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.