Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Freeman's Deepening Techniques

-General Deepening
-Scene Deepening
-Character Deepening
-Empathy Deepening
-Dialogue Deepening

Freeman has a specific number of technique for each.

LAYERS
The importance of creating intresting, three dimensional characters and the avoid of cliche.

General Deepening (add complexity)
1 - Layer (most importance thing to have)
2 - Pain (expressed or hold in)
3 - Humilation, Shame, Regret
4 - Aesthetics
5 - Understation or angled spiritually
6 - Widsom, insight
7 - Responsibility
8 - Self Sacrifice
9 - Mystery

CHARACTER
"Every actor must create the part differently than every other actor would because it's a marriage of their essence with the character's essence." Dustin Hoffman

SUBTEXT
Language is what we say with words and subtext is what we really say with our body language, with our tone of voice, with our eyes and expression. WESTON pg.85

BUT HOW TO WRITE IT
Metaphor, behaviour, attitude can be written in and then it's up to the director and actors spot it.
Reaction of the character to something beautiful.

Traits of a Character
-Wild
-Wired
-Electric
-Essentric
-Obsessive
-ETC

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