I don’t really know where to start! May has definitely been an exciting and busy month! As the month closes, I look back on what I have accomplished and am beside myself.
I have been doing a lot of preparation work this month. I have been practicing my songs everyday for my performance June 24th at the Alcove Theater, preparing my Dani Vox marketing strategy for June, working on my character voices, and location scouting and storyboarding for a short video I am producing and directing with my colleagues, Ellis Au and Marc Virata, for an event I am hosting with The Good Life, Presenting Fit Approach, June 13th! That’s a mouth full!
Yes, LOTS in the pipeline for June! With everything in the works for next month I am sure I will blow May right out of the water! Did I mention the 3 weddings I am going to? NC, NV, and NY! Yup! All out of state. I am still trying to figure out which dress I should wear to each wedding!
Back to May…The biggest accomplishment for me this month was to perform my lines as Claire Foster for the independent film Refuge. I wasn’t nervous until I had arrived at the location where my scene was to be shot. It was like all of my senses had decided to turn the dial all the way up and concentrate in my legs! Weird! I was cold but I was sweating, and I just could not drink enough water.
My nerves slowly died down after watching a few takes of the actress before me and more so, after sitting in hair and make-up. Time became an issue by the time my scene needed to be filmed but by then I had worked out most of my weird nerves and was trying not to let the pressure of “time” get to me.
Once in front of the camera and time to perform, it was like I was no longer myself. It was like my brain automatically turned off and I was outside myself as I spoke my lines. In a way it was freeing. Anyone who has a mind that seems to be “on” at all times knows how freeing it is when you stumble upon a moment of that beautiful, thoughtless, quiet.
Apparently I knocked it out of the park on my first take! We did 2 more for good measure, a few takes from a different angle and that was it. I am still on the performance high!
I can’t wait for my next opportunity to be on-camera! Who knows…it could be a matter of days! Wink, Wink!
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