Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film and TelevisionThis is essential reading for anyone interested in directing or acting. Judith Weston's brilliance is to recognize that directors, actors, writers, and technicians are involved in a process that is at essence a collaboration. In order for them to have the best shot at creating something true and meaningful, they must share a language and a method of exchange that fosters creative cooperation. Weston rightly sees the director as the central figure in inspiring the energy of a production's harmony. She advises the prospective director on every aspect of a stage or film production, showing how the director can draw the best performances possible from actors. -- From Amazon.com. |
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... sensory enough . If the actor has mistakenly intellectualized the idea of rain rather than con- nected to the sensory experience of it , then the image won't come unbidden when the actor arrives at the word . In that case he goes off by ...
... sensory enough . If the actor has mistakenly intellectualized the idea of rain rather than con- nected to the sensory experience of it , then the image won't come unbidden when the actor arrives at the word . In that case he goes off by ...
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... sensory impressions it makes on her : the weight of the cup , its temperature , its contours ; the sensation of steam against her face ; the smell of the coffee , etc. The attention needs to be sensory , not intellectual — that is ...
... sensory impressions it makes on her : the weight of the cup , its temperature , its contours ; the sensation of steam against her face ; the smell of the coffee , etc. The attention needs to be sensory , not intellectual — that is ...
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... SENSORY LIFE Adding sensory detail deepens and keeps fresh any actor's choice . The brilliance of affective memory as a technique is the under- standing that it is the sensory life ( e.g. , the pattern of the wallpaper , the sound of ...
... SENSORY LIFE Adding sensory detail deepens and keeps fresh any actor's choice . The brilliance of affective memory as a technique is the under- standing that it is the sensory life ( e.g. , the pattern of the wallpaper , the sound of ...
Contents
RESULT DIRECTION AND QUICK FIXES | 13 |
MOMENT BY MOMENT | 49 |
LISTENING AND TALKING | 77 |
Copyright | |
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