Hands up now hands down

Movement: 30 minutes (Wii Fit!)
Voice: 20 minutes
Reading: Midsummer 20 minutes
Grade: 100

I swear, I'm gonna know this play like the back of my hand. I'm being so meticulous with the reading this time around. To think this play seemed so difficult when I first read it.

Our discussion today about theatre's relevance and everything made me sad... But I'm hopeful that I can do my tiniest bit to help change the state of things. As microscopic as my role will be, I'll contribute.

Wii Fit tells me that my balance has gotten better since yesterday... That's good. I think it's mainly just because the game actually made me aware of my balance.

I deserve a 100 today because I think my monologue is improving gradually. I think I understand grounding things a lot better, with the concept of changing what you ground with when it's no longer effective. I dunno. It's so interesting... The whole concept of acting. Yeah. Okay.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Circle of chains

Movement: 30 minutes
Voice: 15 minutes
Reading: Midsummer 10 minutes
Grade: 100

Today was a pretty interesting day. I deserve a 100 because I think I've finally gotten the hang of IPA. All my stuff for my monologue is done and now all I need to do is continue working it. I hope I do well. I think too much... Bahbahbah. Whatever. I'll do my best.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Beauty

Movement - 25 minutes
Voice - 10 minutes
Reading - A Midsummer Night's Dream - 20 minutes
Grade - 100

Figured I should brush up some more on Midsummer. Today I did my movement by doing yoga on Wii Fit and yes, it DOES count. I also ran a quarter mile in it. It's a pretty nifty little game. It's a great way to target multiple audiences.

"Hey, Tony, wanna get some exercise?"
"Nah, man, I'm too busy playing video games."
"But with Wii Fit, we can do both!"
"Alright!"

I deserve a 100 today because I was one of the Meisner veterans and I showed the youngin's th ropes with Katelin, Javi and Hope. Lots of fun. I really enjoy Meisner. I really enjoy acting. I'm glad I decided to train as an actor this year.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Let's just rest our eyes for a few minutes...

Movement - 15 minutes
Voice - 20 minutes
Reading Out Loud - Three Sisters 10 minutes
Grade - 100

I found Three Sisters online here. Figured it'd be worth another read, see if I catch anything I missed the first time I read it.

We worked on our monologues today after declaring a temporary state of tech abstinence. Worked on denotative analysis and objective stuff... Interesting. I want to see if I can strip away my mannerism for Lysander.

I think I wrote a concise denotative analysis and I worked quickly. Thus, a 100 is in order.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

It's just one of those days

Movement - 20 minutes
Voice - 25 minutes
Reading Out Loud - Taming of the Shrew - 20 minutes
Grade: 100

Almost done with Taming of the Shrew. I like Midsummer better.

I deserve a 100 today because the filming was the only reason I showed up to school. I did not feel good, but I put forth my best performance anyway. It was also cold. But it's okay. Once I was under the lights, I got warm. :D

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

On the banana boat

Movement: 10 minutes
Voice: 20 minutes
Reading Out Loud: Taming of the Shrew - 10 minutes
Grade: 100

We worked on monologue stuff today... Woohoo? I have my audition pretty much memorized. Now I just need to print it out and finish the mount. Yay, poetry.

I helped out the youngin's with scansion and got my audition completely memorized, so I think that's 100-worthy work. I also think that I put a lot of energy into the widget today. I started it two times because nobody else would... Whatever. It was a really interesting way to convey rhythm and out-of-head-ness.... Yeah. That's a word.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Break stuff

Movement: 10 minutes
Voice: 15 minutes
Reading: Taming of the Shrew - 15 minutes
Grade: 100

And now I return to doing normal journal entries. What a day today was. A run and a performance of Teen Safety and then a 2 1/2 hour PSAT. I was on fire today. It's gonna feel weird returning to the life of a (semi) normal high school student tomorrow.

I started reading Taming of the Shrew over from the beginning because I couldn't even remember where I left off, having not read it since before Sandman. I do enjoy this play though.

Teen safety was today... Finally. Apparently, I did great. I'm glad. I say apparently not because I'm an attention whore or I'm fishing for compliments by saying "I SUCK", but because I honestly didn't know whether I did good or bad. I do know that I wish Monica had hit me when she wanted to. But whatever, it's fine. I enjoyed it. It was fun. Thank god it's over. That is why I deserve a 100.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Ow

Grade: 100

I'm so tired. I deserve a 100 because I worked my keister off all day... It was weird not being a tech person majigger... Tired...

Oh! The dialogue snippet I came up with...

Playwright: Without the playwright, the director has nothing to direct!
Director: Oh? Then what's a playwright without a director?
Playwright: A novelist.

Badumtish.

I'm sleepy.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

I hate people

Grade: 100

I'm sitting in the library doing my journal because I finished my work in ten minutes and all the annoying freshmen kids are asking me how I was able to answer twenty questions in ten minutes. Wooooow.

Anyway, today I deserve a 100 because I gave everybody some pretty good notes for their scenes in Stick River. I felt like a lil director boy. Yes, lil director boy. I also think that I did a pretty good job of putting together my costume and whatnot... Overall, I think I was pretty productive today.

Love Always,

Daniel Baker

What's in your head?

Grade: 100

I think I'm having some moments where I'm out of my head. I hope I didn't scare Scarlett into thinking I'm a rapist. Etc. etc. I kinda like acting. I don't know. I don't think I have enough passion for it though. But I enjoy it and I think it'll benefit my writing in the long run.

Today I deserve a 100 because I'm pushing myself a lot harder with this teen safety thing than I was expecting to. I dunno. I was expecting it to be easy, I guess. It is not. Whatever. I can't really think of any other reason other than the fact that I'm determined to do this character well. Can't wait for mainstage... Ha.

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Man up, Travis...

Grade: 100

I'm rewriting Travis Tribbins into the format for this competition and I'm making some changes... I'm into it... I wonder what the final product will be like.

I deserve a 100 today because I did some pretty drastic improvements on my part for the teen safety thing. I think there was a huge difference between my morning performance and my afternoon performance. And I'm pretty happy about that. I'm also quite excited about wearing a guinea tee.

Now back to Travis. Almost done converting...

Love Always,
Daniel Baker

Granola

Grade: 100

Why do I deserve a 100 today?


That's why I deserve a 100 for today. What a beautiful photo.

Also, I DID HAVE MY LINES MEMORIZED IN THE MORNING... I started messing them up in the afternoon. :(

Love Always,
Daniel Baker