Hello all, i hope you are having a lovely break.
Please respond to me about the December date, i cannot discuss it until i confirm your availability.
Monday we are starting the new collaboration project with Production and the lovely Cheryl Jones who will also be working with you. Please be at studio 11 ready for 10am. Very exciting!
Friday, 30 October 2015
Saturday, 24 October 2015
Friday, 23 October 2015
written analysis of acting for camera
Hello all, a reminder that deadline for the 1000 word written work for Acting for camera is today at 4pm
Please adhere to the deadline as late submissions are capped at 40%
Thanks
Vanessa
Please adhere to the deadline as late submissions are capped at 40%
Thanks
Vanessa
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
New Commission
Hello all, a possible new commission project/collaboration. But you would need to be available for Brighton performance in the evening of Sunday December 6th.
Before i start talking to the organizers, i need to confirm your availability. Please comment here or email me asap about that date so that i can respond to it and let you know.
thanks
vanessa
Before i start talking to the organizers, i need to confirm your availability. Please comment here or email me asap about that date so that i can respond to it and let you know.
thanks
vanessa
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
Film evaluation
Please remember the 1000 word film writing is not the same as the self and peer evaluation. Those count as part of your practice and need to be emailed to me asap.
Deadline for written work this Friday by 4pm
Deadline for written work this Friday by 4pm
this is what it says in the brief:
comment and reflect on film acting focusing on particular actors, formats, genres and characterisation approaches. Secondary research and reading should inform these evaluations and be properly referenced. 1000 words
so it's a more theoretical understanding of film acting as a discipline. you might focus on effectiveness and theory of film acting techniques, or as applied by specific film actors.
or what particular skills and approaches needed for camera/film/ or tv acting.
you might have a particular question in mind to do with film acting and using research to help answer it. So it's discussing film acting techniques and ideas rather than your practice only. Needs to be researched and fully referenced within writing and bibliography. I have put some sources on the community page to help you.
thanks
notes on strengths
Zak input:
The little prince lovely story didn’t want to detriment it. Workshop on childrens theatre and ran from there.
The little prince lovely story didn’t want to detriment it. Workshop on childrens theatre and ran from there.
Sam:
Character acting, text based, vocal, comedy/sketches,
devising from themes.
Chris:
Multimedia, Sketches, Ideas but not follow up, tech skills,
creepiness/serial killer like, darker characters/villains, introverted,
intelligent, cold.
John:
Physical theatre, Sign language, silent films, slapstick,
funny laugh, swearing.
Harry:
Comedy, Robin Williams impersonation, Text based, Method acting,
People person, Good drag queen, character based, accents.
Goncalo:
Music (guitar, piano), Physical theatre, Multilingual, raw
emotion.
James:
Physical theatre, characterisation, Rough and tumble,
Coreography, devising.
Dan:
Physical theatre, naturalistic, slapstick.
Greg:
Text, Devising,
L.S. Lowry paintings as possible stimuli.
Possible fringe stimulus
These are some things that we thought we might be able to base our ideas on, feel free to add anything else to this post.
Greg:
A story about someone who was once somebody incredible,
someone who had a massive amount of rumours about who he was and the deeds he
had done. They faked their own death and opened a tavern in a tiny town in the
middle of nowhere but were eventually found by a man named the chronicler who
writes down true accounts of the stories of anyone with a legendary status so
that rumours aren’t the only knowledge about them. The chronicler blackmails
this man into telling his story by saying he’ll reveal who they are if they
don’t and so the man tells his story starting from the beginning when he was
just a child and encompassing all the things that happened to him through his
life.
Chris:
From page 73/74:
He was acting tough, but it was still just acting – typical
fifteen-year-old macho posturing. I was so mad I could have killed him right
there, but I forced myself to calm down. I was better than this – and I was
better than him. He wanted to act scary? I’d give him scary.
‘I’m smiling because I’m thinking about what your insides
look like.’
‘What?’ asked Rob, and then smirked. ‘ Oh, big man, trying
to threaten me. You think you scare me, you little baby?’
‘I’ve been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy,’ I said.
‘Do you know what that means?’
‘It means you’re a freak,’ he said.
‘It means you’re about as important to me as a cardboard
box,’ I said. ‘You’re just a thing – a piece of garbage that no one’s thrown
away yet. Is that what you want me to say?’
‘Shut up,’ said Rob. He was still acting tough, but I could
see his bluster was starting to fail. He didn’t know what to say.
‘The thing about boxes,’ I said, ‘Is that you can open them
up. Even though they’re completely boring on the outside, there might be
something interesting inside. So while you’re saying all of these stupid,
boring things I’m imagining what it would be like to cut you open and see what
you’ve got in there.’
I paused, staring at him, and he stared back. He was scared.
I let him hang onto that fear for a moment longer, then spoke again.
‘The thing is, Rob, I don’t want to cut you open. That’s not
who I want to be. So I made a rule for myself: anytime I want to cut someone
open I say something nice to them instead. That is why I say, Rob Anders of 232
Carnation Street, that you are a great guy.’
Rob’s mouth hung open like he
was about to talk, than he closed it and backed away.
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
The love song of J.
Alfred Prufrock.
T.S Elliot
Misprinted: Bright disease.
Goncalo:
Harry:
When the broken hearted people
living in the world of greed, there will be an answer. Let it be.
Imagine all the people, living
life in peace.
I am what I am.
