Portfolio

So now the internship is well under way. 

I'm actually having I start my portfolio, that horrible,horrific yet slightly enjoyable and relieving !!

So I had a think.

Think.

A lot of thinking.

Then I decided after plenty of procrastination of wathing "Bobs burgers" knowing now Louise belcher is my one and only spirit animal ,her, Blair Waldorf and beyonce obviously . I looked at the shows I had been helping creative direct, they all have had a fairy tale theme  in their storyline. 

Usually it was a underline theme which is me at to make the audience think about the themes tags run and the consequences of loving and living in a world which isn't real. 

So I had a that's so raven moment but  Instead of looking into the future I went back to spotty A level me in art doing artist research on Rachel Goodyear my all time favourite artist/illustrator who turns folk, myth and fairytales into twisted fantasy.

So I managed to actually create some back drops for my cover and second page , what I write in these pages is now irrelevant , I GOTT TO DRAW !

So Yeahhh . I got all arty and shit ... I just hope I can justify this move in my portfolio. 

James 

RJ working and our promo film

“Would you meet the person who ruined your life? “

Would you? You might say you won’t or you might say you will, that deep curiosity of wanting meet someone who wronged you or from the perspective of the offender, wanting to meet with the one who they have wronged. To explain? To question? To get answers? 

“Would you meet the person whose life you ruined?”

Both questions strike another question that surely create that cloudy confusion we all feel as human beings when the lines are blurred. Whether you or I think the answer to be yes or no, or whether it effects you personally or not; these questions are an opening to many victims/offenders to help provide that process of recovery on both sides, the restorative justice helps immediately build the understanding and equality of victim and offender.

 Restorative Justice helps in many ways to achieve its goal in restoring balance not only to the “Victim” and “Offender” but the aim is to reach out to families and the community to make sure everyone is at peace or there is at least. Obviously there are many questions and concerns when it comes trusting this process if you are new to it. But this is where Cube and RJ working are working together to create and put in action four steps.

• Awareness

• Access

• Practice

• Evidence

With these steps in mind . RJ a Working aims to make us the public more aware of projects and ways to make restorative justice apparent and easy to access for anyone who find themselves in need of closure. 

Being a student myself and not aware if this process until I joined cubes team . Being thrown into the deep end I have become fully emerged in restorative justice. 

“After the Accident” by Julian Armistead  follows the steps restorative justice takes to make things better / clear the air for all . It is thought provoking and hard hitting drama that captures it's audiences emotions. 

Highly accessible and utterly engrossing, this award winning drama takes you on a highly charged journey where forgiveness and redemption are set against guilt, rage and despair.

Can we ever truly forgive someone who's hurt out loved ones ? This unmissable drama lets you decide …..

This play is set to test what we may think is right or what we may think is wrong. It's tension and drama is what keep us reeled in and at the same time challenges  the audience and actors involved .This is why RJ working have picked to work with  cube theatre  to put on an event at the poly Falmouth on the 21st of November to highlight this cause . We at cube will be showcasing our promo film which I have seen how much hard work went into it ; and  I am very proud to be part of the film myself.

So if you find yourself intrigued? Curious? Challenged ? Questioned? Or Love new theatre ? 

Get yourself down there 2pm – 4pm . Sign up for a ticket with the link below , we cannot wait to share the experience ! 

This is my official blog post about cubes up and coming fund raising for our major new project "after the accident".

This excites me !?!? 

Devastating news

In an interesting turn of events following all my good news...

My university has decided to close my course, i am allowed to complete it... but its sad because e

it's diverse history and individuality is what attracts people to study at falmouths theatre department. I mean truthfully i wouldn't of been able to do my internship if i hadn't done this course...

Everyone angry including me , very angry , its like we now pay 9 grand a year for a course that my uni are willing to throw away at a drop of a hat. It hurts us students who thought we had something special in our course and cared and worked so hard at it . The point is we are allowed to carry on which is great but they seem to forget to future employers what do we say ? 

"Oh i did theatre at falmouth, but they dropped it when i was in third year?" ... yep i can see it now , "well that's why you shouldn't go and study theatre because even the university, do not want to keep it in their syllabus ..... kinda feel a little screwed by the system.

