DRAM 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mary-Louise Parker, Anna Deavere Smith, Cate Blanchett
Document Summary
Purpose for all training is the performance. Control and confidence to energize and completely detailed performance. Actor work is finding ways to sustain performance. Bill irwin and anna deavere smith mostly theatre. Cate blanchett, bill crudup, charles dutton, laura linney, liam. Neeson, mary louise parker, kevin spacey, meryl streep. Difference between acting in theatre and acting in film. Crosses a distance to reach an audience. Size of performance respond to size of stage and auditorium. Actors need to contain instincts if film. Actors need to increase energy when on stage. Actor aware at all times of camera lengths, width of shot and focus. Actor"s work is scheduled around needs of an elaborate technical process. Learn only lines that necessary to scene filmed. Construct what the viewer sees of the plot and actor"s progression. Challenge is to be able to shape a performance when the process is so piecemeal . Sometimes actors do not meet during film process.
