I haven't completely dived into the props stuff yet, but the dances are all done for The 3 Musketeers. Granted I think like a dancer and they aren't exactly time period correct, but I like them and it seems like the cast likes them too, so they are staying.
I started looking around for all the prop stuff and I'm seeing a few things that'll work, but on Saturday I'll be able to take a deeper look into things because the cast is heading to one of the local high schools to look at the costumes and I'll be able to look at the props she has and see what I can borrow for the show. Things are coming together.
However, I'm not looking forward to August 18th. I'm required to be back at the school that day, but I'm not paid for it. Yep, the joys of being staff instead of faculty. We're still required to be there but don't get paid for it. They also want me there in the evening for "Meet Your Teachers" night but I can use the excuse of rehearsal to get me out of it. What I'm hoping for is another job will come up before then and I can start recouping the summer costs of not having a job. But that is another post in itself.
But I'm spending most of my days sending job applications, playing with beads for necklaces/earrings, and fabrics flowers and accessories and looking around my fabric bins for other stuff.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
The Three Musketeers
So Jakob auditioned for The Three Musketeers that was going to go up this fall at the Covey Center for the Arts and received the part of Rochefort, one of the villains. He is also the Fight Choreographer for the show. Lets just say he's having fun.
They ended up going with another costume designer (unfortunately I didn't get a chance to show them what I can do. They had already made up their minds and the director couldn't talk them out of it. So I was asked if I wanted to be a dresser for the show considering there are a few quick changes and I know what I'm doing.
Then they realized that they needed some dance choreography for the ballroom scene and I was asked to do choreography for that. I'm kind of stuck with some of the time period stuff considering there isn't too much out there on the actual dance steps, so I'm making up my own stuff. If anyone who is a dance historian goes to the show they'll definitely know that the dances aren't exactly history correct, but I did my best. Plus, I like how some of the dances are turning out.
And the new thing in all this happened this past week. Apparently their props person dropped the project and they needed someone to replace that person. And since I've been at rehearsals a lot for Jakob (he wanted some pictures/video of him teaching choreography), they presented the opportunity to me to become the Props Master for the show. I accepted, 1) because I need the money, 2)I'll already be at the show every night as a dresser, 3)they need someone who is "invested" in the show and they believe that I am the person for the job. Now, I've done some prop work for other small things, but I've never done something like this before. I don't know if I've bit off more than I can chew, but I guess they liked the fact that I have some contacts that could help out with this. We'll see how things progress.
Meanwhile, Jakob and Adam were asked this past weekend to show up at a local festival to help promote the show for this fall. They did a short fight demo. Jakob and I discussed making him a new costume to go with his "persona" so in a few days I completed his costume. I'm happy with it. Silvery shirt, black/red tunic, black/red dueling cloak. He already had the black boots, black pants, and the hat with the black and silver feathers and trim (reasoning behind the costume colors).
Here's the video that I took of them fighting. Sorry about the quality. I took it on my point and shoot and apparently it's a bit more movement than I thought. You can watch the video in HD by changing the settings after the video starts.
They ended up going with another costume designer (unfortunately I didn't get a chance to show them what I can do. They had already made up their minds and the director couldn't talk them out of it. So I was asked if I wanted to be a dresser for the show considering there are a few quick changes and I know what I'm doing.
Then they realized that they needed some dance choreography for the ballroom scene and I was asked to do choreography for that. I'm kind of stuck with some of the time period stuff considering there isn't too much out there on the actual dance steps, so I'm making up my own stuff. If anyone who is a dance historian goes to the show they'll definitely know that the dances aren't exactly history correct, but I did my best. Plus, I like how some of the dances are turning out.
And the new thing in all this happened this past week. Apparently their props person dropped the project and they needed someone to replace that person. And since I've been at rehearsals a lot for Jakob (he wanted some pictures/video of him teaching choreography), they presented the opportunity to me to become the Props Master for the show. I accepted, 1) because I need the money, 2)I'll already be at the show every night as a dresser, 3)they need someone who is "invested" in the show and they believe that I am the person for the job. Now, I've done some prop work for other small things, but I've never done something like this before. I don't know if I've bit off more than I can chew, but I guess they liked the fact that I have some contacts that could help out with this. We'll see how things progress.
