So I dragged my ass over to Liveshocks at Alex’s place ‘cause I’d submitted a script this time around. YEAY FOR FIRST TIMERS!
I was soooo worried about what people would think about my script and all, because I don’t really write much? As in plays and scripts and all that. I’ve written ONE ten minute piece for Sweatshop earlier and that’s about it. My previous work for high school plays don’t count because… well, they’re in bloody high school play format.
Anyway, so I was freaking out at first but then I was like, “Hmmm, it’s not all bad because it’s just the five of us this time”. 15 minutes into the session, BOOM; Banun, Jit and their friend Ika waltz in. I was happy to see them, ‘cause it felt like quite a bit since we hung out, but then I freaked out again about my script actually being read D:
My script was suppose to round up the night, but because Jit and ze gang needed to leave early, Alex decided to push my script one slot forward. By that point, I was already contemplating strangling myself with my shawl or something.
Alex and Banun played the two characters in my script. It got some laughs here and there, and all the while I was gritting my teeth ‘cause I really was so super nervous. It turned out in the end that the table enjoyed it and it wasn’t a complete phailure. I felt so good after getting the thing done and over with and I’m thinking maybe I’ll take their advice and expand on it a bit more. SO WHEEEEEE, IT WAS A GOOOOD NIGHT :)
And that was Sunday. And that is not the reason I am so exhausted right now.
Earlier today, at like friggin’ 8am, I got myself to college for this Rough Cuts workshop by Primeworks. To be honest, I didn’t exactly know what was in store and what the workshop would be all about. The actual thing only got started at around 9.45am. Turns out, it was this idea generation guide and it also aimed to teach us a bit about preparing media content and pitching and all that jazz.
It was a lot of brainstorming and discussing and plotting and it actually was a lot of fun. The thing is, they kept chucking sweets at us to keep us awake, but all the Mentos and Cola sweets gave me this really bad buzz! I had such a bad sugar rush; I could my energy just flying about everywhere! It kinda helped with the brainstorming bit because my brain just kept expelling words anywhere possible. But later, when it got down to producing slides and sorting out presentation, my rush kinda died off and I was left with this zombie-like feeling. Everything just crashed and I think I got a litttttle pissy irritable.
So then we hastily put together our Power Point presentation and decided that we’d go up first this time to pitch. We were having some problems hooking up the laptop to the projector and all. And while all that was going on, my lecturers just started popping up in the audience. Miss Jo was there, Michael Choong, Su. I was like, GREAT. OMG THANK YOU, REALLY. AS IF I NEEDED ANYMORE PRESSURE.
After we got our Power Point to actually work, we began our pitch. I did most of the talking, ‘cause I didn’t really help much with the slides seeing as I am that noobular. But I have to say that the team did a great job managing the whole thing. All I did was verbalise their work and it paid off, ‘cause in the end we were nominated as the group with the best presentation pitch. It was really great, ‘cause we managed to at least make our mark somewhere :) I feel like a champion, even though it’s a very small win. If you want to call it a win at all, that is.
So yeah, that’s basically the highlights of the past two days. I’m really dead tired right now and my brain just refuses to do anymore work for today. I guess it’s been very well. And this week is set to be better, hopefully. Major lepak session on Thursday and hopefully Saturday as well. Plus, our photoshoot is on Friday is gonna be AMAZING.
And I finally feel like I’ve got a grip on things.
This feels awesome.
Goodnight.
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