Final Response

On December 9, 2011 I attended a Christmas Play put on by the Volusia County Baptist Church in Orange City, Florida. I heard about the performance at the DeLand Christmas Parade on December 3rd and thought it would be an interesting and fun thing to do. 

  


The play was put on very well, there were many different actors, scenes, and animals used. It told the classic Christmas story to my liking and involved all that it should. From the wise men, to the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. The story was told to a broad audience and was for people of all ages. 


With this blog post, I will discuss viewing a live play versus seeing a film, with a live play no two performances are ever exactly the same. There will always be differences; whether they are small mistakes the actors make or the weather when the plays are outside, or even when the actors pick up for the others who mess up. When you're in the theatre to see a play; you are sometimes involved with the play, the actors are live; you see what they see, you hear what they hear(as far as what the audience is saying or says), you smell what they smell, in many ways you are involved in the performance. 


When you go to see a film in the movie theater, you see a finished product that has been edited, and re-edited, and touched up and fixed with computers. Films can be altered by computers and green screens, and other forms of technology. So when we see a film we don't see where the actors have messed up and made little mistakes in the process of filming. We see the same thing over and over again, every time we watch the movie it will be the same things said the same way, by the same people. 


Seeing a film and a live play have many differences and can be very different experiences; however they can also have some similarities; such as they both involve actors. You are still there to view a performance whether live or recorded. Actors may still make mistakes; not everything is caught in the revising stage of film making. In many movies you can find many mistakes and bloopers. There are websites such as http://www.moviemistakes.com/ which finds those mistakes and mishaps. So even though many mistakes are electronically fixed; some still slip through. One mistake that was very popular was in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl"...

-If you look to the left on Johnny Depp you can actually see one of the crew members looking off into the distance. It's a mistake that was missed in editing and has become famous. 

In plays and other theatrical performances you sometimes see the crew with changing out of props and equipment. In movies you are not supposed to see the crew and workers behind the scenes.