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w/Actors Globally Audiences imagine more in their head than you can ever act
out. Audience will do it for you, their imagination is
great.
to imagine things and let them happen in your
feelings.
How you acted as a child.
Don't act careful, but act
like children and game play.
There are
a lot of people out there who think acting is all
about it being real, it's not about being real,
anymore than a painting is being about it being
real.
A scene doesn't have to look real, but seem
real.
Chose
emotion and
objective and
your body will behave
in the character, and
if you can't turn your body over to the
character, you can't act.
Emotion is the primary force, can't
do it with cleverness.
Human will is great, you can hypnotize
yourself. Just mesmerize yourself with thinking of
one thing, your
objective.
Actors must use complete
sense memory
everywhere possible.
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BREAKING THE BARRIER OF
ACTING
The acting experience is what we are trying to
accomplish, what it feels like to act. We are trying
to BREAK THE BARRIER that is made up of the
actor being clever and
thinking it through as they act.
This all leads up to looking like acting, it has no
resemblance to life.
"Don completely changed my outlook
on acting and made it fun again. I
discovered that it's possible to get
emotional without having to think of
any thing personal."
Brad Heller
The better way to
teach your body
the discipline of being other people
in a world of illusion.
ABWAG to learn acting
is a place to learn acting with no pain to you mentally
or physically.
Dress yourself in your
imagination.
An actor must be trained in the
skill of acting. It is a craft with a
toolkitfull of tools.
The individual tools are acquired through the
learning of the art.
The modern way to act is to
learn all of the principles of acting, then forget that you know
them.
It comes down to the human face,
not just special effects.
The fundamentals of acting is to not flounder around, but look
at the resources of principles. Principles never change. It's
not, "I have a great idea".
The
director should work up closely with the
actors
and then as the actors get on their feet and get more security, the director
should step back, step back and leave no foot prints
in the scene.
The more inventive you are, the better
actor you are.
Don't love your
performance, love...
In order to control an audience you must
first learn to master yourself.
You have
talent, see what it can do!
To act we are talking about
skills, you just don't throw yourself into
it.
When you are very good in a scene and you come off and
you're not sure exactly where you were, that is when you are
good. When you come off and say, "oh, was I terrible," you
weren't in the scene. If you come off and you say, "boy, was
I great," you weren't in the scene. If you can step off into
space and not know where you are for a moment and trust your
talent to take over and everything you have learned
to date and allow that to propel you, then you come off in
doubt, you come off like, "where was I?" That is when you
are very good in the scene. That is what really acting has
to feel like. It is like taking a trip. It is being
somewhere else and being someone else. As long as you stay
you, it is never going to happen. That is the trick you try
to achieve.
Talent will take care of you,
don't just perfect
skills.
The
secret: Give
up the controls, hardest thing to learn in acting.
In acting in the movies a lot of big star actors are always
there, they are a pain in the side. They are all over the place.
But rich good acting, that is not what happens. The actor
disappears, and that is what the actor should do, you work up
closely to your character and then you step back, step back,
step back and leave the character alone. You give the character
your mind, your body and you buzz off. All you do is collect the
check.
Storytelling
and reveal character, that is what it is all about.
We are storytellers. I'm not talking about logic, I am talking
about the skill of telling a story.
We all try to act with our intellect, you can't do it, acting is
an emotional experience. It's only a partial mental experience.
Don't look for psychological conclusion as an actor. A good
actor knows when to do it, how to do it and make the right
choices. Use all the resources you've learned from life and then
you say, this can work in terms of the audience.
You have to be theatrical. It won't work if you don't
have no smarts. Consider the material in depth. What is the
reading in it that will interest an audience. That is what they
are looking for when they hire you.
There is rarely anyone to help you out there. You have to know what to
do to help yourself. Actorin this industry has to be ruthless,
selfish, aware of everything that is going on. Actor has to be
self-resilient, self-reliant and self-sufficient. Work-up a standard of
excellence. Train your own
instincts.
First, get yourself into that
emotional state where you have to get your body feeling
the
peak of exercise: you are out of breathe, the
adrenalin is going through you and your
heart is beating. Then the director yells action and don't
recover.
When you do things like
feeling emotion and
thinking objective you don't even have to think about
doing it. It all becomes
subliminal
in your acting. Don't be conscious of all the principles of acting
once you learn them. Trust your body, your body can do many
things for you. Your body remembers.
Don't get ready for the
next moment.
