This document discusses directing actors and editing techniques. It provides examples from the films Raging Bull, Easy Rider, Bonny & Clyde, and Sex, Lies and Videotape. The document discusses improvisation in scenes, using one or two cameras, building scenes in the editing process, and how editors can "cut themselves out of a corner." It also notes the unconventional editing styles used in Easy Rider to translate the psychedelic experience.

1. CLASS 9

2. Guest: JASON TOBIN
Acting & Editing

3. Directing Actors
• What is the story happening in the scene?
• What is the obstacle?
• What is the ultimate objective?
• What happened right before the scene started?
• Where is the scene happening?
• What is the C.R.O.W.?
• Characters
• Relationships
• Objective
• Where
• STORY = HERO  OBSTACLE  GOAL

4. Raging Bull (1980)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Editor: Themla Schoonmaker
• Improvisation
• One Camera
• Scenes built in the edit

5. Raging Bull
Themla Schoonmaker on
“Cutting yourself out of a corner” and the
difficulty of editing improv
http://youtu.be/6enMrxbpI-w (5 minutes)
• Improvisation
• Two Cameras (one camera in
“Raging Bull”)
• Scenes built in the edit

6. Easy Rider (1980)
Director: Dennis Hopper
Editor: Donn Cambern
“Easy Rider’s style — the jump cuts, time shifts, flash forwards,
flashbacks, jerky hand-held cameras, fractured narrative and improvised
acting — can be seen as a cinematic translation of the psychedelic
experience.”

7. Bonny & Clyde (1968)
Director: Arthur Penn
Editor: Dede Allen
“You have to cut with your gut.” -Dede Allen
Shootout scene: birds, slow motion, long shots, all give feeling of intensity

8. Sex, lies and Videotape (1968)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Editor: Steven Soderbergh