The Actor's Performance And Directing Subtlety

Stay true to your vision, edifying the creation that dominates the entire experience generated from the interactions with creative accents focused on a repeating presence.

Its various positions are rendered suddenly, one after another, without crossing between an attitude and the next, meaning almost the same as a series of separate characters would be presented, chosen by the camera – not based on the criteria of physical and spatial presence, but after the degree of increasing emotion during the same action. This counterpoint construction dominates the scene and subjects it to its rules. Therefore, director Serghei Eisenstein figures that the most important thing is everything, starting with the actor’s play and ending with their folds of garments, to be penetrated equally by that unique and determining emotion that underlies the polyphony of the entire multilateral composition.

This is how the scene appears in Eisenstein’s vision. When filming, his only concern is to master it, to stay true to this vision. "In that moment, the character Ivan appears to be absolutely alone with fate. Nothing happens. The terrible cameras record his every move, every trace of emotion on his cheek. From all corners of the stage, eyes watch over him, looking so that he doesn’t exit the lens’ field of view, the clarity area of the lens, from the area so laboriously illuminated or to not raise his voice over the send level set by the sound operator. "

A purely technical concern therefore, the filmmaker obstinately pursues that his dream becomes reality. He is dictatorial with the interpreter precisely to not leave even a single trace slip through, one that wouldn’t fit in this meticulous orchestration. *

Does your leadership materialize in a deeply creative operation, with extraordinary facets of multi-role, from which radiates the emotion before a vision that is transmitted to the deed?

Starting from the current state of knowledge in a field and continuing with the status of implementing new procedures for adjusting thinking, you can put into circulation certain points of view, highly specialized, which have the power to push people to new ways of behaving and reacting, completely conforming to the instructions of montage.

It is important that the vision with which you treat a subject empathizes with spiritual sensitivity, with the life story of those that never give up and decide their own fate.

In terms of movie, montage refers to the final stage in the work technique, which includes the selection of scenes, determining the order and definitive length of the sequences, sound mixing, according to the sequence indicated by the script and the director’s artistic vision. In leadership, montage has the role of maximizing the impact you can have over every life experience, by enhancing efficiency in the act of creation so as to stimulate the motivation of people to build themselves a glorious destiny.

Montage represents a deeply creative operation, with extraordinary faces of multi-role, having the potential of inducing subjects not only moods and feelings, but also certain behaviors without them being aware of such a thing and without being able to resist. At the same time, the leader performs the role of director, observer, technician, supervisor who occasionally “retouches” the behaviors of those who want to play an important role in a truly impressive life story.

We can conclude that leadership practiced by a leader-director has the role of a "voltage generator" or "voltage stabilizer", depending on how much he calls upon others and how open people are to following his orders or instructions. Those who follow a leader must therefore fulfill two roles: that of a protagonist of a film story, meaning that of the protagonist of an act of heroism become legend, and that of a witness of a reality illustrated by the idea of the omnipotence of the destiny faced with an unseen Creator who simply forgot about the discouraging frame of life.

Leadership: Do you use the “master” function to check if you position yourself in the clarity area of a long-forgotten world, in a deliberate effort to acquire the idealism of a creator who is considered the absolute standard of truth?

Instead of focusing strictly on those factors, generators of outstanding performance, which can become vital for the construction of your expectations, a leader with directing valences is always running, as if through a never-ending abstract labyrinth, around the questions: "Can I fit a particular situation or person into a plane of reference different than the common one?" In a way, he is pursued by the feeling that it is from here that failure or success of creating a true reality will come from.

If you are not capable of perceiving what you’ve done, you alone bring proof of your incompetence, and implicitly admit that you’re not living up to the height of the function you’ve been vested with. For this reason, leaders are often dictatorial with the "interpreters of their work", precisely to not let even a single inadequate nuance slip through in their meticulous orchestration. Leadership means to dominate almost the whole scene of transformations and subjecting it to your rules, to your truths.

The idealism of a creator who is considered the absolute standard of truth is tied to the nuances of a concrete historical reality that may have as a correspondent the transparent symbol of a continuous, never-ending present.

When you turn the facts on one side and another, adding small details, eliminating or nuancing others, everything takes on new meanings, a different dimension, a different logic. All of these reproduce at the leader’s scale the aspiration towards something grand, the thirst of imposing himself and finding himself on the highest levels of the professional hierarchy, approaching that reasoning that justifies any decision from the perspective of the primary objective pursued.

For any director, history is a repeating present.

The "master" function checks if you position yourself in the clarity area of a forgotten world, of an overlooked history, and refers mainly to the existence of certain restrictions and constraints imposed by the increasingly accelerated dynamic of the creative process. You can build a creation that dominates the whole experience generated from the interactions with others only if you stay true to your vision and embed it at a key-actions and key-results level, even with the risk of opposition.

Leadership is the ability to present the vision of a palpable reality that experiences its eternity in favor of the existence of a Creator who simple forgot about the discouraging frame of life.

The Actor's Performance and Directing Subtlety highlights two entities opposite by their nature and yet two that cannot exist one without the other. The first is allowed to be exposed to any factor triggering of reactions of opposition, following a meticulous analysis, accompanied by firm and adequate touch ups. The second instance encourages professional development, subject to strict monitoring and unusual pressure, but an effective one, which complies with the proportion between the level of competence, responsability and individual performance.

* Note: Ion Barna - Eisenstein , Youth Publishing House, 1966.