From the course: Creating a Short Film: 04 Working with Actors

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Supporting the actors

Supporting the actors

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 04 Working with Actors

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Supporting the actors

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- Regardless of your approach to directing actors, it's important to understand that actors need to be supported in order to feel safe enough to deliver a genuine performance. In the last movie I mentioned how I'm more of the soft sensitive type, especially with actors, and more especially with less experienced actors, or child actors. But being supportive goes beyond your personal directing style, and refers more to avoiding things that takes actors out of the moment. For example, I didn't plan for the freezing cold weather we had. This was a producing blunder on my part, but it also made things really tough on the actors. It was tough for the to focus on the performance because of the conditions that I put them in. In addition to directing and producing, I also got stuck being Director of Photography, which means that my attention was split in a million different ways. At the time, I thought I was doing a pretty good job at that balancing act. But after talking to cast and crew…

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