Having watched BTBF last week there are two main takeaways that I had:
- As directors, we have a responsibility as to being careful withe audience’s emotions. There has to be a balance between the strong emotions that the audience feels so as to not put them in a position of being too overwhelmed that they can’t focus on the performance itself. You also want to make sure that the audience feels the correct emotions. Each element should be directed to evoking a specific emotion rather than “happy” or “sad”.
- As actors, we need to study our characters and develop movements and mannerisms that are specific to them. Jai was particularly good at this as he was able to find specific gestures that created his character well. Repeated gestures and exaggerated movements can also help distinguish your character from others so all actors need to thoroughly study their character.
