Directing Game Plan

Sundays 90 min. to 2 hours.

Tools you will need

Audition by Shurtleff (If you can't get let me know I will add it to my book hunting list. Currently I am hunting for one copy for someone in the group.)

You will need to keep a directors journal for these meetings - Journal this is the most important item to have. "no memory is as good as black ink"

Assignments

All - Read Audition 3 times and then put it down.

1. Straight read
2. Highlight - notes in the margin etc.
3. Create notes in your directors Journal on the aspects that are the most relevant to you.

Ladies - I need to know what the best scenes and or moments you have ever seen in film or on the stage are, please bring 3 to the next meeting.


Before we hit scenes we will cover all of these items

1. Q & A - On me anything you want to know - pretty much an open book.

2. Find out what you know about directing
a. How do you know it
b. What is your objective in the work as a director
c. How does it differ from your work as an actor
d. What tools do you have in your arsenal.

3, LPS directing technique as you define it.

4. NDA? Jury is still our I will let you know.

5. "Tribe" Defined for us.

6. Explore the ideas of web 2.0 tools to help you in this work.

7. We will listen to Jane Brody's CD on acting technique related to the Audition Guideposts.

8. We will listen to Michaels Shurtleff's Lectures (I only have one)

9. We will be working and viewing and discussing video of some of the best known actors, directors.

10. Directors Definition - How do you remove your self from participating as a performer in directing the LPS or is it not possible.

11. Define and demonstrate the following - NLP tools
a. Modeling
b. Pacing
c. Define the difference between a visual, auditory & kinesthetic person.
d. How to build rapport
e. How to anchor

12. How do the above NLP tools relate to the work of a director?

13. How does a director (you) build create and maintain a directors arsenal.

14. What is the directors arsenal

13. What is the different between "Flow" & "Blink"

(You will be provided with the keys to using *Flow*. FLOW - is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, characterized by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

Once you have demonstrated ownership of the above you will be guided in how to use these tools to bring your own directorial perspective to the work. Not mine, not anyone else's what is unique to you and how you see/feel/hear it. (The choice you will eventually have to make from this perspective is this paragraph is as follows, some have referred to this as the artistic choice, will what I am doing today be able to provide an income for me tomorrow?)

This is nature vs. nurture - Just the way Richard Dennis trained the turtles, and how we as actors / directors thin slice or "Blink"