DON'T BE BIGGER THAN LIFE!

IN MY OPINION:

WILLIAM REYNOLDS

DON'T BE BIGGER THAN LIFE!

Some big differences between stage acting and film acting

# Volume:  The mike is either clipped to you or is hanging over your head. You don't have to be heard from the balcony or the last row. Acting is NOT all vocal. But acting on film

is vocally normal, unless you are shooting outside in a snowstorm, Acting on stage is NOT. No one in real life ever talks so loudly that you can be heard from the length of a 

football field.

# Movement: If you meander around, you'll walk right off the camera. HIT YOUR MARK AND STAY THERE...unless you are told otherwise.

# SIZE:  To me personally, this is the biggest difference.EXPRESSIONS. Your face can be 50 feet high on the screen, even a small twitch, a small expression IS GONNA BE SEEN.

So film acting isn't 'pulled back'. It's the closest thing to normal that acting ever get.