Learning Outcomes
The students’ focus is on collaborating with actors during rehearsals.
They identify the core dramatic elements, the points where there is suspense or reversals. The condition with which the scene begins, its culmination and climax. Character development (if there is any) during the scene.
They acquire the knowledge required to apply the method for communicating with actors--which is to say guiding them but being guided by them at the same time. A character is built up through dialogue between the director and actor.
Although the communication method stems from the Stanislavsky method (or simply the Method, as it is referred to by American directors and actors), the actors also draw on other methods for approaching and collaborating with actors. The students are put in touch with the cinema of Bresson, Angelopoulos, Mizoguchi, Lanthimos and others.
They become familiar with the practice of filming rehearsals.
They come to realize that things that emerge out of the filmed rehearsals can lead them to decoupage solutions. They apply the lessons learned and material developed in the rehearsals in their exercises.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Analysing a character. Noting an actor’s interpretative tools.
Stanislavsky Method. How it conquered America and came to be known simply as the Method.
Film analysis (with a focus on acting).
Other acting methods: Bresson, Angelopoulos, Lanthimos, Haneke.
Creating the emotional environment in which an actor will open up and mould the character from the script.
Exercises in which the students work in pairs or groups of three, rehearsing a scene they have selected with the actors. They film the rehearsals. They produce a montage with the first rehearsals and the last. They hand in a text in which they explain the evolution of their work.
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
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2. ΤΣΕΧΩΦ Μιχαήλ, Μαθήματα για έναν επαγγελματία ηθοποιό, μτφρ. Αλίκη Αλεξανδράκη, εκδ. ΔΩΔΩΝΗ 1991.
3. ΣΤΑΝΙΣΛΑΒΣΚΙ Κονσταντίν, Πλάθοντας ένα ρόλο, μτφρ. Άγγελου Νίκα, εκδ. Γκόνης, 1962.
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5. WESTON Judith., Σκηνοθετώντας τον ηθοποιό, μτφρ. Νίκος Λερός, εκδ. Πατάκη 2006.
6. ΜΑΜΕΤ Ντέϊβιντ, Προς τον ηθοποιό, μτφρ. Μαρία Πασχαλίδου, εκδ. Παττάκη 2001.
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8. ΚΑΖΑΝ Ελία, Μια ζωή, μτφρ. Ευγένιος Πιερής, εκδ. Ελληνική Ευρωεκδοτική Ε.Π.Ε. 1988.
9. BRESSON Robert, Σημειώσεις για τον κινηματογράφο, μτφρ. Αντωνία Βουτσαδάκη, εκδ. Καθρέφτης.