FIPR 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pastry Chef, World View, Uta Hagen
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Obligation: theatre, to person in back row, film, to scene partner. Intentionality: know the intention of the character vs. their obstacles. Job description (according to barr: the actor is able to communicate ideas and emotions to an audience, ideas, characters, directors, screen writer, for a story to have an idea. Theme for the audience to prompt thinking. Acting has to do that without noticeable thinking/trying: emotions, made through outer parts on face and body language. Seeing and responding to stimuli is a lot of the actors job: key to naturalness of performance, acting is reacting, editors will always want to cut to stimuli reactions, central concept. The camera never lies: everything is noticed, if your reactions are not truthful, the audience will know, respond as if what were happening were true. The key: you"ve got to be you, trust who you are and work with that.
