Hey there. Before I begin, just thought I'd mention, for anyone who may be following these episodes of my life and wondering how my Commedia Dell Arte and NIDA performances went, they were sweet as could be. Yeah, just thought I'd say that because it's a new school term now and we're moving on to other things, one of those things being screen acting.
Screen acting is hard. Like I knew it was hard, but it's so much harder than I'd even thought. We filmed ourselves at NIDA on Sunday, and it was pretty weird, embarassing, difficult, you name it ... we practiced a scene from a movie called Heat about these two characters that are beginning to fall in love - it's cute and deep in one. Sweet.
But yeah, you'd like think you were doing it right, feeling natural, totally "in the moment", and then you'd play it back and realize how crap you actually were. At least, by the feedback I received, I wasn't forced or fake, but I wasn't really totally natural either.
It was interesting to see what made you act natural though. For instance, when I was given something to hold like a waterbottle or a pen I loosened up; and my partner for the scene was really intense when she did the first take, so just when the camera started rolling for take two I made her crack up, so along comes "action" and voila, we have a natural smile. Now, if only we can figure out how to get rid of everyone's random habitual movements like head bobbing or squinting or lip biting..... Or for me, putting my tongue in my cheek when I'm thinking. I didn't know I did that, did you?
Well, there's always next week to get better. In fact, the whole term! I feel nervous just thinking about it. Let's hope it gets easier.....
Oh, and SALT started back up! Baz taught us about the Apostle's creed, proud to say I've been there done that, but I learned some new things too, so that's cool.
Yeah. Will write more later.
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