Good morning dear readers of mine,
Let us now see to it: some actor-wannabes should be trained to become real actors. How should be proceed?
First we must get them to act even once.
A1-person was willing and well able to act. Though he seems to think of himself as an ‘attitude-actor’ – and is unwilling to liven up anything besides few stereotypes – he was more than little forced in a mold that wasn’t truly his, but then… he changed minor things in the character (mostly dialogue) of the script to better fit the stereotype he wished to play. Nothing particular here: everything worked as expected and everyone was seemingly willing to listen him and let him have his mind. No problem then?
The new character created by A1 was less interesting – less human – version of the character showed in the ‘original’ script, but it was a character nevertless, and the chief of ours decided the him to have his mind after (hopefully) careful thought, so I couldn’t disagree. The playwright (me) was anyhow insulted because his character was killed and a new one created from its ashes… What did I learn from it? Never let anyone think of a character as a particular actor or it will become the actor who defines the character – not the script.
Then there was the subject A2. He seemed enthusiastic actor, but there seems to be one little problem: he doesn’t respect himself too much. Should something happen, he mostly says he is sorry, even though nothing was his fault altogether (it could be a figure of speech anyways). And if he is asked something, he starts to act his best way before listening and fully understanding the point. He seems have hard time remembering and sometimes even understanding points, but that is probably due to his way of seeing things. As I will learn him better, he should become more adaptive to my way of thinking – and otherwise around. He lacks concentration and control – but those two things are learnable. Maybe I should manipulate him a character with an attitude far different from his, the next time we’re shooting a film?
Other things are not yet worth pointing out or I haven’t thought of them enough to write anything clear about them. Those things mentioned above are anyways merely points of view – they’re not everything I have thought of, but are anyways the most important points I should concentrate on: here merely to remind me to think of them in the future.
Thank you.
