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.
Hmmm...so it seems like for you "good" acting has a lot to do with NOT distracting your audience from the character. In other words, things that take an audience's attention away from the events and life of the character make acting bad, therefore, good acting is about keeping the audience focused on the story and character.
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