Directing The Actor I

(2 Credits)

This seven-week workshop prepares students to work with actors in creative collaboration to obtain authentic, truthful performances for the second year film. The class will demonstrate the importance of communicating the vision of the script in a vocabulary that has meaning to an actor, with a focus on action and character behavior. Students will acquire a working knowledge of the language of actors through the application of various acting techniques created by influential acting teachers from Stanislavsky to the present.