Technology has eased the predicament of actors who enjoy delivering a scene in one take, says megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who says there’s “immense satisfaction” in living a scene in “one stroke”.
The 71-year-old shared some photographs from the set of “Yudh”, which marks his debut in the fiction space on TV, and pondered over how technology has turned out to be a boon to those in his field.
“It is quite challenging to be in character and do an entire scene comprising several pages of dialogue, movement, introduction of other characters, camera movements, covering large areas of space on set.
“But at the end of it there is immense satisfaction of having lived that scene in one stroke… unlike at other times when we would have to do a few lines and cut for different angles and positioning of artists,” Big B posted on his blog srbachchan.tumblr.com.
He says that the “benefit of three cameras running at a time, and the benefit of digital photography” has made it possible to place cameras at “vantage points, covering all the angles, thereby allowing the artist to perform all in one go than to play stop and keep playing again and again for the rest of the scene”. This, he believes, gives an artist the “joy of having continuity of thought and performance, and speed in completing a given scene in a shorter period of time”. (IANS)
