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Chichester, England
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2003-08-04
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Ex-OtakuBoards Team Miyazaki Leader, Actor, Writer, Director, Stage Combatant...
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Becoming a Moderator on OtakuBoards, starting up my own production company with my best friend Dan.
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I liked the Mysterious Cities of Gold before I did Pokemon, but Pokemon was the first Japanese Anime I really liked.
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Digimon, Wolf's Rain, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Outlaw Star, RahXephon, Zoids, Princess Mononoke, Trigun, Howl's Moving Castle, Bleach, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Fruits Basket
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To write my series of stories, and to act in cool stuff.
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Monday, September 8, 2003
Intensive College
[Note: Lookjing back at the state of that last post, I am mortified at its incoherence and tendency to miss out words, so I'm being very careful that nothing gets , and also that things can sense as possible make much as.]
So, here comes college, then. Or, here debuts college. I've never ever done any acting classes save for GCSE Drama (which at my all-boys school was noticed about as much as baby shrunken midget gnats), so the processes were rather alien to me, much less the college itself.
When I arrived I had a horrible sinking feeling that I wasn't going to fit in- everyone there seemed to know someone else (and were smoking >_<), so I stood relatively away from them until we were taken inside.
We started off in the Riverside Theatre part of the Acting Block, where the staff introduced each other and basically gave us a very brief overview of their roles. The entire hall-full of people was then led up to a Studio where we sat in a big circle of chairs and listened to John Dryden (great person) tell us about every aspect of the college rules, regulations, internal details etc.
I think we went for a coffee break then (most things told to me have gone straight over my head, heh), whereupon I met up with Ami ^_^ She seemed happy, but relatively lost as she didn't know anyone.
Back to the studio, then. We were handed out a wodge of stuff about our course, and it looks fairly easy stuff when you get to the bare bones of it. The thing is, this is advanced bare bones stuff, so it has to be of a very high quality. John must think there's potential in me to succeed to that level, so I should be able to. And looking at it, there isn't anything that really frightens me (although it probably will when I get down to it).
We filled in a few forms and that was more or less it for technicalities.
Thesbians!
Our class is really quite diverse- lots of people from Denmark and Holland, and one blind girl who seems to do very well for herself, heh. Most of us are aged from 17 to 20, but there's a 'Mature Student' there who's taking part. She said we could call her 'mum' if we wanted, but I feel odd doing that.
Dan was right, too- there are lots of nice people on the course. I wouldn't have believed him this morning, looking at them all being loud and smoking, but once I'd sat down next to some of them at lunch, they were far more amiable than I'd first reckoned. Which is a great relief ^_^
I even found another anime fan, which makes building bridges even easier. He has the entire Evangelion collection, plus movies. Sneaky borrowing rights, perhaps?
Par for the Course
We'll be putting on load of productions this year too, the first of which is Alice in Wonderland. Aparrently it's a big cast, so hopefully I won't be stuck in a role such as The Queen or Alice o_O;
Alongside that, there's Oh! What A Lovely War!, a massive production which will mark the college's 40th Anniversary. And on top of that in the summer term, some of us will be touring Holland to do ABBA songs (amongst other things, heh).
So it all seems very exciting. The main thing that will need accustomising to is the new timetable- I only go in on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, which leaves me four days a week off, time to earn money, practice acting skills/lines or just play around. Although I'm guessing that will be taken up with rehearsals once we start producting plays.
The canteen is possibly the most confusing food court-type structure I've ever seen, too. There's a fair variety of food available, but there's no one long queue. There are about seven mini-queues, and not much space. I spent the first five minutes wondering where on earth I was supposed to start, before realising I cuold cut in wherever I wanted to.
One gripe- their hot chocolate is crap. It smells nice, but once you drink it it's more like brown hot water with brown sand-esque lumps at the bottom.
Well, quite a day. I'm looking forward to going through the course, but I've realised now I've not any ideas for certain what I'd like to do after the course is complete. So hopefully I'll be able to sort that out within a few days. But for now- relaxing.
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