For the daily needs of actors trying to make it big!!!
The Acting Room has a great post on how to substitute to achieve real emotions. I personally believe this is useful to start with, but once you have connected, you need to feel the characters emotions as your own, not substitute them. Make his emotions yours, not the other way around…
There is a world of difference between the actor who is
caused authentically to do what his character must do and the actor whi
only indicates of self-generates his actions.
Meisner didn’t invent this concept but it is the principle upon which his technique is based.
The technique is often mistakenly identified exclusively by his
signature repetition exercise. Repetition encompasses the basic
principles of his technique, however it is only the beginning…
After reading Stanislavsky’s dictum about the necessity of the actors being private in public, Strasberg created the private moment exercise. He viewed the exercise as a corrective for actors who were inhibited by the presence of an audience. By enacting a moment of true privacy in front of people, Strasberg hoped to get them to [...]
Here is a wonderfully clear example of WHAT NOT to do when acting on film. Enough said.
In film, you sometimes encounter actors who think they’re going to steal the scene by being big, and bombastic. Proving their value. Those actors are using their bodies and voices instead of their brain! They don’t realize in terms of voice and action, less is more…
Like every week we post a book review on a subject related to acting, health, personal growth or anything related to the showbiz industry. This time it’s the Hard-edged “True and False” by David Mamet…
For thousands of years it had been believed that if an actor played a madman, he would lose his mind, or if he played a sick man, would get the disease! This all started when Greeks stated that human beings were composed of 4 basic fluids: black bile, yellow bile, red blood and phlegm. These 4 fluids controlled our emotions and when they were imbalanced would cause sickness (which they equated to emotions)…