Pleading for the right to perform

            My idea for the individual audition piece is perform a rap song. I want to do this because I find rapping to fairly hard and I enjoy doing things that are hard. The rap song I want to do is called N.Y. State Of Mind by Nas, often hailed as one of the best rap songs ever constructed. I chose this song cause while it is fairly long, I already have it memorized and It’s structure is slow and lumbersome. I do not think this will help improve my acting skills but I do believe that this will help me become a more rounded person, able to do several things rather than just one. That is part of being an actor, the ability to be flexible. It would also help me with enunciation of words while speaking fast or enunciation in general. The other reason why I want to rap NY state of mind is because I have been practicing it for over 6 months now. Not that I was planning on reciting it, I just have been doing that for a while. Along with that, I also have gotten good at doing the whole thing which means I'm basically done. 

             So in conclusion, I would like to perform the rap song, N.Y. State of mind by Nas, i want to do this because I already have all the words memorized and it's fairly hard to perform. It is also long and is about four minutes. It would make me a more rounded person which is important for being an actor. it would also help me with enunciation and speaking fast. I also have been practicing this for a long time. It would also be fun to do. 

Reflection is a reversal of reality

      I believe that you are asking about the Inception project, at least I hope so because you were not specific. My performance in the project was mixed I suppose. I still think my role as a cameraman was acceptable but I could not tell which scenes I had filmed and there were some shaky scenes that I may have contributed to. I honestly do not remember anymore. My role as an actor was hindered by how ridiculous I looked wearing flip flops and my bush of hair. I still liked how I was acting because it looked natural. Or at least, more natural than other performances. I remembered my lines, said them naturally and had fun. I could have brought more emotion to the scenes but there is a fine line between acting and overacting. I think I need to improve my body language and my outfits.
            The project it's self was also mixed. There were some good scenes and some bad scenes. Obviously sound quality was never gonna be good but the editing could have been better. I though some of my fellow actors did a good job, like John and Kade, but there were some actors who actively detracted from the scenes because of their unnaturalness and rigidity. There were some scenes that were filmed poorly, like the lobby scene while some scenes flowed nicely. The settings we had were ridiculous and unbelievable, especially the airplane scene. I did not like how the movie was edited, there were some mistakes made during filming that could have been made by smash cutting the scene. The airplane scene is really a prime example of this because if it had been cut sooner then it would not have appeared to be a mistake and it would have worked. I really thought it could have been done better, I do not know why we did not cut before Mr. Banci started yelling at us. Be that as it may, I still thought it was a fun and enjoyable to watch the movie.      
         I thought that the projects direction was not clearly thought out, I think for the genre of film John wanted to make we did not have the resources to do. In low budget film making your script needs to fit what you have and we did not have any of the tools or resources to take on the script of inception. Be that as it may, I thought that the end product was fun if not a little confusing. There was certainly a lot of room for improvement of cinematography and the acting during the scenes but it still was entertaining. Which if you are gonna make a bad movie that no one is gonna watch, it is the best you could hope for. At least it was not boring.

Acting briefly

       I do not do much as an actor for this group project. I do not have any scenes where I say more than three lines and I mostly sit. I do believe however I managed to make myself as natural as possible for those brief moments I had. My character does not do much developing in any scenes so I had to get my character across with the little things.
       For example, I flipped the chair backwards in one scene, I put my feet up and had looked around in the rain. Perhaps my dialogue was not as strong but I feel that my presence was strong. I think I looked relaxed and natural. The other thing I did for inception was be the camera man. I think a lot of my fellow group members, including john, got the camera wrong. When everyone else was doing it, the last thing they thought about was where the camera should be for the scene.
        The camera is the most important thing about a scene, it affects what is seen and not seen. Everyone except me, thought of the project as a bunch of single takes, with no cuts, which is odd considering we were filming it as a movie and not a play. I do not think there are more than five scenes with more than 2 cuts. This leads to a lot of stilted dialogue that is not as much impact as It could have been. For example, we filmed two scenes the exact same way. They had very different connotations and tones. The impact of both scenes are the same though because we did not use the camera effectively.
         I did find the Cobb & Mal scene to be a delight to film because I could use the funnest filming style. I do not know what it is called but it is essentially filming around something to gain emotional impact. I may not be the best at it here because we did not pace out the scene with the camera but I gave it my best. It is often used when two characters are arguing and the camera goes from one side to the other causing the viewer to gain both perspectives and emotions of both characters by filming the character's face while the other is making their point. I do not actually know if that is a filming technique because I just made it up but I have seen it used before, I think.