Meeting Thelma Schoonmaker!

It was a great pleasure meeting Thelma Schoonmaker; she is such a respected woman with so much influence on film today as we know it.
She was born on 3rd January 1940 in Algiers, Algeria to American expatriates and raised in various countries, including on the Dutch-Caribbean island of Aruba.
She lived in America in 1955.
She initially wanted to get into politics and then switched her learning towards primitive art, during her studies she answered to an advert in The New York Times 'assistant film editor', landed the job and began her career in film. She took up a brief 6 week course in filmmaking at (NYU), where she came into contact with Martin Scorsese who now is a huge legacy in film. Editing his works such as, Gangs in New York, The Aviator and of course his best Raging Bull.
She married Director Michael Powell from 19 May 1984 till his death in 1990, since his death she has continued preserving his films and honoring the legacy of her husband, who directed films such as the Red shoes, Black Narcissus and the film viewed on the day of meeting Schoonmaker, A Matter of Life and Death, all these films are known to be seminal films.
The importances of these works are a backbone within filmmaking and film studies.
Schoonmaker has won several Academy Award awards and won over 3 BAFTA awards not mentioning over 20 nominations during her career.
After meeting her, it seems so rare to come across a lady of this kind, she seems just as motivated as she has ever been; she looks amazing, so full of colour and passion. I believe it to of been a blessing to meet such a legend in film.

Bringing On The Emotion...

Today was an interesting day... During our morning session with Nick we worked with some practical games. These games focus mostly on our raw emotions. We had to sit on a chair, close our eyes, and then state silently what emotion our characters are feeling within their scene. "I am heart broken"
Well Nina is heart broken in this scene I am playing, she is nervous of seeing the one she loves, however she is also heart broken over her best friend Kostya, she is broken that he loves her and she doesn't love him back.
She feels everything for him, she feels his pain as this is what she is going through too, and unfortunately she is in love with someone else.
Nick asked me whether I had been heart broken myself in my life, I replied I had.
I do believe that I can connect with Nina on a level; it’s just about channeling my emotions towards any pain I might have suffered in my own life.
After many rehearsals I do feel I am growing closer towards the character. I am learning how to control my emotions, how to go back, to go deep into any pain I have been through in my life.
It's difficult... It's hard to get deep sometimes, peel off the layers. The funny thing is, here I am trying to be an actress , it's really hard, emotionally draining infact, I mean thinking about really going back to something that hurt me, something that made me feel such pain, something that really brings me to tears, as Nina says... "It's a rough trade, life".

Designing Our Poster's For The Big Show!

We have started a project ... To design a poster for our show on the 15th November.
This poster will be used to promote our show, there will only be one or at the most two posters used for this, so whoever designs the most interesting and eye catching poster will be the winner.
How am I finding the task... Well it is fun to be creative, I have chosen for my main image a naked lady, this image is from the 1800's , it's beautiful. My choice for this image is  purely for the fact that it's natural, my first initial thought was ' Bare your soul' with this sentence in my mind I though it represented naturalistic acting, as when we are natural, we have nothing to hide, hence the naked lady!
I have also added the writers images, Chekhov, Ibsen and Churchill.