Would love to hear what you all think about a video taken of me in a recent showcase I did. I'm the guy in purple.

Thanks!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyzIoH51vzE

pretty funny !

Hey I checked out your video and I'm sure the dialog was funny, but I really wasn't following that. I was watching motion and listening to voice inflections. Now I don't want to seem mean or too critical but I just finished watching a college production of Romeo and Juliet and between the two there were great simularities that I've seen in both yours and the college production.

First with motion. Making hand jestures for no reason other than making hand jestures does not add to a performance. That and head jerking away and looking off in the distance or at the floor while delivering lines is a distraction. Both motions had me wondering why the actor was making the motions rather than what he was saying to the other actor on stage. Who was the actor talking to? The actor who was seated in the chair seemed to do less of the superfulious motions than the one standing (I guess that was you).

Voice Inflections. It wasn't too bad, but I did notice that on occaision the voice inflection drops and softens at the end of a line to where you can't understand what is being said. Or just the opposite is noticed where the inflection is over dramatically increased to be loud and screeching and extremely fast so as to project excitement. There is an extremely fine balance that needs to be met and that is helped, in my opinion, by practicing diction and acting "normal". Now if your scene was meant to be farciscal or slap stickish then I take back some of those comments. In the Shakespeare play every actor except for the Nurse had multitudes of voice problems. However, I take that to mean that most hadn't a clue to what they were saying, (but there is no video of that show). I hope this helps.

Nice break-down Popey...I felt the same way about movement and gesturing.

Overall it was above average. Good energy, and it seemed like you had a pretty strong need to convince your scene partner of something. I couldn't hear a thing you guys were saying, but I think that was probably due to the camera.

Now here's the criticism:

You guys seemed in such a rush to deliver your lines. Slow it down a bit. Take time to connect with you scene partner a little more. Concentrate more on what he's doing. Let it affect you.

You didn't look like you were very comfortable with your body. There were gestures you made and it looked like you wanted to go further, but pulled it back some because you were nervous. You also seemed to pace for no reason.

Was also very 1 dimensional. It was like you wanted to play angry the whole time and didn't allow for the possibility that other things might have been going on.

The video was really funny just some of the bits was hard to hear because of the video sound going up and down.

It sucked big time, at least to me. I couldn't get into it, it seemed mediocre.

I wouldn't hire you.

I think you should be a little nicer to people, Mystique. It's not necessary to say "I wouldn't hire you." You don't have to like everything, but why would you want to hurt a person by saying such a thing?

Perhaps no one would ever hire you.

A little humility and kindness goes a long way. No one wants to work with a mean spirited person with a huge ego. Believe me.