The Actor and The Camera - Duaia Assumpção

TARGET PUBLIC

Actors and drama students

PURPOSE

Through practical exercises and conceptual reflections , this workshop proposes that student actors recognize and utilize the expressive resources of Film in such a way that these resources become tools in the processes of the conception and execution of characters.

CONTENT

Permanent exercises with a camera during the entire process of creating a character ; the recreation of referential movie scenes or the creation of new scenes on the basis of improvisation.

Interpreting a role in front of a camera always causes an actor to feel that something "larger-than-life" is happening and that it is urgent for him/her to control the descriptive excesses in order to arrive at the dramatic essence , given that the image on the screen is much larger than the original dimension of the actor who generated it.

Trained to work with that which is "ample" or "large" , with the aim of reaching a broad public , the stage actor feels disarmed; to lose control of his or her medium may be fatal : in the case of a big close-up , the image is 85 times larger than the original. This can be frightening. But only that, because the interpretive art gains a new meaning much closer to just being.

Curriculum Vitae

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor of Film Direction in the Film Degree Program of the University Estação de Sá (RJ), since 1998.

Consultant in Directing Actors and Cast Consultant for close to 40 films and workshops, including the feature film "Amores" by Domingos de Oliveira.

Cast Production for the feature film "Tiradentes" by Oswaldo Caldiera, 1996.
Coordination of the project "Video Clubs of the Future – Science On Stage" (Museu da Vida , Fiocruz) since 1997. Authorship, direction , production and member of the cast of the show "Leio Porque Quero", traveling since the year 2000 and produced at the CCBB-RJ in 2003.
Thematic conception and colaboration on the screeplay of "E Tudo é Muito Importante" written with Joaquim Assis, on a scholarship from VITAE in 1993.

FUNARTE Prize for Incentives for New Playwrights, December 1997, with the play "4".

Theater, film and television actress, having worked with directors such as: Domingo de Oliveira, Alberto Savá, Miguel Falabella, Claudia Valli, José Renato and Eduardo Wotzik. Since 1983, almost 30 theater performances, almost 10 film performances, 30 appearances for TV, video and advertising; the most recent being on film, with screenplay and direction by Robert Maxwell, filmed in April 2004, to be distributed by TVE.
Masters Degree in the History of Science from COC/FIOCRUZ on the subject of "Relationships Between Art and Science in Museums and Science Centers from 1969-2000" .
Bachelors Degree in Stage Arts from the University of Rio de Janeiro - 1987.
Graduate of the International Film and TV School , EICTV , of Havana, Cuba.
Certification in the 1st and 2nd Levels of Scenic Arts from the University of Rio de Janeiro – 1992.