Preparação de atores na ficção televisiva seriada: um estudo de caso sobre telenovelas da Globo

Abstract

This Masters’ dissertation seeks to understand how the preparation of actors for Rede Globo’s telenovelas is carried out. As a starting point, we go from a brief historical background on the stabilization of the format in Brazil and the hegemony reached on the country by the carioca network regarding this type of serial fictional television. In order to do that, we used as base the data presented by the Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction in the years of 2014 and 2015, published respectively in 2015 and 2016. Ergo, we outlined a brief panorama about the techniques of actors’ preparation born in theater, necessary to understand the approach of the instructors of dramaturgy in their work on television. Likewise, we covered the issues of technological mediation and its implications on the actors’ work. Through interviews held with instructors of dramaturgy, through research agreement with the project Globo University, we aimed to identify the techniques used by them on the preparation of the cast of telenovelas, taking as comparative base the techniques of cast preparation in theater. To do so, it is used the concept of evidence coined by Max Weber. The coaches studied are Chico Accioly, Andrea Cavalcanti, Sérgio Penna and Rossela Terranova.