“Amelia Lai” played by Dorothy Leong. CV here –
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ygewe2jh070291f/Dorothy%20Leong_CV_10Oct2016.pdf?dl=0
“Joe” played by Salif. CV here –
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dxr7q5sdxh2u623/SalifCV.pdf?dl=0
an attempt to document my works.
“Amelia Lai” played by Dorothy Leong. CV here –
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ygewe2jh070291f/Dorothy%20Leong_CV_10Oct2016.pdf?dl=0
“Joe” played by Salif. CV here –
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dxr7q5sdxh2u623/SalifCV.pdf?dl=0
Salif
Background – Laselle Acting school.
Cast Audition can be viewed here – https://vimeo.com/185358148/2700479029
Comments /
I think Salif stands out as a character. He looks interesting and is able to portray a more comical side. Although slightly theatrical at times, I feel that he delivered the best performance out of the 3 casts. I say this in terms of believability – whether I, as an audience would believe that this particular actor would be in such a situation.
Coke
Showreel here – http://youtu.be/6n-D7T-EHG4
Cast Audition can be viewd here – https://vimeo.com/185357648
Comments /
I personally enjoy working with Coke a lot. What I really like about his performance is through his subtle movements in his face muscles / eye movement that tells a lot without big actions. That being said, there are times throughout the take that I don’t believe that he would actually get girls to strip, I think he really looks too innocent for the role.
Benjamin Tan
View casting video here – https://vimeo.com/184858012/2ca0f5220f
Actor’s CV here – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7406651/?ref_=ext_shr_eml_vi#lb-vi2303112985
– How he played JOE in this scene was to internalise the idea of the scene and play it out in his own way.
A table with all things needed for the shoot day has been detailed here –
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PZXwEF7jOABXpivAM2eDqcQO_Y6CGcbaTgteYkMhMFI/edit?usp=sharing
Updates //
REFLECTION //
Through yesterday’s acting rehearsal, I’ve come to realised the importance of how an actor can make or break a character. If successful, the actor is able to play out the traits and qualities of a character, and this becomes believable for the audience. The opposite of this is true too, if a character overplays, it destroys the illusion and the reality of the imagined world.
Disconnected is a film that revolves around mostly one character and his reactions to situations. Through the rehearsals, I felt that it was really very difficult to bring out a natural reaction to a made up situation and that the character is not merely acting out step 1, 2,3 but rather really believe that he is in that situation himself.
I think one way to tackle this, as mentioned by Sebastian, is to have a really experienced actor or another could be that this actor already has a character of his own and is merely just playing out the role.
For my casting audition, I’ll be using the same scene which I used duing the acting workshop because that scene is the climax of the film and how the actor reacts to the situation is integral to the storytelling.
Updates on “Disconnected”//
Scene Analysis
Plot Points / Actions
Characters & Props involved
Characters: Joe, Amelia (stranger) & Jake (Joe’s good friend)
Props:
-Blanket
-Computer & a mouse.
-A mobile phone.
-A bed.
Joe / Early 20s.
Joe, the protagonist of my film, is an opportunist, lonely and horny. He isn’t exactly very good looking or ugly, an average joe really, but strangely charming. Perhaps this is why he manages to get girls online to do what he wants to satisfy his sexual needs. He is desperate to wrap girls around his fingers and he craves and seeks sexual relief over the internet through pornography and through live streaming, where he meets and convinces girls to strip for him.
He lives in the moment and craves for instant gratification.
But despite all that, he has a conscience, but it is buried deep within himself as he is immune to whatever he has been doing and over time, it does not come off to him as wrong or perverse. That being said, in times of crisis, that conscience slowly emerges.
Amelia Lai (Stranger on the other side of the webcam) / Early-Twenties.
Amelia is good looking, fresh-faced, highly sort after kind of girl. She comes from a good family and she exudes positivity in her life and is full of love. She has a dog named Ginger whom she loves more than anything in the world, so much so that she has an Instagram account for her dog. Her strengths are also her shortcomings. She loves too hard and that became her downfall. In her previous relationship with her ex-boyfriend, she sent nudes to him. She isn’t the sort to do such acts but to please her then boyfriend, she does it. Unfortunately for her, her ex-boyfriend leaked her nudes online after they broke up and now everyone has seen her naked body. Thereafter, her relationship with her family became estranged. She is judged by her friends, expelled from school and left her all alone. This forces her to turn on to the internet to confide in strangers.
However, Amelia is not as strong as we wished she would be, so one night, she finally decides to end it all. She downs an entire bottle of pills and goes online to perhaps seek her comfort, from a stranger, as her life slowly waste away.