G321: Additional Research: Actor Techniques

I went looking for something that may help my film in the library and I found this book upon acting, in this book there was a section that spoke about screen acting, so i believed it would be a good idea give it a read and see what information i can gain from this. By doing so i gained some knowledge upon actors and also for my filming which I will use.

The first piece of useful information was this about vocal levels. It speaks about how different shots have different kinds of levels to speak at, which is useful for my actors because we have a variety of shots so for when Vicky is crying we will need her to be a lot louder with the crying when we are further away with the camera.

This here is useful for us when making the film, it basically talks about marking out the spots where your actors are meant to be in the scene with an X made of masking tape, so for us this will be useful for when we have Ethan is playing on the floor because we will use a variety of shots on him at this point so it will require us to be moving the camera a lot so the focus will be on him knowing where he should be for continuity reasons.

This part at the bottom here talks again about the use of precise and small movements when the camera is near and bigger for when its further away but the main part at the bottom here is the golden rules because we have new young actors on set they may be unaware of these rules so it is good for us to brief them on what they should and should not do, so this is useful for us as we shall be telling our actor playing Ethan to understand these rules and be more confident on set.

With gaining all the knowledge from this book, I will be running an actors workshop to help our actors become familiar with the camera and especially to focus upon our young actor because he is our main role and we need him to be at his best for when it comes to the shoot.
By Dan