Preliminary Exercise (Activity 3): Acting

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As many know already, acting plays a huge role in film. When there’s bad acting in a movie, the movie is immediately rated poorly. Acting refers to the art of human representation or interpretation of a character. This is also the most obvious element to observe and analyze. Acting can be analyzed by the manner of their voice, body, and face. Actors portrays a character through their appearance, facial expressions, body language, voice, and mannerisms. The three main styles of acting are classical, naturalistic, and stylized/non-naturalistic. Classical acting focuses on control and precision, rather than emotion orientated. Naturalistic acting is more subtle and realistic. Stylized acting is when their acting is exaggerated.

For this part of the PowerPoint, we had to analyze the acting in the opening film. For this part I worked on it with two other people. I did the definitions of acting and its elements. While the other two each picked a character from the movie and analyzed the acting elements. We had to look for both visual and audio codes to help us analyze the acting. Most of the acting done in this film were naturalistic acting. We could tell this from their subtle smile and relaxed facial expressions. Their movements and gestures were also very subtle and seemed as they were having a normal conversation as you would see in real life.

While acting is very important for film, I also feel like in my case this concept is not as important to know. I feel like Cambridge is more focused on us applying the concept of camera angles, framing, and mise en scene. These things are what Cambridge wants us to know. I feel like our acting has to at least be in mediocre level. This is why I feel like the concept of acting is not that important to know for making my movie.

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