like the privilege of any hearing actor with their English dialogue. Because of this approach, I am not forcing my actors to translate the written English into ASL. They are able to add layers to their lines just like anyone else would.
By doing this, I wrote the script by thinking the ASL out in my head, recorded it on video and handed it over to the actors. They would take the lines I have given them, and do it without having any dependency on English whatsoever.
I sincerely hope to see a positive artistic outcome from all this, and to be able to find a method that would work for the acting process for ASL-fluent artists, and at the same time support the deaf community and have more films to authentically represent deaf characters better.
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