Actor Growth

This week we actually did the exact same scenes as last week due to a technical difficulty where we were unable to watch our scenes and the fact that the camera wasn’t functional anymore. In many ways, I guess you can consider this like a callback audition. So, I basically did it with the notes I was given last time.

For the first take the mood definitely was more focused on the lady while trying to get a baby out of her. I was actually surprised at how realistic the frantic it looked on film as I was literally just improvising the whole thing on a bare floor. Although, the factor this time around was that because I didn’t look at the paramedic enough it appeared like I was simply shouting all the time and basically getting them to cooperate through fear.

It took me a few tries to get this right as I basically had to find the balance between being crazy-mad and frantic while still trying to convince the people around me that the character was sane, so to speak, where he was in control and could be trusted to perform this on the fly operation. In the end I was able to do that.

That is a hard thing to do many times. I know for myself I often have a habit of either going too big or too mellow. It’s finding that balance to make it perfect. There was an interesting comment too as the coach was saying in reality if he saw me yelling and all where I wasn’t paying attention to the paramedics that he would believe me. For the sake of film though, it just works a lot better for me to pop my head up. So many little unnatural details you have to keep in mind too. balance