sounds contradicting, but it really isn't as weird as it seems. I had spurts where everything needed to be done and my day was completely filled out and others that I slept until late morning and really had nothing to do other than read and enjoy my time. However, not everything has been like that.
Let me explain problem number 1:
I've been "contracted" to this show since end of April/beginning of May. It is for a book release by a local author. I met this author at a filmmakers meet and greet and he and Jakob hit it off really well. He saw that Jakob is a fight choreographer and told us about this event he was doing in August and wanted some fight stuff from the book incorporated into the event. Jakob agreed and then mentioned that I do custom costumes and the author jumped on the opportunity. We started working on what everything should look like when we met the "director" of the whole thing. I wasn't at the first meeting, but at the second meeting, things started going south. First, this guy decided to take over on almost everything. He said that he already had the costumes and that he was going for more of a dance routine instead of fighting. When Jakob mentioned that the author had requested the fight, the director backed down but still said he was going with the costumes he had. At the 3rd meeting he brought everything that he had--it was a disaster! He wanted to put the "fairies" in some 1920's style clothes and the warriors into these crummy looking pleather pieces. I said that if this is what he wanted to do, I wanted no part of the project. I was not going to have my name associated with this. Well, eventually we came to an agreement and I started working on the costumes.
Fast forward 1 month. They only had 1 rehearsal and very little communication with Jakob and me. Fast forward another month. 1 more rehearsal with very few people there and changes to the costume line-up. I didn't have an issue with it because I still had 1 month to finish the 6 custom costumes I was doing and adjust the others we were getting from the costume house. Then came the big 'blow-up'. For the past 3 weeks we've been trying to get into contact with the director and had no luck. Absolutely nothing. Here I am with costumes that need to be fitted to the people and I have no way of doing that. Monday was the first rehearsal that everyone was supposed to be at--very few people showed up and they weren't able to run everything together. Jakob and his fight partner have been getting together almost every week to run their stuff and when the director decided to put everything together he changed a few things regarding the fight and that completely threw Jakob for a loop. As for me, I couldn't fit everyone with the costumes because not everyone was there and they didn't have the right underclothes for me to fit the costume to. To top it all off, all the work that I have done on the wings for the fairies might go down the drain because the director thinks "they won't work with his vision" and he "doesn't like the craftmanship" on them. I about blew up. Yes, they still need to be adjusted for the dancers, but everyone else who had seen them really liked them and said they were unique. Even the author who was at the rehearsal saw them and loved it. "They have personality" he said and I realized that that was the first time that anyone associated with the show had said anything nice about my costumes (besides Jakob).
To make a long story short (yeah, I know, I know . . . .) I'm still not happy with the way things are going and the event is this Saturday evening. At this point I may not show up. I don't know.
Anyway, I'm off to work on the wings a bit more. I've got to figure out a way to get them more secure than what I have now. Uggg.
I've been off busy these past few weeks, but I've also had a lot of "downtime" within all that. Sounds contradicting, but it really isn't as weird as it seems. I had spurts where everything needed to be done and my day was completely filled out and others that I slept until late morning and really had nothing to do other than read and enjoy my time. However, not everything has been like that.
Let me explain problem number 1:
I've been "contracted" to this show since end of April/beginning of May. It is for a book release by a local author. I met this author at a filmmakers meet and greet and he and Jakob hit it off really well. He saw that Jakob is a fight choreographer and told us about this event he was doing in August and wanted some fight stuff from the book incorporated into the event. Jakob agreed and then mentioned that I do custom costumes and the author jumped on the opportunity. We started working on what everything should look like when we met the "director" of the whole thing. I wasn't at the first meeting, but at the second meeting, things started going south. First, this guy decided to take over on almost everything. He said that he already had the costumes and that he was going for more of a dance routine instead of fighting. When Jakob mentioned that the author had requested the fight, the director backed down but still said he was going with the costumes he had. At the 3rd meeting he brought everything that he had--it was a disaster! He wanted to put the "fairies" in some 1920's style clothes and the warriors into these crummy looking pleather pieces. I said that if this is what he wanted to do, I wanted no part of the project. I was not going to have my name associated with this. Well, eventually we came to an agreement and I started working on the costumes.
Fast forward 1 month. They only had 1 rehearsal and very little communication with Jakob and me. Fast forward another month. 1 more rehearsal with very few people there and changes to the costume line-up. I didn't have an issue with it because I still had 1 month to finish the 6 custom costumes I was doing and adjust the others we were getting from the costume house. Then came the big 'blow-up'. For the past 3 weeks we've been trying to get into contact with the director and had no luck. Absolutely nothing. Here I am with costumes that need to be fitted to the people and I have no way of doing that. Monday was the first rehearsal that everyone was supposed to be at--very few people showed up and they weren't able to run everything together. Jakob and his fight partner have been getting together almost every week to run their stuff and when the director decided to put everything together he changed a few things regarding the fight and that completely threw Jakob for a loop. As for me, I couldn't fit everyone with the costumes because not everyone was there and they didn't have the right underclothes for me to fit the costume to. To top it all off, all the work that I have done on the wings for the fairies might go down the drain because the director thinks "they won't work with his vision" and he "doesn't like the craftmanship" on them. I about blew up. Yes, they still need to be adjusted for the dancers, but everyone else who had seen them really liked them and said they were unique. Even the author who was at the rehearsal saw them and loved it. "They have personality" he said and I realized that that was the first time that anyone associated with the show had said anything nice about my costumes (besides Jakob).
To make a long story short (yeah, I know, I know . . . .) I'm still not happy with the way things are going and the event is this Saturday evening. At this point I may not show up. I don't know.
Anyway, I'm off to work on the wings a bit more. I've got to figure out a way to get them more secure than what I have now. Uggg.
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