In this case study I will be investigating the key features of the role and work of the actor Mekhi Phifer. Throughout this case study I will be looking into great detail about Mekhi's Phifer's life and early career , answering the following questions, some of which are ‘what qualifications, training routes and strategies did he take and did he participate in any CPD’,and ‘has he used any practical skills such as planning and responding to qualities needed to succeed in other professions’ and various other questions which may give me a better incite to why and how he decided to become an actor and how he became successful.
In this case study about Mekhi Phifer I will also be looking into his personal lifestyle factors his employment trends and working conditions. I will also be focusing on any other toles Mekhi has participated surrounding a film or production, some of which could ne a director or a production team member
In this section of my case study I will be answering the following question which is, how has Mekhi Phifer's ‘lifestyle factors’ influenced his choice of career and how his lifestyle factors
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have shaped him into the actor he is today. Mekhi Phifer was born December 29th 1974 in Harlem, Manhattan , New York City.
He grew up in a single parent household with his mother who was also a high school teacher. In 1994 Phifer attended an open casting call for director Spike Lee’s ‘Clockers’, Phifer beat over a thousand people to get the lead role as a narcotics dealer involved in a murder cover-up. Earning this role led him to audition for another movie which was a comedy ‘spoof’ feature in a film called ‘High School High’, in which performed along side Malinda Williams. Attending all those open and closed auditions contributed Phifer to get a lead role in the urban classic ‘Paid In Full’. This film gave Phifer notorious recognition as he portrayed a character called ‘mitch’ where Phifer played a flashy drug dealer who exposes the drug life to his friends Ace (Wood Harris) and Rico
(Cam’Ron) In this section of my case study on Mekhi Phifer I will be closely investigating his ‘Employment Trends and Working Conditions’. Firstly I will be focusing on his employment trends and what type of conditions he was working in , whether he was working until late at night and having to wake up early in the morning. During the filming of the notorious ‘street’ film ‘Paid In Full’
Wood Harris does a phenomenal job in the role of a struggling young man from Harlem named Ace in this movie. Ace Makes a meager honest living working at a dry cleaners but is constantly being teased by the lavish life of drug dealers around him. His best friend Mitch is a heroin kingpin and is pulling up in new cars almost daily while Ace spends all day working just for a few bucks. On top of being in Mitch’s shadow Ace also has to see his sister’s boyfriend Calvin sell cocaine in the lobby of their apartment building. Paid In Full is an exciting and realistic movie that shows with more money there really is more problems.
related to the movie. I will also proposing a research study of how the characters from this movie
In this area of theatre i have learned more about brainstorming, character position, the effectiveness of music, the effectiveness of light and at what darkness and more about character goals and character formation both physical and vocal.
What the audiences have to say about this tribute was very obvious. It is implied that whenever any piece of art is able to touch the audience on a personal level, it automatically becomes something out of this world, and is appreciated over ages. This is what happened with Khan’s “Enuff Misfortune”. People all over the world finally found a medium that could say their heart through his music, and Mahmood Khan became all the more favorite of many.
An actor often has to take on vastly different roles for the production of a large variety of films. In the development of these roles, the actor constructs different sets of personae by the use of specific gestures, vocalics as well as speech content, in order to aid the communication of ideas and thoughts. Hence for an actor whose profession involves the practice of portraying fictional characters with authenticity, it is almost impossible to determine if his persona off the screen is truly authentic. This is especially so for widely acclaimed actors, in particular Oscar nominees, whose portrayals of characters have been done with such expertise that it has earned them accolades. This paper will analyse and compare the personalities of Russell Crowe and Peter Sellers, two widely acclaimed but controversial actors, with their public personae that surfaced in televised interviews. Major discrepancies will aid us in determining the inauthenticity of their personae, which may have seemed genuine in the absence of prior comparison. Since audiences are unable to accurately determine the authenticity of these actors’ personae displayed in broadcast interviews, the use of authenticity as a yardstick when analysing personae seems to be irrelevant in this context.
One solution is to approach an actor at the beginning of their training, and see where knowledge of "commedia dell'arte" and its performance can expand a performer's range. The contemporary young actor's most familiar performance role model is that of televisi...
Lazarus, Joan. "On the Verge of Change: New Directions in Secondary Theatre Education." Applied Theatre Research 3.2 (July 2015): 149-161. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1386/atr.3.2.149_1.
