Flashcards in Acting Deck (17)
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major roles
leading roles
- played by stars
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minor roles
- supporting roles
- played by "character actors"
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small speaking parts
- played by "bit players"
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non speaking or crowd roles
- played by extras
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Cameos
- brief appearances of well known actors playing themselves
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"Star"
- a performer whose presence in a film can assure box office success - establish intense personal relations with their publics
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Star persona
the relatively fixed screen personality of a star
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Character Actors
- secondary performers who specialize in playing similar, recognizable character types
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Typecasting
-repeatedly casting an actor (also stars) in the same kind of role
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Technical Acting Approach
- the actor thinks through the requisite gestures and emotions and then exhibits them
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Method Acting Approach
- the actor seeks to portray a character by using personal experience and emotions as a foundation for the portrayal
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Brechtian acting
- the actor creates a psychological distance between him/her and the audience (they often step out of character)
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improvisation
- can be seen as an extension of method acting; an avoidance of any technical mannerism
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2 kinds of contemporary approaches to film acting
naturalistic
non-naturalistic
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Naturalistic Contemporary approach
- when actors recreate recognizable or plausible human behaviour for the camera
- ex) the office
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Non naturalistic Contemporary approach
- excessive, artificial, exaggerated, often accompanied by excessive and non realistic costumes and make up
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