Define the following terms and give examples:
Strasberg created an acting school, and this page describes method acting's history.
This definition was taken from Break of Dawn Theater's blog. Their page elaborates on Technical Acting.
- Production Design: Production design is the overall look of a film, including backgrounds, sets, and the visual style/setting of a story.
- Mise en scène: Mise en scène is the arrangement of everything that appears in the framing – actors, lighting, décor, props, and costumes.
- Method Acting: Brought to the US by Lee Strasberg, method acting is when actors (re)experience life within the fiction of the story as if it were true and happening now.
Strasberg created an acting school, and this page describes method acting's history.
- Technical Acting: Technical acting is when an actor eliminates "feeling" the role and relies wholly on theater and stage techniques. There are theater techniques that tell you how to sit, stand, walk, speak, kiss, etc. The technical actor is detail oriented, and leaves hardly anything to chance. His/her performance might be very similar, if not the same, every time.
This definition was taken from Break of Dawn Theater's blog. Their page elaborates on Technical Acting.