Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. Hebrews 10:33

“Diabetic Father” is a film featuring interaction transformation among family members, resulting mainly from the diabetes that a family member suffers. In the movie, as the diabetic father’s expectations from his family exceeds what his family could bear, the father’s needs and temper turn him into a loose cannon.

With regard to the directing techniques of the film, action sequences, flashback, and parallelism between retrospection and sequential narration were the main editing strategies. Costumes and production design were based on authentic lives. With inculturation that actors held while performing, the director guided the actors to avoid the excess of emotions. In terms of the shooting style, the interpretation of actors’ acting was the main concern of camera movement and lens size.

The atmosphere embodied in the film was a presumed psychological mindset and living condition of a diabetic. A lifelike scenario was structured, since diabetics resemble normal people who pay attention to their health in appearances or the needs for sport, rest, and diet.

It was inferred that this might be the possible reason why the public ignored diabetics’ roles and diabetic issues while choosing the subject matter of a film.

In addition, the pursuit of lifelike acting, a text of moderate emotions without excess, and the desperation for psychological interactions between the diabetic father and his family posed a great challenge to actors and directors.

From the introduction, the research guided readers through the production rationale and story setting of the film, and led readers to the field of film acting as the literature gradually unfolded.

The cinema is a multi-faceted art with a comprehensive scope ranging from shooting techniques, structural texts, aesthetic analysis, and ideology, to relevant knowledge, among which actors’ performing aesthetics and performing techniques remained insufficiently examined in cinema theories, not to mention the scanty studies in Taiwan. In an attempt to call the public’s attention to filming acting theories, the researcher shared with readers her personal exploration and practice of filming acting theories and practicality. The current article included these sections. The first section presented the development of filming acting aesthetics. In the second section, the actor-director communication process was investigated via the interviews with actors of “Diabetic Father”, with the aim to unlock more organic directing styles. With respect to the third section, arguments in “Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Television” were excerpted to analyze the actors’ reflections on shooting “Diabetic Father” and other works.

In the fourth section concerning chapters of film production, actor’s acting was the core of discussion that exemplified the filming acting and the creation relationship and work implementation among different technological creation departments during the shooting stage and post-production.