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On Friday, March 31, students will stay after school following the school performance at 2:50. Cindy Elston and Kaci Price will take pictures for UIL per the request for the State program. Following that, we will load the trailer, double check costumes, and leave by 5PM. Our rehearsal in Seminole is at 7:05 and we have to be there 30 minutes early. Fuddruckers’ is providing boxed hamburger lunches.
On Saturday, April 1, we are the second play. The directors’
meeting is at 12:30. The first play begins at 1:30 and the plays run back to
back. This contest will be run tighter
than bi-district’s. We have to be in Seminole by 10 AM. I need students in my room by 8AM. We will
have breakfast, lunch from Subway, and dinner from Pizza Hut. I have made
arrangements for gluten free meals for those who need them on Friday and two
meals (breakfast and lunch) on Saturday.
The Pizza Hut does not offer gluten free pizza, so I can make
sandwiches. If you have a better idea, please call me.
The awards ceremony will follow the plays after the judges
deliberate. I think we will be out of
Seminole around 10. All students must
attend the awards ceremony per UIL rules.
Nicole Talley is going to get snacks and water for this
weekend. Should we advance to Regionals,
we will probably need another $5.00 donation per child for snacks during that
contest.
Thank you again for your support. I am excited about the last
legs of our journey.
Cindy
806-470-9940
Everyone has been doing a fantastic job and I am proud to be apart of One Act this year. Throughout the play, keep in mind to show emotion on your face, especially those in the background, and enunciate every consonant woth emphasis. Also, don't speak too fast so everyone is easier to understand with the accents. Overall everyone is doing a superb job with this play, just make sure you stay in character but also have fun and enjoy every moment.
ReplyDeleteSo i have been looking at that paper Mrs.Couch gave us with the info from each judge on it and i think we need to look back at it because it's so important. They all said to watch tempo which i know we have struggled with. i think if we slow down in the first scene and kadyn slows down as well the tempo will be better!! One judge also talked about anger. remember that you do not have to tell to show you're angry. sometimes it's more powerful not to. we have to be extra loud at seminole and we don't need to add to it by yelling over someone. PROJECTION!!! i'm so worried we will sound like we're yelling... let's make sure we don't do that
ReplyDeleteI think all of y'all are doing great but we don't need to hit a plateau. We need to keep improving as much as possible. Try something new at every practice and if it works keep it. Watch your tempo in the first scene. Y'all gut girls set the pace for the entire play and if people cant understand you in the first scene, they probably won't understand the rest of the play very much. And don't yell! Just project your voice to the audience.
ReplyDeletey'all, i just talked to my sister and she said she could understand us at tulia perfectly! brooke, she said she thought you did a great job! i think tulia was a good challenge because of how much reverb was in that auditorium so at seminole keep those consinents and just just push the sound further back into the auditorium!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so proud of us!!! We're going to regionals!!!! And I think, in order to get to STATE, the biggest thing we need to work on is diction. We've got to help the judges understand the first 1/4 of the play.
ReplyDeleteGreat job everyone!! Everyone one needs to be way louder at the very beginning. Pronunciate your words and louder with the CONSONANTS! But keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteEveryone should try to do something to catch someone by surprise. Some reactions are looking rehearsed!!
ReplyDeleteEveryone is doing such a good job but what's really killing us is making sure that everyone can understand what y'all are saying but still having that accent. Also make sure y'all are having reactions that you think YOUR character would have. I also think that if we had people do something a little different each time, it would keep the show fresh and keep everyone on their toes to truly react to it. Everyone is doing such an amazing job!
ReplyDeleteGood job to everyone today!! Everyone did great!
ReplyDeleteEveryone did great so e infant to work on and I'll get my cues down and it will work out great keep up the good work !
ReplyDeleteok i'm not sure who all will even see this comment, but i think is very important that we go back and look at accents again. we started at thick accents and are leaning for "understandable ones" however we are falling somewhere in the middle. i know cockney is harder than proper, and i know the gg's are trying to enunciate but at some points they sound completely american. that can't happen. my mom points it out to me every time and that's a tiny thing that we CANT mess up.
ReplyDeleteSo so so so proud of all of us for achieving all that we have. But I agree with Ashlyyn's comment, and I know that we are all going to work as hard as we can do make sure that we are in a cockney and that we are understandable. I think that we need to work on our accents on our own time as well, just so that we are sure that improve after each competition. I know that we are all really nervous, but we need to be confident in our show and everything that we are capable of.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of work that needs to be done but some of it has to be outside of school. We have to focus on accents and make them the best we can! I know I'm nervous because I don't know how the judges or the other plays are going to be but we can't control that part. We have to focus on ourselves and know that we have to go out there and do everything we can to make it to state!! We got this!
ReplyDeleteI am so excited for regionals!! Diction is for sure my obstacle going into this competition, but I have been working on it at home and in my car :) I'm glad we had a diction judge critique us at area because now we know what the next judge expects. If she could not understand 1/4 of our play that definitely an issue, but better that it was considering she does teach diction. When we start the play, i think we don't necessarily need to go slower but maybe make our actions slower to not distract whatsoever so the judges can focus on the person speaking and understand what they are saying. The attack scene needs to be spot on because we are going to go up against another show that also has a rape scene. I just don't want to be compared in a negative way to the other show. The girls have to go into this being so strong knowing that we are not the only female led play anymore. We are going to be confident but not cocky to make it to state!! I don't want Gut Girls to be over with yet. #gutgirlforlife
ReplyDeleteThis be Eli-Make sure to keep the accents strong throughout the play and we should be good.
ReplyDeleteon the way to regionals let's be in our accents and take this super seriously because we are so close, closer than i think actually realize. we've just got to keep pushing to get to state
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