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- Working with children as I mentioned earlier

can be challenging but there are several things

you can do to make them more comfortable

being on camera and you happier with

what you have in the edit room.

When you're working with children on your set,

you want to make sure to bring them in early

so then you get to know each other, you,

your crew and where they'll be working.

You want to get them comfortable talking to you

and to each other so they'll feel comfortable

delivering their lines.

During all that hurry-up-and-wait time,

one thing you can do is have them play games

with each other, have someone designated on set

just to work with them or just to hang out with them

while all those other things are going on

and that will keep them engaged in the process

and happy on set.

With children you want to keep things very simple

and very informal.

You can try creating situations for them to inhabit.

Let them paint their own scene, where are they,

what are they doing, what's around them.

Make it a game for them.

With children you definitely want to consider

rolling on what they think is a rehearsal

and tail-slating your takes.

We did this several times on the film Of Dice and Men

with the children we were working with

when we couldn't quite get the performances

we needed due to one reason or another.

Sometimes children can be self conscious

so anything you can do to remove that is very helpful.

When working with children on set,

it's important to know when to involve their parents

and when not to involve their parents.

We had a child actor on our film who was having

a lot of trouble focusing on his scene.

When everything we tried didn't quite do the job,

we brought in their parents to help them get refocused

and get their lines delivered correctly.

In this clip the first time we tried to go through

this scene with this actor, he had a lot

of trouble staying focused and even was mimicking

the lines of the other actor during the take.

So we had his dad come in and talk to him

about focusing on what he was doing

and then we tried the scene again.

The second time we tried the scene

we actually told him we were only rehearsing the scene

and we ended up tail slating it after it was over.

And as you can see, his focus is greatly improved

in the second take.

- This room is a 10 foot by 10 foot square.

An ork with spear is guarding a chest.

- [Actor] What's an ork?

- This.

- [Actor] Whoa!

No way, I can't find that.

It'll beat the snot out of me and stab me with its spear!

I feel like red blood snot paste.

Can I sneak up on it?

- Okay, what are you wearing?

- [Actor] Plate meal armor and top nail boots.

- Okay, you can sneak up on him,

but where are you going to hide?

- [Both] Behind the chest!

- We had...

- [Director] Want to rehearse it once?

Yeah, let's rehearse it once.

Let's just do a rehearsal.

- Okay.

- [Director] Make sure you want to read your line, okay?

You ready?

- Mm-hmm.

- [Director] Go ahead.

- This room is a 10 foot by 10 foot square.

Ork with a spear is guarding a chest.

- [Actor] What's an ork?

- This.

- [Actor] Whoa!

No way, I can't fight that!

It'll beat the snot out of me,

and stab me with the spear.

I feel like red blood snot paste.

Can I sneak up on it?

- Okay, what are you wearing?

- [Actor] Plate meal armor and top nail boots.

- Okay, you can sneak up on it,

but where you going to hide?

- [Both] Behind the chest!

- [Director] That's awesome.

- [Man] 20B take two, tail slate.

- Remember that children have the gift

of great imaginations and are often more coachable

than their adult counterparts.

Patience and creativity will let you discover

those believable performances.