This is my first Performance Blog which I made today, we started to learn about performance in CRAM and it will be our first assessed unit.
Today we learned the difference of acting on stage, and acting on film, we learned about tricks on camera, like filming at different angles, close-ups, medium shots, long shots, and we also learned about how when acting on film you don't have to act with all of your body like on stage, it could be a close-up of your hands and only act with your hands.
When on Stage you have to be more dramatic than on film, film is more realistic and more like real life, Like the picture above shows that when on stage you have to use bigger gestures and be much more dramatic than on film, and also when your on stage you only have one chance to get it right so its much more tense and dramatic, when your on stage you would have to shout if you wanted to whisper so the audience could hear you but on film you would only have to whisper loud enough for the sound to reach the microphone, when on film you could have as many takes as you need to get it right.
We learned a bit about hand filming today and how to show emotion with our hands and to only act with them, so on film you can do a close-up of someones hand and they won't need to act with their entire body.
We also learned more about editing, how much better a clip can be with just a bit of editing, we edited a clip that some Parkside students made, and we made the clip a lot better just with some editing and cutting out bits and making it into like a short movie.
http://www.ehow.com/video_5226019_acting-film-tips.html
This Video gives tips about what to do when being filmed and how it is different than being on stage, i think the video is quite useful and gives good advice to people who are actors, it tells you about the sound too and how it is different than on stage and how you have to be "tight" while on camera.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/may/09/matthew-macfadyen-acting-mediums
This article is about what Matthew Macfayden thinks of filming and being on stage, he thinks they're not actually that different, and that you don't have to act that differently like he says "But if I walk across a stage, I'm not going to walk in a different way to the way I walk on screen." He thinks that sometimes people get too tense on camera and the clips can be edited so much that they turn out completely different than you would expect them to be.
This is a picture of Matthew Macfadyen acting in a film with Kiera Knightley.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1945to1951/filmpage_cas.htm
This video is from the 1945-1951 time period, it is about spreading germs and becoming ill, the video is in black and white and humour is added to make it more interesting and funny to watch.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1951to1964/filmpage_streaked.htm
This video is from the 1951-1964 time period its about a lightning jet and it once beat the world-air speed record, the video shows the jet flying at top speed, it was used in the Royal Air Force.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_jobs.htm
This video is from the 1964-1979 time period, its about teenage girls going to work for the first time, and them growing up basically, its an animated video.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1979to2006/filmpage_dummy.htm
This video is from the 1979-2006 time period, its about drug misuse and how heroin ruins people's lives.
The videos change from the time periods, first the video was black and white, then they became colour and had better effects and sound, and the videos became a lot better as the time passed by, the videos are more efficient now and have better effects and are filmed better and of course better quality, and also better sound.
