Thursday, April 9, 2009
Self Clown Critique
I am excited about my piece for the clown bit. I feel that i am close but still need a bit of polishing. Two specific things that i am going to be concentrating on for Thursday are giving my beats a moment after they happen and making myself look as if I am working harder. The moment after my beats allows for the joke to settle in for my audience. This works specifically well in between such steps as the three matches as well as finding my pockets. Making it look as if i am working harder is simply funnier and easier to see when i do things such as pick up trash or sweep the floor. I need to pull the trash all the way up to my body and movve the broom in an exagerated manner. Accomplishing this without looking contrived will be difficult but it is a challenge i think i can tackle. I want my mvents bigger but i don't want to distract from the rest of the piece.
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There's two issues here. One, try to copy Avner as specifically as possible. You aren't riffing off of ideas of Avner, but duplicating a master's work. Go back to the video and learn the steps as they were originally done. It isn't about bigger so much as about more accurate.
ReplyDeleteSecond, don't make it look like you're working harder, work harder. It's just like realism in that the psychology of the character drives the action. Make the task is more important and that will make you work harder. remember what we talked about, merge the physicality with psychological truth.