New term New teacher and having a blast
Ok so after 5 weeks of holidays, I finally went back to my acting lessons. It was really strange cause i hadn't been in so long and the place was pretty deserted when i got there so i thought i had gone back on the wrong week, but then I saw one of the boys from my group and we sat and did the usual how was your vacation of i did this that sounds like fun and so on.
Then he asked me if i'd received the script they had emailed us? I was like no when did they email it? he said Friday and i was like great NIDA only have my work email and i had been bed ridden with severe Tonsillitis since Friday I hadn't made it to work.
Then he told me that the instructions were to learn the script before the first lesson. So i went into panic mode i was like give me your script I'll try and learn it now, so he did. Then more people from our group started turning up and it became clear very quickly that even though most of them had received the email they had all failed to learn it, so that made me feel better since i had an excuse and they didn't. So we were called over to the studio where they hold our lessons sometimes, and there in the studio was our new teacher Paul Barry The guy who auditioned us, me Hugh Jackman David Wenham love child.
So me and my friend from first term Sarah were a little apprehensive about getting a new teacher cause our last one had liked us so much and a new one might not. But he was great he sat us down he played a gam so that he could try and remember our names he asked us to say our names and then say one thing he would never have guessed about us, I was first so i sat there for a second and then said hi i'm Jess and i can play about 6 different instruments. He looked at me and went six that's insane and then i laughed and said well you would never have guessed that and smirked at him he laughed and moved on to the next person.
We spent most of the lessontaking notes It was really informative he has some really great tricks for making every performance different he said all this stuff is just basic stuff you can do that doesn't require you to tap into any emotions this is just really basic stuff that you can do every time you do a piece that will help you fake it even if you aren't feeling it. He said people that they say are naturally talented at acting do this stuff with out realising it but they still do this he goes even some one like Judy Dench or Glen Close or Robert Di Niro they all do this stuff they're just at a point where they do this stuff without needing to sit down and go OK now i'm going to look at my breathing, they just automatically do it.
So in terms of practical stuff we only did two exercises one was a line learning exercise which required you and your partner to stare at each other and you would hold the page the wrong way until it was your line and then you would get your line then flip the page over say it and then wait for the other person. It was strange but the point was that your lines aren't that important actors have a habit of beating themselves up or each other up when they mess up there lines the truth is it's more important that you feel safe then that you remember your lines cause if you don't feel safe you will focus on your lines and not the performance. Jared and Jensen in their bloopers don't really mock each other when they mess up their lines and you'll notice their aren't a lot of bloopers where that happens. The other exercise was to do with your eyes which is something i tried to work really hard on last term which is to make sure my eyes have a focus or a point to there movement if i'm not looking at the other person what am i looking at and why?? so that was the end of our firstlesson, we have to learn our scripts for next week and we will get to shoot them.
So that's it for first lesson back. My lessons conflict with Supernatural so I'm back to taping and watching them later which sucks but will have to do cause i refuse to give up either 
Plus this way i can get my Boyfriend to watch Supernatural as well. I loved the first Episode and can't wait for the second hurry up and be Monday again already.
