{"id":1141,"date":"2007-01-05T14:07:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T20:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/acting-lessons-observe-others\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T20:07:35","slug":"acting-lessons-observe-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/acting-lessons-observe-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting Lessons &#8211; Observe Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Scott McDade gives the first instructions to our cast of High School Musical. &#8220;Observe others and what they do, and be CONSCIOUS of that fact.&#8221; That is the artists special blessing and curse. To watch others not just as in a passing Parisian cafe, but to dissect what they do and embody elements of those actions into your own expression.<\/p>\n<p>High School Musical takes place at a current-day high school. Actions need to be natural as if really at school, not as if on a stage. The facade of the juvenile nature of the show is betrayed in the challenge to preserve it&#8217;s simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>First assignment of cast members:<\/p>\n<p>1) Observe ten things people do while walking down the hall at school. Be prepared to demonstrate, or act, those ten things with realism.<\/p>\n<p>2) Observe ten things people do while sitting in class. Be prepared to demonstrate, or act those ten things with realism.<\/p>\n<p>3) Observe ten things people do while talking to each othe rat school. Be prepared to act and demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p>Cast will not be allowed to explain what they are doing or to make noise. They just have to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Scott McDade gives the first instructions to our cast of High School Musical. &#8220;Observe others and what they do, and be CONSCIOUS of that fact.&#8221; That is the artists special blessing and curse. To watch others not just as in a passing Parisian cafe, but to dissect what they do and embody elements of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-ip","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}