Recently I had someone tell me that I "wasn't worth [my] salt" as a costume designer. And that a costume designer isn't needed on most film shoots. Yeah, that went over well.
Let me tell you why a costume designer/wardrobe personnel are some of the people you ALWAYS want on your film shoot: We help YOU create YOUR vision on screen. Actors would be nothing without the costumes that they wear. I have been on film shoots before that when Actors finally put on their costumes, you see them change right in front of you. They finally have a purpose or some idea of how their character is going to move and act.
arg. . . . . . . .angry. Not going to type anything else before I say something I shouldn't.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The day after the show
Jakob show is finally done (yay!) and it wasn't as bad as anticipated. I don't have any video or pictures to show for it but it was fun. Jakob really creeped out a few people with his Gollum but made them laugh at the same time. I was able to see it twice: once with Jakob's sister and his niece and the other time with Court and my family. The day that I saw it with my sister-in-law, the audience had a few more young women in it and they were completely enthralled with the story. They jumped when Gollum and the spider came out; and were pretty vocal about it too. The goblins were hilarious!
The one thing I didn't like too much was that not all the puppeteers got into their roles. The girl playing Bilbo really got into the fact that it wasn't her acting, it was the Bilbo Puppet and with everything that was said, the puppet acted like it was the one that said it. Same thing with Jakob and the few puppets he did. But put that in contrast with the other puppeteers, it still seemed that those people didn't get into their roles. It didn't seem like the Thoran puppet especially was there. Most of the time his head was just hanging low and his hands didn't move with the speech. Sad really. Took away from the magic. I now understand where that review was coming from (check out my last Hobbit post if you don't know what I'm talking about). Jakob really made the characters come to life. Yeah, the writing wasn't all that great, but it was still fun and since it is aimed at kids (mostly) I can understand that.
But now that is over with. All the costume pieces are back. And Jakob is on to his next show: The Taming of the Shrew. This one isn't as close as the last one (Hobbit was in town, Taming is in Draper) and the rehearsals are a bit wonky (who starts rehearsal at 3pm on Saturday!) but at least he's working.
The one thing I didn't like too much was that not all the puppeteers got into their roles. The girl playing Bilbo really got into the fact that it wasn't her acting, it was the Bilbo Puppet and with everything that was said, the puppet acted like it was the one that said it. Same thing with Jakob and the few puppets he did. But put that in contrast with the other puppeteers, it still seemed that those people didn't get into their roles. It didn't seem like the Thoran puppet especially was there. Most of the time his head was just hanging low and his hands didn't move with the speech. Sad really. Took away from the magic. I now understand where that review was coming from (check out my last Hobbit post if you don't know what I'm talking about). Jakob really made the characters come to life. Yeah, the writing wasn't all that great, but it was still fun and since it is aimed at kids (mostly) I can understand that.
But now that is over with. All the costume pieces are back. And Jakob is on to his next show: The Taming of the Shrew. This one isn't as close as the last one (Hobbit was in town, Taming is in Draper) and the rehearsals are a bit wonky (who starts rehearsal at 3pm on Saturday!) but at least he's working.
Monday, March 19, 2012
"Hobbit" review
No, not the movie. Not yet anyway. =)
But this is the show that Jakob is in at the moment . . . and he got a mention in the review that Utah Theatre Bloggers did. Yay! Take a look at the review here.
But this is the show that Jakob is in at the moment . . . and he got a mention in the review that Utah Theatre Bloggers did. Yay! Take a look at the review here.
Friday, March 09, 2012
Pissing People off
Apparently I've been very good lately at pissing people off with the truth at the "wrong time". I think that (at times) people really need to know the truth and how others see situations or things that are going on around them. Yes, the truth hurts, but you need to hear it.
