History Project - PHOTOS

EDIT: THE PHOTOS ARE OUT OF ORDER AND SO ARE THE BLURBS. IGNORE THEM. ONE DAY WHEN I'M NOT TOO TIRED I'LL TRY IRONING IT OUT.

I dunno if I mentioned - for History, my group has to do an opera. Yes, the girl who can't carry a tune in a bucket despite ten years of Music lessons is going to sing in an opera.  <_< We chose the Korean War, and have a script and various songs. The first scene features me and Li Wei as Communist North Korean soldiers, and we sing an edited form (I changed the song lyrics, an example would be We are the champions, comrades, instead of We are the champions, my friends) of Queen's We Are the Champions. And of course, my inner Good Omens fangirl was squeeing madly at that development and even now, I'm hugely amused.

Anyway, what's a theatrical production without props? So my group (Gena, Eunice, Deanna, Li Wei and Yuan Jun) and I decided to meet today. Yuan Jun has been out of it for a couple of days and wasn't responding to calls, however, so Gena, Eunice, Li Wei and I met for breakfast this morning at McDonald's. I had delicious Hotcakes, a hash brown and a cup of hot chocolate. Then we went to meet Deanna and took a bus to her home.

For the play, we needed five flags - those of the USSR, the USA, China, North Korea and South Korea. Gena and Eunice had bought cloth, and Gena had brought paints, and Deanna had quite a few as well. Still, it wasn't enough, and Deanna's mother had to buy us more yellow, red and blue paints.

The first flag we painted was that of South Korea - Gena and Eunice worked on that, while Deanna and I started work on the Soviet Union's flag. As the painting of the SK flag neared completion, we were truly shocked by how real it seemed. Like we'd gone and bought the flag instead of making it ourselves.

^ Deanna touching up the South Korean flag as Gena looks on.



  




We all switched flags, so you can see that full North Korean flag that Eunice is holding up.

And we did have other props. like the cardboard flowers and the gorgeous tombstone. Deanna drew it and I was apparently the only one who can cut through extremely stiff cardboard properly, so I cut it out, and we all contributed info and suggestions to come up with this masterpiece. Did I call the flags our magnum opus? That title should belong to Deanna's mind-blowing tombstone ( as in, the one she drew and coloured on the black cardboard as a prop *touches wood*).


Everyone in our group (except the absent Yuan Jun) holding a flag. Li Wei holds the China flag, Deanna holds the American flag, Gena is holding the partially obscured North Korean flag, I am holding the Soviet Union flag, and Eunice on the floor is holding the South Korean flag.



^ TA-DAAH! All our completed flags! North Korea, Chine, America, South Korea and the Soviet Union. Aren't they stunningly realistic? Behold our magnum opus!



^ The completed North Korean flag! We'd all chipped in to colour the white bit with crayons and oil pastels, taking a break from paint.




^ Deanna's adorable little sister Reiko is watching as we near the completion of the North Korean flag. Deanna drew the circle with the star, btw; Eunice and Gena had done the China flag, which you shall see later, and the stars looked rather wonky and reminded us of Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants. *shudder* Only Deanna's skills managed to salvage it.



^ Me proudly holding up the Soviet Union flag after I'd finished it. XDDD




^ The USA and USSR flags, as we were putting the finishing touches to them; the fact that the flags of these two enemies of the Cold War are side by side is no accident. XP We'd had to wait to touch up the USSR flag since we ran out of yellow paint. :P I drew the hammer on the Soviet flag, btw, and Deanna neatened it and drew the sickle and star, and I painted the star and we both did the hammer and sickle. Yes, I know I'm rambling, but I can't get over how real it looks. :D



^ Deanna is putting the finishing touches to the American flag, which took forever since we had to wait for Deanna's mother to buy more red paint after we'd done two stripes; plus, she'd painstakingly drawn each star according to the exacrt number and pattern on the actual flag, and she and Gena had painted around them. With three of us - Gena, Deanna and me - doing the stripes once we had the paint, however, it wasn't long before we were done.



^ One of the props we needed was a baby, belonging to Deanna's character. I had a baby puppet (you stick your hand up the back so his head and hands move; it can be sweet, but can also be creepy, and I had great fun scaring people on Thursday when I brought it to school). Eunice is playing with it; here, she looks like she's holding a real baby, and is all sweet, but in actualilty she was making the baby spasm like it was possessed.



^ Eunice is holding the completed flag and Deanna is sitting on the floor.



^ See? It looks astonishingly like the real thing, doesn't it?




^ Seriously, doesn't the flag look stunning?




^ Gena being high as Li Wei makes changes to the script in the background.

 

 Admit it, that's the most stunning tombstone you've ever seen in your existence! XP How Deanna manages to achieve things like that swirly eerie ephemereal vine-pattern thing around each letter, and the way the vines creep around the letters, and the way the grass seems to be growing around the letters, is beyond me.

Off to role-play some more, and perhaps post a depressing oneshot of mine, that i wrote over the past week, at lower_tadfield, if I have the time and energy - it's already eleven at night, and I'm TIRED. I set an alarm for 6.15 AM this morning but my sister's 5.45 alarm woke me up, and I ended up arriving at the meeting place an hour early. I wandered around observing the local wildlife (read: pigeons and a few other birds pecking at the grass by the side of a canal) and managed to write another drabble for the Good Omens role-play's Easter challenge. I'll post the completed set sometime around Easter Monday; I still have a few criteria to fulfil and some interesting ideas. :D *evil laughter* I'm already messing dreadfully with the characters for the drabbles.

I'm too tired to post Fool's Lies at Lower Tadfield. I'm gonna check up on the role-play and stuff, then climb into bed and, hopefully, enter the realm of Morpheus. It's been a while since I actually was in the Dreaming itself. (if this seems confusing, follow the 'sandman' tag to see my post on the Sandman and his realm)

~ Sivaroobini


EDIT: AAARGH!!! THE STUPID LJ-CUT FUNCTION IS SCREWING AROUND WITH ME! bleep


EDIT2: *swears* NOW THE PHOTOS ARE ALL MESSED UP AND OUT OF ORDER. I'm extremely bloody tired and am NOT in the mood to struggle with LiveJournal right now. I tried switching to HTML format, but my eyes are not in a state to manually pick out errors in the lines of HTML text. One day when I have some time and patience I will come back and edit this damn thing. For now, the only reason I'm still trying to post it tonight is because my group members wanted the photos. And the only reason I'm not crushing the Acer into pulp is cos I can't afford a new one.

GOODNIGHT.