The Great Acting Blog: “Use Your Imagination”
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The Great Acting Blog: “Poetic Acting In Noirish Project”
[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] As many of you probably already know, filming began on Noirish Project recently, and, generally, it went very smoothly. We all had worked together before, and we all wanted to work on this material, which created, despite the early start on a cold...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Actors Are Not Children”
[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] That actors are children, is a myth put about by certain theatre directors, the object of which, is to help those directors maintain a position of power - it functions as a Trojan Horse: the comment is a designed to seem like some...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Re-Rehearsals”
Production on my new feature film, Noirish Project, will continue through March and April. Meanwhile, a free download of short film, Prelude (To Noirish Project), can be got here. We fully rehearsed scenes last month, only for the shooting of thos...
Read MoreThe Great Actin Blog: “Fear Of Failure”
Commitment is a tricky thing. At the moment just before we need to commit, our minds suggest all kinds of alternatives as preferable to the thing we are about to commit to. One of the reasons commitment is so hard, is because we are putting...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Anyone Can Act In The Same Way Anyone Can Write A Poem”
“Study voice and movement – learn the difference between the beautiful and the attractive. Learn to analyze a script the way a director should and almost none can…Make yourself the expert…Your friends will tell you you are making yourself foolish ...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Creative Process by Alfie Black”
Noirish Project was always going to be a different experience for me. This is my third film Collaboration with writer/director James Devereaux. For me, having the back story prepared for my role is always a necessity. It is this part of the creati...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Short Film Before The Feature Film”
Prelude is now complete, and I am delighted to be sharing the film with you here. Some of you will already know that this is the short film we made when work on our feature film,Noirish Project, was snowed off. Noirish Project is a noir...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Improvising”
Check out this quick teaser I put together. We've still some work to do on the sound, but the film will be completed in the next week or so. I had planned to shoot Noirish Project in two chunks: the first last week, and the...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Noirish Project Rehearsals”
Billy: What if he, y'know, tries to glass us or something? Jimmy: Glass us? Dickie? Dickie wouldn't glass us. You don't know him. He's actually a really nice guy. Billy: I thought you said he was dangerous. Jimmy: I said he was POTENTIALLY dangero...
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