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Directing Actors
- Narrated by: Judith Weston
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Publisher's Summary
This essential guide demonstrates what constitutes a good performance and what actors want from directors, and it gives helpful insight into the director/actor relationship.
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- Jacob Moore
- 2019-10-15
Directing Humans
As a technically and visually minded creator, this book has been unbelievably insightful into the heart, soul, and humanity of filmmaking. While this is just a first step in learning how to direct actors, after this book I feel confident enough to start making mistakes.
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- Saki Bomb
- 2020-05-11
Great Listen!!
Love it! There are a ton lessons to be learned here in this audio book.
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- Xander Turian
- 2020-12-31
Fantastic tool for directors and also actors
I am an actor/director and found that the information within this book is essential and incredibly insightful. It collects multiple techniques and methods and apply them in a way that is crash and easy to follow.
I also have the printed book version, and the audio version is updated and adapted in a great way and read by Judith herself so it is like being in a private coaching session with her.
Highly recommend
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- John Xiong
- 2020-10-27
Wished I had the physical book!!
Great read! There are a lot of great tips and experiences. It was great that there were examples of actors/actresses of when ideas were applicable.
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- Diego A. Velasco
- 2021-02-18
This book changed my life.
I read the book ten years ago and decided to hear the audio version as a refresher and boy am I glad I did it.
If you want to direct or have been directing and want to change things up this is a must listen.
Thank you Judith 🙏😊
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- guppyfish
- 2021-01-28
Narration too hard to listen to
Not all authors make good narrators, and unfortunately, this is the case here. The halting and choppy narration is so distracting I keep losing focus and though I am more than halfway through the book, I couldn't really tell you much about the content. It's probably better read than listened to, but I have found other books that I prefer and am not likely to buy the paperback nor finish the audio.