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Writing tagged Acting

  1. Deeper feelings, conflict and technique

    I recently did an acting-for-camera class which was really good.

  2. w/e 2019-12-08

    Trying to improve at acting, Marriage Story, Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway, and Spiral.

  3. Me as a vampire

    I while back I was in an advert as a vampire, and here it is.

  4. w/e 2019-08-11

    Kero Kero Bonito. The Orielles, Keeping Faith, Animals, Notorious, a successful audition, and another appearance on Google Street View.

  5. Get to 100%

    What I’ve been doing acting-wise this year so far.

  6. ‘The Actor’s Guide to Creating a Character’ by William Esper and Damon DiMarco

    My notes after reading the book.

  7. Overnight

    Five things from an overnight shoot for a short film.

  8. Wait, wait, GO!

    This week I spent three days acting in a student film, which was fun.

  9. On telly

    I’ll be on TV in a thing I acted in a few months ago.

  10. 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.

  11. w/e 30 September 2018

    My first paid acting work; ‘17c’ at the Old Vic; ‘Trust’; and Mastodon compared to Twitter.

  12. w/e 29 July 2018

    ‘Wolf Hall’ and realistic plays, ‘Brighton Rock’, Jenny Holzer, weeknotes.

  13. 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.

  14. ‘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.

  15. f/e 18 March 2018

    Trying to combine two kinds of acting, and ‘Transparent’.

  16. w/e 11 February 2018

    More acting classes, part-way through another laborious personal project, season six of ‘Spiral’, and episode recaps.

  17. f/e 21 Jan 2018

    Two plays, season one of ‘Justified’, a new term of acting classes, and a “workshop”.

  18. w/e 17 December 2017

    This week, double acting and sort-of-finishing some code.

  19. w/e 26 November 2017

    A good mixture of acting stuff and web stuff this week.

  20. 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.

  21. Selective Listening

    I had a scene in a film which you can now view online for free.

  22. Failing and trying and failing and trying again

    I’ve started doing some acting classes again, after about eight years of no acting.

  23. Teaching web development to design students

    What I taught to students at Goldsmiths and how it went.

  24. 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.

  25. Flexible with strong faces

    Examples of odd and interesting casting calls sent out for adverts.