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sighs of relief and the ghost of Connie
May. 30th, 2007 01:59 pmJules, you know perfectly well there needs to be bickering. Looooooots of bickering. Also arguments in the rain. And Sharpe and Mal shoving each other up against walls, as well as punching while Buffy groans. :g:
THE FABRIC ARRIVED!!!!!
Workmates were treated to me bouncing and squeaking. They couldn't figure out why, until I pointed out that this saved me from having to go to Soho and spend 40 quid on fabric this lunchtime.
:deep breath: Now I just have to make the thing, complete the food shopping, and pack. Also issue instructions to the flatmates not to kill my plants. ...Would it be kinda stupid to take the laptop to the convention? Looked round the Norbreck castle website, and I can't find a single email, enquiries or phone number listing. Had to go to the yell.com listing for it. Wireless, it turns out, is only on ground floor and the executive suites.
Further notes on watching How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, the first two eps of whittling 6,000 down to 10 for the live shows. You can see where they learnt from their mistakes, though very little focus on dance and movement classes for Maria, unlike Joseph school. Girls? The majority presented at their best whenever possible, unlike the boys. No social pressure, honest... John, it appears, was spending entire time of the whittling aside from the callbacks and the final show/choosing filming Torchwood - Maria school was run by Zoe with occasional input from David Ian. Interesting to see David's comments, he's very, very focussed on the bottom line. Slightly confused about something, which should be resolved when we get to the live shows - there's a girl that had major battles fought over her, Emilie, who I *know* wasn't in the live shows, and she's not on the website either - yet she got chosen over Siobhan at the end of the whittling for inclusion due to Siobhan's performance being affected by being ill (which as John points out, is no excuse for not performing well - he's done it with flu and chicken pox). Siobhan was in the last 3. Going to be interesting to see how/why Emilie got replaced. The Connie situation is ... huh. An interesting thing to watch. You only get to hear her sing properly in the final show, (which is in front of celebs and critics as opposed to the village locals in Joseph - maybe Andrew wanted a lot more feedback second time round, since he did ask the locals to vote) and my god does she stand out. Previously to that, she's singing in one of the vocal lessons as part of a group (though the snippet is focussed on one of the more colourful characters who didn't make it through to the final 10). Otherwise, it's difficult to explain. She's like a ghost that haunts the proceedings, a figure in the background that the camera keeps lingering on, or interviews as 'one of the girls' about technique, or how things are going - possibly because she's articulate and completely non-hysterical, but I'd really like to have been in the editing studio when these two shows were edited down from all the footage. Because although they focus on the big personality girls, several of whom didn't make it due to just not being anywhere near ready, they must've already marked Connie as a stand-out by then. Wondering if this was done subtly so the audience watching this would be imprinting on Connie as a sensible, gorgeous-voiced girl.
In conclusion : hard to tell, as I didn't watch this at the time. Josephs - the final twelve all stood out because they showed their callbacks if not their auditions, and were regularly in the camera's gaze in Joseph school.
THE FABRIC ARRIVED!!!!!
Workmates were treated to me bouncing and squeaking. They couldn't figure out why, until I pointed out that this saved me from having to go to Soho and spend 40 quid on fabric this lunchtime.
:deep breath: Now I just have to make the thing, complete the food shopping, and pack. Also issue instructions to the flatmates not to kill my plants. ...Would it be kinda stupid to take the laptop to the convention? Looked round the Norbreck castle website, and I can't find a single email, enquiries or phone number listing. Had to go to the yell.com listing for it. Wireless, it turns out, is only on ground floor and the executive suites.
Further notes on watching How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, the first two eps of whittling 6,000 down to 10 for the live shows. You can see where they learnt from their mistakes, though very little focus on dance and movement classes for Maria, unlike Joseph school. Girls? The majority presented at their best whenever possible, unlike the boys. No social pressure, honest... John, it appears, was spending entire time of the whittling aside from the callbacks and the final show/choosing filming Torchwood - Maria school was run by Zoe with occasional input from David Ian. Interesting to see David's comments, he's very, very focussed on the bottom line. Slightly confused about something, which should be resolved when we get to the live shows - there's a girl that had major battles fought over her, Emilie, who I *know* wasn't in the live shows, and she's not on the website either - yet she got chosen over Siobhan at the end of the whittling for inclusion due to Siobhan's performance being affected by being ill (which as John points out, is no excuse for not performing well - he's done it with flu and chicken pox). Siobhan was in the last 3. Going to be interesting to see how/why Emilie got replaced. The Connie situation is ... huh. An interesting thing to watch. You only get to hear her sing properly in the final show, (which is in front of celebs and critics as opposed to the village locals in Joseph - maybe Andrew wanted a lot more feedback second time round, since he did ask the locals to vote) and my god does she stand out. Previously to that, she's singing in one of the vocal lessons as part of a group (though the snippet is focussed on one of the more colourful characters who didn't make it through to the final 10). Otherwise, it's difficult to explain. She's like a ghost that haunts the proceedings, a figure in the background that the camera keeps lingering on, or interviews as 'one of the girls' about technique, or how things are going - possibly because she's articulate and completely non-hysterical, but I'd really like to have been in the editing studio when these two shows were edited down from all the footage. Because although they focus on the big personality girls, several of whom didn't make it due to just not being anywhere near ready, they must've already marked Connie as a stand-out by then. Wondering if this was done subtly so the audience watching this would be imprinting on Connie as a sensible, gorgeous-voiced girl.
In conclusion : hard to tell, as I didn't watch this at the time. Josephs - the final twelve all stood out because they showed their callbacks if not their auditions, and were regularly in the camera's gaze in Joseph school.
