I'm no walking canvas

Carolw Waller is one of my tutors and uni and recently she held an exhibition and fashion show of her painted clothes along with the work of Shirin Guild. For this show and exhibition she called on students to help out. I've never really been a fashion person, there's a huge difference between costume and fashion which most people don't see. However this was an oppotunity to help out with something different. I looked at it as a different type of show, since it wasn't a catwalk fashion show, more of a performance art piece.

The models had different characters they had to portray they were either dreamers of people on the red carpets so there was a great difference of look between them. Since I was a dresser helping with the quick changes I never actually got to see the show, however there were many photos being taken and video being shot of the show, so I hope to see these soon.

It was interesting to see how a fashion show gets put on and to me it seemed quite similar to a theatre show, the rush and panic backstage, getting everyone's hair and make up done in time for the rehearsals, the quick changes, it just made me feel like I was back at the theatre. Which just made me think I can't wait till I'm back where I feel I belong, side stage of a theatre, in the workrooms making the costumes, then seeing them on stage, I'm hoping to get more work experience back at the Theatre Royal, Bath this year, so I've just got to wait to hear back!

Highs and lows of Musicals

I personally think that the short musical shows at Disney World work because everyone's seen the films, they feel like singing along, they enjoy themselves feeling like they're at the theatre, but then they get to continue playing in the parks, able to fit in the rides and other shows that they'd like to fill their day with.

However Finding Nemo the musical just didn't work in my opinion, mostly because there aren't any songs in Finding Nemo for the audience to relate to, I think that the concept is quite a good idea because it is different, but when you see more of the actors than the characters they're holding you focus on them rather the fish they are.

So when you see scenes like this the actors are well behind their characters so it works well, but it's still not on my list must see Disney, as I would not need to spend 4minutes of my day watching this again!