It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.
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I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.
I try to imagine the scenes as I'm writing them as if I were watching them play like a film.
Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.
You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.
The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
The kinds of films that I'm used to doing are independent films. They're very small character-driven pieces, and there isn't as much spectacle involved.
If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.
You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.
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