FITV12-201: Directing Actors

Description

This subject explores the actor/director relationship. It introduces students to the approaches and practices of working with actors to rehearse and achieve powerful screen performances. Furthermore, it demystifies how actors approach their work, the language they use to discuss their work, and the theoretical models developed over the past century, such as Stanislavski, Brecht, and Method, upon which most actors build their performance techniques.

Subject details

Learning outcomes

1. Analyse a script to extract its story-elements and the character's, objectives, subtext, and units of actions.
2. Successfully apply a range of theoretical approaches to developing screen performance.
3. Successfully communicate with trained actors in a performance language that is familiar to them.
4. Approach the rehearsal and staging of dramatic scenes in a collaborative manner with actors that encourages their creative input.
5. Successfully work with actors in a collaborative manner to achieve an authentic performance.

Enrolment requirements

Subject outlines

• January 2021 [Standard]
• September 2020 [Standard - Directing Actors]
• January 2020 [Standard]
• September 2019 [Standard]
• January 2019 [Standard]
• January 2018 [Standard]
• September 2017 [Standard]

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