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

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What makes a good director?

What makes a good director?

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

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What makes a good director?

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- In this chapter, we're going to look at how to direct actors. But it's impossible to talk about directing acting performances without mentioning how to be the type of person that can direct a set well, so that's what we're going to look at first in this tutorial. First, why do actors even need a director? What if they're really good actors and totally know what they're doing? They still need a director because in order for actors to deliver a powerful, genuine performance, they need to live as the character for those moments. If they have to mentally step out of that moment to evaluate their own performance, then they can't completely commit to the scene. Actors need to perform the scene and only perform the scene. Someone else needs to be brought in to evaluate that performance, so that what they are feeling is coming across in the way they intended, and so that the emotional levels are consistent from shot to shot within a scene. That evaluator, of course, is the director…

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