Kia Ora Tatou te whanau here's another one
in my series of quick provocations for
actors and creatives to think about this
one is number thirteen adjustment have
the courage to not work too hard
sometimes all the director editor or
cinematographer wants is the tiniest
difference artist Marcel Duchamp called
this the infrathin difference in French
that's inframince his example is the
difference between two identical chairs
in one of them somebody has just been
sitting and so that chair still holds
the warmth of the person's body that's
the only difference between them they
must have been pretty tiny people in
advertising this is called priming
psychologist Daniel Kahneman calls it
the Lady Macbeth effect in which just
thinking about committing a crime would
change whether or not people buy soap at
the supermarket okay here's the
challenge I want you to play your
monologue straight down the lens of your
camera twice the first time play it to
somebody that you really love and trust
it's often really good to choose
somebody that you loved and trusted from
the age of about 12 or 13 and now play
it again and this time swap that reader
out in your mind for somebody who has
betrayed you it's really important to
use a real person in both these
instances but what I want you to do here
is not consciously change the way you do
it just let a different energy be drawn
out of you by the two different partners
that you choose and now watch both
versions back and see the difference
it'll just be the ghost or the breath of
a difference you have the power to use
all of the experience you have and all
of the people that you've met in order
to cast and locate your inner world and
allow the infrathin difference to
affect your work see you next time
