We were given an exercise about TYPE CASTING to do in groups of threes. We each had to interview the other person, asking them various questions which were;
- What is your full name?
- Where are you from?
- Tell us something funny or embarrassing about your childhood
- What is the difference between acting for stage and acting for camera?
- What is your favourite film and why?
- Tell us a secret about yourself...
I was in a group with Greta and Chloe and after they asked me these questions they wrote down how they perceived me as an actor and answered questions they were given, here are my results from my " interview" with Greta and Chloe;
- What is their age range? : 17-23
- City or Country?: City
- Upper class or working class: Both
- Where in the world?: England, America, Southern Europe(Italy, Spain or Greece), Mexico
- What roles could they play?: Love interest, Popular girl, Bitchy character, High status character, for working class casting could see Sophia as a Spanish/Mexican bar tender and for upper class could see Sophia as a rich, beautiful mean girl in a Comedy or Rom Com. Could also see her in a serious drama also.
My reaction to this casting....
I agree with this type casing as it is what I would like to play in films/TV. And I feel I am good at playing these roles and have already played a "mean girl" character in a short scene I did for the BBC. I would like to be cast into serious drama's more so than "rom coms"
Overall I am happy with this casting and I feel Greta and Chloe definitely got the way I look right, as I have Spanish and Italian in my family and I am happy that this is visually noticeable!
We also started to learn about the making of scenes in a film and the different shot angles needed. Myself and Sav were used as an example in front of the class, we were both standing facing each other having a conversation. The shots needed for this scene are:
Master Shot- the establishing shot
Medium Shot
A close up of Sav, and then the same shots for myself.
We learned about "Continuity" and how important it is for films and TV shows.
Continuity for an actor means that everything has to remain the same, for example, in between scenes of a film, an actress cannot return back to set with her hair different, or her make up different, as this will be so noticeable in a film as it would be the same scene, and there is always a Continuity member of staff who will make sure this does not happen.
General Continuity is for props, food and drink are always the hardest to keep continuity. We were discussing how in films and TV shows we have all noticed in some scenes that a cup will be empty one second and then full the next second, or food will move places in the scene, this is not as important as Actor continuity but it is still noticeable, as we have all said how we have noticed this in films!
We learned about blocking for film and how different the meaning is as opposed to blocking in theatre. Blocking in film means that the actor has certain mark points on the floor they need to move to during the scene, they will have to know these markers off by heart, as if they do not, when shooting the scene the actor will be seen looking down on the floor to see where they have to move to, and this does not look good in films if the actor is not looking up during a conversation with someone. So the actor will always need to know where they are going and remain focused in the scene and make sure not to look down.
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