Meanwhile, Jakob and Adam were asked this past weekend to show up at a local festival to help promote the show for this fall. They did a short fight demo. Jakob and I discussed making him a new costume to go with his "persona" so in a few days I completed his costume. I'm happy with it. Silvery shirt, black/red tunic, black/red dueling cloak. He already had the black boots, black pants, and the hat with the black and silver feathers and trim (reasoning behind the costume colors).
Here's the video that I took of them fighting. Sorry about the quality. I took it on my point and shoot and apparently it's a bit more movement than I thought. You can watch the video in HD by changing the settings after the video starts.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Weekend from Hades
We really haven't had too much going on this past month and I haven't had too much motivation to actually write something either. But this weekend is something to chat about.
First off, Friday morning started the Balloon Festival. I have loved hot air balloons since I was little. Some of my favorite pictures are with my dad when I was younger at the festival. It has been one of the things that my dad and I share. The cool thing about this year's festival was the Darth Vader balloon from Belgium. This balloon was huge and so cool. Michael and I ended up going all three days. But once again, I didn't get any pictures of me with the balloons, but a lot of pictures of the balloons itself. Stink!
Okay, last year Jakob and I were the ones who were the organizers of the fundraiser booth and things went really smooth because of all the planning. This year the booth was kind of taken away from us and the rules changed. It had nothing to do with the festival, it had more to do with the group wanting to change what we had done for the past 2 years. And there was very little organization done this year so Jakob and I decided that we weren't going to do anything with it and enjoy ourselves with the festival and our weekend. Well, that plan didn't work out too well. We arrived the first day at the festival just to walk around and see what was there and we saw that the booth was in shambles. Jakob and I just looked at each other, sighed, and jumped in to rearrange and set straight the booth. We ended up staying there the rest of the evening. We didn't get to see the festival that day at all. (And what stinks is that Jakob and I had planned a date that night since it'll be the last date we have until his show is finished in October.)
Saturday had the balloon festival in the morning and this time Jakob came with us. He loved the balloon and we got to chat with the pilots and see the interior of the balloon. Pretty cool. My mom came this morning as well, and once again, no pictures of me. I really need to start handing over my camera more.
Since I'd gotten about 3 hours of sleep the night before, Jakob and I decided to go home and sleep; which we did but received a phone call that the booth needed help so we went down once again and helped. And once again, we didn't get to see any of the festival. And with all the traffic happening, we didn't get home until midnight.
Sunday was a bit smoother in the start. Since the garrison was going to be marching in the parade the next morning they decided to have a marching practice in the morning before it got too hot, so Jakob went to that and I went along to get some footage. We went home and I crashed yet again. About 3pm we went to my parents and had an indoor BBQ and chilled with my brother for a while playing games and just enjoying being in air conditioning.
After that, Jakob asked if we could stop by the float and see if they needed any help or if they were ready to move the float down to the starting lot. But when we got there about 8pm, there was still a lot that needed to be done so we jumped in and starting working on stuff. We moved the float down to the start at about 10pm (which was a nightmare when we arrived at University Ave where people were camping out for the parade). Jakob and I got home yet again after midnight.
Monday morning started yet again with the balloon festival . . . or what was supposed to be the balloon festival. The weather wasn't cooperating and they weren't going to inflate. The crowd started getting really pushy with the event organizers that they were there to see the vader balloon and they wanted to see it and with all that pushing, they pushed the balloon crew to at least inflate it. Things went wrong from there. After they inflated it, the wind starting picking up and picked up the basket. We had to jump on the basket and started holding it down as the balloon toppled over . . . and snagged on a truck from another balloonist who wouldn't move the truck. The wind continued to pull the balloon and the basket, so many of us let go and let the basket drag sideways as we ran over to untangle the balloon from the truck so it wouldn't rip. They won't know if it ripped until they get to Montana for their next flight. I felt so bad for the balloonists and the crew.
After the balloon fiasco we headed over to the parade. The clouds were still overhead, so it made for a nice start to the parade. The float and the marching troopers won an award from the parade. The "Independence Award for the Most Impressive Entry by a Non-Profit Group". I was surprised. The parade went pretty well. I'm still sore from all the walking/running that I did. I had my camera and I was taking photos and videos, so a lot of movement.
