01 / Directors
If you are a director, understanding actors is part of directing
Give me more emotion. Do less. Make it natural. Be sadder. Those are results. They do not always give an actor something playable.
01 / Directing tool
Turn notes into playable actions
Objectives and actions an actor can do on camera, not moods to imitate.
02 / Directing tool
Direct without acting the scene for them
Leave room for discovery instead of dictating every line reading.
03 / Directing tool
Name the real problem
Performance, relationship, circumstances, or the scene itself.
04 / Directing tool
Actor management on set
Mona has already taught actor-director relationship and actor management on camera.
A core directing principle
One objective = clearer behaviour
Ask for more than one objective in the same beat and the performance scatters.
«You don't need to be an actor to learn the actor's language.»