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Over the Yuletide season i came up with a stupid idea, that was to take on the decision to do a short starring myself, on the basis as an aim to become a better director by the directing the most diffilcult person i know myself.
Im shooting it next week, its called Killing Amy and is basicly a cascade of monoluge s, but it is spookily turning into a most serious project and im looking quite forward to seeing the result
anyone else ever directed themselves ?
Chance
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Hey there.
1 word. Video Playback.
Erm... thats two words. DAMB.. I was never good at math.
Despin out.
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Or spelling (what is 'damb'?). http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif
No offence intended but I couldn't resist.
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Yes, I always star in the films I direct. Depending where you're shooting it, just get someone else to operate the camera. Tell them what you're going to do, and do it.
The only thing I hate is that all my friends are inexperienced and don't know how to create good shots with the camera whilst im acting. (I consider myself a v good DOP you see).
Still.
Go for it chance.
Oh, and no idea on the DAMB thing.
Hows aboot, the Damb Busters?
oh btw Fatal Instinct (on bbc last nite) sucked ass.
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Mods
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speaking of movies on bbc:
MEET JOE BLACK, on bbc 2 last night -
I didn't get the ending cos I wasn't concentrating, so if anyone wants to explain it.... http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif like death walks back over the bridge and is that dude from the coffee shop? Arghhh :S confused
oh, and good luck chance!
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[This message has been edited by Vlad the Impaler (edited January 03, 2002).]
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Chancy boy,
Just as long as you aint the DP i guess...
if u shoot with video assist with playback bits then i guess you just er playback... or something...
Can u tell I haven't a clue?
PDM
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telling someone else what it is im going to do isnt directing myself if you get my drift.
as mention its a serious of monlouges and i have a cunning plan, involving several cables two cameras a projector and two screens.(and a strobe light!=-wohooo) but i will be playing everythign back after each take.
but expanding on my theory behind this, I know as a director the performance i want, Im not an actor so the challenge is to get the performance i want as a director out of myself. giving it the full stani boy slolaski treatment as well.
Chance
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Give it a go - should be fine and you may see yourself in a new light - strobe or no strobe...
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tell you what is seriopusly cewl though is connecting the video out of a camera to a projector, flipping on the strobe then filming the projected image with teh strobe through the camera and yuo get this extremly cewl warp effect
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No Chance what I meant is you direct them.
I mean, you can't expect them to know you're going to fall out of the window behind you, they'd miss the shot.
If you told them you wanted them to follow you up to the window, then you're directing them and yourself.
Mods
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when being your own actor you need one of if not all three things.
1 the ability to look at your performance without ego.
a This works because
b This stinks because
you have to be able to step outside yourself and observe dispassionatly.
2 An honest informed audience or other observer to give feedback. Someone or a group the opinion of you can trust, even if you disagree.
3 Time: If you can create something, shelf it for a few months forget about it then go back and rewatch it....... That distance gives you perspective.
another trick is the cup shuffle.
Have you ever taken a drink of milk thinking it was a diet soda?
Or put in the wrong tape and walked back into the room while distracted by something else?
If your first thought is what the....
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I find when I direct myself the other actors seem to think I'm playing favorites.
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Sorry Mods thats not directing in my book,
if just telling people what it is your going to do or what is going to happen is directing then everybody would be doing it
Im after a very very distinct performance, and its up to myslef as one as an actor to give that performance and two as a director to get that performance
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also i would be a bit worried if my cameraman didnt know what shots we were shooting
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So are you simply saying you won't use anyone else to do any camera work etc, you'll do it all yourself?
Mods
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no, im saying theres more to directing than simply telling someone what the shot is and what is going to happen
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Just don't ramble on for half an hour about how you've done something terrible. Never have I seen so many people asleep in a cinema...
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I have directed myself a few times, but that is always in the situation were i can't get someone that fits the part, and all my characters are derived from a certain side of me, so I can play them if need be. Also I am convinced that you make a better director if you are a good actor. But not neccessarily vis versa.
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Hey there.
Woody Allan anyone? Charlie Chaplin? Shit even Kevin Smith does it. I would have though you just need a camera operator you can trust. That or just lock the camera down. Get a stand in to erm.... Stand in while you frame the shot. Then take his place. Call action. (you do trust people to press record on the camera. Dont you?) Do your shit. Call cut. Play back the shot. like it/hate it and continue arcordingly.
I admit Ive never done it. B ut can it be that hard?
Despin out.
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I've done it. Yes Despin it really is quite simple. I can't understand all this stuff about not "trusting" the camera op. You guys are so precious! I wonder would your crew be so eager to work with you if they knew the contempt you hold them in. Go on, hand over the camera for a few shots, you might actually learn something! Even if its just how shoddy an actor you are...
Incidentally I never watch a shot after I shoot it. Seems to break timecode.
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[This message has been edited by Generic Skinhead (edited January 05, 2002).]
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I get that, generic. So I record for about an extra 10 seconds before and after a shot. Problem solved.
Incidentally, I intend to direct myself in my next project, but I'm taking the Kevin Smith approach and casting myself in a supporting role, so I'm behind the camera most of the time. I'd never take the lead in my own project.
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And having just posted that, I realise that Smith was one of the leads in Jay and Silent Bob StrikeBack. Don't I feel a fool.
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have any of you seen movies from takeshi kitano? he always directs himself, and his movies are wonderfull!!
check him out!
ciao
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