Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Logic & Motivation

- Set acting parameters for actors.
- use verbs to express actions to motivate the actors to play out any specific scenes.
- Immediate objectives --> motivations to get to the objectives.
- Actors listen complement to each other to play out the actions/dialogues sequentially.
- There are always reasons for every motivational actions.

Questions for actors:
- "if"
- "what do you want in the scene?"
- "What do you want from the other person?"

- External situation can help to bring out the internal feelings. It could very much be environment and costumes to psyche the actor(s) emotional feelings into their characters.

- provide a safe positive atmosphere.
- give first and last positions.
- don't be cast in stone -> give ownership of the actor's performances.
- use action words and other things.
- rehearsal.
- blocking -> continuity -> the close up.
- comfortable and achieveable for the camera.
- comfortable and credible for the actors.

Objective for actors!:
- what do i want?
- action.
- who am i?
- subtext?
- listening.
- beats / key moments.

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