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Acting for Film & TV
Subtle, yet revealing.
Gentle, yet willing roar-appropriate.
Reserved, yet hardly conservative.
Make it real as ever, no matter in which arena - stage or camera - you perform.
But these are the best ways to describe and define acting for film and television, specifically.
The emotion and intensity of the character must be still be strong and intact, but the volume of the actor must remain in check.
The depth and sincerity of the character should be present. But save any shallow performance for your high-school production,
and just make sure to not go off the deep-end for your on-camera performance, as much as you on the live stage.
It's not really a fine line at all. In fact, the line is very wide and thick, so much so that you could see it from the back
of the theatre if, when performing on camera, you were in one. But since you're not, as high theatre has no place when acting
for the camera (unless you've just been cast in an action, adventure film, or horror film), the best way to perform on camera
is to always think you've been cast in some intimate little independent movie that concentrates on character development.
Don't whisper your performance in, but speak it, as you would in a casual conversation with a friend or family member.
Because that's usually who your character will be interacting with anyway - a friend or a family member.
Ideally, when first approaching your dialogue acting for film or television, speak it as if YOU - the actual person - were
saying it first. Then find your "motivation" for the piece, etc. Then combine how YOU would say it, with how the CHARACTER
would say it - and then speak it in a regular audible manner. No whispers. No screams. But again, as I think I've said
somewhere before, speak it like Goldilocks finding her perfect bed: "Just right."
Herbie J Pilato is an Actor, Writer, Author, Producer, and Singer/Songwriter.
Herbie J has appeared and/or produced hundreds of radio and TV shows, including
Bravo's hit five-part series, The 100 Greatest TV Characters, E!
True Hollywood Stories on Bewitched and David Carradine,
A&E Biographies of Elizabeth Montgomery and Lee
Majors, Entertainment Tonight, The Learning Channel's Behind
the Fame specials on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob
Newhart Show, LA Law and Hill Street Blues, and the Syfy
Channel's Sciography series. He's served as a consultant for the special
DVD releases of Bewitched, CHiPS, and Kung
Fu, as well as on Nora Ephron's Bewitched feature film. As an
actor, Herbie J has appeared on everything from Highway to Heaven to
The Golden Girls to General Hospital and
The Bold and the Beautiful. As a director, he's guided mainstage productions
of A Phoenix Too Frequent, Leonard Malfi's Birdbath, and Little
Shop of Horrors. Herbie J's books include: NBC & ME: My Life As A
Page In A Book (BearManor Media, 2009), The Bionic Book: The
Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman Reconstructed (BearManor
Media, 2008), Life Story - The Book of Life Goes On: TV's First and Best
Family Show of Challenge (BearManor Media, 2007), Bewitched
Forever (Tapestry, 2004/2001, Summit/1996), The Kung Fu Book of
Wisdom (Tuttle, 1995), The Kung Fu Book of Caine
(1993) and The Bewitched Book (Dell, 1992). He's toured with
Nik and Nice Guys (America's #1 Party Band) as "Frankie Vallie,"
and also performs as "Frankie Vallie" with Frank's Rat Pack.
He released his first music CD, Two, in 2008. To order the CD, or any one of
his books, email hjpilato@aol.com or visit
www.herbiejpilato.blogspot.com. You
could also visit Herbie J through Twitter, LinkedIn,
or Facebook via
http://twitter.com/HerbieJPilato,
http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_tab_pro and
http://www.facebook.com/#/HerbieJPilato?ref=profile.
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