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The Great Acting Blog: “Build It On Solid Craft”

24.04.2013 , Noirish Project, Uncategorized , 20 Comments

In last weeks post, I mentioned that I finally felt a sense of harmony between my acting and filmmaking activities, that I'd finally cast off the clumsiness which had hitherto accompanied my attempts to switch between the two roles. I had never suffered this clumsiness...

The Great Acting Blog: “Steps Towards Actor-Filmmaking”

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] One of the great things about acting (if you're diligent and willing) is that you can improve your work very, very quickly. Why? Because of it's simplicity. The only thing you need in order to act is yourself, you don't need personnel or technology...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Very Physical Challenge”

03.04.2013 , Noirish Project, The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The next work to be done on Noirish Project will be scenes near the end of the film. They aim to show Jimmy's isolation and aimlessness. There will also be no dialogue in these scenes, everything about the character will be shown physically here. Naturally,...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Power Of Idealism – Part 2”

27.03.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 18 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Following on from my piece last week on Idealism, I wanted to define better what I thought idealism actually was, and came up with the following; Idealism is belief in an idea, which goes beyond career, or accolade, or material gain, and it is...

Noirish Project Blog: “The Actor’s Nature & The Script”

23.03.2013 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] I had originally thought that the script for Noirish Project was very simple and slight - although there are several moments of high drama, mostly the script is laid-back, often the characters are engaged in small talk. However, as I've done more and more...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Power Of Idealism”

20.03.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Idealism is an extraordinarily powerful thing. It can inspire us to undertake great works, overcome enormous obstacles, and provide our lives with meaning and direction and energy - we all know the feeling when we do something which we truly believe in. And...

Noirish Project Blog: “Working The Scene”

17.03.2013 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] We had a wonderfully intense and productive rehearsal today. What I'm talking about here is script analysis, which means sitting around with the script and thrashing out what we think the characters are literally doing in the scene, reducing the scene down to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Use Your Imagination”

13.03.2013 , Noirish Project, The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Work on Noirish Project continues apace...

The Great Acting Blog: “Poetic Acting In Noirish Project”

06.03.2013 , Noirish Project, The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

[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...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Are Not Children”

27.02.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 6 Comments

[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...

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