Take for example:
I was asked to work on a project with some people that I consider friends. They approached me a week ago about a video project they wanted my help with. I initially said yes because all they wanted was casting from me and that is easy enough. Things started snowballing. First, the dates weren't set in stone, neither were the locations. Then people started getting "bothered" by the fact that I was pushing for answers and they weren't giving me any. So I started getting frustrated and I took it out of Jakob. That is when I realized that this wasn't the right thing for me to be doing. If I am going to get all stressed and bothered by something that I have no control over, then I need to back away. I had done what I had been asked to do and had received very little response or firm answers. Last night Jakob and I had a long discussion and turns out he felt along the same lines. So we came up with the only solution that would save my mental state: back away. Jakob wrote a lengthy email covering all our topics and concerns to our friend. We told the truth. We were afraid that this person was being taken advantage of by the person who contacted them in the first pace and in turn was inadvertently taking advantage of those working on the project. Apparently this was the wrong thing to do. I don't know how they took it, but I have a feeling it wasn't good. The responses weren't positive by any means.
So was it wrong for me to say what I was thinking (in a positive and diplomatic way I believe). I may have just made an "enemy" out of someone who I considered my friend, so now I'm a bit worried about what is going to happen. I mean it is out of my hands now and on their plate. Perhaps they feel that I left them "hanging" or "out to dry" or any more of those cliche remarks. Perhaps in their eyes I did, but in mine, I didn't. I should have spoke up that first meeting, but things were being thrown left and right. I had an interesting feeling after that first meeting and that feeling never went away after all that.
Another instance was when I was in the faculty room the other day. There are some large teachers here that are constantly complaining about their weight or their diet or that they can't do all the stuff their students want them to or they can't teach standing all day, they've got to sit down. And I noticed that the majority of these teachers drink 1 litre of diet soda a day. I never see them without it. So I decided to do something about it. I printed off an article about the effects of diet soda on the human body and placed it in their boxes. Most of them commented the next day that the article made them think a little. But one of the teachers went completely rampant. They started saying that who ever put that article in their box didn't have the right to and that it wasn't any of their business that they drink diet soda.
Yeah, perhaps I should just keep my mouth shut more.
Take for example:
I was asked to work on a project with some people that I consider friends. They approached me a week ago about a video project they wanted my help with. I initially said yes because all they wanted was casting from me and that is easy enough. Things started snowballing. First, the dates weren't set in stone, neither were the locations. Then people started getting "bothered" by the fact that I was pushing for answers and they weren't giving me any. So I started getting frustrated and I took it out of Jakob. That is when I realized that this wasn't the right thing for me to be doing. If I am going to get all stressed and bothered by something that I have no control over, then I need to back away. I had done what I had been asked to do and had received very little response or firm answers. Last night Jakob and I had a long discussion and turns out he felt along the same lines. So we came up with the only solution that would save my mental state: back away. Jakob wrote a lengthy email covering all our topics and concerns to our friend. We told the truth. We were afraid that this person was being taken advantage of by the person who contacted them in the first pace and in turn was inadvertently taking advantage of those working on the project. Apparently this was the wrong thing to do. I don't know how they took it, but I have a feeling it wasn't good. The responses weren't positive by any means.
So was it wrong for me to say what I was thinking (in a positive and diplomatic way I believe). I may have just made an "enemy" out of someone who I considered my friend, so now I'm a bit worried about what is going to happen. I mean it is out of my hands now and on their plate. Perhaps they feel that I left them "hanging" or "out to dry" or any more of those cliche remarks. Perhaps in their eyes I did, but in mine, I didn't. I should have spoke up that first meeting, but things were being thrown left and right. I had an interesting feeling after that first meeting and that feeling never went away after all that.
Another instance was when I was in the faculty room the other day. There are some large teachers here that are constantly complaining about their weight or their diet or that they can't do all the stuff their students want them to or they can't teach standing all day, they've got to sit down. And I noticed that the majority of these teachers drink 1 litre of diet soda a day. I never see them without it. So I decided to do something about it. I printed off an article about the effects of diet soda on the human body and placed it in their boxes. Most of them commented the next day that the article made them think a little. But one of the teachers went completely rampant. They started saying that who ever put that article in their box didn't have the right to and that it wasn't any of their business that they drink diet soda.
Yeah, perhaps I should just keep my mouth shut more.
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