Thursday, April 21, 2016

Is it possible?

Inception is one of the most famous and great in the whole world, and in the orginal movies all the actors did a perfect job to deliver this super complicated story. I decided to do this movie because of two main reasons. The first reason is that I can cast the whole class in this movie and give most of them equal amount of lines. Another reason is that this movie can give them some very different experience of acting because they will have to work with more people in the same time which requires skills and knows each other more. 

We have been working on this movie four almost two weeks, and I am so not appreciate our progress. This is not my first time being a director, but this is the first time I have many people who has different acting skills and interests. In order to get them all work, I will have to make their energy level to be ten times higher than now. Even though I don't like chemistry, but I have to comfess that more energy you have more active you will be which means you will get work done much faster. I will not be able to film and stage every scene in black box theater, so we were just running lines. However, I don't feel everyone can find their character if we just read lines. I will have them to act out on stage to practice more in the future classes, so they can find their character and be more familiar to lines. 

So far I can't see how our final production will be looked like, so I will spend more time on how to creat every single scene. Now my biggest problem is where I can film and how I'm going to film. To be honest, I am so excited and can't wait another second to see our production on the video, but we still need to put tons of effort in this project. Break A Leg!

Monday, April 18, 2016

That was not good...

This scene was the first time Abi and I ever worked together, and we have taken acting class twice together. To be honest, I expected this to be a perfect scene and I was so excited. However, when we dicided to do this awkward I found out that this would not go was as good as I thought it could be. Even though we all have so many acting experience, we still could not creat that awkward feeling and atomsphere. I have to say that I was so disappointed about our final production, and I consider that the reasons we failed because two main reasons which were script memorization and character development. This is not the first time I take this class, so I wall try to learn from this failed scene to improve myself.

The first thing I tought is the character development which I use a lot when I get lost in acting. However, this time my trick was not working so well. I found out that this character actually has crush on the girl, and this girl also has crush on the boy, so I assume that the cause of this awkward is they are too shy too tell their feelings and they do not want each other to know. But this time I can find the feeling be this character. Maybe because I always tell people what I feel directly, and I also have to say that I can't feel any awkward around Abi even though it looked so awkward to the audience. This issue caused my acting looked so fake and uncomfortable.

Another problem we have is our memorizations. I know we had a long script, but I also know that we both had longer script before, so there was no excuse for us to not fully memorized our lines. I want to say sorry to Abi for jumping around with lines which caused  a confusion to both Abi and audience. I didn't work hard enough when Abi was out sick. We also didn't get a lot of time working together on blocking and timing, so when we were doing our final shooting our.  Lines sound awful and blocking looked weird.

Overall I don't feel great about this final production and I think that we can do better than we did. Through this scene I learned that no matter how good you are you always need to practice and rehearsal with your cast, or you will not know what will happen in your actual performance.  As you can see in our performance, lines and blocking were so disordered which make us felt so bad, and it also made audience so confused. In order to make this not happen again, I will work on my lines more not only on my own but also with others who is in the scene. At the last, I want to say that I hope I can do better on my next project and never forget how bad is forgetting most of the lines.