responsible and regular guidance to them in the course of their
training as actors. For the assistant director, his routine creative
activities with the actors are a process of accumulating experience
for guiding the acting well during film-making and preparing
himself better as an independent artist.
On the basis of his profound understanding of the actors’
political and ideological preparedness and their abilities, the
assistant director should map out a long-term plan for raising their
standard of acting and give scientific guidance to their acting.
Meanwhile, he should have a deeper understanding of the principles
and methods of work with the actors and steadily enhance his own
level of acting guidance.
The assistant director should be knowledgeable also about the
actors’ costumes and hand props.
Since his main task is to work with the actors, the assistant
director should be familiar with their costumes and hand props,
which are important tools for the actors in playing their parts.
Obviously, when guiding the actor, the assistant director should be
mainly concerned with the actor’s experience of the character’s life
and his portrayal, particularly with how he expresses this in word
and action. However, if the actor is to portray a realistic person, he
should make good use of costumes and hand props and the assistant
director should be interested in them, whilst concentrating great
efforts on solving his main tasks in the guidance of acting.
The assistant director should have a dear understanding ‘ of the