So the BYU Hip Hop Club Showcase turned out to be way fun, more so than we originally thought! Things didn't turn out quite as we had planned (which is fairly normal). We had been planning on playing the song "Playin' Hard to Get," but when we arrived to do our soundcheck several members of the Hip Hop Club came up to us talking about how much their club loves "Da Mall." We still weren't really sure what to do about it even when we got on stage to perform our short set. As soon as we finished playing "Stylin'," however, the Hip Hop Club started yelling for us to play "Da Mall." So obviously we had to play it! It ended up being really fun, and somehow we managed to not mess it up despite not having practiced it at all beforehand. The Hip Hop Club's energy during the whole thing was great - especially when they all yelled "Da Mall!!!" loud enough for us to hear it onstage. It was super legit. We know who to go to for whenever we make a music video for that song now.
On Wednesday I had a completely different experience, moving from front and center to the background. I've been an extra, or a "background actor," as they are more professionally called, for a few different productions with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and this Wednesday I was cast as a high schooler for an interfaith PSA about cyberbullying. I'm pretty sure most of the other extras were actual high schoolers. I'm 24 but look young enough, apparently. It was pretty fun. I should actually be visible in this one; there was one shot where I had my own cue - I said goodbye to one group of people in the hall and then walked past the group of mean bully girls while the camera panned over to their conversation. The director actually called out my name for my cue in the scene! So basically you could say I'm a star background actor now. Superstardom is on the way!
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