- Production Design - is the task of creating the overall look of a film. As well as hands-on design, it can involve extensive background research, especially if the film demands a particular historical setting, or design features unique to the genre or story.
- Mise en scène - is the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play.
- Method Acting - is a technique of acting in which an actor aspires to complete emotional identification with a part, based on the system evolved by Stanislavsky and brought into prominence in the US in the 1930s.
- Technical Acting - The technical style of acting was developed for the stage, and comes from the long formal history of stage acting, related to the live performance of music and dance.