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CAMERA WORK

The Camera is incorporated into Class work immediately. It is not treated as a different "animal" where often an almost mystical and often feared attitude towards it is allowed to develop in the actor.

The Camera is the audience, it is the other character. It is why and for whom we create. We must engage and embrace it.

The Hagen Object Exercises, Fourth Side and Talking to the Audience, are applied specifically to the demands of the Camera. These Exercises precisely address the problematic intrusion of the Camera into the imagined life of the character. These two Exercises develop an unshakable imagined belief in the place and circumstances of the event, that allows the actor to live privately within the circumstances of the script and all the possible distractions of the technical aspects of Camera work.

Scenes are presented in Class, critiqued based on Truth/Untruth in behavior and then re-presented in Master, Medium, Two shot, POV and Close-up. The actor is given experience in the demands of the movie set and learns to adapt his technique to stage and camera as a seamless process. It is all about truth telling.

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