Scene from American Beauty

[crushxcrushxbaby]

the acting was awful.

but, good job w/ the technical aspects!! =)

[Jiub123]

lol yeah there's a reason the original actors have academy awards

[ChocolateEclaire1]

lol she should stop looking at the camera

[Metallicalady]

Sorry, this is very bad.

[smbarker]

Finally, someone that gets it! Thank you.

[Izldr]

oh boy oh boy. if you're going to renact a scene with that features academy award winning actors...make sure its a good job. you guys need to build the stakes up more and connect and react off each other. what i saw were all of you just saying the words with no truthful connection

[smbarker]

Thanks, but I was the Technical Director of this student project, and I don't even know these people anymore. They weren't even acting students, nor had interest in acting, it was more an technical exercise in putting together a studio project (lighting, staging, props, organization, camera angles and cutting, etc)

[opotikian66]

The musics wrong for a start, its meant to be dull to represent the truth behind the american dream, alright effort i guess I couldn't do any better.

[chocotofu3]

The woman was an awful, awful actress!!!

[smbarker]

Ha!

[pranksterdogk]

I am horrified that you think you can reanact a scene from American Beauty, it was absolutley perfect the way it was. You should be ashamed of youself. I'm not joking.

[TrevorKingKwong]

only brandon hardesty could do this reenactment

[0dour]

actually the man isnt any good either

[0dour]

the woman who is playing the mom isn't very good at all

[SpasticAV]

Columbia.

[smbarker]

Impressive, I'm flattered that a Professor/Instructor at Columbia is even the slightest bit amused by something that I've worked on. Thank you for the comments.

[SpasticAV]

Speechless!

[smbarker]

Wow, well thank you very much!

[SpasticAV]

What school and class did you do this for? If you don't want to say the school, then the city and or state. I teach directing and I am curious about this class.

[smbarker]

It was part of a group project at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. It was an advanced studio production class. I got my degree in Telecom there. It was a great program. Where do you teach?