Directing Actors for Students and Teachers

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Do you often hear students saying things like- "I knew exactly what I wanted, but when I tried to explain it to my actors, they didn't do what I told them", or "I like film except for having to work with actors", or "My film would've been fine if I just could have gotten better actors"? These sorts of statements can easily be curbed with just a basic set of strategies that teachers can give to students during a single-class workshop that will greatly enhance students' confidence when trying to get better performances from whoever they have found to act in their films.

During this session we will first cover some basic ways to help foster better performances, then we will try them all out, and finally we will discuss how to pass these strategies on to students to help improve their films. If you've struggled with how to improve the performances you are seeing in your students' films, this session will give you a concrete method to help them more confidently work with actors in their future short films.