Watching the performances in the Door and Stairs edits was very interesting, in particular watching the difference of my personal performance of the same character in two different interpretations of the scene. In the first interpretation, the more abstract and less conventional interpretation, my performance was wooden and did not aid the scene in any way. A major part of a scene’s, and film’s, effectiveness is the acting and if this is bad or not suited to the scene or film in someway it can upset the whole thing. I feel like this was the outcome of my performance in the first interpretation of Doors.
I somehow was roped into acting in both interpretations of the scene, within the executive group I was in, I was meant to act as the character Van, when I was meant to be one of the support roles, the whole executive group did not turn up, so I was the obvious choice to fill in for them.
The second interpretation of the scene, the one in which I was originally acting in, my performance was miles better. I am not saying that is was great, or anything close to the performances that can make a film, but it was heaps better than my first attempt. On reflection I think that this could have been caused by one of these reasons, or a perhaps a combination of them all:
- Practice
The Second time I did it, I knew the lines so had less to think about, and I had already been on camera for the other one so I was used to people watching me ‘act’ so felt more comfortable.
- Interpretations
The second interpretation was far more straightforward so the actions and things I was instructed to do were simple and made sense.
- Understanding what was going on
The fact that the second interpretation was the one that I was in the executive group for I think was a major role in my performance being better. I was knew what was going to happen before I had to do it, I was ‘in the know’ so this made things easier on me.
- Clear direction
The direction that I was given was a lot clearer in the second interpretation. I feel that the group was more cohesive and had their roles more clearly defined than the first, this meant that there was one clear objective; this made it a calm and easy environment to work in.