Shaping Actor Performances
Unless you exclusively shoot nature shows, your videos are full of performers, whether characters in a story, demonstrators in a training program, spokespeople for business or civic groups, or just family members. Your goals with these performers are always the same: to make them seem to be unselfconsciously living rather than acting in a video, and to help them display the emotions or attitudes that you, the director, want.
Since you may not work with seasoned media professionals, you have probably run into talent problems just like these:
These are some of the many problems arising from performer insecurity, inexperience or inability to act as well as Gene Hackman. Not surprisingly, directors have developed ploys for solving most of these problems. So, let's review the basics of directing talent. We'll show you how to bolster performer security, teach good camera technique and improve acting skills on th…
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