I loved watching John’s Inception scene come together. Because I have never seen the movie, I found the scene to be interesting, even if they were confusing at first. Because I did not know the plot of the movie, the characters, or any of the scenes, I found it hard to develop my character. I did watch the scenes that Mal was in, however I only found out little about her. However I know that performing in this scene was great experience.
Inception is an incredibly complicated movie. Therefore I found it very hard to memorize my lines. I could hardly understand what my character was actually talking about. Because of this it made it hard for me to memorize my part. When I was struggling in the beginning of learning the scene, I found great strategies that helped me memorize my lines. Even though it is simple and sounds basic, I found that going over one line over and over again while gradually adding another really helped me. I learned that now I have a clever and helpful way to make me learn my scene.
One thing that I would change if we did this scene again would be to stage it earlier and run through it more. I strongly believe that staging a scene helps actors to “get into” their performance. It creates a more serious and formal environment, one where actors become accustom to their final actions. For example, every time I had run through the scene with John/Ryan we were in the hallway, and each time the scene stayed at the same emotional level: calm and collected. Yet when on stage (while we were filming), John was able to get into the scene and at one moment he flipped from very calm to yelling. While this created a natural reaction from me, I didn't know how to deliver my next line. If we had gone over the scene on stage more often, I would have tried to focus on how we could have raised the energy.
However I was very pleased with our final performance and look forward to seeing how the overarching scenes will look all together.
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