In life, we have no idea what's going to happen in the next
instant,
Audience goes 'aw'...
The Moment Between the Trapezes
state of
disconnected
that's what makes your acting
resemble life.
Learn the scene, then you don't know what is going to
happen, the lines and
staging are almost like amnesia. You are in a
state of
disconnected from what is rehearsed. There is a sense of urgency between
the two trapezes. There is no recall, everything is unknown after rehearsal.
To make acting look
real through the quality of the accidental.
Acting natural won't get you anywhere.
You have to be above the mob. You have to have fire
in the belly. If you carry dullness, you're doomed.
Stand up there and vibrate. Forget
reality and just look for the
theatrical.
Work mainly with an
emotion, because without
emotion
acting is worth s**t.
Character can be out of control, but you the
actor must always be in control, keep your
skills. You must have great feeling, but stay in control of your
instrument (your body, an actor has to learn to play the violin,
figuratively.) It's all about
emotion.
Use the principles you
learned to work with, those are the tools. Most people
learn them, but don't apply them.
When it is
working for you, don't do anything, don't make it
better. The hardest thing for an artist is when to
know when to stop, when is it enough. Don't guck it
up.
Don't start acting, once you remind audience you're an actor
it's over. Cannot take every big moment and turn it into
radio, vocalize or make it loudly. The problem is to deal
with big moments, they don't have to be loud.
Actinga
BetterWayw/
Actors
Globally
is learning the feel, think, do
technique for the purpose of acting and then practice, practice, practice...
until you don't have to think about it, anymore.
ABWAG
has taken a
few principles of acting from method acting.
Joy of doing the work is ART, not from torment, forget
armchair psychology used by many actors and directors.To the actor a director says, 'I want this result, do it
however you do it', is a better way
instead of all that psycho therapy stuff in
Method acting.
Actors never ask themselves, "what would I do," but
need only to think
"who am I",
who the character thinks he/she is. Acting is
being other people, the actor doesn't come into
it.
Be aware of
what is going on in the inside and the outside of
the character.
In comedy, do start with everything real, instead of starting
with everything funny.
Play comedy. Your character must
suffer. Comedy is someone else's
tragedy. All of it is the sad story of life. It's the way life
goes, it's sad, it's unfair, it's terrible, it's
suffering and it's tragic. There is no good comedy without
suffering.
The more you are in trouble the funnier it is, that is the
secret of comedy.
There are a lot of funny people in the movies and on the
stage, but there are very few people who are human
funny. And when they are human funny, they are twice
as good as anybody else.
During a comedy scene an actor is in a state of mischief;
a prank on the audience.
In comedy:contest of wills.Laurel and Hardy are goofy, but based in
reality.
You need separate individuals, someone has to be the straight man (Hardy),
a person who the audience recognizes with. Then the
other is the clown (Laurel.) Driving force gets
it done; one has to be driving force (Hardy), the
other guy leads into difficulty (Laurel.) The
straight man can reverse anytime (Laurel) and
then be the clown (Hardy.) Must have an under
lying basic joke: blind leading the blind.
Audience is laughing at themselves.
If you can't tell story in
behavior, it won't work with words
How to make a scene special, how to illuminate it? As an
actor be a chef, be decorative.
Acting a scene is like
a chef planning a meal. He doesn't serve you the same thing.
If you start with a asparagus, is the main course asparagus,
does he give you asparagus fruit, and does he end up with
asparagus cake.
Learn to
act and how to sell it to generate money. If you can
generate money, they will pay you money.
The greatest
impressionist is Van Gogh, he never painted carefully.
The passion is
there.
In your art take big broad brush
strokes.
Good painter attacks
his painting.
Principles of painting also go for acting, use a big brush
and let it dribble.
In
life we struggle to overcome
emotions. The job of the actor is to be
swimming in them.
Acting is
beingother people.It has nothing to do with you
-- the actor is not the
character.
Find yourself in the skin or world of your character.
Actor can't pretend things, it has to be emotional experience.
How to find emotions? We know what words mean: anger, envy,
horror, anxiety, joy,
etc.
The emotion like "anger" is all the
times you had this emotion in
life, not just one instance in your life.
Here
is
THE EXERCISE to learn how to make
the emotion big enough to act with.
Acting
is having the
emotion
that best fits the scene. An actor can
not try to play effects of scene. If
actor works without
emotion,
it will look like acting. An actor can't lie or do it without passion.
