Chapter Two - theatrestudent
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Chapter Two
Stage Versus Screen
Audience: No Cell Phones, Please!
Theatre
are active
participants
Communication flows
both ways
a pure form of acting
because it belongs to
the actors and
audience
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Audiences
Audience: No Cell Phones, Please!
Film and TV
Peter Cade/Stone/Getty Images
Audiences
are
passive
Communication
flows in only one
direction
Usually know in
advance what you
are getting for your
time and money
Acting: I’m Ready for My Close-up
Acting in Film
Photofest
Photographic
charisma is
important
Often shot out of
sequence
Memorization is
not as important
Allowed to fail
Acting: I’m Ready for My Close-up
“We’re tightrope walkers. When you walk the
wire in a movie, the wire is painted on the
floor, but when you walk it on the stage, it’s a
hundred feet high without a net.”
Al Pacino, Actor
“…acting for film is like a musician playing in
a recording studio and acting in the theatre is
like playing live in concert…”
Willem Dafoe, Actor
Acting: I’m Ready for My Close-up
Acting on the Stage
and training
are essential
Everything is a
wide-shot
Memorization skills
are required
Must perform well
with each
performance
T. Charles Erickson/Courtesy Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Talent
Directing: Direct and Indirect
Theatre
is a playwright’s
medium
Director understands
that when the
performance begins,
the actors are in
charge
The director tends to
work collaboratively
© Joan Marcus
It
Directing: Direct and Indirect
Film
Photofest
It
is a director’s
medium
Exerts absolute
control over every
shot
The director tends
to be solitary
authority
Funding: Follow the Money
Funding for the Screen Comes from
Ticket sales
DVD rentals
Advertising
Everett Collection
Funding for Theatre
comes from
Ticket and
concession sales
Federal, state and
local government
grants
Corporate funding
and private
donations
William Missouri Downs
Funding: Follow the Money
Control: Who Pulls the Strings?
Screen entertainment tends to put the
values of the audience foremost
Theatre tends to value the voice of the
artist
Bourgeois theatre and independent
filmmaking will often combine both
considerations
The Theatre Next Door
Who controls content?
• Screen entertainment
policies are dominated
by a small handful of
executives.
• Hundreds of differing
political view are
promoted by thousands
of theatres across the
US.
National Archives
•
Ownership: Copyrights and Cash
Copyright – a legal guarantee granted by the
government to creative artists that allows them to
maintain control and profit from their work
Royalty payment – fee paid to playwrights for the
rights to produce their play
Public domain – once a playwright has been dead
for 70 years, his or her plays become pubic property
Writers for hire – writers in screen entertainment
who forfeit their rights to the works they author for
a film or television program
Curtain Call
Screen entertainment tends to view their
audiences as consumers and what they do
as a product
Theatre tends to view their audiences as
equal participants in the theatre
experience and what they do as artistic
production