Reflective Commentary On 'Working With Actors'

Reflective Commentary on Working With Actors
By Andrey Levchenko

One of my favorite courses for today is “Working with actors”. We learned a lot on these sessions. I am not a really talkative person and I prefer to listen, either than to talk. Also I am really shy with a new people and do not really like to talk to them in the beginning of our friendship. That is why it was difficult for me in the beginning to contact with actors, but with time a got used to it, and now I know how to do it easily.

The first thing that you need to understand when working with any actor is to be respectful to them. You should always introduce yourself to them, ask them questions like “How are you?”, “How was the road?”, “Do you want something to eat or drink?”.
I know now the difference between the stage and the screen performance. I mean that when performers are on stage, they use all the space that they are given, but when they are acting in front of camera, they do have the lines, that they should not cross, because if they do that, they will leave the frame and be out of shot. So you should always show the actors where their borderline is. Also we were finding out how to explore an actor’s potential with help of watching how they perform on set and how they follow your instructions. We were also told about the sources and the ways to find and to addition the artists. There are special sources in the Internet and a book, which includes all of the actors that you can select for your movie. Also this book can be find online, and it will be more accurate, because it gets updated more often that an actual printed
First step was to write a script for each member of the group, the script was supposed to be the same for everyone in your group, but afterwards you were supposed to add a bit more details, so your story would be different from the story of your mate in the group, even though the text for your characters stays the same. With a help of this task I understood that actors play a giant roles in film, that a good artist can make even a bad script look great on screen or vice versa he or she can ruin an amassing script, because of their acting skills. Therefore now I can see how to find and how to make a kind of interview for the person I am willing to see in my film. So we wrote a script, and developed it for each of us. I have made mine with help of my own experience in life, so it was quite easy for my to understand what I wanted to see from actors on the shooting day. I wrote a script about a couple that broke up few years ago and that accidentally met on a plane and plus the other thing about this broken couple is that the guy is really afraid of the flights. By this I have combined two situations of my life, how I met my ex-girlfriend and the fact that I am really worried about flying. During all of our sessions we have met a lot of actors and at the end we had an option to select two of them, which we liked more, than