Thursday, October 15, 2009

Adding in Dialogue

**Disclaimer: I do not know what happened with my font. I don't like this either.

This gave us a lot more freedom with the situation and how to create our characters. I got to play a mob boss which would not have necessarily fit in with the original dialogue but after we added in a few of our own lines, it flowed well with the lines we were already given. I now fully appreciate screenwriters and the playwrights. They have intensely difficult jobs. We had already been given enough lines to start out but they have nothing and need to create a whole new something. Characters, plot, everything. Those people have such a huge amount of talent it's crazy. I worked with Cindy and Anna for this and besides out mob boss scene, our other one was about two girls fighting over a guy. These two situations are really far away from each other but it fit for both since we could change the dialogue ourselves. We had a bit of trouble deciding what to do and say though because little things can change what we want the audience to see and confuse them. Even movements and nervous twitching can give the audience the wrong idea. On a semi-related topic, I still can't get rid of that feeling that acting is magical. Even though it is essentially lying plus movement, it just has this little glow around it and I still freaking love it.

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