Los Angeles, California
Directing for Writers - a one day intensive
Spring 2019
|Location is TBD
Off the Page. Thinking about directing your own project, but don’t know where to start? A professional writing coach collaborates with directing teacher Robert Bailey to help writers create pages that speak to actors and learn directing basics that help put their words into action.
Time & Location
Spring 2019
Location is TBD
About the event
Here's what we tackle in this workshop:
- REWRITING THE PAGE: Create written cues for actors.; emphasize motivation, emotional subtext and scene objective. Revise dialogue to meet pacing, genre and story needs.
- LEADING THE TABLE WORK: Analyze and break down the scene with your actors; uncover relationships, subtext, objectives and playable actions; establish an effective working relationship with your cast by being both prepared and open.
-VISUALIZING AND STAGING THE ACTION: Define the setting; look for organic blocking that exhibits logic and reveals character; understand the distinctions between behavioral, psychological and symbolic blocking.
-INTENSIFYING THE PERFORMANCES: Raise the stakes; upgrade the objectives; guide the actors towards full emotional commitment.