Nervousness

Nervousness

Every individual at some point of their life gets the feeling of being ‘nervous’ , if we consider distinct examples such as, delivering a speech on stage, or performing for a talent show, etc.  We become nervous because of our thoughts jumping into our mind about different kinds of things, such as people’s reaction towards you, or the way you will present yourself, etc.  But when you present yourself on the stage and continue with the performance your thoughts later are automatically relaxed.

As a film maker, it’s our job to face the blind public to show your work, and make your film successful. This particular post cannot be generalized as some people might not have that particular feeling at all, but in my point of view in the first time somewhere that momentary feeling does occur for sure. As an actor, facing the camera, and acting out a character is not very easy until, and unless you are very focused, and experienced as well. While acting there might be quarries related to your performance, or how do you look on screen, but keeping such things away from your mind is really not a piece of cake, trust me. You see, being nervous is a natural feeling taken in a positive way as well. Famous people who we now see on screen surely might have been nervous at a certain point of their life. Having that feeling proves that you are not over confident about yourself, and your talent as well, and this will take you ahead in your life. I am not saying that it is necessary being nervous, but surely it kills your over confidence. If I consider myself, once in college I had a task of performing a monologue about two to five minutes. My heart was pounding so fast at that particular moment, and after performing the feeling of the task being completed cannot be described into words, as you can only have that feeling after experiencing that moment as well.

As a film maker you somewhere have to get adapted to that particular feeling, as it’s your job to face the camera almost daily. For an actor it is very vital to just be confident, and be into the character which they are playing, making the film enhance even more. 

A film maker also gets nervous when their film is shown to their public. They do not know who is watching, and how will the reaction be, but this feeling turns out to become the feeling when you reach cloud 9 when your film is successful and loved by the people also. The reason for me writing this post is because being nervous is usually felt by a person who faces thousands of public through different kinds of ways, but this particular part in my point of view is important for the film makers to know how to overcome it. Without facing the public a film maker cannot be successful, and surely this comes in the process of being a successful film maker in the future as well.