The Creative Triangle: Relationship between Actors, Directors and Cinematographers

IMAGO Technical & Education Committees Panel
Co-moderators:
Philippe Ros AFC, ITC co-chair & Roberto Schaefer ASC, AIC
Speakers:
Bob Swaim, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer By Zoom
Florian Froschmayer, Director
Laura Birn, Finnish actress By Zoom
Lara Mandoki, German actress
Bojana Andric, SAS, IMAGO Vice-president
Rauno Ronkainen, FSC, Aalto University
Markus Schott, BVK
While the relationship between director and actor is well known, documented and emphasized in most acting schools, the relationship between actors, directors and technicians is barely explored. Actors almost never ask what lens is used on a camera. They rarely know the difference between a wide-angle and a telephoto lens and how this can interact with their own performance.
The panel will explore the relationship between the actor’s field of play and the camera’s field of view involving lenses, movements, eyelines as well as timing and continuity.
For the actors, it is important to understand the technical requirements imposed by the camera.
For the director and the technicians understanding the rhythm and beats (segments) of a scene gives an entirely different approach to making the right decisions, especially for breakdown.