A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.
Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.
Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.
I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
You make a record because you have to chart your progress, not only for yourself, but for your audience.
My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.
Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living.
If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.
Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.