Actor's blog

Acting

A lot of people believe acting is easy, that reading a line and doing an action is acting but its not that simple.

What makes a good actor?

A good actor is someone who can detach themselves from who they are and become someone completely different. Too be able to change your personality and identity to become the character you need to become. To be able to draw your emotions out and show them through your characters perspective. A good actor needs to be able to make the audience believe in their character, to feel what they feel and have empathy or hatred towards them.

What makes a bad actor?

A bad actor is someone who over acts unnecessarily and doesn't put effort into their performance. Not listening to other actors ideas and advice. Not listening to others lines and concentrating purely on yourself is also bad acting as this can make your performance look unrehearsed and believable. Unless its a monologue, other characters, even if they are not the main, are just as important as they make the performance what it is.

How do I improve?

To improve my own performance and acting skills I must listen to other actors involved in my own play as well as using their ideas on how my character should act or be. This will help me improve my character development. As well as this I should read between the lines of the script, don't just read the lines, feel the emotion and think my characters thoughts at that specific time in the play, this will help my performance skills and make my character much more believable and realistic.

Warm ups

Each week we do different exercises to warm up. Our tasks vary between physical and vocal activity to get us ready for the day of acting ahead. We do these warm ups to help us wake up, help us with controlling our breaths and getting us in touch with our body's.