The Final Fights

Here's a reminder as to your final partners. Don't forget, your Scene Choice Proposals are due Friday the 21st!
 Anthony & Maggie
 Bruce & Eli
 Fred & Tatum
 Gordon & Micayla
 Brittany & Peter
Habel & Sam
Chesney & Mike
Gina & Clara

Sword Fights!

Sword Fights!

I know I know... late but better than never!

Fight Feedback:

Fred and Gordon: I love the initial face slap and the classic Gordon evasion roll!

Clara and Peter: Loved the varying ways of death and how Peter just never dies.

Bruce and Maggie: A little fuzzy on some points which made the illusion kind of hard to read but you managed through and did well!

Sam and Chesney: The Peter Griffith leg grunt thing. That was awesome on Sam's part! Chesney had great vocalization throughout their fight. Great Job!

Eli and Brittany: Loved the diverse stabbages! Great energy and great work!

Mike and Anthony: Nice work! The time was taken and it really showed the skills both of you have acquired. Awesome!

and of course I'm proud of the work Micayla and I did for our fight scene!

WOOOO!

-Gina Bauza

Ye Old Sword Fights

A review of the sword fights performed on Friday


Fred and Gordon: It was a very impressive fight and fun to watch. I love Gordon's signature move the backwards roll whoot! also great way to start a fight with a slap to the face.

Peter and Clara: Yes! a fight to the death! what a fabulous way to end a fight, after being stabbed multiple times, use your last strength to strangle someone. It was a fun fight and i loved the emotion.

Maggie and Bruce: It was nice in the time you had to rehearse it, i could tell you were lost at a couple points buts that's because you had not much time to rehearse, but lovely disarm

   Gina and Mikayla: it was sooooo worth it! to kill for a cinnamon roll! i love how you both just jumped right into the fight. And i love the differences, how Gina was a skilled fighter and Mikayla was the not as skill thief, i looove how the characters really showed.

Sam and Chesney: i love how you could also see the characters shine in this fight as well, it was entertaining to watch and great ending! total peter griffin ending fun fun fun

Anthony and Mike: it was well choreographed and soooo entertaining. a couple parts seemed sketchy, but keep up the great work. 


- Brittany McNellis

ZEE FIGHTS!!!

Alright so were done with our rapier fights. Sad day. But on the plus side everyone put in a some great effort and showed us what they had learned. The fights on a whole were very well done and well practiced, how ever there where a few things that I felt we all could have worked on. The first that id like to mention, was something that I got a note on from Jenn about. The angles were off for quite a few moves all across the board, mainly the unarmed moves or pommel hits. I know that at the end of our scene when we had me getting stabbed multiple times it would have been better for the illusion if I had been stabbed on the side of my body that didnt face the audience, because the way it was it looked clearly fake. On the plus, there was definitely evidence that all the class had grasped all the drills quite well and were even able to start playing with them to make more interesting fights.

Peter Van Atta

found weapons

The trick for throwing a weapon onstage was awesome! I neve thought that would be possible with angles and the like. I guess I shouldn't be surprised about it though. It was also interesting to read about how other found weapons could be treated. An umbrella could have the same sort of routine as a sword, but with more pokey pokey stabby stabby, and perhaps opening it for shock effect.
Personally, after spending time with my nephews, I stared around the room and all I could see to defend myself was toddler toys. Lego's, stuffed animals, some city center plastic car set thing, and wooden train track building sets you would see in the doctors waiting room.  What would I jump up and grab first? How would I defend myself? I thought aopbout how the train set parts could be used to throw for starling! Stuffed animals, since they seem so useless, would be interesting to see used. How could you turn a cute teddy bear into a teddy bear of doooom and destruction? OH! Or a high chair! That would be awesome.

Sword Fights Yay!

Here is a recap of the sword fights we did on Friday!

Fred and Gordon:

I liked the instigation of a duel with a glove slap! I also liked that instead of killing Gordon, you just cut his face to embarrass him. 

Peter and Clara:

The stabbing at the same time was very clever, I loved how neither one of you wanted to give up!

Maggie and Bruce:

A little slow paced, but good for not having much practice time! I liked the stepping on the sword as a disarm method.

Gina and Mikayla:

All of that because of a cinnamon roll....totally not going to steal food from Gina! Nice kill shot at the end.

Sam and Chesney:

I loved the knee cut at the end...so funny! Nice pacing of the fight!

Eli and Brittany:

Good fight pace! The corps a corps was really effective!

Anthony and Mike:

I still would have liked to have seen levitation from Mike, next time! Overall, good fight, and nice communication when you forgot choreography, safety is most important!

Overall, everyone did a great job! Woohoo! 

Chapter 8 & New Found Weapons!

Hi all-

Chapter 8 brought to mind important safety factors. What really caught my eye was the firearm effects since squibs just always seemed like a scary thing as well as shooting blanks. (RIP Brandon Lee) Now, on to the more positive attributes I have learned is:

1. Making an "Office Space" fight scene sounds awesome with the random use of office supplies. (Found weapons all around!)

