78 | Character Poles: A Simple but POWERFUL Way To Shape Your Characters
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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Acting Versus Directing - Character Structure
Actors tend to have similar movements like an it's different when they're acting versus directing. You can tell this even by ecause a minute is a page, right? Where are they at the end of acto? What's their death moment? That's always about 90 minutes in, generally. And where what is the action of the third act that shows the change? There's the mirrer moment from act one, right? That death moment brought them into clarity. Now, they go and do it an act three. So if you do that with an actor, you'll start to see similarities, and those poles will rise up.
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