COM 3417- Discussion Post 1

 You are required to post items to the course online discussion forum related to production design or acting. 

• Find & Post (or post a link to) a concept of Communication in Film (photo, short video, brief piece of writing, song, etc., related to acting. 
• Make a connection to the readings, videos or recordings for the week.
• Each post should be at least THREE paragraphs in length.

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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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