2. The only acceptable way of a sword to "fly through the air" by way of tossing the hilt to your opponent and in keeping the horizontal space.

3. Pyrotechnics from those that are not experienced in that field is super lame! I was on a Broadway style show where they tried to integrate this big blast from the edge of the stage and I remember vividly how our older audience members would jump and not appear happy about it...

 As for new found weapons I think it would be fun to use as a weapon...

1. Umbrella
2. Stiletto Shoe
3. Hanger
4. Those pointy metal things used in the office to stab pieces of paper on it.

Oh and a Katana sounds fun but I know that wouldn't be something randomly found on the ground.

Cheers!

-Gina Bauza

Cups

After reading the chapter all I could think was Jackie Chan... But over all I found it informative and the various "weapons" one can find and use. I found throwing weapons interesting, having actually won some stuff with my ax, knife, and other throwing projectiles skills I can see that it is pretty accurate in how its done. I also found the gun section a useful section and am surprised at what one must do to even use fake ones on a stage. I personally would use glass mug/cup as a pound weapon. Because it would be sorta like brass knuckles and would possible brake making it into a sharp jagged knuckle weapon.

He uses leaders... Nuff said...

Other Weapons

The chapter on found and miscellaneous weapons was very interesting. It went over everything from staplers to fire arms. Like Tatum said the section on throwing tricks was the most interesting to me and I really want to see it demonstrated. I think that would be a cool one to incorporate into a fight seeing as one can dramatically pull a knife out of their gut and keep fighting. (Spoiler Alert, this is going to be in my next fight.) Additionally the chapter outlined the ways to keep oneself safe when fighting with different sized weapons, and some good strategy to imply in said situations. I thought it was very helpful that the chapter laid out all the necessary precautions that must be taken legally in order to have even a fake gun on stage. Now that I know, I think if I am choosing a play to produce I may steer clear of one that involves fire arms. Also she mentioned that a play where someone gets lit on fire might be one to skip because of the danger and complexity of such stunts. Basically it was good reading and I learned a thing or two.

Peter Van Atta

Found Weapons

It was fun to read about the found weapons in this book, and very interesting to learn different techniques of how to use them onstage. I especially liked reading about throwing weapons. I never would have thought there would be any sort of trick for throwing a weapon, but there is! How cool....

I personally would like to use playing cards as a found weapon. If thrown hard enough, they hurt so bad! I discovered this one summer when I was supposed to be playing poker with friends, but we ended up just throwing cards instead. These weren't normal sized cards either! They we're giant playing cards so they hurt even worse.

Anyways I would like to think that this is how cool I am when I throw cards, but actually it never works out that way because they always float gracefully to the ground D:

I'm not actually as cool as Twisted Fate from lol.

I hope I have enlightened you today!

Tatum R.

Fight Club Clip!!! Freddy VS Jason!

I am choosing the fight scene between Freddy VS Jason


Actors: 
 Robert Englund- Freddy Kruger
Ken Krozonger- Jason Voorhees

stunt double: Doug Chapman was Robert Englund's (freddy)
Glenn Ennis was Ken Krizinger (Jason)


Scenario- Jason kept killing to many people so Freddy decided to do away with him, but he was pulled out of the dream world by Lori a teenager on Jason's side. And Freddy is now in the real world and he must battle Jason to the death in order to kill everyone on elm street himself.

Style: Its sword mixed with razor blade claws along with hand to hand combat and martial arts.

Genre: comedic, very very expressionistic, and some swash buckling

It is comedic because two old fashion killers who can not die are battle to the death, not to mention they are complete opposites Jason is silent and large will Freddy is sarcastic and tiny. Its Expressionistic because it is un-realistic, there is no fatigue, and if any body else got stabbed a million times they would be dead unlike these two killers who would not die. And its a bit swashbuckling due to the fact of the whole back and forth nature of the fight.

Objective: both Freddy and Jason want to kill each other so that they can continue killing other people. Freddy wants to kill the children of Elm street and get his power back while Jason most likely just wants to go back to sleep. They both want to be kings of killing and must fight for the throne to kill.

Tactics: Jason is very straight forward, he likes to swing his machete around till he hits something, he is very slow, but makes up for it in strength by throwing Freddy around. He does not need brains when he has brawn. On the other side Freddy is small, he is quick and moves around fast using his quick reflexes and razor blades to slice Jason up at first, he then uses his brain and realizes its not doing much so he switches to a heavy attack by shooting oxygen tanks at Jason and stabbing him with metal pipes to keep him still while he beats him up. They then both get flung to a dock slash each other up and end they both die.....kind of

Obstacles: They are both immortal so fighting is not going to do them much good since they both cant die. Lori the teenage girl is an obstacle for Freddy sense she sides with Jason ( even though he killed All her friends) and keeps helping to try and kill Freddy.

Why did i choose this fight?
I love Freddy VS Jason it is one of my favorite movies, who doesn't love two legendary monsters battling each other. Also its in the spirit of Halloween.

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-Brittany McNellis