It is about true
feelings
and true
objectives:
do not to be
artificial, but be
real.
An
emotion isn't a constant,
an emotion goes up and down,
it goes all different ways.
The
whole idea is to see how much
emotion
and inner life actors can give
their characters. The actors must give themselves over to the moment,
they must soak themselves to be real.
Approach your work with
body relaxed so the
emotion can take over.
Use all your resources, not just
emotion.
Avoid compassion or pity as your character's
emotion."
Definition
of an
objective:
Objective
is in character's words.
Objective should be simple, active
phrase, starting with the word "to".
The objective is the
conscious
intent of the character.
Objective must always be in the
language of the character, limited to his
own background and education.
There's no one correct answer when you're looking for the
objective of the character. Pick the
one that seems best for the character and one that 'turns
you on'
as the actor.
The
objective
is the conscious intent
of the character;
(he needs a woman to give him trouble).
Objectives
must always be difficult to attain.
Difficulty is
the fuel that lights our acting fires.
Actor must think of character's
objective over and over to be
oblivious of everybody; crew, director, etc.
When you act you should
concentrate on your character's
objective and
nothing else. Your discipline has to be complete, that is how
you stay in character.
The discipline in your mind is not to think, how am
I doing? Because you'll forget. Instead, it is to
concentrate on the character's
objective. Thinking
just that is: controlled obsession.
Objective is not
just what you think, but what you
do.
Think
objective - the body knows what to do!
People tell you to focus, but never tell you what to focus on. Focus on
your
objective.
Don't act without an
emotion, more
important than words, even the
objective.
Learning how to listen
in a scene: you can't make your mind a
blank, so you must keep thinking objective
and stay with the emotion,
you'll hear the way we do in life.
Really see and hear other actor, you will react.
The
only other acting book I recommend to read besides 'Acting Without
Agony: An Alternative to the Method' is Michael Caine's acting
book 'Acting in Film', which tells us "to occupy yourself while you
listen, think of what you would say, but don't say it". This is an
over-generalized objective.
Michael Caine Acting
on Film Part 1 of 6
Fill the silences is actor's job.
One of the cardinal rules
is...
stay with one emotion
and
one objective until something
occurs to change it. (You don't drift off because of the dialogue.)
You only change because of new information or a new event.
Have an
attitudefor the character, then you would have their personality.
Attitude without an
emotion will never
work, you must vibrate inside.
Also, find another attitude
for character from new information.
Acting
attitude can control audience. You are
the performer,
a
lecturer, you have to control the audience.
Characters don't go around
showing what's really inside of them, they wear a
mask for protection.
When
re-doing a scene, don't repeat what you just did, but go back to
cause of it (the
emotion
and the
objective,)
then hoping your talent will even make it better.
Know the perimeter of what you can do, so you aren't miscast.
Perimeters of what you are right for, what you suggest to the audience,
otherwise, it's work, work and it still doesn't work.
An actor can only control their
conscience for acting purposes, they can not control their
sub-conscience. What the sub-conscience does is it does things to the
actor.
This is make believe (you're the cop, I'm the robber), just walk into
it. You are just in this
dream. There is no you the actor.
In acting
get yourself where you don't know what is coming
next.
In the house of entertainment
the actor and director have
to serve the audience and work for the
author.
An actor or a director should definitely follow and learn the
list on
scene analysis.
Actor thinks of causes.
Director thinks of results.
Actor has to make
the right
choices. For director it is
casting.
Just have a general idea of scene. Ammo given to actors is the
emotion and
objective.
Director then let's the actors go.
Director favors
the one who can act when filming.
Purpose of film today: play each
moment
fully. Don't over simplify in just dealing with
plot.
Don't make bad choices. If the choices are wrong, scene won't
work.
In making choices, it is where
you are in the story and how much the audience should know.
Recognize
traps of scenes when they are there, so you
know how to avoid them.
Acting is the only art you cannot be caught doing.
No awareness of self
is good acting.
If actors go back in their past, they are aware of
self. Total abandon must come from an actor while
his/her instrument (body) is vibrating with
feeling.
Understanding Discipline of Acting -
Actor must give up
self-thoughts.
Audience doesn't care about the actor's problems, only
the character.
An actor must turn their
body over to the character, if they can't do that,
they can't act.
When
you act you have to act not just with your will, not just with
your
thoughts
and
feelings,
you have to act with your whole body.
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