A Life Morphing

So I haven’t made a post in a while, obviously my plan to make it a once a week occurrence has failed.  Not my slowest couple of weeks.  I kind of complained about the workload in acting essentials when I was in the program…, only giving us a month for text analysis on a script.  Ha, now I wish I h ad half that long.  We are given a script a week before we have to do it…, and sometimes the day that we are supposed to be doing the script.  The difference between then and now, I know what I am doing now, so it doesn’t take me as long as before, but they stretch you to the point that  you don’t think that you can do it, and you get to see what you really can do with such a small amount of time.

3 weeks ago we did a science fiction presentation:

From the left is Miguel (as an illegal alien men in black style, so illegal by being in the states and on the planet), Rachel (as Lt. Ahura from Star Trek), Josh (as Cpt. Kirk from Star Trek), Joleigh, (as Kaylee from Firefly), Jake as a robot/android, Me (as a military man from any science fiction show), and Rema (as an Avatar from, you guessed it Avatar).

We took charge of the science fiction presentation and had a little bit of fun with it, special thanks to my friend Shannon Marie Trigger and Kim Thibodeau for the make-up. It was fun, I did the power point presentation and Miguel did the paper presentation, and we got a 30 out of 30 for the work that we did, this made my week because of how much work we put into it.  The work paid off as it always does.

Then we had our ‘week off’ or our shooting week, where we got to work with the term 2 students in the video production department of the school.  I work with two amazing crews on the jail set and the gypsy set. I did six short films in 4 days of shooting, it was so much fun. PICTURES!!!!

From the Left Miguel, Latiff, and myself

Myself hypnotising Miguel in the scene.  This was a seven minute moving master in which you didn’t see my face for the whole thing until the very end.  This one was called Therapist, and it will be on my YouTube channel sometime in January with a parental advisory on it…, in fact I will have to put an advisory on all the short films I did that week just to be sure.

Some good things came out of that script, I met a few directors that I really want to work with again and they want to work with me again, and some people who do some small budget commercials want me to work with them.

The below picture is Miguel and I on the set of Two Wise Men. This was a fun set to be on, and as you can see we were being wise guys.

We were in a studio that we call the Storyium.  This is a giant building with a bunch of different sets, there is a pirate ship on there, and that was super cool.  This was a cool picture of me being super serious with my script in hand that looked like a bird in the grainy picture, but it was fun.

Also you can see pictures of the gypsy set and crew below:

I also did an on location shoot for the term ones, but I’m not expecting a lot from this one, hopefully they will surprise me, but no promises, it will probably be on my YouTube channel if it turns out well.  But they were fun to work with.

Also I am 1 for 1 in auditions, I am shooting another short film on November 11-14, so that will be fun. It is the final shoot for my director of my Not Him video on my YouTube channel.  I can’t wait to work on that set as well.

Also here are a few pictures of me outside of school hanging out on Granville Street:

I still don’t remember what I was hiding from, but I liked the picture, so there it is. and below is Joleigh, Jess, and I carving pumpkins.

We found a chocolate store, this is to make my aunties jealous.  It was tasty stuff too.

One more thing from school. At VFS Matthew Lillard comes to Vancouver to do a workshop with the alumni, and the students are welcome to join to watch, so I got to see my teachers act and react in the workshop and found out that they still deal with the same problems that I have trouble dealing with. Just a few things that I took out of the workshop are the following:

Matt Lillard said “I’m not better than anybody here, I have just logged more hours”, “I have done 50 movies and I still fell lost” telling us that he is just like us.

He said acting at its core is all about energy and people talking about stuff that matters.

The successes inspire us, but we learn most from the failures. For Adam who says pics or it didn’t happen, I got one…, so suck it. See below:

One thing that is getting around, and I wanted to confirm is that I am dating a girl, Joleigh Quiring. I though it was interesting that, yes I am dating a Quiring, Funny but true.  She is amazing, and we have been dating for two weeks now. I know that there will be 100 questions when people read this. So you heard it from me first.  Don’t say I didn’t do anything for you. Picture below:

it is a black and white picture, but you can handle it I’m sure.

I’m leaving you with one more photo…, I hope you enjoy it

That has been my life over the last three weeks…. Have a great day my fables readers

Been So Long

So I haven’t written to you in oh, so long not for lack of want, but for lack of time. Since I started the one year program, I was wanting to write once a week, but that isn’t going to happen, look at my last post as Exhibit A.  Either way, we have done so much work in the past six weeks and the next 2-3 months is hectic.  We are starting a collaboration with the video production people today.  We were all given parts to play in the scenes that they had written. I received five short films to do today, only 3 of which I have a script for.  So far, and things will probably change, from the looks of things, of the three, I am a prisoner in one (getting beat up really badly), an executioner in one, Happy Death Day (I get to kill a friend of mine named Cyrus), and I am a prisoner in another that I haven’t had time to read yet, I am one of the three wise men in a Christmas story Two Wise Men. Needless to say, My hands are now full, and I get more scripts tomorrow, FUN!!! I’m going to have a fantastic week when we shoot!  I’m not sure yet, but if I have the opportunity to put these videos on my YouTube and I’m proud of how they turn out, then you will get to see them!

I finally have some pictures of my new class mates doing what we do when we’re not in class, being a little weird, but we are in acting school, we are expected to be just a tad weird, if not a lot weird. Below is a picture of Kyle Kol, rolled up in a yoga mat, I hope no teachers see this, not that they would care.

 

In the picture above you will see from the left and then the bottom up, Josh, MJ, Arik, Jo-Leigh, Danika, and Laurence.  Our class is great.  I cannot say that my AC49 class is the best because ACE30 was so good, all I can say is that they are different, very different, but I love both groups.

On Wednesday, we have our Science Fiction Presentation, and I love the things that we are going to be able to do for that, We have a whole power point presentation that we are planning on doing and we have a story to go with our presentation.  This is going to be awesome!  I’m just a little excited about school projects coming up.

I know that I don’t have a lot written, but other then school there isn’t much to write about. So until we meet again my fabled readers, please take care of yourselves.