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Figures = xi Exercises = xiii Preface = xv About the Author = xvii PART ONE: Working with the Camera = 1 Introduction: Getting Started = 3 A Scene of Your Own = 3 Your Own Camera System = 4 1. Training for the Camera = 7 Acting on Stage and on Camera = 8 The Film Actor's Consciousness = 9 Summary = 10 2. How a Film Is Organized = 13 Prep = 14 Rehearsal = 19 Handling Your Lines = 19 Summary = 21 3. How a Single-Camera Film Is Made = 23 Shooting = 26 Post-Production: Looping = 31 Summary = 32 4. Shot Size = 35 Distance and Relationship = 35 Shot Size and the Actor = 38 Summary = 41 5. Teamwork = 43 Blocking for the Camera = 43 Group Shots = 45 Eye-Lines = 46 Overlapping = 48 Summary = 49 6. Continuity = 51 Matching Levels of Intensity = 51 Matching Rhythm and Tempo = 52 Matching Business and Props = 53 Matching Take to Take = 54 Cheating = 55 Summary = 56 7. Working with Multiple Cameras = 57 Film versus Video = 57 Acting for Multiple Cameras = 60 Sitcoms = 60 Soap Operas = 64 Summary = 65 PART TWO: Preparing Yourself and Your Role = 67 8. The Inner Discipline of Camera Acting = 69 Transformation and "the Magic If" = 69 Action and Public Solitude = 71 Justification = 71 Indicating = 73 Transformation and the Camera = 74 Summary = 74 9. Inner Action = 77 Seeing and Listening = 79 Attitude = 80 Choice = 80 Summary = 82 10. Actions and Objectives = 83 Defining Productive Objectives = 83 Defining Playable Actions = 84 Spontaneity = 86 The Inner Monologue = 87 Summary = 87 11. The Four Types of Outer Action = 89 Automatic Actions = 89 Direct and Indirect Action: Subtext = 90 Doing Nothing = 91 Summary = 93 12. Dramatic Structure = 95 The Shape of Drama = 96 Story Architecture = 97 Scene Structure = 99 The Superobjective = 100 Summary = 102 13. Emotion = 103 Working from the Outside In = 103 Working from the Inside Out = 104 Emotion Memory and Substitution = 106 Summary = 108 14. Starting a Career in Film and Television = 109 Getting Started = 110 Getting an Agent = 110 Joining a Union = 111 The Casting Process = 112 Commercials, Industrials, and Looping = 114 Auditions = 115 Summary = 117 Afterword: The Ethics of Film Acting = 119 Appendix A: Sample Scenes = 121 From Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller = 121 From Miss Evers' Boys by Walter Bernstein = 127 From Cheers by Tom Reedes = 129 Appendix B: Useful Scene Sources = 135 Screenplays = 135 Plays = 136 Useful Collections = 141 Glossary of Film and Television Terms = 143 Index = 151

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