Personal Acheivement

What do you personally want to get out of the whole A2 prelim experience?

I found the initial prospect of acting in a music video very daunting as I've never done any real acting before and I'm not used to moving my body so much. I feel that I want to gain a greater level of confidence when acting in this shoot. I also want to get a better feel of the logistics of a professional music video shoot for our real A2 coursework task. From a technical point of view, I would also like to be involved in shadowing the technical crew.


Is it a challenge for you or within your comfort zone?


I will find this a big challenge as I haven't got any acting experience, so this is out of my comfort zone. However, I am comfortable with playing a guitar so I won't be uncomfortably holding it, making it easier for me to focus on my performance.


Have you achieved/learnt anything so far?

I've learnt a lot about how to use my body more effectively and dynamically from a performing point of view. This encompasses body movement, facial expression and the importance of exaggerating ones mouth movement when creating a music video to make it more believable that I am actually singing the words. When editing our audition videos, we used several layers - one for each separate shot which we could drag onto the timeline in the appropriate position, whereas we are used to only using two or possibly three layers when editing.