Week 5

As said last week, we focused all on the film and camera aspect. This was the first time we practiced and filmed the basics of what our short film would look like. However it was filmed in a rehearsal studio with black backdrop, so was just a practice run to get use to acting as naturalistic as possible and look convincing and confident as our characters. We decided placed a bench on stage left which i walked all the way to from stage right at the beginning of the filming. After filming this, i felt it was unnecessary to sit down but to stand up and look intrigued of whats happening around her. Many of my body movements and actions where very over exagerated to how would look in real life. After the recording of the scene with the camera one of my weaknesses to build on was to pull back on that exageration to convince the naturalism of the character and situation thats going on around her.

After that morning lesson we had a 2 hour lesson on screen acting to get the foundations of screen acting. While i sat on the chair and delivered my lines to the person in front of me (to which was on the camera an over shoulder shot) and focused on the little movements such as eye sight and pausing for the thoughts of the character which somehow shows to the camera very clearly. This showed me that in order to get this naturalism for Rosalind i need to understand and research my character more. Asking myself questions for my thought processes such as:

'What is that shepherdess talking about? why is she looking at me like that?'  and 'How can i convince this shepherdess to fall in love with this Shepard'

With this thought process shown through pauses when filming it will show clearly these thoughts to her character. Making it realistic and natural.