How Do You Judge Directing/Acting

How Do You Judge Directing/Acting Apr 6, 2019 21:29:46 GMT

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Post by Eλευθερί on Apr 6, 2019 21:29:46 GMT

Apr 6, 2019 15:29:55 GMT lenlenlen1 said:

directing and/or acting have next to nothing to do with writing. Great directing is about the directors vision and visual style, and acting is about the research and preparation the actor does. A script is the bare bones you hang all that on.

To be clear I am not denigrating the efforts of the script writer. Clearly they are talented and important parts of the process. They just don't make direction or acting great. They're independent.

You still don't seem to be hearing what I am saying.
A scene could be written with, "a person walks into a room." Or it could be written describing in detail what the room looks like, what the person looks like. Who else is in the room. Is the room an operating theatre? Is it a prison cell? Is it a room of the British Parliament? Is this person a 5-year-old girl or a blind 80-year-old with disabling arthritis?

Another example: "They fight."
A writer who says only that leaves it all to the director (and actors) to decide everything. So in response to the question of "how to distinguish it all, credit or fault," it depends on how much was already prescribed by the writer.