What skills are in your basket
What Skills Are in Your Basket? Let’s take a minute to talk about what those skills might be and more importantly which of those are totally accessible to you right […]
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Listening
Don’t Recite Your Lines, Discover Your Lines
So here’s a dilemma. We have to learn our lines to play our parts. But once we’re playing them it needs to seem like we’ve never said those lines before.
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Impulses & the Actor
As a human being your are chalk full of impulses.
But as an actor you may be shutting those off – which will make your acting seem stilted and disconnected, not to mention make the camera yawn.
What are impulses, exactly anyway? And how do we learn to rely on them like Tilda Swinton, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and other great actors do?
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Listening & the Actor
As an actor you hear it all the time – “Listen!”
But what does that mean exactly? You hear the words your scene partner is saying. You’re familiar with the scene. So what more is there?
A lot more.
Listening isn’t exactly the best word to describe what they are talking about with this aspect of acting. Being present with, responding to, connecting with and allowing yourself to be moved by – your partner – those phrases better catch what we’re after . . . [more]
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Being In The Moment
If you’re an actor you hear it all the time, “be in the moment”. But what exactly does that mean? Personally it took me forever to figure it out. You
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Acting From All Angles Vlog: 3 Tips on Listening for Actors
Listening – super important for actors. Say what? That’s right. Need to improve yours? Watch below and get some great tips.
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