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Course Description: Acting Techniques for Filmmakers*
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Course Description: Acting Techniques for Filmmakers*

Acting Techniques for Filmmakers*

24-1300A

This participation and performing emphasis course is designed to introduce fundamentals of the actor’s craft to directing students. Students delve into various acting techniques and introductory directing methods through improvisation, exercises, analysis and scenework. Explored principles are applied to cinematic form while rehearsing and performing in front of the camera. The intended outcome is an enhanced understanding of the actor’s process and the collaborative relationship between actors and directors, as well as the initial development of a directoral language, process and style.

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* Prerequisite Required.