Secrets of Acting Shakespeare
Secrets of Acting Shakespeare

Author: Patrick Tucker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1135862265

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Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn't a book that gently instructs. It's a passionate, yes-you-can designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. By explaining how Elizabethan actors had only their own lines and not entire playscripts, Patrick Tucker shows how much these plays work by ear. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a book for actors trained and amateur, as well as for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.

Secrets of Screen Acting
Secrets of Screen Acting

Author: Patrick Tucker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-11-23

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1135470340

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In this new edition, Patrick Tucker retains the engaging style and useful structure of the first edition while addressing significant changes in current technology, ensuring that this volume will remain an indispensable resource for contemporary students of screen acting. Updated for a new decade of screen performance possibilities, Secrets of Screen Acting is a magician's box of acting tricks for today's performer and makes the distinction between acting for the stage and for the screen. He explains that the actor, instead of starting with what is real and trying to portray that on screen, should work with the realities of the shoot itself, and then work out how to make it all appear realistic. Tucker has created and developed several screen acting of a courses, and this book is an extension and explanation of a lifetime of work in the field. Containing over fifty acting exercises, this book leads the reader step-by-step through the elements of effective screen acting. Refreshing in its informal approach and full of instructive anecdotes, Secrets of Screen Acting is an invaluable guide for those who wish to master the art of acting on-screen.

Acting in Film
Acting in Film

Author: Michael Caine

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2000-02-01

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1476842752

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(Applause Books). A master actor who's appeared in an enormous number of films, starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog, Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This revised and expanded edition features great photos, with chapters on: Preparation, In Front of the Camera Before You Shoot, The Take, Characters, Directors, On Being a Star, and much more. "Remarkable material ... A treasure ... I'm not going to be looking at performances quite the same way ... FASCINATING!" Gene Siskel

The Actor's Survival Handbook
The Actor's Survival Handbook

Author: Patrick Tucker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1135470413

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Worried about short rehearsal time? Think that fluffing your lines will be the end of your career? Are you afraid you'll be typecast? Is there such a thing as acting too much? How should a stage actor adjust performance for a camera? And how should an actor behave backstage? The Actor's Survival Handbook gives you answers to all these questions and many more. Written with verve and humor, this utterly essential tool speaks to every actor's deepest concerns. Drawing upon their years of experience on stage, backstage, and with the camera, Patrick Tucker and Christine Ozanne offer forthright advice on topics from breathing to props, commitment to learning lines, audience response to simply landing the job in the first place. The book is rich with examples - both technical and inspirational. And because a director and an actor won't always agree, the two writers sometimes even offer alternative responses to a dilemma, giving the reader both an actor's take and a director's take on a particular point. Like Patrick Tucker's Secrets of Screen Acting, this new book is written with wit and passion, conveying the authors' powerful conviction that success is within every actor's grasp.

Secrets of Screen Directing
Secrets of Screen Directing

Author: Patrick Tucker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0429647735

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Secrets of Screen Directing: The Tricks of the Trade is a practical guide which bridges the gap between classroom learning and the realities of being on a set. Author Patrick Tucker uses insights and techniques gained from over 40 years of directing both screen and stage to open up the craft of effectively telling stories, exploring the reality of a directing career with practical day to day solutions and problem-solving methods for working directors. This book addresses the fact that most professional directors spend their careers directing other writers’ scripts, and deals with the practicalities of working on continuing dramas. Following the Director’s mantra of ‘show, not tell’ it contains over 300 illustrations, diagrams, paperwork examples and floor plans, with lists and charts throughout. Covering planning, preparation, and shooting a project, it delves beyond just script construction and into the nuts and bolts of screen directing. Directors at any level are always under huge time constraints, and this book provides immediate and simple solutions to working under such restrictions. This is an ideal resource for filmmaking students and early career directors to refer to when encountering a problem, as well as all those screen enthusiasts, actors and writers, who want to know what directors actually do.

A Screen Acting Workshop
A Screen Acting Workshop

Author: Mel Churcher

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848420557

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A comprehensive training course in screen acting by an internationally renowned teacher and acting coach.

Screen Acting
Screen Acting

Author: Peter Kramer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1317972503

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While not everyone would agree with Alfred Hitchcock's notorious remark that 'actors are cattle', there is little understanding of the work film actors do. Yet audience enthusiasm for, or dislike of, actors and their style of performance is a crucial part of the film-going experience. Screen Acting discusses the development of film acting, from the stylisation of the silent era, through the naturalism of Lee Strasberg's 'Method', to Mike Leigh's use of improvisation. The contributors to this innovative volume explore the philosophies which have influenced acting in the movies and analyse the styles and techniques of individual filmmakers and performers, including Bette Davis, James Mason, Susan Sarandon and Morgan Freeman. There are also interviews with working actors: Ian Richardson discusses the relationship between theatre, film and television acting; Claire Rushbrook and Ron Cook discuss theri work with Mike Leigh, and Helen Shaver discusses her work with the critic Susan Knobloch.

Screen Acting Trade Secrets
Screen Acting Trade Secrets

Author: Peter Skagen

Publisher:

Published: 2016-10-03

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780993765735

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Written by a veteran actor, this comprehensive, inspiring and award-winning book is the screen actor's guide for the new century.

True Acting Tips
True Acting Tips

Author: Larry Silverberg

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1480302503

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True Acting Tips leads stage and screen actors on a journey of passion, intimacy, and personal investment. This isn't to say that there will not be heavy demands and a high cost, but ultimately, this book is designed to offer the clarity and encouragement to become an actor who makes a difference in the lives of the audience members. “True Acting” is not a reproduction of anything that has come before and True Acting Tips is not a book concerned primarily with the technical demands of acting. Instead, it is an in-depth examination and invitation to see and experience acting as a momentous burst of creation – new, surprising, and deeply human. It includes inspirational quotes, more than 200 acting tips, and images that reveal a powerful philosophy to assist in the most difficult moments. Reading this book, actors will find the joy of true communion with their acting partners and, through this encounter, give the audience an uplifting experience by reminding them that we are all, in fact, human beings.

Agents on Actors
Agents on Actors

Author: Hettie Lynne Hurtes

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Agents representing actors across a wide spectrum of show business opportunities give candid career advice in this one-of-a-kind guide. Based on interviews with sixty industry professionals, this book takes you behind the scenes to show how performers’ representatives do their work day to day: how they help actors in the business of finding employment, and how they explore and define opportunities in specialized fields for ethnic, teen juvenile, senior, and other categories of performers. Some agents focus on one niche of the market—jobs in commercials or soap oreras—some specialize in modeling, and still others cover a broad range of stage and film work. The author profiles people working in various-sized agencies in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Houston,Miami, Seattle, and other cities. Also discussed is using the Internet to find leads.