Description
This subject explores the actor/director relationship. It introduces students to the approaches and practices of working with actors to rehearse and achieve screen performances. Furthermore, it seeks to demystify 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, Method, and British, upon which many actors build their performance techniques.
Subject details
Type | Undergraduate |
Code | FITV12-201 |
EFTSL | 0.125 |
Faculty | Faculty of Society & Design |
Semesters offered |
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Credit | 10 |
Study areas |
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Subject fees |
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Learning outcomes
1. Analyse a script from an actor and director's point-of-view for the character, objectives, subtext, units of actions etc, hidden within
2. Communicate with trained actors in a performance language that is familiar to them
3. Approach the rehearsal and staging of filmic scenes in collaborative manner that encourages creative input from the actors
4. Apply theoretical approaches to developing screen performance
5. Work with actors in a collaborative manner during casting sessions, and screen tests
Enrolment requirements
Requisites: ? | Nil |
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Restrictions: ? | This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the students’ program structure. |
Subject outlines
Subject dates
Standard Offering | |
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Enrolment opens | 15/07/2018 |
Semester start | 10/09/2018 |
Subject start | 10/09/2018 |
Cancellation 1? | 24/09/2018 |
Cancellation 2? | 01/10/2018 |
Last enrolment | 23/09/2018 |
Last withdrawal? | 05/10/2018 |
Teaching census? | 05/10/2018 |
Standard Offering | |
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Enrolment opens | 11/11/2018 |
Semester start | 14/01/2019 |
Subject start | 14/01/2019 |
Cancellation 1? | 28/01/2019 |
Cancellation 2? | 04/02/2019 |
Last enrolment | 27/01/2019 |
Last withdrawal? | 08/02/2019 |
Teaching census? | 08/02/2019 |