Day 12 – Time to to Jam (It all together)
Following yesterday’s epic punctuality fail, I was determined to get to the SAFC on time this morning and not miss out on the vocal warm up. I seemed set to acheive my goal until I was rudely interrupted by a series of police cars on Port Road doing some random drug and alcohol tests. Foiled again! I thought, resisting the urge to ask my allocated policeman if his moustache was real or if it was some kind of motorcycle cop fashion statement. “I swear, this wide eyed look of inspiration on my face is not drug induced… come join us for some singing officer!”
I finally arrived during the last repetition of Life on Mars, just in time to move on to the Bach. The basses and tenors were taught the final phrase of the song, and we were ready to combine all of the glorious elements – the only one we weren’t expecting was to try to sing it all in German. I have to say the overall sound was quite impressive, even if the language suddenly turned our chorus of “oooos” into a phlegm-fest. I’m still struggling to read a squiggly “B” as an “s” sound, and with only 3 days to really perfect it we’d better lift our game. Still, with Eddie now returned from the land of the germ infested, we don’t have to reach so far.
The songfest was wrapped up by Peter who assumed Paddy’s position behind the keyboard (but to our disappointment didn’t use the thing), directing the Labsters into pairs for some conversation and story telling. I’m sure many people discovered some interesting new things about others that they didn’t know before.
Stephen’s lecture today (recorded of course!) began with a group activity. The Labsters were to construct the main elements of a horror/slasher film, starting with establishing the characters in the film, the order in which we meet them, and then plot events that lead to the death of most of them. Made me think twice about going to my grandmother’s dilapidated log cabin any time soon…
Each team was then instructed to write up a log line for their project and present it to the group. They were then asked to further abstract the information in those paragraphs and present a simple 3 or so sentence outline of the essence of the project as it were. There has been a lot of creativity distilled in the past 2 weeks, and now it is time to compile all of the information into the necessary documents. Ashlee seems thrilled that she is no longer confined to the art room, and the embargo on her writing has been lifted. The teams then spent the rest of the afternoon fleshing out their story ideas, in preparation for the final presentation to the market representative panel on Tuesday.
There were a lot of locked office doors while the Labsters pondered their latest offering. I’m glad the only major decision for me today was at lunch time, leaving me to decide whether to fondue or “fonDON’T”.
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Bryan explains his feelings on the moment he discovered he was half man-half tiger.
“Give me some characters for this story so we can kill them off in interesting, exciting and generic ways.”
“Sure you can take my photo… Then leave me alone so I can get back to work!” – One wonders what kind of work involves a roll of toilet paper Sarah…
No soup for you! (Because we ate it all… delicious!)
