Writing tagged Acting
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Deeper feelings, conflict and technique
I recently did an acting-for-camera class which was really good.
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w/e 2019-12-08
Trying to improve at acting, Marriage Story, Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway, and Spiral.
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Me as a vampire
I while back I was in an advert as a vampire, and here it is.
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w/e 2019-08-11
Kero Kero Bonito. The Orielles, Keeping Faith, Animals, Notorious, a successful audition, and another appearance on Google Street View.
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Get to 100%
What I’ve been doing acting-wise this year so far.
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‘The Actor’s Guide to Creating a Character’ by William Esper and Damon DiMarco
My notes after reading the book.
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Overnight
Five things from an overnight shoot for a short film.
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Wait, wait, GO!
This week I spent three days acting in a student film, which was fun.
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On telly
I’ll be on TV in a thing I acted in a few months ago.
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w/e 14 October 2018
‘Can You Feel It’ and some re-discovered house music; ‘A Star is Born’, ‘Phonogram: The Singles Club’; an acting class; ‘Killing Eve’; and Mark Kozelek at Union Chapel.
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w/e 30 September 2018
My first paid acting work; ‘17c’ at the Old Vic; ‘Trust’; and Mastodon compared to Twitter.
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w/e 29 July 2018
‘Wolf Hall’ and realistic plays, ‘Brighton Rock’, Jenny Holzer, weeknotes.
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w/e 8 July 2018
Ellsworth Kelly’s photographs; writing and filming a scene for my showreel; more Ask MeFi questions; and a happy video.
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‘The Actor’s Art and Craft’ by William Esper and Damon DiMarco
My notes on the book that recounts a year’s worth of Esper teaching his variation of the Meisner acting technique.
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f/e 18 March 2018
Trying to combine two kinds of acting, and ‘Transparent’.
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w/e 11 February 2018
More acting classes, part-way through another laborious personal project, season six of ‘Spiral’, and episode recaps.
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f/e 21 Jan 2018
Two plays, season one of ‘Justified’, a new term of acting classes, and a “workshop”.
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w/e 17 December 2017
This week, double acting and sort-of-finishing some code.
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w/e 26 November 2017
A good mixture of acting stuff and web stuff this week.
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w/e 5 November 2017
This week I spent four hours each weekday exploring how to adapt a classic play, to set it in modern-day England.
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Selective Listening
I had a scene in a film which you can now view online for free.
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Failing and trying and failing and trying again
I’ve started doing some acting classes again, after about eight years of no acting.
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Teaching web development to design students
What I taught to students at Goldsmiths and how it went.
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Collective specular sodomy
Thinking about how giving and accepting criticism is common in creative writing, design and acting courses, but less so in the workplace.
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Flexible with strong faces
Examples of odd and interesting casting calls sent out for adverts.