5 Acting Tips That Will Help You Give (And Get) Better Performances: Analysis

    "If you're an actor, giving a great performance is your chief concern while shooting a scene—and if you're a director, it's all about gettingone, but acting isn't as easy as saying a few lines and not looking directly into the camera." (No Film School, 5 Acting Tips That Will Help You Give (And Get) Better Performances), this perfectly sums up all of this video and article, obviously there is more to it.
   Good acting is one of the most important and needed elements of a film whether it being an ad, movie, show, etc. The more the actor is engaged and putting in a non pathetic passion into their acting, the better it is for everyone on set. 
   There is practically a list of how to be a good actor/be useful on set:
1.) Know your lines: It's pretty obvious, just do the director and everyone a favor and rehearse your lines a lot and know when to say them.
2.) Managing time: Don't just sit around during takes, as in "1.)", rehears your lines, see what can be done to make the scene better, help the production.
3.) Filling of takes: Don't just preform an action so simple that it in its entirety is dry and tasteless, put some umph some spunk in it to where there is a bit of reality within the shot.
4.) Continuity: By far one of the most important part of the list. Stay consistent through every shot (shots of same scene). It'll save the production and editing tem so much work if you keep that in mind.
5.) Taking Directions: Another very important part of the list, the need to have a strong connection with the director and the actor. In order to follow directions the best way is to have a connection to where communication between the two is strong and easy to be understood
   

Weekly Comments

Week 6, week 7 is it? Ah why does it matter, I'm enjoying Boces anyway. In my personal opinion we haven't really done anything I like lately but I understand we need to learn the basics for Premiere (video editing program), so I will not complain.

This past week was stressful, school wise anyway. we had demos upon demos. others were able to handle it well, me not so much. I'm not talking emotionally or anything, it just took me a long time to do the demos. I required my friend's help all day long one day, thankfully he was practically ahead so it didn't really affect him. I'm almost caught up, I still have to finish demo 3 and do demo 4. Thank god we also have Monday to work on it all.

How Cinematographers Use Geometric Shapes to Tell Stories with Visuals: Analysis

     Through out the time of animation animators have made infamous, beloved, and odd characters. besides their action that made them memorable, what help us define them the roles that they were given? Geometric shapes help us conceive the idea of what role they hold, as in protagonist/lovable or evil/antagonist. This doesn't just apply to animators but all of cinematography.

     Geometric shapes have everything to do with animation when you truly pay attention to it. As being a former animator i can definitely see it. For instance,  though its not animation, what do you think of Sauron (TheDark Lord in Lord of the Rings). Isn't his armor very sharp, jagged? Also with animation, like the Horned king in The Black Cauldron, he's thin, sharp edged and sinister. Villans are usually filled with triangles (made up of for their shape). Take Maleficent for instance, her horns and face a practically made up with triangles. The antagonists tend to have sharper shapes that highlight the contour of their body. Another example, the Devil,  what is his goatee in the shape of? A sharp triangle. If you can put in subtly it will produce an emotional effect on the viewer without them even noticing.
     Another shape that gives off a emotional value is a square/quadrilateral. Think of the movie Up, the main protagonists face is made up of a square. Possibly meaning he's stuck in his old ways, he doesn't want to change to what society has now. I say that because when you see a younger version of him, his face is round. Quadrilaterals can also give off a feeling of being limited or trapped in whatever situation is being presented.
     When you think about it, looking at all these characters in movies, shapes being a part of what people associate in them makes perfect sense.

Weekly comments

   This week was decent. It could have gone a lot better (not school related). During this week i actually got finished before everyone, I wasn't rushing or anything I just worked on my projects faster than usual. I hope that doesn't mean my grades will be lower. I doubt it.
   The only thing that bothered/frustrated me this week was personal problems, nothing with school.
   A thing that made me happy was like I said, being ahead of everyone and being able to relax for a bit. I don't really get to that point because i usually procrastinate.. Still a problem.
   To be honest, nothing really interested me this week, especially related to the class. The only thing would be Dank Crusader memes but i learned the hard way why that's not a good idea. Haha.
   I am still a bit interested in photo restoration in the future but drawing in Photoshop seems to me be a bit more interesting. Because I still don't know how to do it correctly.
 

Article/video response(analysis): 

  Theme, oh the use of them. It is usually a essential asset to a story. When I was little I understood it but didn't at the same time. I thought it only required a vague generalization for the story's "moral of the story". Oh how I was wrong. A theme is a more related, detailed analysis of what the story's lesson is whether it being a show, movie, book etc. For instance, when you look at the "Return of the Jedi", you don't just say "good conquers evil"; NO THAT'S TOO VAGUE, you should probably say something like "Though one has been corrupted to their very soul, they always have a chance to redeem themselves". People always thought the movie was about Luke's return but when you actually look at it, it was about his father Darth Vader. Of course the only way to truly see the them is to study the film. Also to study the protagonist's journey and see how it molds them. Looking at that analysis and compare it to the movie, it makes more sense than just saying the generic "good conquers all".

  Themes can be thought of before the creation of the story or just materialize before the writer while creating his/her project. Either one works depending on the person creating the story. There is no rule book on how to create a theme, it just happens. It can be called a loose theme. From personal experience, its good (for me) to have a rough idea but to draw in the details later. Just so I can be organized in some way. You don't need to but that's my personal recommendation.
  It's hard to imagine a movie or any type of media without some sort of theme. Kids movies have upbeat motivational themes and adult films tend to have realistic themes that tend to connect sometimes almost on a spiritual level. Themes tend to show a comparison to what the writers state of mind is in. Sorta subliminal subconscious message that wants to get out. It's interesting because you can see it a lot within the writers work.

Weekly Comments:

This week has also been tolerable to me. I mean, I tend to almost always have a pessimistic attitude towards a lot of things but that isn't the point really. Procrastination has begun to shift in, as if it never has left ha. I need to work on that, obviously. In class we had to do a crossbreed project... I had such amazing ideas but my level of knowledge in Photoshop halted my attempts. I had originally tried to create a Panzer/Turtle hybrid. It was a fiasco. I then tried a shark and a submarine, less complicated but still din't work. My final attempt and creation was a shark/horse hybrid. It was tolerable. I'm kinda wanting to learn how to paint in Photoshop, my art teacher from my high school recently let me borrow a book from her that talks about painting styles, design, etc. I was really interested in the book because she actually let me keep it for a bit. I read a bit, studied a bit, I might even by it (not from her though).

This is actually the book cover. I would advise looking into it because it gives step by step details to do some special techniques. It sure interested me enough to where I would advise it to you. You can get it on Amazon or at a book store.