How To Act For Film & Television Like a Star
How To Act for Film & Television Like a Star. Acting Technique: MIND’S EYE. This technique enables the dramatic actor to “pop” on screen. Creates “the keys” to a great performance (Relationship, Stakes, Subtext, Arc) in seconds.
You Will Need
a mirror
lighting/ or enough available light to see
a random script/ text
a video camera (optional)
Don’t judge yourself. You are the instrument… so play.
Step 1: The Process
Get your script and go to a mirror in a well lighted room.
Use a video camera for best results. By reviewing the “performances” just given… you’ll have proof-positive on which was your most effective “take”. Just like they’ll do in the editing room.
Step 2: The Work
The Mind’s Eye Technique:
1.) Choose a specific ACTION (i.e: Slap/ Caress/ Tickle/ Strangle) that you can do with your hand…
2.) Then reach across (to Actor or Camera) USING YOUR EYES… use your dialogue to do that ACTION.
Be selfish! Show little.
Step 3: The Choice
You only need to read a few lines of dialogue to “see” your Mind’s Eye: ACTION CHOICE. Change the different “Actions” to see what feels most effortless, thus most effective. The actor’s job is to create intrigue and mystery on screen, not to make “the scene work”. That means: indicating, not listening, being too big, playing the script, etc.
Step 4: The Commitment
As the actor… comitting to your choice is king. Strike a pose… see it in your “Mind’s Eye” and let it go. Because you stared into the mirror and made 10 different “Mind’s Eyes”: ACTION CHOICES, that took but seconds each (it should not take any longer than that), you have felt and witnessed the ACTION CHOICE that works best. This will create the EMOTION… thru your eyes with specificity.
DELIVERY SYSTEM:
Speak (the dialogue) as if your are alone and TALKING to yourself.
Don’t play the text/dialogue as written.
Your ACTION CHOICE will create the emotion.
This is how to actor like a Film & TV star. No “moment to moment” change. Sure, “every little moment has a meaning all it’s own”… but you filter it through the precision acting instrument— YOU— using your ACTION CHOICE, delivering emotion and meaning with your eyes.
How To Act for Film & Television Like a Star. Acting Technique: MIND’S EYE. This technique enables the dramatic actor to “pop” on screen. Creates “the keys” to a great performance (Relationship, Stakes, Subtext, Arc) in seconds.
You Will Need
a mirror
lighting/ or enough available light to see
a random script/ text
a video camera (optional)
Don’t judge yourself. You are the instrument… so play.
Step 1: The Process
Get your script and go to a mirror in a well lighted room.
Use a video camera for best results. By reviewing the “performances” just given… you’ll have proof-positive on which was your most effective “take”. Just like they’ll do in the editing room.
Step 2: The Work
The Mind’s Eye Technique:
1.) Choose a specific ACTION (i.e: Slap/ Caress/ Tickle/ Strangle) that you can do with your hand…
2.) Then reach across (to Actor or Camera) USING YOUR EYES… use your dialogue to do that ACTION.
Be selfish! Show little.
Step 3: The Choice
You only need to read a few lines of dialogue to “see” your Mind’s Eye: ACTION CHOICE. Change the different “Actions” to see what feels most effortless, thus most effective. The actor’s job is to create intrigue and mystery on screen, not to make “the scene work”. That means: indicating, not listening, being too big, playing the script, etc.
Step 4: The Commitment
As the actor… comitting to your choice is king. Strike a pose… see it in your “Mind’s Eye” and let it go. Because you stared into the mirror and made 10 different “Mind’s Eyes”: ACTION CHOICES, that took but seconds each (it should not take any longer than that), you have felt and witnessed the ACTION CHOICE that works best. This will create the EMOTION… thru your eyes with specificity.
DELIVERY SYSTEM:
Speak (the dialogue) as if your are alone and TALKING to yourself.
Don’t play the text/dialogue as written.
Your ACTION CHOICE will create the emotion.
This is how to actor like a Film & TV star. No “moment to moment” change. Sure, “every little moment has a meaning all it’s own”… but you filter it through the precision acting instrument— YOU— using your ACTION CHOICE, delivering emotion and meaning with your eyes.
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