The Final Silent Movie

Our silent movie, in the end, can be described as... interesting, to say the least. In my personal opinion, we did well. That being said, there are some that beg to differ. Either way, we learned many new things that can relate to other parts of acting. Part of this involved the skill of body language, which is helpful when acting in anything. Although this particular body language was very much over exaggerated, the importance of it is clearly demonstrated. We managed to convey to an audience a plot line without any spoken lines, proving the power of our body language.

Furthermore, our facial and body expressions made the plot quite obvious, for it could be seen in our face. This worked to our advantage, because it made the movie easier to understand. The simple yet descriptive set also "set" the tone - it didn't look 100% real, but not 100% fake either. People could tell we were acting, which is partly the whole point of a silent movie.

In addition, the computer editing really helped. We were able to speed up the end, which made it funnier, and add music for effect. The music we chose was quite generic, but it worked for the specific plot line of our scene, that was not generic at all. We were also able to add "Three hours later" between two parts, helping to  show how time has passed.

I personally found my part to be mediocre. It really could have been better. Watching it over, I realized that many of my actions weren't even in the shot, which sort of defeated the idea of doing anything extra at all. Also, in the scene where I get mad, it almost looks like I'm dancing. My heads nodding and my arms are waving. We didn't have to make that part so sped up, because it just added to the problem.  

I definitely improved my facial expressions. Since I have always had to say lines, not act them it, I never really noticed how much that facial movements can really show emotion. I think this was true for everybody else, as well. When acting with lines you rely on the words and your delivery of them to show emotion, or to stir up a feeling in the audience. However, in a silent movie, we didn't have that advantage.

I had difficulty getting into character for this part, In previous performances, I've had the way the character talks, sarcasm or anything to determine what they were like. Here, I had to not only make it up myself but also guess what she was like. I think in the end it worked out pretty well, but for a while it was difficult to do.

We, as a group, need to work on our focusing skills. We can't do a scene without dying of laughter. While the video may have looked okay, what you don't see is us cracking up in the background because of somebody dancing or falling or something else stupid.

But we ended up okay, and that's all that counts

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