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September 15, 2004
To act or not to act?
Yesterday, my wife Caroline and I spent a number of hours acting in a short video production that will be used for a “tape offer” by our home church Speak the Word (STW). Recently the television staff has been making great strides in raising the bar for themselves in their day-to-day TV production. What once was driven by character generation and voice-overs is now growing into scripted and performed shorts. It’s an encouraging step for us to see them take and even more so for us to be a part of.
Caroline and I both have admitted aspirations to produce films, but this time found ourselves on the other end of the camera. It forced us into a place that wasn’t as comfortable right off, but after a few takes became increasingly more agreeable. Caroline has looked into acting classes and considered joining the Fine Arts Ministry at STW, which focuses mostly on theater and skits at this time, but has also supplied the talent for another STW production The Millers (more on that later). My interests in acting have not been quite so vocalized, even to my wife, however I have to say I quite enjoyed it. I’ve even considered playing a part in one of my own films someday, but have never been able to identify whether that desire stems from a real interest in acting or an egotistical temptation to control as much of the production as possible. I’ll spare myself the deeper introspection of that thought for another time.
One director I’ve heard speak actually recommended that someone interested in pursuing directing should consider acting classes in order to better understand the perspective of the very types they’d be directing. The advice seems to make sense. Today we hear about actors who are now directing or even acting, directing and WRITING their own films! Really people, is any one person that talented? And if so, do they really need to be operating all their gifts in one production? What happened to the benefits of interdependence?
I think I’ll dig out the video of my 5th grade Christmas play and remind myself how much I’d like to direct films and not to act in musicals.
Posted by anthonyb at September 15, 2004 05:03 PM
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