ACTION!: Acting for Film and Television

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Allyn and Bacon, 2001 - Performing Arts - 153 pages
Not long after Benedetti left a long academic career to become an award-winning film and television producer, he realized that he and other acting instructors had been neglecting their students by not training them to work in front of cameras as wall as on stage. He uses the same approach as in his

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Contents

Training for the Camera
7
How a SingleCamera Film Is Made
23
Shot Size
35
Copyright

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About the author (2001)

Robert Benedetti was formerly Dean of the School of Theatre at the California Institute of the Arts and Head of the Acting Department at the Yale Drama School. For the past eight years he has been a film and television producer/writer, and recently won an Emmy and a Peabody award as producer of the HBO film, A Lesson Before Dying, and an Emmy award for HBO's Miss Evers Boys. His other published works include The Director at Work, The Actor at Work, and The Actor in You.

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