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, British, and Method, upon which most actors build their performance techniques.

Subject details

Type: Undergraduate Subject
Code: FITV12-201
EFTSL: 0.125
Faculty: Faculty of Society and Design
Semesters offered:
  • September 2024 [Standard Offering]
  • May 2025 [Standard Offering]
  • September 2025 [Standard Offering]
Credit: 10
Study areas:
  • Communication, Film, and Creative Media
Subject fees:
  • Commencing in 2024: $5,730.00
  • Commencing in 2025: $5,990.00

Learning outcomes

  1. Analyse a script to extract its key story and performance elements, such as character backstory, objectives, and performance units.
  2. Apply a range of theoretical approaches to outline the development of an emotionally truthful screen performance.
  3. Effectively deploy interpersonal communication skills when communicating with professionally trained actors in a performance language that is familiar to them.
  4. Approach the rehearsal and staging of dramatic scenes in a collaborative manner that encourages creative input from professionally trained actors.
  5. Work with actors in a professionally collaborative manner to achieve an emotionally truthful screen performance.

Enrolment requirements

Requisites:

Nil
Assumed knowledge:

Assumed knowledge is the minimum level of knowledge of a subject area that students are assumed to have acquired through previous study. It is the responsibility of students to ensure they meet the assumed knowledge expectations of the subject. Students who do not possess this prior knowledge are strongly recommended against enrolling and do so at their own risk. No concessions will be made for students’ lack of prior knowledge.

Restrictions:

Subject outlines

Subject dates

Standard Offering
Enrolment opens: 14/07/2024
Semester start: 09/09/2024
Subject start: 09/09/2024
Last enrolment: 22/09/2024
Teaching census: 04/10/2024
Withdraw - Financial: 05/10/2024
Withdraw - Academic: 26/10/2024
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