Sam:
Fringe ideas -
The idiot- Dostoevsky - about a completely beautiful human
being, beautiful in his pureness and kindness. And he is looked on by other as
an idiot an holy fool. He has no malice or manipulative intentions so he often
takes things at face value and gets mocked for it. Two women scorn him and mock
him but it turns out that they love him and he I stuck between his wanting to
save one from a psychopathic suitor and his feelings for another young girl who
scorns him in public. The book deals with the themes of religion, love, pious
was and most importantly the eradication of the conscience in a capitalist
world. And how all death is like execution because of this.
Karamazov- brothers - it is a very dramatic book. With very
clear characters. It centres around three brothers. One who is holy, good and
almost very ordinary. The other who is atheist, intellectual and sometimes cold
and scornful. And the other is big, strong, brash, angry and a drunk. One of
them is said to have killed their father. And it deals with the drama behind
this. It combines family difficulties and arguments, with inheritance rights,
religion. The justice system an court rooms and the theatrical influence it has
on peoples loves and love.
Master and margarita- about a visit from the devil to an
atheistic Soviet Union- farcical and philosophical
High rise - JG BALLARD. Within the concealing walls of an
elegant forty storey apartment tower block, the affluent tennants are hell bent
on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks
on enemy flora and once luxurious space becomes a battleground for riot and
technological mayhem. It's a tale of urban disillusionment and how a society
slips into a violent reverse as the isolated inhabitants of the block, driven
by primal urges, create a dystopian world rules by the laws of the jungle.
Dan:
LS Lowry – Freaks, Focusing on the defects of the people within
the images, personality traits wec can get from this? Can we use the
personality or physical defects in each character and basing a stimulus around
how different personality disorders or physical defects can change people or
show how people with these disorders live?
Rolling Stones: Exile on main st.
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Monday, 19 October 2015
Festival
Hello all, looking forward to catching up on festival ideas after half term. I hope some of you, all of you even, going to the launch tonight.
some ideas that i wanted to pitch to you:
Adaptation, current of Don Quixote. that was one of my favorite but i have seen that it's been only very recently done at the dome.
Adaptation, or adapting the impossibility of adapting Ulysses by James Joyce.
A play about the word thief. The word thief steals words and how is the world affected when words begin disappearing. I think this is my original idea but i might have subconsciously stolen it, so i better check.
A play of silence and noise. Being Jonathan. What is it like to be deaf? Imagine different worlds of silence and sound and sign language and media.........
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Filmed monologue notes
Greg:
Wavering focus make it a more definite choice.
Other people thought that my focus didn’t wander and that I
was dead set on who I was talking too.
Try to reign in Greg hands as can be distracting from what I
need to say, try to make them more characterised.
On the other hand some people thought that my hands suited
the character especially with when I decided to use them.
The character suits him quite well but possibly too much.
Probably a better idea to pick a character that fits me than characters who doesn’t.
Chris certified.
James:
Can see thought process of next line due to nerves.
Dropped energy when looking at the script.
Eyes big on screen but makes it easier to see when he’s
forgotten lines.
Move around less try to keep still and have more defined
movements.
Did well on sightlines for when he was in a big group.
Choose a character who fits him more although the status of
the character fits the way James portrays it.
Paige:
Really good at showing cold corporate bitchyness but needs
to show little bits of emotion come through now and again.
Sightlines were perfect.
Diction was delivered to the camera very well.
Never lost energy in either piece.
Can sustain an accent very well.
Georgia:
Very good gestures but got in the way of her face.
Good choice as it suited her emotionally.
Eyelines sometimes dropped but probably would have been
improved if the lines were known properly.
Couldn’t see enough of your face.
Due to positioning the audience were disconnected, putting a
wall up between her and the audience.
The way she was sitting worked well with her character.
Chris certified.
Harry:
Stop being Robin Williams start being Harry as you’ve mapped
his performance so well that it’s just an imitation.
Character did not suit you.
Need to see more of your face, dodgy eyelines.
It’s very clear that you were talking to a character and
when you let the energy drop.
Don’t think too much about where you’re focussing.
Thinking about lines was noticeable especially when showing
emotion.
You had problems with grinning during emotional scenes.
Character didn’t suit you as he was too old and had been
through too much for you.
Needs to work on cutting out impressions from your accent
Chris:
The way that you were speaking sounded quite catlike as if
every word was done with a purr.
His voice was too creepy and it kept along the same line for
the whole time.
Some of the stuff that he did was a bit too much like stage
acting, which made it quite melodramatic.
The characterisation was very interesting and suited the
character perfectly but at some points the pace of the speech needed to be
fastened.
Really drawn in by his acting made him serial killer like.
The character suited him.
G:
The slow pace and quiet voice worked really well with the
characterisation.
The characterisation worked really well and the way he
talked made him very seductive.
Greg certified.
Possibly sped up the pace a little bit.
Would work very well as a sweet innocent character.
When audible performance was believable, the camera loves
you, you love the camera, needs to keep up the consistency of performance take
after take.
Sam:
The tone of voice was engrossing to listen too as you never
knew if he was going to explode at any moment.
Need to combine speech with the use of sightlines.
Work on when and where to use the intensity of your eyes as
it dehumanises the character.
Spot on with the eye blinking technique used in close ups.
Follows same tonal patterns with his sentences and needs to
pull away from it.
Jonathon:
Best performance of this monologue that we’ve seen so far,
The angle of the camera suited your monologue exactly and your eyes didn’t
wander.
At one point your eyes looked from the camera to Paula.
Very beautiful.
Chris certified.
BSL as a performance on camera is very interesting to watch
but it must be truthful when you’re looking at something we can’t see so that
we can actually see what you’re trying to show.
Paula has a wonderful voice for voice overs.
Everyone needs to look into castabilty, age range and
working text.
Think about what kind of media that we might like to use in
future shows as we are ordering tech soon.
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