Musician, Photographer, Model, Writer, Artist, Actress, Aspiring Music Therapist
I received a reply email from Liz Winfield today, she gave permission for me to post what she said about my poetry, which you can read over at my writing blog, by clicking here!
Sorry about the short update, but I must get back to work… filling out scholarship applications, working on my folio for The Tempest, working out my program for my music exam… plus critiques… my goodness I have so much to do!
Bec
They are endless! I have found that this work blog is increasingly useful. Already I have referred three different people to this site and I feel it is a really good thing to have all my endeavours recorded here on the one site – hopefully the way I have set it out makes it simple and easy for my prospective employers to find what they are looking for.
I am currently writing my resume so that I can apply for that Santa photos job. Resumes are a painful thing to create. So many things I want to say that I find it difficult to say in a professional-sounding way. And the marks I receive from school are in an incredibly impractical format for putting onto a resume. So I suppose I must just get more jobs so that I have enough work experience to put on there that I don’t need the school results anymore! My “previous employment” section looks quite bare. The problem is, I have not often had time for a job, because I spend all my spare time chasing my singing, acting, writing, modelling, and photography endeavours! I hope I can easily show that I may not have had much actual employment experience, but have had a lot of other experience. Also I am a very fast and eager learner (if I may blow my own horn) so I doubt it would be difficult for me to quickly pick up jobs in retail, office, or other such things.
On the writing front, I have recently submitted some work to a poetry book to possibly be published, and also have been told some of my poems will be published in a local bi-monthly poetry broadsheet… read more over at my writing blog!
Moving on, tomorrow is the last day in this week of rehearsals for our production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. I know all my lines now, which is encouraging, and there has been plenty of great character development going on, not only with my own character but everyone else’s as well. We have a great cast – I must especially mention the amazing Ellen Watts as the spirit Ariel. Not only is she incredibly beautiful, not only is she talented – she sings, dances, acts, and probably does other things I’m not aware of – but she is such a clever, kind and friendly person to be around. I must also mention that she choreographed pretty much the entirety of Rosny College’s highly successful musical production this year, Chicago. The show was very professional (so say many mouths, not just my own). Plus she taught us all how to dance. She really is an amazing girl, and so busy – I thought I did a lot of things until I caught a glimpse of her planner. It’s ridiculous! I don’t know how she does it. But I digress. She plays a wonderful Ariel, very beautiful and creepy and cunning all at once, making wonderful shapes within her “bag”. What am I talking about? You’ll have to come see the show to find out!
Now it is quite late and I must finish my resume and send it off, Saturday is the last day for applications, plus my eyes are getting sore and I’m getting a headache… (I’ll be getting my new reading glasses next week, hooray!) I would’ve liked to have it in much earlier, but rehearsals and lack of internet have made that difficult.
Oh, and I got a nice little plug on the Inspirit blog today… www.megalithproject.blogspot.com Not a very flattering photo, but hey, a plug is a plug!
I have rehearsal at 10 tomorrow (well, technically today…) so I’d best be off.
Bec
Well, I’m currently at school rehearsing for The Tempest. What we’ve done so far has felt very productive and effective… and I pretty much know all my lines. I’m actually really enjoying it. I come here every morning feeling tired and awful, but by the end of the rehearsal I am feeling much more relaxed. It’s a great group of people working together, my drama class. Anyway, I’d better get back to it now.
I have done some photography recently too, and am applying for a basic photography job. Details can be found over at my photography blog!
Bec
I have had a long night editing this page… mainly setting up the Modelling Examples page. I have now finished editing that particular page for now, having uploaded all the photos I wanted, and figured out how to make them display as I want them to. It is time for bed now, but first a quick summary of the past few days.
This past Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I have spent acting in the short film “Inspirit”.
We have filmed on location at Rosny Farm, Droughty Point and Kangaroo Bluff. It has been both stressful and enjoyable. This is the first short film I have been a part of, and acting on film is a new experience for me. I am a little concerned that I may have allowed bad weather, tiredness and bad tempers to affect me, and that my acting has been perhaps a little less focused than I would like it to be, however, we shall see. It has been a learning experience.
Brad McGinniss, the writer, director, producer and creator of the whole project, has not done a great deal of directing before and so it has been a learning experience for him too. I have enjoyed working with experienced actors John Andrews and Stephen Ashton, both of whom are not only talented but clever and fun to be around. Mick Lowenstein was also great to work with as he was stoic and uncomplaining through even the most stressful parts of filming. I spent some time talking with our continuity & production stills photographer Alan Jennison, who was also great fun to work with, and I was often interested in what he was doing in relation to my own pursuits in photography. I also enjoyed posing for some more artistic shots now and then, and hopefully I will soon have a few to upload here for all to see. And of course my good friend Justin Smith of InneBate AV was cinematographer and cameraman. He suffered from bad health during shooting but as always was hardworking and fun to work with.
We have one more scene to shoot, coincidentally my favourite scene, however the tavern where we were going to film was not available for some time, so it is unsure when we will be shooting it. This was quite relieving for me as now I have tomorrow and the weekend to learn my lines for The Tempest. I need to have them memorised by Monday, when we start our main rehearsals, which will go all through next week.
Please take a look at the websites of the people involved in this project:
The Inspirit homepage
Stephen Ashton – Actor, singer and much more, in the Blues Brothers Revival band
Justin Smith, video/audio technician
Alan Jennison, photographer and tour guide
Well, it’s time for me to head off to sleep now. I will probably update again sometime next week, during rehearsals.
Signing off at 4:14am
Bec
We start filming for Inspirit this Tuesday. www.awesomehobartfilm.com
Next week I will be rehearsing for The Tempest, which is part of my Drama Performance class at Rosny College. I have the role of Queen Alonsa (most male roles in the show having been changed to female roles for our production.)
No holidays for a performing artist! But hey, I love it.
I also recently performed at the Queen’s Head and got 2nd place in a fundraising music competition at Elizabeth College. You can find the details over at my music blog!
Bec
