Inneresting 25
issue 25
October 17, 2020
Stop Scheduling Emotional Appointments
You know what your characters feel, but how can you get actors on the same page? In this week’s blog post we look at writing what characters feel in a way that helps an actor (and anyone else reading the script) understand what those emotions look like from the outside.
Links About All The Feels
What is method acting all about? Here’s an overview from the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute.
Looking for a longer read on acting technique to better get inside the experience from the other side of a script? Take a look at The Actor and the Target by Declan Donnellan, Uta Hagen’s A Challenge for the Actor, or An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislovski.
A video looking at actors in Steven Spielberg’s movies looking at things, and how this helps the audience know how to feel about what they’re about to see.
A short video essay by Kogonada (writer and director of the 2017 film Columbus) showcasing the emotional expressiveness of hands in Robert Bresson’s films.
The emotions that fuel (and frustrate) creativity
Mason Currey profiles Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo, and the reasons she refuses to take a break from creative work, even in the worst of times. In her own words, “This world is full of injustice and absurdity. I put this energy of anger into creation.”
In 2018, playwright and screenwriter Quiara Alegría Hudes gave a keynote entitled “High Tide of Heartbreak”, describing the ways in which the creative work she loves is also a source of pain, ugly confrontations, and barriers.
Highland How-To: Breaking Up Your View
How many pages are you into your script? Some writers want to know at all times. Others, not so much.
Highland 2 give you a choice. Choose View > Show Page Breaks if you want to see how far come.
For more tips on how to use Highland’s overrides to tweak your script to look just right, check out our knowledge base!
Other Cool Things
Paul L. Underwood has some ideas to help you tell a good bedtime story.
Take a trip through space, listening to the radio transmissions you would hear as you get further and further from your home planet.
Watch a conversation between documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson as they talk about presenting the complexities of the American Narrative as part of the University of Michigan’s Penny Stamps artist series.
And that’s what’s inneresting this week!
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