Com Arts 155 1st Edition Lecture 21 Outline of Last Lecture I Editing Building Blocks II Continuity Editing III Pre Production Outline of Current Lecture I Acting II Tips on Directing Actors III Staging Current Lecture Power Point online with Tutorial of how to use GH2 Clip from The Room Exceptionally awful film What Makes it Terrible Rooftop Scene Audio doesn t match the video Actors did a terrible job at showing emotion Music was tonally very weird Staging actors should feel motivated here it seemed without reason Weird timing with delivery What Makes it Terrible Flower Shop Scene You can tell the actor is just waiting to say his her line Going from one clip to another in the conversation Takeaway You can t set out to make something as terrible as the room It has to be accidental Try to take positive lessons rather than the bad ideas Acting Recommend If you haven t tried acting try doing some It s valuable because it s an empathic experience You get to put yourself in somebody else s shoes Media does this more broadly by telling us a story and making us empathize Acting is even more personal These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Difference between inhabiting a character and doing an impression Impressions are kind of like just caricatures Difference between stage and video Screen is more intimate You re closer You can be more subtle through the screen Actors on stage have to be broader to get a wide audience to see You need to watch out for overacting with them How to Cast School of Thought Go out and just find a great actor Some of these actors take it very seriously To others it s just a job Other School of Thought Not about finding talented actor but just about finding a person that speaks to you Actors can come to set with a lot of baggage they come in wanting to be distinctive By taking take after take the actors lose their rehearsed plan and it becomes something rawer Other School of Thought Go for total non actors People that just look the part However if you cast them side by side with trained actors you have to get it in the first take or two If you start asking them to redo the scene it ll become really artificial Tips on Directing Actors Big part of success just comes in the casting You need chemistry Approach directing actors like you re a collaborator with them in discovering who their character is Take seriously the idea of what is my motivation Make sure you can speak to what the character is feeling Give the direction from the standpoint of what the character is experiencing rather than telling them just what to do Pick up the cues The space between one line of dialogue and the next You don t want to be talking over each other but you don t want to have long gaps Different styles Sometimes lines overlap and other times they re dragged out Take away the script before you record If they read it it s going to sound like they re reading Staging The Hardest Part Difference between Stage and Screen On stage you re playing to the audience On video you can look at your fellow actors it does not have to be frontal Continuity System of Editing When you get into this you think about the relationship between different thoughts and start breaking it up that way You may also want to think about shooting in fluid master takes Think as you re going through and marking up the scripts where you could make multiple different angles all be part of the same shot Example from The Wire Simple scene with elegant directing moves Transitional shot from portrait to moving into the office and starting the dialogue a little bit before us Fluid master Cut on the action so we pay attention to the movement rather than any inconsistencies Example from The Heiress Part of the reason this shot portrays mystery about the suitor s intentions is because it doesn t show his eyes It uses space in the room to craft the scene