If you are a director How to make actors act like as you want?
How to Direct Film Actors as you like ?
How to Direct Film Actors as you like ?
Directing Actors. Here are the some
techniques of great Hollywood director clint
Eastwood how he was successful of directing the actors.
What do Gene Hackman, Sean Penn, Tim
Robbins, Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank all have in common?
They all won Academy Awards under the
direction of Clint Eastwood. So how does he do it? How does Clint Eastwood manage to get great
performances from all his actors? It helps that Eastwood himself is an actor
and, as such, understands the acting process.
But more importantly, Eastwood knows
that the key to directing actors to great performances is creating a set
environment where the actor feels safe. An actor is more likely to be
uninhibited and take risks when they are relaxed and feel safe. Clint Eastwood
uses a variety of techniques to create and maintain a safe environment in which
his actors can work. The Moose will go through several of these techniques.
When directing actors, the most important thing that you can do as a
director is to trust your actors. Don’t be a dictatorial puppet master. Allow
them to have input into their performances and come up with ideas of their own.
This will allow them the freedom to try something different and bold instead of
playing it safe.
Clint Eastwood often casts his actors
off of tape. He watches actors performances in other movies and television
shows to get a feeling of what they can do. Then when the actors arrive on set,
he allows them to show him what they want to do in a scene. Eastwood may give
them an adjustment, but, for the most part, he trusts his actors. He knows what
they are capable of from their past performances and thus trusts his actors to
do their preparation and homework.
The reason why this works for
Eastwood is that he has a reputation
for doing very few takes. The actors know that Eastwood will only shoot two or
three takes the majority of the time and often prints and uses the first take
in his movies. If you make a mistake, it will probably end up in the movie. In
the hands of a lesser director, shooting in this manner will likely end up in
disaster like an Ed Wood movie, but it works for Clint Eastwood because of the
trust that he gives his actors. The actors know that Clint trusts them as well
as how he shoots and as a result, they show up on set knowing their material
and ready to go from the onset.
Another technique that Clint Eastwood
uses to create a comfortable set is his refusal to use the standard “Action!”
and “Cut!” cues. Instead, Eastwood just rolls the cameras and lets the actors
start the scene whenever they’re ready. Then he will just signal for the camera
to cut. Or, if he is in a talking sort of mood, he sometimes will say “that’s
enough of that shit” or something like that.
The reason Eastwood eschews from the
traditional “Action!” and “Cut!” cues is that those commands, usually shouted
out so that everyone on the set can hear, can be disruptive to an actor’s
concentration. They create an atmosphere that is a little more formal and a
little less natural. If an actor is in his pre-scene, an “Action!” can be
intrusive and take them out of the moment.
Likewise, someone yelling “Cut!” can be a little jarring to an actor focused in
the moment and make it harder for them to slip back into the scene for another
take.
So how does the set know when the
cameras are rolling then? This leads to another technique that Clint Eastwood
uses to create a comfortable and safe environment for his actors. On a typical
set, only certain key people will have radios and earpieces. On an Eastwood
set, almost everyone has an earpiece. This allows Eastwood and his crew to
communicate with each other in a quiet manner that is not disruptive to the actors.
In addition, this technique helps
elicit better reactions and performances from a crowd scene or a scene with
extras because the extras and supporting players never know when the cameras
are rolling. They are forced to stay quiet and in their characters because they
do not want to be yelled at for ruining a take. This is an excellent production technique and can
be used at all levels of filmmaking.
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