We have a meeting on Monday at the uni but a guarantee it will be a very well rehearsed speech that they have come up with to sneakily get away with it. Most of us third years are away doing our own projects which si to be honest why we all choose this uni ... THE FACT IT LETS US GET EXPERIENCE !!!! we got a pathetic email saying sorry it's closing now ......

I MEAN WHAT 

WHAT ?!

REALLY??

that is what we get after putting so much time and effort into it. anyways the meeting will happen we will be told its going to be alright we still get to finish... but i will still probably feel like doing this..

 i decided to blog post about it in my PIC as its kind of halted everyone's projects. Guess we will wait and see . oh the joys. 

Jx 

Going on and on

So its been what a week and a bit ?

Well alots happened , my internship is going great i'm progressing further an further . I have been given responsibility of twitter and facebook ! ( eek )

However majorly !! I GOT TO BE IN CUBES PROMO !

Ye si played a 15 year old hooligan called freddy , this involved as any filming does alot of waiting around and doing shots and shots over and pver again . Personally i loved the experience i finally actuall got back into the actign swing. It was perfection. The whole promo was done in a professional way that made me very happy about the play and to be part of the experience.

Here is a teaser of the set that i helped build , again that being a challenge in its self as i am no way near experienced in , but now i can probably note (Porbably) make a scaffold of some sort ... 

Anway i did the promo and learned and had an amazing time, learnt quote a bit more about hands on process of on set filming.

Back to the cathedral installation that i also helped work on and advertise over twitter .We got a lovely response from teacher at one of the schools we work shopped at. 

 I had to email to say how terrific the work is that's come out of the schools workshops. I spent over half an hour watching and listening at the booth in the cathedral, and was so impressed, and moved, by the way the students had responded to this opportunity. The booth itself looks very good, and was attracting a lot of attention while I was there. I really hope some of the schools will have brought parties of students to see it for themselves during the week, they should be so proud of what they've achieved.

> The whole week is proving to be a fascinating experience for me, and the public feedback suggests we've struck a chord with many people. I was at the lecture yesterday evening and during the Q&A session at the end one member of the audience took the opportunity not to ask a question but to draw everybody's attention to the schools' contributions around the cathedral and to urge them to spend time exploring what the students had achieved. 

> I'd be really interested in any feedback you may have regarding your experience of the project, do please let me know your thoughts.

> It's been such a pleasure working with you. Thank you so much for taking this on and doing such a brilliant job. Please do pass my thanks on to all your colleagues too. 

With this being said we at cube are thrilled with it, the response to WW1 and

cornwall remembers projects in the cathedral have been all positive and encouraging. 

Now for my update on current PIC status . I am still looking theatre companies ans social media and a big learnign curve was teh difference there is between tumblr,twitter,facebook etc (yes ofcourse there is a massive differnece) i just came to discover that what you post for example on facebook might be taken the wrong way if you were to post it on Tumblr as the two sites hold very different audiences, Facebook you get choose, Tumblr and twitter are so much more open and let you as a public figure be seen by the public eye.

However for now, i have kind of drifted into how a real working experience is effecting my own personal view of what i am studying? Right now i am experiencing PR and admin , which actually i'm thoroughly enjoying i am finding cube future venues to work with getting box office details for them and our current venues to sell our tickets. Ticket sales is also another thing i am helping with , the general flyer handing and Facebook posting etc just putting in a hand whenever i can. Handling print services and quotes has become sort of my thing at this present time having my emails blaze up every day is a weird thing to get use too but its actually quite exciting.  I am also organizing accommodation and crowd funding for cube's summer projects for Edinburgh fringe that cube will do and crowd funding for "After the Accident" and general awareness about cube.

For example, i have acquired i costs and intakes for certain companies and services we may be using and then distributed to each company what we can spend and the best quote would be for us as a company. 

For our accommodation its been a little bit trickier as i'm having to tell them exact dates and details, this being really quite unknown as its so far away but i have managed to see it through and get the information i needed. 

Oh yeah i also have been invited to RSA (royal society of arts) event to document for them again 

Kind of feel like this at some points in my internship..

More to come on all of this soon....MUHAHAHAH

Jx