Oh, digital world….how complicated and helpful you can be sometimes. And we gradually become more and more dependent on it. My iPhone, which I had for 5 years now, has been working perfectly throughout all these years. However, it has a 16GB memory space and that is why I have to keep all of my photos on iCould. And it is a huge disadvantage sometimes! I always have to have internet connection in order to view images and videos from previous years or sometimes even weeks. When my internet is week or the traffic ends closer to the end of the month, there is absolutely no way any of these files can load. If I can’t access such simple things without thinking “will it load this time?”, how can I rely on my organs or limbs that someday may be connected to the same iCloud? Of course, there is a long way to this matter. It won’t happen in a day or, probably, not even in 50 years. However, as the world progresses, there ...
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New topic of discussion made me think about several things. First of all, how I never considered any role to be gender neutral. Second of all, how I always thought of interesting male roles that I would have loved to take over but couldn’t due to being a female. Growing up, I always took on male parts when I played with my sister, classmates or just in my imagination. For some reason, I always found male characters more appealing, challenging, risky and rich in the features of a character. It was compelling to my personality. Now that I think about this, was it because no strong female characters were present while I was growing up? They seemed either princesses, who need to be saved or feminine delicate creatures, whom I definitely wasn’t. My father introduced me to such films as Agent 007 (James Bond) and Indiana Jones. And, of course, I dreamed of becoming that badass adventurer. These are a few of examp...
What an interesting topic of conversation Kaitlin touched this week. Although I am lacking experience of living in this country and working for any type of theatres, I will try to wrestle this topic with the most respect and at my best. First of all, I am going to talk about circumstances where open conversations and options can be available. I am not taking into account a theatre or a company that have their crew and must distribute roles only among them. Let’s see if a theatre can hire absolutely anyone, who is willing to contribute their time, enthusiasm and effort. From my point of view, it is very important to create authentic look and feel of the play. If a role is meant for an African-American, Asian, Caucasian, other type of race person then we should be in search for the ones who fit the best. But there definitely are boundaries that hold us behind. To my mind comes three main reasons that prevent hiring “the right one”: budget, demographic state of the city and talent/expe...
An interesting time that we live in right now. We are the generation that will tell our kids that the world was dying and on their question “what did you do to save it?” we will probably have only one response “stayed at home.” To some extend it will be hilarious in the future, but at the meantime we can only guess how far quarantine will go. The venues are closing, concerts and shows are being cancelled, there is no space to create, you might say. Or is there? The whole world is on PAUSE right now. We are all united with the same exact issue, the population of the Earth is in the same circumstances. So, what do we do? I say, create! Imagine! Unite! I saw a meme the other day, it said something like “those who considered musicians, actors, writers not important enough, try to cope this quarantine in silence – without music, films and TV series”. How true is that? How valuable our field is especially in this tough time?! Celebrities are going even further, they are showi...
This week we had to share a story or our experience when someone speaking, gesturing, or practicing something that they meant to be a hidden transcript, but ended up delivering it as a public transcript. I went back and tried to see if anything comes up from my own experience, but couldn’t think of anything. However, what came across my mind are lots of hilarious situations that we view during live news on TV channels. These weathercasters or news reporters who are put in circumstances of live streaming are obligated to deliver information no matter what. So many stories when someone gets into the frame with them and starts dragging all of the attention, when words are pronounced incorrectly, unexpected loss of objects in the frame or replaced by something not relevant, dropping of the camera, weather conditions that make it difficult to deliver the news, digital errors, and much more. Here is a video of Best TV News Bl...
Coming from a 2nd world country, I have not seen many Avant-garde performances. However, I recently viewed a play at the Louisiana State University, which was a part of their experimental Lab show series. 4.48 Psychosis is a play by British playwright Sarah Kane, directed by Angelle Mishon and starred such actors as Gabby Broussard, Elizabeth Harding, Kiana Naquin and Jaunee Young. This particular play is a very complicated piece in many aspects: there is no specific setting where the event takes place, it can be staged with one person or with two-three more, the conversation turns from a monologue into a dialogue, confessions become at some point poetic version of schizophrenia. The first time when I heard of this play was during one of the classes of Script Analysis, where we were discussing another play by Sarah Kane, Cleansed . The discussion, as the play itself, was in regard of...
We live in a century of social media and internet. Here, VR (virtual reality) AI (artificial intelligence), fake personalities are almost as common as real people. But how do identify who we are communicating with? What are the habits, patterns, performative elements that we can establish in order to proof that a person on another side of the computer is actually a person? Working in digital agency, while developing web sites, we often implemented messengers, which are a source of communication between the client and the company. Usually, messengers are set with basic questions or are coded in a way that helps them find words that they are familiar with and propose a reply that fits customer’s question. If messenger’s bot came across a question that he was unfamiliar with, he would propose to call a hot line and clarify inquiry with a live assistant. Messengers created by our agency were usually named after someo...