Application of career theories to my own life allows for analyzing past and future career decisions. Holland’s Theory of Careers states that one’s vocation is an expression of self, personality, and way of life. There is an indisputable and fundamental difference in the quality of life one experiences if they choose a career one truly enjoys, versus choosing a career one detests. A true testament to the validity of Holland’s theory, my job/career choices reflect my interests, as well as the evolution of my personality (internal self). My first job as a fine jewelry specialist and second job as a make-up artist echo my love of the fashion world. As I matured and became less fascinated by presumed “glamour” careers, I became captivated by physical fitness, nutrition, and medicine; I received my national fitness trainer certificate so that I may become a personal trainer. Nevertheless, my career decisions do not fit uniformly into merely one career theory.
In his article Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon, he used the ‘photo effect’ conception of Roland Barthes to examine the present/ absent paradox of stars. He proposed influential qualitative distinctions in between stardom in films and television. He argued that ‘Stars are incomplete images outside the cinema: the performance of the film is the moment of completion of images in subsidiary circulation, in newspapers, fanzines, etc. Further, a paradox is present in these subsidiary forms. The star is at once ordinary and extraordinary, available for desire and unattainable. This paradox is repeated and intensified in cinema by the regime of presence-yet-absence that is the filmic image’(1992). Therefore, the impractical mode of ‘this is was’ on nature of stardom ‘awakens a series of psychic mechanisms which involve various impossible images’, such as ‘the narcissistic experience of the mirror phase’(1992). Ellis then continued to indicate televisual stardom, which is more current or ‘immediate’ than cinematic fame. He argued that ‘What television does present is the “personality”. The personality is someone who is famous for being famous and is famous only in so far as he or she makes frequent television appearances… In some ways, they are the opposite of stars, agreeable voids rather than sites of conflicting meanings’. Ellis’ thesis definitely points out the differences between cinema and television fame, due to the multimedia and transmedia of current era implies a much more diverse and unpredictable relationship in between stars’ images in any kind of
Dave Armstrong is about to graduate from Harvard Business School and is facing three career options. The decision problem that Armstrong should be considering is not which of these three jobs should he take, but rather what job will satiate his career goals. By asking this, Armstrong can gain a complete perspective of his options instead of being confined to three career options that may not be in his best interests. His objectives are not clearly outlined in the case; however, we can infer from the manner in which he is describing the jobs that he would like to have ownership in a company, enjoys thrilling non-office jobs, and wants to grow his network. Also, he has to take into consideration his wife’s objectives for him of having a job
This enduring query is what keeps audiences coming back for more, in an attempt to decipher which construction of a star is “real”. Is this the character he played in his most recent film? Is it the version of him that graced the latest tabloid cover? Is it a hidden self that we do not know about? Each of these varied and fluctuating presentations of stars that we are forced to analyze create different meanings and effects that frame the audience’s opinions about a star and ignite cultural conversations.
According to Holland (1985), the choice of a career is an extension of one’s personality into the world of work. Individuals choose careers that satisfy their preferred personal orientations. Holland developed six modal personal styles and six matching work envi¬ronments: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enter¬prising, and conventional. A person is attracted to the particular role demand of an occupational environ-ment that meets his or her needs. For example, some¬one who is socially oriented would seek out a work environment that provides interactions with others, such as nursing in a hospital setting. Holland and his colleagues have developed a number of instruments (e.g., the Self-Directed Search) designed to assist in identifying individual personality traits and matching those traits to occupational groups. Holland’s theory assesses each individual in terms of two or three most prominent personality types and matching each type with the environmental aspects of potential careers. It is predicted that the better the match, the better the congruence, satisfaction, and persistence (Holland, 1985). Holland also elaborated five secondary assumptions which he calls key concepts that describe the theory. These assumptions
Nowadays, Korean music has become increasingly dominated in Asia and many Asian people, especially women, are crazy about actor, actresses in Korean drama, also included some Korean handsome singers. However, from my standpoint, some of films merely contain some cliched plots and superficial performance. Furthermore, there is no insightful and thoughtful meaning at the end of movie. What audience really remember is heroine’s delicate clothing and hero’s charming face. There are still many other examples in our daily life. For example, currently, most people is willing to pay the money for a pop songs’ CD instead of a elegant classical concert. However, some pop or rock-and-roll songs are like a flash in the pan without longevity. Meanwhile, classical music will brings about esthetic enjoyment and refreshment for people. In all, being understandable to most people is not always a good way to judge
“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.” ― Meryl Streep. I love exploring and gaining knowledge about the beautiful craft of acting. During my journey of being an actor, I notice there are two types of actors: stage and film. Stage and film actors are different in their times of rehearsal, their relationship with an audience, and their emotional challenges.
Before I had attended this module, my biggest aim was to understand how we communicate with each other and how we adapt our speech to fit the situation we are in. As I am combining Communication, Media and Culture with Film Studies, I wanted this module to help me build my confidence so that in the future, I can pitch my film ideas confidently. It was important for me to develop my communication skills as this would enable me to express myself clearly and concisely.