Acting on Camera / workshop

Acting on camera. The close-up.

What do you do when you receive a script and have to go on set? What is the process of building a character? What is the information that helps us? Acting, fundamentally, is to bring an unconscious process to a conscious level, without ever thinking of performing, not showing emotions but recreating them in front of the camera, a great microscope that explores the intentions of the actor and therefore of the character. The emotion or the intention have to be recreated without adding anything else, without “acting” on it. The purer the emotion, the more elemental and therefore effective it is. Close-ups in a film for the cinema or a television series constitute a large part of the shots and become the character’s emotional map. Film acting presupposes relating, listening, reacting, just as in real life. Therefore organising ourselves differently, transforming ourselves organically into the character. We will work on relaxation, micro expressions and the listening shot through monologues or dialogues taken from film scripts.