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Chapter 4: Acting

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Acting in Film vs. Theater

Five unique characteristics that shape film acting

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  • Lack of rehearsal
  • Budgetary factors create shortage of time
  • Director attitudes
  • Shooting Out of Continuity
  • Economies of time and cost determine shooting order of scenes
  • Shooting close-ups and coverage

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  • Amplification of gesture and expressions
  • Camera and microphone magnify performance
  • Encourage restrained style of performance
  • Minimalist styles
  • Clint Eastwood

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  • Lighting, Lenses and Effects Work
  • Hitting the mark
  • Performer should know how camera reads scene
  • Depth of field
  • Lens angle of view
  • Contrast range – lighting falloff
  • Camera movement
  • Greenscreening
  • Playing to nonexistent sets and characters
  • Scene fully assembled during post-production compositing

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  • Lack of a live audience
  • Can’t calibrate performance according to audience response
  • Chaplin
  • Other comedy

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Stars

  • The Star Persona
  • Composite personality established across many films
  • Greater than the performance in any single film
  • Personality stars and Character stars
  • John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Julia Roberts, George Clooney

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Technical Acting

  • Dominant style of screen performance during 1930s-1950s
  • Lack of introspection
  • Creation of character from the ‘outside’
  • James Cagney and White Heat (1949)
  • Imitating the sounds rather than feeling the emotions

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Method

  • Method Acting
  • Brought to cinema in the 1950s by new generation of actors
  • Paul Newman, Shelly Winters, Montgomery Clift
  • Marlon Brando
  • On the Waterfront (1954)
  • The Godfather (1972)
  • Last Tango in Paris (1973)

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Method

  • Internalized, richly psychological performance style
  • Formal training at New York’s Actor’s Studio
  • Emotional memory and sense recall exercises
  • Emphasis on inhabiting the character psychologically

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The Actor as an Element of Visual Design

  • Unique body language of the performer
  • Choreographing performance
  • Integrating it with lighting, camera position and movement
  • Typage
  • Social
  • Psychological

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Performance, Emotion
and Audience Response

  • Interpretive response
  • Facial and gestural components
  • Influences emotional response
  • Emotional response
  • Empathy

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