Nothing puts a nail in the coffin of independent film like bad acting. You can get away with bad camera work…people will call it ‘Cinema Verde’ (that’s latin for too shakey to see what the hell is going on). But your film absolutely cannot escape a slow agonizing death if it contains even a hint of bad acting.
For all you actors out there, how many of you as soon as you get a new part do the following: Take the script home, highlight your lines, and start repeating them over and over again to memorize them. Wrong, wrong, wrong!
In the world of cinema, its the bad guy that makes or breaks any movie. Think about it…most of the truly iconic characters in film usually the bad guys. The bad guy is the primary tool via which you show the character of your good guy. He is the motivator of the plot (after all, John Marshall, ex-marine, doesn’t have much reason to save his daughter if no one has kidnapped her yet right?). Hell, even in romantic comedies they usually have that really cool, rich, but total jerk of a guy that the girl is going to marry before she falls in love with our goofy lovable hero.
Welcome to Cinema Advanced, a website dedicated to the creation of digital independent cinema. Here you'll find advice, tutorials, and tips on how to make your own digital films, as well as some of my own creations.
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