Naked Cinema by Potter, Sally -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Landing Page Title Page Contents Introduction Part One: Preparation

1: Embodiment (the actor’s work) 2: Casting (crossing the magic line) 3: Auditions (what really happens) 4: Money (and other exchanges) 5: Why all preparation is gold-dust 6: Working one-on-one 7: Holding the space for the actor 8: Rehearsals (why, not how) 9: Finding the ‘look’ (hair, make-up and costume) 10: Finding the character (secret key or red herring?) 11: Working with the script 12: Rewrites during pre-production (and beyond) 13: Improvisation (finding freedom?)

Part Two: The Shoot

14: Acting for the camera (from stage to screen) 15: The art of collaboration (being inclusive, taking responsibility) 16: Performing being a director (your work goes public) 17: Looking for happiness on set (an unreliable goal?) 18: Communication 19: Fear (your own and the actors’) 20: Temporary insanity (intensity on set) 21: Framing the actor (light and lenses) 22: The monitor (use and abuse) 23: Intimacy on film 24: What to do with a diva (what it means when an actor ‘acts out’) 25: Thinking ahead to the edit (the part and the whole) 26: Blocking a scene 27: Shooting out of sequence (how to survive it)

Part Three: Post-production

28: The edit (the great teacher) 29: When the film comes out (you meet again) 30: Postscript: the barefoot film-making manifesto

Part Four: The Interviews

Simon Abkarian Riz Ahmed Joan Allen Annette Bening Steve Buscemi Julie Christie Lily Cole Judi Dench Alice Englert Elle Fanning Christina Hendricks Jude Law Alessandro Nivola Timothy Spall

Afterword Photographs Acknowledgements – Picture Credits Filmographies About the Author By the Same Author Copyright

← Prev
Back
Next →

← Prev
Back
Next →