12/01/09

This Tuesday we started putting our myth projects together. I really like the myth we picked and I think it's going to make a good performance. My group wants to add some percussion. I think it's an interesting idea, I'm worried that keeping the rhythm is going to distract us and detract from the movement. I'm a big fan of doing things the simplest way possible. I think some intricacy can be intriguing but if it's so piled on it's not adding to the performance and it's only taking away from it. I think it's just best to just tell the story clearly. Not that it has to be all indicative gestures or anything, but there should be a clear arc and anything that doesn't enforce that is an unnecessary frill. So, I'm also having a little trouble finding a character for my movie monologue. I think I'm gonna go with Rowan Atkinson's character from "The Thin Blue Line." I picked him because my monologue is very eloquent and has a lot of old language and it comes from a really repressed time period and his movements are very unsure and quick and noodly (possessing qualities similar to those of a noodle). He almost never stops moving and almost all of his gestures are awkward or cartoonish. I think it would be a really interesting contrast. Plus he's the first person I thought of when I was trying to think of someone in a fil or a show that I like to watch, and since I became a black adder fan at the age of fourteen his mannerisms that come through a lot of his characters have influenced a lot of my comedic characters and some of my own patterns.