Actors on screen within the tv and film industry often move on to do stage shows, majoring in musical theatre shows. (Thornton 2014.) explains the comparison with feelings between the two different types of acting. “I like them both the same really. They’re a completely different feeling; you don’t get the feeling of adrenalin and the scary feeling of being live with TV. It’s a different environment but I love the fact that on set it’s a different script every week so you’re not doing the same thing every day. The variety of being on set is really nice and then the adrenalin rush of being on stage is amazing! I’d like to keep doing both really, I wouldn’t like to choose, they’re both fantastic!” 

Stage theatre is about being big, bold and full of expression. Tv and film is the opposite. Facial expression need to be kept to a minimum, and everything needs to be toned down to keep it as natural as possible. 

In an interview with (Benson, 2018) , who works for ITV as a news reporter , she describes her personal techniques for being able to read the news effectively. 

'We always read off a cue, but the trick is, to avoid reading too intently, is to already of studied the news before you read. If you know what you are going to talk about, it goes much more smoothly. Reporters always have confidence when they are speaking, be confident in what you are saying, how you are saying it and who you are saying it to. When I first began, I used to read aloud from newspapers to myself in the mirror, taking in my mouth movement and the tone of my voice.' 

With this in mind, I carefully selected the parts I wished to audition for, by choosing those I felt I could act more natural for. 

Many of the characters lines within the scripts were not naturalistic dialogue. Although the most important part of dialogue within Tv and film is the context it is spoken in and the way it is structured, the words were not what I would say in everyday life, and I was worried whilst acting it would not be natural enough. 

'When acting on screen, however, the camera can get extremely close to the actor, which closes the gap between the audience and the actors. Because of the close-up perspective, actors on film must use more subtle, controlled, and natural expressions and gestures. Large, exaggerated “stage acting” can look awkward and silly on screen.' (Hishon,2016.) 

The difference was noticeable and even prompted someone to ask me what was wrong after I read the line ' Oh Shit.' as they did not realise it was being spoken as part of the script. My focus to make the characters lines as natural as possible was to speak them as I would in every day life, with the same tone of voice. This approach seemed to work. I need to ensure that for filming , this same tone is used to portray the naturalistic within my character.

'The advent of cinema saw the art of set design gradually spread its wings from the relative confines of the theatre. As movies established their own language and became ever more ambitious in the early part of the 20th century, so set designers were called on to create increasingly expansive and more detailed backdrops. 

As the list of movies below proves, the construction of huge sets has been a  major part of cinema for the past century. And with scale comes expense, as the recreation of ancient landmarks, futuristic cities or doomed ocean liners takes hundreds of artists, designers and crafty types months of labour to plan and construct.'(Lamble,2018). 

This element of the module was about creating a piece as if it were for TV and film , so to discover it was not being filmed as it would normally within tv and film , was disappointing. There would be no props either, so trying to make it naturalistic was going to be difficult. 

For my part as Olivia, it was set outside on a beach, so to bring a bit of realism to the scene, I used sunglasses as a prop. This helped me believe more that my character was in fact on a beach and helped me to portray more naturalism for my character. 

After being used to stage acting, and using very over the top voice and movements, I found it hard to contrast to a more natural spoken voice. It was by habit that my voice wanted to go to the same tone as it would, had i been on stage. To overcome this, I tried to imagine that I was sat there and it was real life, not something that had been written.
'Tone is a term which is used to describe the degree of 'hardness' or 'softness' in the quality of a persons voice. Its difficult to describe and to identify tonal quality, but it can have a very strong impact on the listener.' (Elsam,2006).

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Lamble, R. (2018). 12 of cinema's biggest and most expensive film sets. [online] Den of Geek. Available at: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/set-design/38859/12-of-cinemas-biggest-and-most-expensive-film-sets [Accessed 10 May 2018].  

Lloyd-Hamilton, A. (2018). Make the right choices when training - The Stage Castings. [online] Castings.thestage.co.uk. Available at: http://castings.thestage.co.uk/audition-advice/blog/posts/how-to-make-the-right-choices-when-training-in-performing-arts [Accessed 10 May 2018].  

Stage vs. Screen: What is the Big Difference?. [online] Available at: https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/stage-vs-screen-whats-the-big-difference/ [Accessed 30 Apr. 2018].  

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