Directing Myself
One of the many challenges that I faced whilst in production
was recognizing how to try and direct a performance out of myself as an actor,
which it turns out was far more difficult than expected.
In my previous venture " Door to Door " I had
played the " straight man", essentially I was the audience's window
into the world that my character's inhabited. This time though, the role I was
taking on was very much " in his
own world ". I got help from a few of my fellow students
to man the camera and operate the sound equipment while I tried to give the
performance that I had envisioned. Watching the footage back was difficult because
the performance seemed flat and a bit lifeless, after all I had to try and find
a way of entertaining people for fifteen to twenty minutes, so having them
stare intermittently at someone sat in a room, this character has to be at the
very least engaging.
But maybe I wasn't really sure what I wanted this character
to be like, until I watched my performance back, because I knew exactly what I didn't
want.
Maybe the difficulty of being sole person responsible for
the fate of my film, is that bringing
others in to help out when I needed to be in front of the camera is that they
can't direct me because they have no frame of reference, they have no personal
investment in the project which made it difficult because I had no true
collaborator to bounce my ideas off.
Luckily I would be recording my voiceover artist within the
next few days, which would open my eyes to the kind of person my character
should be.
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