Jakob and I went to my parents to get a quick bite to eat before heading back to the booth because once again they needed help. Yeah, not exactly the weekend I wanted but at least we got through it. After that day I had over 16,000 steps and a little over 7 miles walked. Yes, I'm still sore since I didn't stretch before hand.
Now Jakob has rehearsals every day until the opening of his show (which I'll chat about a little later) so I'm back to trying to find another job for the rest of the summer plus a job for the fall that pays better than what I had this year.
First off, Friday morning started the Balloon Festival. I have loved hot air balloons since I was little. Some of my favorite pictures are with my dad when I was younger at the festival. It has been one of the things that my dad and I share. The cool thing about this year's festival was the Darth Vader balloon from Belgium. This balloon was huge and so cool. Michael and I ended up going all three days. But once again, I didn't get any pictures of me with the balloons, but a lot of pictures of the balloons itself. Stink!
Okay, last year Jakob and I were the ones who were the organizers of the fundraiser booth and things went really smooth because of all the planning. This year the booth was kind of taken away from us and the rules changed. It had nothing to do with the festival, it had more to do with the group wanting to change what we had done for the past 2 years. And there was very little organization done this year so Jakob and I decided that we weren't going to do anything with it and enjoy ourselves with the festival and our weekend. Well, that plan didn't work out too well. We arrived the first day at the festival just to walk around and see what was there and we saw that the booth was in shambles. Jakob and I just looked at each other, sighed, and jumped in to rearrange and set straight the booth. We ended up staying there the rest of the evening. We didn't get to see the festival that day at all. (And what stinks is that Jakob and I had planned a date that night since it'll be the last date we have until his show is finished in October.)
Saturday had the balloon festival in the morning and this time Jakob came with us. He loved the balloon and we got to chat with the pilots and see the interior of the balloon. Pretty cool. My mom came this morning as well, and once again, no pictures of me. I really need to start handing over my camera more.
Since I'd gotten about 3 hours of sleep the night before, Jakob and I decided to go home and sleep; which we did but received a phone call that the booth needed help so we went down once again and helped. And once again, we didn't get to see any of the festival. And with all the traffic happening, we didn't get home until midnight.
Sunday was a bit smoother in the start. Since the garrison was going to be marching in the parade the next morning they decided to have a marching practice in the morning before it got too hot, so Jakob went to that and I went along to get some footage. We went home and I crashed yet again. About 3pm we went to my parents and had an indoor BBQ and chilled with my brother for a while playing games and just enjoying being in air conditioning.
After that, Jakob asked if we could stop by the float and see if they needed any help or if they were ready to move the float down to the starting lot. But when we got there about 8pm, there was still a lot that needed to be done so we jumped in and starting working on stuff. We moved the float down to the start at about 10pm (which was a nightmare when we arrived at University Ave where people were camping out for the parade). Jakob and I got home yet again after midnight.
Monday morning started yet again with the balloon festival . . . or what was supposed to be the balloon festival. The weather wasn't cooperating and they weren't going to inflate. The crowd started getting really pushy with the event organizers that they were there to see the vader balloon and they wanted to see it and with all that pushing, they pushed the balloon crew to at least inflate it. Things went wrong from there. After they inflated it, the wind starting picking up and picked up the basket. We had to jump on the basket and started holding it down as the balloon toppled over . . . and snagged on a truck from another balloonist who wouldn't move the truck. The wind continued to pull the balloon and the basket, so many of us let go and let the basket drag sideways as we ran over to untangle the balloon from the truck so it wouldn't rip. They won't know if it ripped until they get to Montana for their next flight. I felt so bad for the balloonists and the crew.
After the balloon fiasco we headed over to the parade. The clouds were still overhead, so it made for a nice start to the parade. The float and the marching troopers won an award from the parade. The "Independence Award for the Most Impressive Entry by a Non-Profit Group". I was surprised. The parade went pretty well. I'm still sore from all the walking/running that I did. I had my camera and I was taking photos and videos, so a lot of movement.
Jakob and I went to my parents to get a quick bite to eat before heading back to the booth because once again they needed help. Yeah, not exactly the weekend I wanted but at least we got through it. After that day I had over 16,000 steps and a little over 7 miles walked. Yes, I'm still sore since I didn't stretch before hand.
Now Jakob has rehearsals every day until the opening of his show (which I'll chat about a little later) so I'm back to trying to find another job for the rest of the summer plus a job for the fall that pays better than what I had this year.
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