Acting: Take two

When starting out this year I was cocky, to be quite honest I thought I was like one of the great actors and I don't mean this in a "feel bad for me I am so pitiful," kind of way. I like being honest with people. When I realized I wasn't, I guessed I was shocked, because I was living in my own little bubble of graceland where I am the best at basically everything. Yes, I guess you could say that I didn't really know if I wanted to continue acting ... for all of about 5 seconds. After it dawned on me that you need to work at something practice and practice, I reasured myself that this is what I love to do, even if I suck.

Moving on, working on the acting  I liked the cold reads better. For me it is less pressure, no one was given the time to work on it therefore I can't be the only one to do something wrong! When we were given the time to go over the scene analyze, find the objectives and create beats I have a tendency to over think things. Aside from that, Sabrina and myself had gone over the scene at least 10 times and every time it got better and felt more realistic. I started to use my script less for lines, became more aware of my body I actually reacted to the words coming out of her mouth. Next we decided to preform our scene in front of  Andrew and Alex - this changed the atmosphere. To me I immediately got much worse than I had previously preformed. My nerves get the best of me, for all I know it could have looked like I had to pee I was pacing so much. I call this NBA, it stands for "No Body Awareness." It surfaces when mentally I am lost, the same happens to me physically.

Then preforming in front of everyone was just like you melted a piece of butter - I dissolved. I couldn't remember what to do or what to start of as disappointed, understanding, angry? Sometimes I just get so nervous and stuck in my own head I am a bad acting robot. After Luke explained to me I could use those to my advantage and saw it in action with Danny. It gives me hope and something to look forward to for tomorrow I guess?

Acting Why are these people important?

Constantin Stanislavsky created the method of physical acting, that it is the emotional reactions of an actor are the basis of an actors creativity, spontaneity, and the essence. Michael Chekov the nephew of Constantin Stanislavsky created the idea of naturalism which is attempts to create a perfect illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies. Lee Strasberg founded method acting. This method was when you need to repeat a performance that you have to have an emotional memory. Robert (Bobby) Lewis asked questions such as "Why," "What," and "How." Meaning for this modern acting has to have a line that connects their head and heart. Stella Adler beliefs where that an actors talent lies with imagination, needs past experiences to connect with the play. Sanford Meisner went with the method of Emotional Recall meaning an actor uses personal emotions to feed their process.

These are all important definitions and people to know for this week, because the acting group will probably be using them. Approaching acting in many different ways such as some of them above. We had been given the assignment to analiyze scripts so we might be analiyzing other works with the different methods or need to identify them.