Performance: Notes From Exam Board

Performance: Notes from the Exam Board

Performance can be analysed within film from a variety of different perspectives; depending on what the focus of analysis is.
Performance is looking closely at how the actor physically portrays the on-screen character
 - e.g. looking at stance of character -> what does it tell us about character within the scene?
 - facial expression -> what does it tell us about character within scene?
 - delivery of dialogue - what does it tell us about character within scene?

Performance:
Principal elements
- Performance styles in cinema (including method and improvisatory styles)
- Significance of casting
- Significance of interaction between actors 
- Use of non-verbal communication (e.g. physical expression and vocal delivery)

Performance as a creative collaboration 
- Relationship between performance & cinematography. 
- Role of directing as a 'choreography' of stage movement 

Conveying messages and values 
- How performance contributes to the ideologies conveyed by film. 
- How performance conveys messages & values 
- How performance is used to align the spectator & how that alignment relates to spectator interpretation of narrative 
- How & why different spectators interpret the same performance differently 

Indication of an auteur approach and film aesthetic 
- How performance can be indicative of an auteur approach (director or performer) 
- How performance & choreography contributes to a film