During my first semester of Saddleback I accidentally stumbled upon a class by the name of Theatre Acting 1 with Bill McGuire. It was this class that helped ignite the spark I have always had for acting. Call it what you will I think of it as mix between fate and luck, I now have the need to learn and immerse myself in the art of acting. TA 290 is my first time taking an acting for the screen class and I am taking great pleasure in learning how to act in this medium. For my first scene I was assigned to play Dude in the Big Lebowski. My partner was Johhnie who would be playing the part of Walter. I was excited to be working with Johhnie having worked with him prior on Saddlebacks production of A Midsummer Nights Dream. One of the things I found very interesting about working on camera was the fact that I had the opportunity to do the scenes multiple times. This may seem obvious but I had only been in plays previous to doing this scene. In a play during your performances you have one opportunity to do your scene but in doing the scene on camera the final product is made later down the line during editing where they pick the shots that work the best. Which meant for me I had many …show more content…
Another was being able to watch myself act in a scene. After the initial “do I really sound like that?” I started to look for the choices I made and how the scene was put together. I thought that it turned out looking very nice and the editing helped make it visually appealing. Playing the Dude was hard and I think it came across that I didn't have the best handle on the character while watching the scene. Something that I am going to be working on after watching my scene is doing a better job of giving either more or less energy depending on the shot. You cannot give the same amount of energy during a wideshot as well a s close up. I know this now and have a better grasp on what I need to do to fix