Great day!
We started off the day with an insight talk from Director and Actor Brian Gilbert, who spoke to us on Working with Actors (continuing on from David Morrissey's theme yesterday). It was so helpful! He gave us loads of great tips on how to get the best, most natural performances out of actors, including the idea of relating an emotion to a particular story personal to the actor and how the Director can help evoke these emotions. He also taught us how actors respond best to being given physical tasks as opposed to 'psychological maps' or other such complex devices a Director might use. According to Stanislavsky, he said, an actor feels most relaxed when performing a task as opposed to a feeling. Overall, I think it was the best talk we've had yet!
After this, we spent several hours in our production teams discussing both the tone and style of our films and the production/practical issues involved, including those of actors, locations etc. By the end of the day, we felt a lot readier than before!
This was followed by a 'sharing session' at Lane End Conference Centre (our accommodation), in which all, say, Directors, Editors, Production Designers etc from the various groups got together separately and discussed each others plans for the films- including a basic synopsis, the practical implications, production tasks and parts we were most looking forward to. I think this helped us gain confidence in talking about our own films, ready for the Green Light Meeting later on in the week!
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