2013 Finals Highlight Reel

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.