Pre-Production for Emerging Directors: Working with the Actors

WEEK 3

WORKING WITH THE ACTORS

You might already have brilliant character profiles; however, it is going to be your actors who will turn them into flesh-and-blood people; characters, the audience will sympathize with or fear for.

Alternatively, you might follow David Mamet's no-nonsense approach and believe that "There is no character, there are just black marks on a white page - it is a line of dialogue." Whatever your conception might be, your actors will be your translators when it comes to telling the story.

So, this time we will talk about

1. casting
2. developing characters with your actors
3. developing chemistry among them through improvisation
4. and the rehearsal in the presence of the cinematographer.