Thursday, January 20, 2011

The Acting Room: Why Method Acting is best for TV & Film Acting

    Heath Ledger Method Acted in
    his Role "The Joker"
  • Method acting is the best teaching for T.V. and Film
  • Lee Strasberg is the best acting teacher of the last century according to her
  • Most acting programs in university gives you the tools to act on stage, not as much on camera.
  • Improve gives you strengths like thinking on the spot, big reaction, and shows you the importance of props.
  • *Aahhaa moment:
  • After so many years of experience acting in plays, she gets rejected on a film and TV audition for acting “too big” (her acting style”
  • That is my ahha moment because, that shows me that, when you over exaggerate, acting, it tends to look fake, which the film and TV industry wont like. Being “yourself” is better than overdoing a performance.

  • When you over exaggerate a performance, you tend to get out o the moment
  • Let your voice be real and quiet like in a film
  • Don’t run around and be all jumpy
  • Be relaxed
  • Don’t join a school for acting like the Lee Strasberg, because you will be wasting a year. Find a private teacher, and examine the class, and when you well ready… GO.
  • Private schools are cheaper and they give you the same result or even better.
  • A good improve class helps with auditions
  • Take a voice class, to help your voice
  • Get in touch with breathing. Do yoga or any forms of exercise that could help.
  • Get in touch with your past to improve on method acting
  • If you can’t cry about your own past, then how could you cry on cue.
  • I will need to learn how to unlock my emotions to be successful in this industry.

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