How can you use the skills from your Physical Life Inventory to your acting practice? How would it help you as an actor more generally? How can you use it for a specific character?
In general, being aware of ones physical attributes helps give a more versatile repertoire of people to work with when working on a character. For example, looking at 5 different people over the age of 60 is more beneficial than having a general idea of how an older person acts in different situations.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Opinions on Acting
How would you describe "good" acting? What experience have you had as an actor? What skills would you like to work on this semester? What kind of feedback about your acting would you like from me as we move through the semester?
To determine ones acting skills, one might say it is ones' opinion; however I disagree. I believe in order to be a "good" actor one must be able to communicate any message to their audience. Having only done a few plays in grammar school and two theatre classes at DePaul University, I feel there are a lot of areas to work on in regards to acting. Those places are: staying in character, truly feeling the emotion that is being portrayed to the audience and becoming versatile in material (comedy, drama, fairy tales, etc.).
Something that can be very distracting is the when a person is not in character or not delivering the lines as they were intended to be delivered. For these examples will prohibit an actor from being "good". Therefore an actor who can make you feel exactly what the actors character is feeling, is doing a good job acting.
With that, things I want to work on and be corrected on are related to my own connection with the audience and how I communicate what my character is trying to communicate.
To determine ones acting skills, one might say it is ones' opinion; however I disagree. I believe in order to be a "good" actor one must be able to communicate any message to their audience. Having only done a few plays in grammar school and two theatre classes at DePaul University, I feel there are a lot of areas to work on in regards to acting. Those places are: staying in character, truly feeling the emotion that is being portrayed to the audience and becoming versatile in material (comedy, drama, fairy tales, etc.).
Something that can be very distracting is the when a person is not in character or not delivering the lines as they were intended to be delivered. For these examples will prohibit an actor from being "good". Therefore an actor who can make you feel exactly what the actors character is feeling, is doing a good job acting.
With that, things I want to work on and be corrected on are related to my own connection with the audience and how I communicate what my character is trying to communicate.
Friday, January 9, 2015
First Blog Ever!
Hello my name is Tasiana and this is the first time in my life I have ever blogged!
It seems pretty cool.
The purpose for this blog is for my Acting 1 class at NEIU, so until I look at the directions for my first assignment, I am just posting to say hello.
Okay, now talk to you later!
Tasiana!
It seems pretty cool.
The purpose for this blog is for my Acting 1 class at NEIU, so until I look at the directions for my first assignment, I am just posting to say hello.
Okay, now talk to you later!
Tasiana!
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