Title: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3
Label: Research
Due Date: Thursday 2/28/2013 at 8AM
Content:
1. How does an Actor Best Use Method Acting to Prepare for a Role?
2. The third answer to "How does an Actor best use Method Acting to prepare for a role?" is the using of other techniques like Classical Acting to your advantage as well.
3.
- Judi Dench, a user of Classical Acting style, has been nominated various times for her acting quality.
- It is common in acting classes to use your environment to help your acting, which is a common theme in Classical Acting.
- In Wikipedia, there are four main acting techniques that all actors should use to their advantage. Method Acting is only one of the bunch. The others being Classical Acting, Stanislavsky's System, and Meisner Techniques.
4. Wikipedia, as well as various pointouts from acting teachers and fellow actors.
5. I plan to study the essence of ALL the techniques in acting. Not just one or two. Find every source, and use everything for my senior project.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Blog #17
1. What makes an actor truly great?
2. What do you believe is an essential component to successfully develop a character?
3. How do you know what way is the best approach to play the character?
4. How do you bring the dialogue alive?
5. How do you know what choices to make?
6. What obstacles must an actor overcome to be one with the character?
7. How do you build the character?
8. What kind of research, if any, do you do?
9. Do you keep notes in a notebook and refer back to them?
10. What other influences do you rely on? Personal or outside or both?
11. How much do you use your imagination, vs. personal experience or research?
12. How do you research the best way to play someone from another period in time?
13. When you play a character, do you always have an objective as to where you want to go with that character? If so, how far into the play do you focus? The end, middle or only a couple of scenes in advance?
14. Why do you desire to act?
15. If a scene is not going as expected, how do you refocus yourself?
16. Is there anything you needed to overcome, in order to feel confident in playing anyone of your characters?
17. Do you believe someone can become a successful actor without “formal” training?
18. Do you believe “anyone” can be a great actor?
19. What are the fundamental qualities, someone needs to become a great actor?
20. Have you ever been an acting coach, or would you ever consider being an acting coach?
2. What do you believe is an essential component to successfully develop a character?
3. How do you know what way is the best approach to play the character?
4. How do you bring the dialogue alive?
5. How do you know what choices to make?
6. What obstacles must an actor overcome to be one with the character?
7. How do you build the character?
8. What kind of research, if any, do you do?
9. Do you keep notes in a notebook and refer back to them?
10. What other influences do you rely on? Personal or outside or both?
11. How much do you use your imagination, vs. personal experience or research?
12. How do you research the best way to play someone from another period in time?
13. When you play a character, do you always have an objective as to where you want to go with that character? If so, how far into the play do you focus? The end, middle or only a couple of scenes in advance?
14. Why do you desire to act?
15. If a scene is not going as expected, how do you refocus yourself?
16. Is there anything you needed to overcome, in order to feel confident in playing anyone of your characters?
17. Do you believe someone can become a successful actor without “formal” training?
18. Do you believe “anyone” can be a great actor?
19. What are the fundamental qualities, someone needs to become a great actor?
20. Have you ever been an acting coach, or would you ever consider being an acting coach?
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Blog #16
1. What is your essential question?
How does an Actor best use Method Acting to prepare for a role?
2. What is your second answer to your essential question (write your second answer in a complete sentence)?
The second answer to my essential question is "Using the training and discipline to your advantage in order to attain that steady balanced state of acting."
3. What are three details to support or justify your second answer (details are examples or facts)?
- The fact that actors take acting classes
- The fact that actors require constant rehearsal
- The fact that actors need a steady system of trial and error, to try and understand the director
4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?
- Through my independent component #1. I witnessed firsthand how many tries it took to get the role just right.
5. What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why? (You would say "I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing ____________"?)
I plan to continue my study of answer by doing my second independent component. Now I will be able to witness firsthand many different styles and plays that people are putting together by doing Fullerton Festival.
How does an Actor best use Method Acting to prepare for a role?
2. What is your second answer to your essential question (write your second answer in a complete sentence)?
The second answer to my essential question is "Using the training and discipline to your advantage in order to attain that steady balanced state of acting."
3. What are three details to support or justify your second answer (details are examples or facts)?
- The fact that actors take acting classes
- The fact that actors require constant rehearsal
- The fact that actors need a steady system of trial and error, to try and understand the director
4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?
- Through my independent component #1. I witnessed firsthand how many tries it took to get the role just right.
5. What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why? (You would say "I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing ____________"?)
I plan to continue my study of answer by doing my second independent component. Now I will be able to witness firsthand many different styles and plays that people are putting together by doing Fullerton Festival.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Blog #15
Independant Component #2 Approval
(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
I will be performing in a piece at the Fullerton Theater festival this year.
(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
It will require several hours of steady concentrated research into the piece. I will have to memorize the piece. After that will be the performance at the Fullerton Theater festival.
(3) How does your independent study component relate to your working EQ?
It will allow me to study what I have been talking about in presentation. I will be able to discover (by using method acting) just how it works into researching your role and being prepared for a top quality performance.
(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
I will be performing in a piece at the Fullerton Theater festival this year.
(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
It will require several hours of steady concentrated research into the piece. I will have to memorize the piece. After that will be the performance at the Fullerton Theater festival.
(3) How does your independent study component relate to your working EQ?
It will allow me to study what I have been talking about in presentation. I will be able to discover (by using method acting) just how it works into researching your role and being prepared for a top quality performance.
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