Some memories never truly fade..

"Girl On Top", Casted.

A quicky comedic short about a quicky, Haha. Spiro wanted to sneak this in before the spring flicks deadline. So we shoot.. tomorrow? It's just a small 2-3 minute film, so we'll probably only need a few hours to finish it all. And I can work it around the "Closure" rehearsals since it's just me and another actress.

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"Closure", Day 3

This role is getting hard for me, or is it easy? The first two days I didn't add enough intensity to Ethan - it didn't feel real, as I had never had someone I cared about THAT MUCH die before. During the read through it was like everyone was staring at me and shaking their heads. The director wasn't pleased with the choices that I made and told me to work on it some more. I hated that, I couldn't accept that. So I spent the last 24 hours digging deep into Ethan's objectives, finding substitutions for the other characters, and crossing them with emotions via Chubbuck's method. And after all that, I found what I needed through songs. Now.. it's a beast. I'm in his shoes. I feel his struggle. And doing my mini-rehearsal today left people jaw dropped. That felt good. I felt so good about that.

However, calling on these images and feelings inside me is taxing. I didn't intend to do things this way, however I think it's probably best in order to bring out the raw emotion of the character. I just don't know how many times I can do it - both as me handling it, and as it appearing real. At some point this raw feeling may dry up, so I don't want to call on it too much during rehearsal. I also have been having those dreams again (like Ethan, Ha), and it's making my mornings a mess. I guess I should be happy about that, as this could be my best role yet. I just hate missing my past when there's so much happening in the present.

I don't know if we'll be able to record this in time, or if it's going to feel too rushed. The full rehearsals begin tomorrow and will happen everyday until Sunday. However, the hard copy of the final product needs to be turned in within the next two weeks. I'd love to have this thing go to Spring Flicks, as it then opens the film up to some of the other film festivals, which means more IMDB credit - Yay! It also means exposure at UNLV, so I may pick up a few projects in the fall from some of the new directors seeing me. Although even if I don't meet some new friends, I still have the sitcom to film in the fall as well as Spiro's feature length film. That thing is going to be a monster to work on. The longest film I've done so far was 17 pages. Spiro's? 109.

Time to walk and get some sun. I'm a pale mofo right now. Can't be albino for this film.

"Closure", Day 2

I'm debating on how to play certain sections of this script. It's hard to figure out the intensity without having the other actors present to know how they intend to play their roles. I think I may tone it down a bit at first and try that, and if it doesn't fly I can easily crank the nob higher. I also have no idea who the girlfriend is played by. The only people I saw at the audition near my scheduled time was Megan (who already told me she wasn't casted), and this kung fu girl (who Brandon said got one of the other roles - and is also scary.) I'm a wee bit nervous.. I haven't done a romantic'ish role since Party of Doom (and that didn't really count XD.) And I haven't done a train wreck role since David (which I was only decent at.) Playing both in the same film? This'll be some pretty work. Ah well, time to pee into the wind.

"Closure", Day 1

Just got the script and it looks like a pretty piece of fun. It's a bit more artsy than it was described to me, however I think I'll have a lot of fun working on this one. Our first read through is tomorrow already, and we have Aubrey's Birthday party tonight, so I don't have much time to work on it. However the director has set aside a whole week to rehearse and tweak the script, so I should have enough time to play through this by the time we begin filming. I'm curious how he's going to do some of the special effects in this. For now, I need to make a trip to the store to buy a little fluff juice.

Bwahaha.

"Mensia", Audition.

Well, that was crazy. I decided not to do a monologue for this one so that I could get more experience with cold reading. I figure.. might as well iron it out as much as I can while doing student films. However, they forgot the sides. They sent someone to go get them from their home, but unfortunately I didn't have much time available to wait around :(. So I pretty much improv'ed something, then left. Perhaps I should keep a monologue on the back burner just in case.. This is probably for the best anyway, as I don't know what kind of shooting schedule there is for "Closure", and I imagine these guys are trying to get into Spring Flicks as well. Time be short for that.

"Closure", Casted.

Wooo! I got the role of Ethan! They loved a lot of the things I did during the audition. I also learned that Troy is going to be played by Spencer. Gold. I can't wait to work with him :D. I never get to in Jest because we play similar roles in the comedy show. This'll be fun. Now to dig into the script and dissect the shit out of it. Bam.

"Closure", Audition.

Wow that was fricken rough. I tried to memorize a monologue for this thing, but with Marshall and Adriel being loud as fuck, there was no way to get one down in time. So I had to go in their blindly and just read from the sides. This was my first cold read, ever, period. I always thought that you showed up a half hour to an hour early, they give you the sides, and then you have some time to work on them a bit before you go into the audition. However, I showed up an hour early and was told that the sides were given to me as I enter the room. I started to freak out a little bit.. no monologue, no time to work the sides. Luckily Megan was there to calm my brain a bit with conversation, and gave me some tips on how to handle the audition given the circumstances.

So I go in there, and they wanted me to read for Troy (comedic relief, Seth Rogan'ish type character), and Ethan (lead, fo srs, lovey scene and depressed scene.) I did Troy first, and ended up botching the lines pretty badly. Then I did Ethan, which turned out a lot better, although I recall doing a few nervous habits while I was reading. So.. I really have no idea how this will turn out. It was nice doing an audition again though, especially after 3 years of.. not. And this definitely taught me that I need to do more cold reading and perfect the art.