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.
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I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.
What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
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.
Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.
A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.
Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.