DAY 4, 5, 6 - Certificate in Screen Acting In DAY 3 students brought in monologues which they wanted to perform to camera as they saw to be the way it should be played. It seemed that everyone in the session wanted to do a period piece as they wanted to see what it looked like on camera. In particular we focused on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” + “Othello and Chekov’s’ short play “the Bear” which by the end of the session we put the students work on camera. Over the 3 days we worked on the importance of understanding the text keeping to the specific intensions of the writer and what it means for “us” actors” to really research and do the homework necessary. What we discovered via putting the theory into practice and playing the correct action of an ‘event’ or ‘scene’ or in this case the monologue (the want, need, objective, wish fulfillment) which the character is seeking in the storyline you will encountering the truth in your performance. And that acting is something that drives you into action rather that playing an action that isn’t anything other than acting. The transition we witnessed from playing the monologue where minimal examination of the text and the understanding of where the writer has created the conflict for the character in order for the ACTOR to resolve this conflict too then performing the monologue with a BROADER examination of the text and understanding were miles apart as we watched back this transition in the performances in DAY 5. DAY 6 we started fresh with a contemporary scene where the same amount of analysis was put in for scene to compare if the work need on a period piece or contemporary scene differs . . . well the answer is very simple. No matter what you are performing, you’ll only be as good as the work you put into the piece.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:38:55 +0000
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