Choreography day

Today was a little trying. Dave talked for a few hours about working with the camera, and it was boring because I've heard it all a million times before. After that, we split up to rehearse the fight we learned yesterday a few more times before filming it, and Stephen and I used my camera to figure things out before getting in front of the big one.

I wanted to go as close to first as possible, but we ended up going somewhere around fifteenth or sixteenth, as there were 35 or so groups. When I went up, we hadn't practiced in so long that I just froze. The choreography looked awkward and stiff and I barely put any energy into it, and when we did a film review in front of everyone, Dave asked if I had ever acted before in my life. It was really, really embarassing, and after a few minutes of despair, I grabbed Stephen and said, "Dammit, we're going to do this right." We went over to the area we had practiced and filmed another go, and you can view that at the bottom of the entry. Dave said he'd give it a glance tomorrow so we could get more accurate feedback.

I felt like the verbal beating Dave had given me would make the other students think less of me, but when I told Merlin (yeah, that's his name) that he had done well in his video, he told me that he had seen me perform better and knew the video wasn't indicative of my skill. I felt a lot better after that.

On the chicken-breast-reduction-front, we had teriyaki tonight, which worked pretty well in spite of not having a wok. I'm pretty happy with the way the food situation is working out, though we're already almost out of beer. Since we have so many limes left over, I'm thinking I'll grab a bottle of gin and and some tonic, since those will last a lot longer.