Directing Actors for the Screen

Course Description

This course explores the actor/director relationship in order to develop and direct strong screen performances. We will discover contemporary approaches to directing actors through script analysis, character development, warm up exercises, rehearsal techniques, blocking, improvisation, and working on set. The creative and practical roles and responsibilities of the director will be addressed as well. The primary goal of the course is gaining first-hand experience directing actors effectively through workshopping your own scenes - first, from selected screenplays, and then, from your own writing (or others). This course is also envisioned as a space for contemplative dialogue about the nature of screen directing, performance and acting, and our relationship to it. While the tools and techniques taught are drawn from narrative filmmaking, these techniques will be quite useful for nonfiction directors working with their documentary subjects as well. Ultimately, practically all characters presented on screen do become, in essence, performers.

Code

FMA 8342

Credits

4

Subject

FMA