Directing or Acting?
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Directing or Acting?
What do you prefer. Directing or Acting? I would choose Directing because I like being behind the camera rather than infront of it.
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This is a bit of a weird question really! Especially on a film making forum. It's a bit like saying "What's your favourite bit about gardening, mowing the lawn or building a shed?"
What I will say though, is that I wish I could act and I wish I enjoyed acting. It would be a lot easier and a great way to make a fast buck
What I will say though, is that I wish I could act and I wish I enjoyed acting. It would be a lot easier and a great way to make a fast buck
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It's difficult. I'm apparently a very good actor (I have the highest grade in the school) but my heart is behind the camera. I love acting but I don't trust anybody else to film something correctly So more often than not I'm behind the camera, although I will have a pretty substantial role in our next film.
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I prefer to direct, but I had to act in my latest production. It was a good experience, because I got to go through first hand of what it's like to act. It's one thing to tell your actor, "OK, you need to do this, and show this type of emotion", but it's an entirely different thing to actually experience it and step in their shoes. Every director should act, if at least for the reason to explain that they understand what it's like to act, which gives them the authority and experience to direct others.
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because and I think some people don't see this, that there is a differance between know how to act, and being able to act. Such as I understand the consepts and prinsapals of acting, but am a rubbish actor at best.Ornsack wrote:I agree. If you don't know how to act then you'll have a hard time directing your actorsALove wrote:I think it's important for every director to experience acting in some way
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ALove wrote: I think it's important for every director to experience acting in some way, so you can understand the stress from the acting process and how to better help actors reach their best performances.
I do that in most* of my films. Mostly because only two of us make them! I decide the shot we are gonna use then get infront of the camera. In my films we don't feel much stress because they are such low scale films and they last for about 3-4 minutes.
* I say most films not all because some of them are Lego. I like doing lego because I get some good effects in them. By the way, who here makes lego films?!
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