SBCC Summer School Photo Shoot

Today was a beautiful day to help our lovely graphic designer, Melanie Belanger (SBCC marketing department) shoot her picture for the SBCC Summer school brochure. I decided to recruit basically half of my acting class. Okay that's a bit exaggerated, but I did asked some of acting classmates to meet me at our shooting location in the afternoon and they listened to me! And let me tell you, they sure didn't know what they were getting themselves into. 

( Photo Credit: http://www.sbcc.edu/) This is not the picture that we took, but this is where it took place:)

We all met at the fountain (on the West Campus) and were quite a diverse group. Melanie's vision of this brochure could be summed up in one word "Sunshine." Some of us were on the grass, others had their feet in the fountain water, and some of us were sitting down on fountain. She took a few shots until we were done. I can not wait to see the finish product. I'll be the one in bright blue listening to my new friend playing guitar. He and I were not music compatible. I was trying to get him to play a song I knew, but I didn't know what bands he liked he didn't know my bands, it was a hot mess. His friend joked after the shoot, that we were basically set up on a really bad blind date. Hahaha! 

It was awesome to see everyone interact and talk to each other outside of our acting class. I'm glad they enjoy themselves.


Well thanks to all who made this possible and hopefully the brochure comes out soon...

-KIKI REYES

Acting Class, Brave, Valentine's Day

Something that has been inspiring me lately, is my acting class. Three weeks ago I was extremely awkward in front of my classmates, but I'm suddenly seeing myself improve in my confidence and my public speaking. I guess I didn't find the point in taking risks because I was afraid of failure or in this case freezing and stuttering my words in front of my class. I'm not sure why people imagine other people in their underwear to face public speaking I think that would make me even more uncomfortable. Anyways, this class has made me dismiss any thoughts of people criticizing me because the only way to be a better actor is to loosen up and push yourself out of your comfort zone. I mean I don't think I'll be the next Jennifer Lawrence, but at least acting will help me with my confidence. (To the left is the recent acting skit we had to do, it was an hour in your life. You had to list ten things you do in one hour. I chose 5:30-6:30pm after work and the actions I do include, changing into sweats right when I get home from work, tuning my guitar, starting homework, and dancing around like a maniac. You can imagine me acting these out right?)


I was able to introduce this class to my musical side. We had to present who we are right now, so I sang them a song that makes me who I am today. This song is entitled "Brave" by Sara Bareilles. Some of the lyrics are so inspirational and while singing this song I myself felt so moved, I even teared up. I'm so relieved my classmates enjoyed it and I might just post up a video of me covering it this song. Might :)

I hope you all had a random Valentine's day. All I wanted was a heart-shaped pizza from Rusty's and I got it! I hope your weekend plans go swell.

-KIKI REYES