Rick Borgia's Lounge Discussions

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As an actor for both stage and film, I don't see the difference. People say that it is completely different, yet I only see a difference in the scope. On stage, your audience is fixed, and you have to adjust your performance depending on the size and closeness of the audience. In TV/Film, the audience (or camera) can move and pan, and you still have to adjust your performance depending on where and how close that camera is. In regards to building character, working with other actors, taking direction, and creating believable performances, I find them both the same. It is only in certain technical aspects that any difference exists.

Jeff "It is only in certain technical aspects that any difference exists." well that's a pretty big aspect! There are things you can get away with on stage that you can't get away with on camera and vice versa. You're operating at a whole different sweet spot in terms of range, how big or small you can go.
In film, you can just "be". If you just "be" on stage, that's not enough. Doesn't mean don't be truthful, but from that truth you do then put on a performance and elevate what you're doing to fill the room and be technically heard by the last row.

I disagree. In my experience, it has only been to extend the awareness of the scope of the performance. When performing on stage to a small theatre, where the audience is close and intimate, you reduce the performance because there is no need to physicalise your expressions, as you would do in a large theatre with a very distance audience. In film, you can push that intimacy and closeness even further. Being aware of you scope as an actor in with film and theatre is the important consideration from a technical stand point. Beyond that, there is little if any difference. I still create characters in the same way, I still develop a reaction to my co-actors in the same way, that doesn't change. For me at least, wrapping my head around the difference between theatre a film is not that hard. Maybe this is just something I experience. I don't know.

whatever works, bro! I think as actors we have our own way of approaching things and i hear what you're saying. For me, I need to segregate the two mediums (media?) as they feel substantially different as I tackle them. You get my drift.

That I totally get. Everyone has their own groove. I guess my biggest concern is that the differences are often over stated, and many young actors I have worked with have often expressed a deep reluctance to try the other side because of this perceived great divide. I try to show them the differences are not that extreme.

You remind me of Jim Garner....

Walking on a staircase is just as unlucky as walking under them!

Played that role good, looked like the stone cold revenge killer you were supposed to be. Good work

Hey Rick , nice to see you here ;)

What a great reel!

You are a force...

Amazing work!

Elisha, this is great for a trailer or music video. This you can do easily it seems. If this is what you want to do I think you're solid. As an editor I would be more interested in scenes. How do you put together narrative scenes. What's your pacing like in dialogue? Do you let scenes breathe or is it just quick edits like a trailer? If you can get ahold of original footage that you can edit would be great. The performances you show here have been chosen for you. Choosing between different takes of a performance is the first start of an edit.

Hey! Thanks for the advice! I would give anything to get hold of original footage but for now all I can do is the trailer kind, but I do love doing that! It's hard living in a city where movies and such are not a big thing. My dream is to move to LA or somewhere in America where they do actually have jobs for people in the film industry. But yeah, money is an issue and also VISA. Thanks for the advice again :)

Great video, Elisha, congratulations :)

I really liked it!

Nice Title!

Ken you are so right!

I started by playing a brass instrument, and 15 years into that, the necessity arose where I needed to write some music (which I had received training, sort of, in school, several years prior) for me to record in some Dutch studios..the first arrangements were good...I kept them simple, and built from there...a bit more complex harmonically, and with the Mancini book "Sounds And Scores", I was able to greatly enhance my soundscape by introducing new instruments into my scores....arranging ultimately gave birth to songwriting and composing in 1968...I decided that I liked to write songs and I got progressively better at it! The film thing began out of a necessity, once again, to write a film score! I ran in to John Williams at Paramount one day...a little chit chat and he casually mentioned that he had 10 films on his drawing board...I had none! That was the same day I started working on my first screenplay! We have a dozen! If you're curious, its on my Stage32 page... I felt that my chances of 'nabbing' an assignment with 'competitors' like Williams and the Newman's was somewhere between slim and none..... Along this new path, we made a documentary film of and with the great Cuban-American ex-patriot genius trumpeter Arturo Sandoval! Eventually, I will produce, direct and act(I was in the original "Inlaws", and the follow-up to "Napolelon Dynamite" by the same people) (and probably sing too) in one of our plays... Its just the way my life has been going....

Agreed! I get scripts frequently that aren't even formatted properly. Waste of time...

I think people are getting better at everything because the ease of which there is to do so. Making a film is no longer a foreign thing like it was in the past which is evident by how young people are when they start creating. While yes, I agree, that it is ideal to work with people who are amazing at their aspect of film making, having and understand of all of it helps the whole process... and with the quality of cameras, attachable mics, and simple lighting set ups it would be hard for someone to do the whole thing on their own, but far from impossible. @Rick Borgia: yes, because a great story isn't great if its not 'properly formatted'.

it's called talent and being inspired... Don't be hating..lol ..If you can't do or see something, don't worry about who can and why.