Read through of scrip

In this weeks seminar we had access to three actors who are all studying drama, this was really helpful as it gave us a chance to talk through our ideas to people outside the film industry. As well as discussing the initial idea the actors read through our first scrip and work on a technique called blocking.

First we sat down with the three actors all talked through the scrip and our initial ideas. It was really useful to get they perspective about the idea and it help us to think a lot about the character and what sort of story we where trying to betray.  It was great to see that they where getting excited about the idea, the fact that the drama had no dialogue and potential create a world by bring the outside in with the use of sounds. The actors only concern real concern was trying to find the right actor to play the role.  Their mentioned trying to get an older actor which is something where trying to do, as it betrays a more believable story.

Sarah acting as a coat rack

After talking through the idea, the actor then looked at the scrip, they where a couple of problems with the scrip as they where a lot of spelling mistakes and some of the scenes transitions didn’t quite make sense. They told us that we need to give the actor a little bit more to feed off as we don’t know much about the character, this could be achieved by putting a character Bio at the start and a brief synopsis. As well as the Bio they told us to put more stage directions and take out some of the description of the how the set looks as we didn’t want to over load the actor with too much information.

We then ask our actor to act out one of the scenes of scrip just to see how it flowed and to help us think a bit about where to position the camera. Try to maximise the number of shots form the least number of set ups.