Rushing through the halls, stepping from colored tile to tile, arms occupied with clothes and shoes for my rehearsal, I knew exactly where I was going. Despite my fixation on getting to the auditorium, a secluded room caught my attention; a room that appeared unrecognizable to my peers. One unlike the others, with blasting music used as white noise and a round robin system being practiced inside. Vision boards, memorabilia, and quotes that read inside jokes surrounded the walls. Completely ignorant to what lied ahead my peers swam past, but my gut had signaled me, warning that this was something new and different.
With most of my non-academic experiences consisting of productions where every step I took was given to me as a blocking note from my director, I had yearned to branch out to somewhere I could acquire skills based on my own efforts and direction. Following behind a classmate, I stepped through the door into an unanticipated world of creativity through design.
Nearing the end of a high school career while chained to similar extracurriculars, one does not …show more content…
While constantly highlighting memories and significant events, the yearbook gave me the opportunity to apply former knowledge to a new field of creativity.
After making the decision to participate and familiarize myself with the process of the yearbook, I began to utilize a well-enforced exercise I had grown accustomed to through theater: the “yes and” rule. Taught throughout my many years of stage productions, “yes and” is a rule commonly used for improv, which encourages the actor to indulge in any challenge, regardless of what’s accepted. Understanding the requirement to build upon the comedic or situational material one actor provides and go further than expected, I chose to connect the positive motivation with my eagerness for learning how to
With most of my non-academic experiences consisting of productions where every step I took was given to me as a blocking note from my director, I had yearned to branch out to somewhere I could acquire skills based on my own efforts and direction. Following behind a classmate, I stepped through the door into an unanticipated world of creativity through design.
Nearing the end of a high school career while chained to similar extracurriculars, one does not …show more content…
While constantly highlighting memories and significant events, the yearbook gave me the opportunity to apply former knowledge to a new field of creativity.
After making the decision to participate and familiarize myself with the process of the yearbook, I began to utilize a well-enforced exercise I had grown accustomed to through theater: the “yes and” rule. Taught throughout my many years of stage productions, “yes and” is a rule commonly used for improv, which encourages the actor to indulge in any challenge, regardless of what’s accepted. Understanding the requirement to build upon the comedic or situational material one actor provides and go further than expected, I chose to connect the positive motivation with my eagerness for learning how to