* filmplus.org/a -- total actor
... everyone can direct! ... really? Yes, but badly.
books.filmplus.org classes.vtheatre.net directing.filmplus.org ... I direct, but not sure that I am a director. Same could be said about writing, or painting. Activity, but not a profession? Why do I have such a feeling? I do not like even the words -- Director, Writer, Painter... and, especially, Artist. But why? ... Is it me, or the time?
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2007 - "majors only"? Member of human race. And -- their machines, too.
![]() ... One who performs for pleasure rather than money. [dict] ... 2008 -- directing for everyone NEW: 2006 THR331 FunDAmentals of Directing * 200x * 332 * 333 * 470 * see T-blog and VT blog ! My places to watch for directing -- Total Director, stagematrix, meyerhold.us + teatr.us for LUL Theatre & stagematrix group [wiki]
... Director and Directing (pages) in Theatre Theory : filmplus.org/thr
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stagematrix.com & meyerhold.us
First I should say about what you do not need to know!
But I can talk about it only AFTER you know what you need to know!
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direct.vtheatre.net -- Fundamentals of Theatre Directing 2008It has been suggested that the crude, all-or-nothing categories of professional or amateur should be reconsidered. A historical shift is occurring with the rise of pro-ams, a new category of people who pursue amateur activities to professional standards.[ pro-am : Their leisure is not passive but active and participatory. http://www.answers.com/topic/pro-am ]filmplus.org/thr -- Theatre (Directing) Theory
afronord.tripod.com/film -- Film Directing
vtheatre.net/fm -- filmmaking (new) movies.vtheatre.net = director.vtheatre.net
and
... The other, perhaps somewhat obsolescent usage, stems from the French form of the Latin root of the word meaning a "lover of" (see amateurism.) In this sense, retaining its French inflexion ("am-a-tEUR"), an amateur is motivated by a love or passion for the activity. In the 17th and 18th centuries virtuoso had similar connotations of passionate involvement. [w]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_amateurs : Professional amateurs (also Pro-Ams or ProAms) is a conceptual term to describe a blurring between the separate distinctions of professional and amateur within any endeavor or attainable skill that could be labeled professional, whether it is in the field of writing, sports, computer programming, music, film, etc.
... Homer and After
[ This is not the right place to reflect on the topic. Maybe in stagematrix.com? Somewhere? Some day. ]
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