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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Thoughts on Acting
So, as I mentioned here, I am in the middle of a transformation. Both in terms of appearance and in terms of acting....style, if you were to allow me to put it crudely.
The weight loss was not only for health reasons, it was also for my career. It's not like I was exactly booking work left and right as a big big guy. Something had to change.
Regarding acting styles. It was brought up in Wednesdays acting class by my sensei/avuncular figure Steve, that when I play a scene with elements of mischief/charm/confidentiality I am a lot more engaging than when I don't. Hmmmm. I will take that advice. I'm in the class to drink the kool-aid, so I will gulp it down. We'll see what happens. That could be my niche. I'd be cool with that. For sure.
Countdown to episode 4 release for Gut Punch! ASAP, you will see this guy......
STRAY THOUGHTS: I'm getting pretty big in Asia. Recently, I've had blog visitors from Kuala Lampur, Malaysia.....Davao, Philippines......and one visitor from (drumroll) Kathmandu. Welcome Asian blog readers!
The weight loss was not only for health reasons, it was also for my career. It's not like I was exactly booking work left and right as a big big guy. Something had to change.
Regarding acting styles. It was brought up in Wednesdays acting class by my sensei/avuncular figure Steve, that when I play a scene with elements of mischief/charm/confidentiality I am a lot more engaging than when I don't. Hmmmm. I will take that advice. I'm in the class to drink the kool-aid, so I will gulp it down. We'll see what happens. That could be my niche. I'd be cool with that. For sure.
Countdown to episode 4 release for Gut Punch! ASAP, you will see this guy......
STRAY THOUGHTS: I'm getting pretty big in Asia. Recently, I've had blog visitors from Kuala Lampur, Malaysia.....Davao, Philippines......and one visitor from (drumroll) Kathmandu. Welcome Asian blog readers!
Gut Punch is taking over the world (or el mundo en espanol)
Andrew Tucci, Gut Punch's whimsical bearded one has a new video out on youtube that is blowing up the interwebs. He is a commercial director by trade, and his been directing a series of Bounty paper towel commercials. They involve rapping, autotunes and LA based UCB performers. Done done and.....done.
Bang it here to see Tucci's collaboration with Reverend Run, who is some guy from Queens.
Today or tomorrow the new Gut Punch video goes live on the internet. For those of you who don't know, the internet is like a dump truck. Or is it more like a system of tubes?
Bang it here to see Tucci's collaboration with Reverend Run, who is some guy from Queens.
Today or tomorrow the new Gut Punch video goes live on the internet. For those of you who don't know, the internet is like a dump truck. Or is it more like a system of tubes?
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Choices equal call backs.
They also equal going down in flames. RIP "Goose". Monday I had an audition for "Cannon", the camera company. It was for a trade show at the Javits Center in town. This wasn't for a regular trade show, like the boat expos that are open to the public for general consumption needs. The audience was to be people in the industry. News crews, production companies looking to upgrade their cameras etc. I was to play an on-site news reporter.
OK. So I am supposed to play an on-site news reporter whose big story is about new camera technology brought to you by Cannon. Keep in mind that this ENTIRE room would be filled with people who either shot news reporters on video, or edited the video, or synced up the audio of reporters. These people know reporters. So I made the choice that it would be TERRIBLE to do my best impression of a news reporter. Because no matter how well I could pretend to be a reporter, it would no doubt appear to be genuinely.......fake to the room. It would be so hamboned, so heavy fisted, so bizarrely fake......It would look like this to their eyes.
So I made a choice, I took a gamble. I just spoke to the people in the room like they were my best friends. I took it slow and read the heavy technical jargon. There was no camera in the room, so I looked directly at the two people and just spoke to them.
Callbacks were today. I was not invited. "you gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run."
OK. So I am supposed to play an on-site news reporter whose big story is about new camera technology brought to you by Cannon. Keep in mind that this ENTIRE room would be filled with people who either shot news reporters on video, or edited the video, or synced up the audio of reporters. These people know reporters. So I made the choice that it would be TERRIBLE to do my best impression of a news reporter. Because no matter how well I could pretend to be a reporter, it would no doubt appear to be genuinely.......fake to the room. It would be so hamboned, so heavy fisted, so bizarrely fake......It would look like this to their eyes.
So I made a choice, I took a gamble. I just spoke to the people in the room like they were my best friends. I took it slow and read the heavy technical jargon. There was no camera in the room, so I looked directly at the two people and just spoke to them.
Callbacks were today. I was not invited. "you gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run."
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
ADR work with Gut Punch
I am very excited about the next episode of Gut Punch. All I can tell you is that it revolves around a corporate retreat and I play the leader of said retreat. I mentioned filming this episode here. So tonight, the GP crew went to an audio editing place just below Union Square to do some ADR work. ADR stands for automatic dialog replacement - it is also known as "dubbing". This can be done for a variety of reasons.
This is what it looks like. Hit it, Vinnie Chase!
Usually ADR work is needed when an actor muffled their line, or it isn't clear enough or the director didn't like the tone/accent/what-have-you. Additionally, ADR work can be done as a money saver. Say you have a scene where Matt Damon is yapping on the phone to George Clooney. Only, Clooney can't come into town because he is too busy pleasure yachting on Lake Como. Heaven forbid you keep a star unhappy, or even worse pay them for another day. The director has Matt Damon speak his lines into a prop cell-phone and his end of the dialog is recorded. They either have an actor on set read Clooneys lines to Damon and they have Clooney dub or ADR over the lines or they can just have Clooney say the lines and they'll make it work in post production. When I did stand-in work on "The Taking of Pelham 123" I read lines over a walkie-talkie to John Travolta.
It ---- was ---- really ----- fucking ----- cool. (The Travolta part, that is.)
This is what it looks like. Hit it, Vinnie Chase!
Usually ADR work is needed when an actor muffled their line, or it isn't clear enough or the director didn't like the tone/accent/what-have-you. Additionally, ADR work can be done as a money saver. Say you have a scene where Matt Damon is yapping on the phone to George Clooney. Only, Clooney can't come into town because he is too busy pleasure yachting on Lake Como. Heaven forbid you keep a star unhappy, or even worse pay them for another day. The director has Matt Damon speak his lines into a prop cell-phone and his end of the dialog is recorded. They either have an actor on set read Clooneys lines to Damon and they have Clooney dub or ADR over the lines or they can just have Clooney say the lines and they'll make it work in post production. When I did stand-in work on "The Taking of Pelham 123" I read lines over a walkie-talkie to John Travolta.
It ---- was ---- really ----- fucking ----- cool. (The Travolta part, that is.)
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