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The idea for the beginning of the Oscars was really funny..."dreaming" about being in all of the other movies that were nominated.

I hope I can stay up to watch a lot of them!
-I was surprised to see Shaun Tan. I'm a fan of his work...and I didn't know he did an animated short. (I'm also happy he won!)
-I like the design of the stage...how it changes.
-Neat how during the screen play awards it showed parts of the screenplay in work (from writing to typed)
-Reminded of La Cage when the male host came out in drag c:
-Fantasia (on the screen part of it?) and Starwars/Famous films tribute oh yeah
- Nice how they did live music along with the film clip
-Interesting how they showed the steps in making the special effects while the film clip was playing
-The hologram of the old Oscar host is really cool


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In other news, I just got home from filming the english project. Every time something is filmed, there's challenges. This time, it was getting everyone together at once.
Two people in my group were in France (on the French trip), so we only had today to film the parts with everyone in it. We managed to finish it, and I hope we don't need to re-film anything.

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Ah! It was the last day of workshop! It sort-of felt like the last day of school...You think you're ready for it, but it goes by too fast, and the in end you're rushing to do something, or it doesn't feel like you're saying good bye. I enjoyed this workshop and I'm curious about the ones to come. (Now the challenge is to put to together the documenting video. My group tried to take a lot of pictures, and we did a short interview on the last day...I hope we have enough to work with since we can't really re-shoot anything now that it's over!)

---Some things that I wanted to talk about since the past two (or three?) weeks-
- The empty space is seems easier (and more interesting) to discuss than read
- I wasn't really sure how to start the mythic play assignment. I kept on creating stories, but they had an ending...maybe my brain jumps too fast (I mention this in the play, haha). But I finally started to write...the day before the due date. I'm not sure if it was because I was tired, but it starts sort-of random (but not as random as Sarah's I believe XD)
- The whole mythic thing with the "Call to Adventure" reminds me of this website TV tropes: link
(Giving a title to the certain...would they be called cliches? that happen in the story)
-Matrix was pretty cool. Like I said in the discussion, I saw a lot of Inception in there.

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Workshop day 3 was pretty calm also. Almost everyone is finished with paper mache-ing! I finished my piece (which surprised me a little since it's big) and hopefully we can all finish painting on the last day. Doing this workshop is a really good experiece since I get to work with a medium that I haven't worked with before, so it changes things a little. I also think I've grown closer to the people in the "Coofebs clan" and I look forward to more positive experiences such as these. (geeze, the stuff I'm writing shouldnreally be for the last blog for this wotkshop, but I've been feeling this eay the whole time we've been doing this.

In other news...I am writing this just after seeing Wicked. I loved the show, but isn't it a big fanfiction of the original story? (I checked the authors). But it was an interesting viewpoint, and it changed what I thought of the original book/movie. How the villian, the witch of the west, isn't all she seemes to be. The musical gives her a motive for her actions. I liked the costume and set designs, and the majority of the music (I admit, some tunes are more memorable than others). I thought it was kinda weird that it jumped right into the plot (but looking back, I understand that it soed into the musical since there was a lot of flashback to tell.) I also liked that they incorporated all of the character's backstories (like the tin man, cowardly lion and scarecrow).
This was the first time seeing the musical so I wasn't sure what to expect. I'm glad I went to see it though.

I took a few notes/comments during the musical, but I can't see them in the dark (I'm writing on my iPod). But if I wrote anything else, I'll put them in at a later journal. For now, good night.

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I was going to write about some things that happened last week (like the book), but I don't have that much time, so I'll just write about today's workshop.

Today's workshop was pretty calming one also. I got all of my sculpture paper-mache'd (except for a small spot on the bottom). I guess I should start to think about what colors I should use. The swords and weapons are going to be obviously grey/metal colored, but maybe I'll paint the glass shards different colors (or maybe, is there a way to make it transparent...?)
The ball. I'm still thinking about what it represents/how to color it (the color depends on what it represents, so the two almost go hand-in-hand). I'm thinking maybe I should go with the world idea, but I also have an idea of the ball representing the wrath pent up inside you, and the weapons/sharp things sticking into/out of it are experiences that "break open" the ball releasing your wrath onto whatever comes your way....
About the documentary....the clan sort-of forgot about it. I'll have to remind myself to bring a picture-taking device to the next workshop, and we all need to talk about how we're going to document this.
That's all for now.

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Ack! I almost forgot to post today!

Well today, the third workshop day, we finally got around to using paper mache! I only got around to it during the last 20 minutes, since I had to finish/improve on newspaper-ing my pieces of my sculpture. The paper mache felt really neat, and I hope that I'll be able to finish in time, so I can start (and finish) painting the "ball of wrath".
I'm still not sure what the ball represents. Today some of the people around me suggested that it represent the world, but I'm still thinking about it.
In the workshop, it was very casual and we got to put on music to listen to. I feel that I'm getting even more friendly with the people in "the clan" and opening up more...

-May edit more tomorrow, but I'm getting kicked off for the night-

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Workshop Day 2!

All of us (except Caitlin at the beginning) were familiar with Margaret DeLilo by now. We jumped right into what we were doing after Margaret showed us how to shape newspaper into shapes so they are ready for paper mache-ing.
I had some designs in mind, although I wasn't sure how they would work out with paper mache, but I came up with a new idea just as Margaret was finishing her explanation. I went with that idea: a ball with weapons and such sticking out of it representing the Deadly Sin of Wrath.

After talking to Margaret, I realized I didn't really have an exact meaning to my piece. I'm toying around with what I want it to specifically symbolize....maybe a stress ball and the weapons represent how the person (or people) take out their anger by violence...? I'll think more about it later.

I created the ball during the workshop today, but I still need to cover the cardboard I cut out (for the weapons) with newspaper. I'm looking forward to next workshop...finally we start to paper mache!

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Today was the first workshop with Margaret DeLima. She's a really nice person. She was very friendly and wanted to get to know us, and what we usually work on. (She also really liked the fact that we were all keeping blogs.)

I don't think I'd ever guess that we'd be working on the 7 Deadly Sins. Today we brainstormed on what how we were going to represent them (or one of them). I came up with a few ideas, like using hands or eyes, or some sort of parody on how today's society does the opposite of the Sins, but ends up being hurt (like instead of gluttony, people aren't eating at all). I look forward to the next session, and when we get to start working with paper mache! I haven't worked with it since the fifth grade, and I remember that it was fun to work with, but a challenge to get your finished product to be smooth so it could be painted on...

I may upload some scans of the ideas, but later.