Monday, February 12th 2007
Today started with introductions, ripened with table-work and read-throughs, evolved with character analysis/background, and developed it’s productivity through the processes and initial groundwork of “free-based” improvisation.
Many conceptual issues were addressed aided by music and video to come to some sort of understanding of the path this project will be taking, as well as the many ways available to interpret the life of Chet Baker…when, as we found, he was even unable to do effectively when he was alive.
The latter part of the day was reserved for exercises on immediacy and lying; something subconsciously mastered by the man himself. A YouTube video link is included below for the curious observer:
