Download or read book Use of Professional Acting Techniques to Educate Adolescent Actors written by Meridith Jean Stempinski and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high school theatre course of study is informally structured. Without precise guidelines, a teenage student's training becomes subject to the experience level and knowledge base of their instructor. To make them more successful and marketable, adolescent actors needed to learn theatre through many different lenses and voices inorder to better prepare them for regional competitions and for their transition to university studies. This study helped students to understand the subjectivity of theatre, and how that shapes the outcome of their competition and graded performances.
Download or read book Acting for Movies and TV The Technique written by Hugo N. Arturi and published by Hugo N Arturi. This book was released on with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Arturi explaining to young people “The Content of the Book” Mr. Arturi: you will learn the technique that I and the great Hollywood actors mentioned on the cover and others use to create a character for a movie and how to enter to work in the world of movies without complications. This technique is used by these actors and approved by the audience. They briefly and partially describe their techniques in the program "Inside the Actors Studio" on Bravo Channel, where you can watch the videos at any time. I explain you the technique in a very easy way, with all the essential elements and many details that they don't mention. You learn to express the true feelings of your character in a movie, and not to fake them, screaming and/or with voluminous gestures as taught in many acting schools. You’ll learn the technique from A to Z; that is, A is when you start reading the book, and Z is at the end of your training when you'll be ready to act the protagonist in a professional movie. Guaranteed! THE WARRANTY While you are training, you can watch the interviews of the actors and verify if it's what they comment. You don’t need acting experience, just an inexpensive camcorder, the book and the desire to become a professional actor, that's it. My students say that the exercises are entertaining, fun and very easy to learn; you just read and shoot the practice scenes. The ideal is to make an acting / filming team; it takes 3 people, 2 in front of the camera and one shooting the scene and you go rotating positions. Also, I explain you an easy way to shoot scenes, as you see in the movies, that even a child can do it. Mr. Arturi adds: VERY IMPORTANT: my system allows you to learn the technique without a teacher, I give you the elements for self-control and correction; the "why" and "how" to do it is explained in the chapter "The John Travolta Test”. A student: What do I do after learning the technique? How do I become a professional actor? Mr. Arturi: In it I explain you the ESSENTIAL steps to enter the world of movies and be a successful actor; and MOST IMPORTANTLY, how to avoid the setbacks that inexperience could bring, and prevent you from spending years wandering and hoping for success. It takes years for new actors to gain the experience that you will gain in no time learning this technique. Mr. Arturi concludes: In my book you will not find stories, anecdotes, metaphors, unrelated issues or useless exercises to "entertain", which is what you find in most books on the same subject that authors use as "book fillers", and in acting schools as “hour fillers" for lack of a solid technique to teach. If you want or dream of being a professional actor, my book gives you all the elements to achieve it. Guaranteed! (But it’s up to you) Mr. Arturi’s challenge: find in the world an acting school or a book that offers 25% of the material contained in my book, you will not find it. Mr. Arturi: if you don't want to be a professional actor, but you would like to learn the technique, you can use it as the base of a game to play with friends, some of my students like to do, and they say it is a very funny game to play. Later your team will get in contact with other groups created in schools and universities to compete. This idea is developed in the chapter "My dream". Mr. Arturi’s conclusion: you learn the real Hollywood movie acting technique, save a lot of money, not waste years in acting schools or workshops, and you work as a professional actor in a short amount of time. Q: Why your book with such important content is so inexpensive? Mr. Arturi: I wrote it for various reasons: for my love to teaching, to young people and to movie acting, NOT TO MAKE MONEY; and also to help young people not to lose years in school and go into debt with creditors to pay courses, and for others to use the technique as a healthy fun game. Inside the book you have my email address to ask me questions
Download or read book Meisner for Teens written by Larry Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-anticipated teen guide to the Meisner technique by Larry Silverberg, leading Meisner Technique author and teacherSELLING POINTSMeisner for Teens, the first book devoted to exploring the Meisner Approach with teens, includes:- Individual and group exercises- Journal prompts- Writing, listening, and observing assignments- Thoughtful, inspiring quotes throughout- Perfect material to incorporate into High School Drama classes- Excellent text for Introduction to Acting college-level courses- Relates the craft of acting to the truths of lifeBOOK SYNOPSISLarry Silverberg, the author who introduced the Meisner Technique to actors through his acclaimed four-volumeworkbook series, has now written a Meisner guidebook for young actors. A perfect text for high school drama teachers,Silverberg provides clear and easy to understand instruction to guide young actors toward simple, meaningful, authenticand passionately alive ways of working. He speaks directly to the teenage actors, guiding them step-by-step through thedemanding and thrilling exercises of the Meisner Approach.In this workbook and acting journal wrapped in one, students keep a journal in which they define their desires and refine their skills of observation: learning to listen carefully to other people and pay keener attention to their own responses. Through dialogue work in pairs, young actors learn to engage immediately and directly with their partners.True acting develops through this increased sensitivity and fearless response to others.Meisner for Teens: A Life of True Acting, based on Silverberg¿s highly praised workshops for teens, will help teenactors to free themselves from self-consciousness and the pressures of performance to achieve truth on the stage¿andin life.LARRY SILVERBERG, director of the True Acting Institute, is an actor, acting teacher, and author of many books on acting. He is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse, where he studied with legendary acting teacher Sanford Meisner, and is considered one of the foremost authorities on the Meisner Technique. He has written an internationally acclaimed four-volume series on the Meisner Technique called The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actors Workbook. Silverberg teaches acting in his world-renowned professional actors training program, The Meisner Intensive Training Program, which he holds at universities, colleges, and acting studios around the world. He is also the founder of the True Acting Institute Association and is on the teaching faculties of The International Institute of the Performing Arts in Paris and European Act.
Download or read book Acting written by Jason Skog and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you serious about your art? Acting can be an exciting and fulfilling career, but it takes more than talent to succeed. Get the inside scoop with this detailed guide, which includes tips on education, auditioning, and more. Profiles of working actors help bring the career to life.
Download or read book Acting for Young Actors written by Mary Lou Belli and published by Back Stage Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know a teen that's been bitten by the acting bug? Here's just the book they need! Acting for Young Actors, aimed at teens and tweens, lets kids hone their skills and develop their craft. It begins with the five W's: WHO am I? WHAT do I want? WHY do I want it? WHERE am I? WHEN does this event take place? Sounds basic - but many young child actors are told simply to "get up there and act." This book explores each of these questions, using helpful exercises to allow young actors to work through problems of character identity and motivation. With comprehensive chapters on auditioning, rehearsal, and improvisation, plus a primer on how young actors can break into film, theater, and television, Acting for Young Actors is every kid's ticket to the big time.
Download or read book Approaches to Actor Training written by John Freeman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful and practically-focused collection brings together different approaches to actor training from professionals based at universities and conservatoires in the UK, the US and Australia. Exploring the cultural and institutional differences which affect actor training, and analysing developments in the field today, it addresses a range of different approaches, from Stanislavski's System to contemporary immersive theatre. With hands-on focus from some of the world's leading programmes, and attention paid to ethical control, consent and safe practice, this book sees expert tutors exploring pathways to sustainable 21st century careers. Designed for tutors, students and practitioners, Approaches to Actor Training examines what it means to train as an actor, what actors-in-training can expect from their programmes of study and how the road to professional accomplishment is mapped and travelled.
Download or read book Screen Acting Skills written by Roger Wooster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a young actor seeking to land your first screen role or a workshop leader looking for relevant exercises that won't involve vast technical support, this book belongs on your shelf. Many screen actors begin their careers lacking the appropriate pre-shoot preparation and knowledge of studio protocols. This book helps actors new to screen performance to be fully prepared artistically - and technically. Screen Acting Skills augments existing theoretical and academic studies by offering practical, focused exercises that can be explored in low-tech workshop situations. Written in an accessible, jargon-free and often humorous style, Screen Acting Skills enables creativity on the workshop floor, allowing young - and older! - actors to access their own talent, and to hone their skills. This book offers students and tutors a straightforward approach to acting for the screen and how to prepare for studio work. The book is published alongside online videos of workshops with screen acting students.
Download or read book Developing Embodied Pedagogies of Acting for Youth Theatre Education written by Hannu Tuisku and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative pedagogical research examines the nature and the ethics of embodied pedagogies of acting and considers their use in the continuum from youth theatre education to professional actor training. By 'embodied pedagogy of acting' the author refers to an approach to acting and training acting that emphasises the centrality of the actor's sentient body in the theatrical event, the notion of a human being as a comprehensive body-mind entity, and the diversity and complexity of subjective experience. Knowledge presented in this research has emerged through practice, interviews and inquiries, discussions and shared experiences of training with both upper secondary school students, student actors in higher education, and professional actors. In the light of this thesis there are reasons to seek for alternatives to conventional paradigms of acting in youth theatre education. Embodied pedagogies of acting provide such an alternative. This thesis also stresses the importance of delineating workable and applicable terminology for training acting, both in youth theatre education and professional actor training. The traditions of psychophysical actor training provide a basis for the development of embodied pedagogies of acting but there are however aspects in psychophysical training that must be critically and comprehensively considered. The thesis also argues that experiences in the youth theatres and in youth theatre education are important for personal growth. The aim of the commentary at hand is not to address youth theatre education in a wider sense besides the methods of acting used in youth theatre education. A wider scope to youth theatre education is provided in the original publications of this thesis.--Abstract
Download or read book What Method written by Jessie Fahay and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many methods an actor may choose to study. There is Stanislavski, Meisner, Adler, Alexander, Hagen, that random British director you met in college who changed your life, that Spanish actor you watched in that play who has been your entire inspiration, etc. What do all of these methods really do for the actor's instrument? Is there a method that works best for you? Which one speaks to you? Where should you look for instructors who teach these methods? This short and practical guidebook gives you the nuts and bolts of four pinnacle training methods, sample exercises for each method, examples of actors who have used these methods, the places where you can find these methods being taught, and further in-depth literature on each method. Let this be an opening to these fundamental methodologies. The next steps are up to you.
Download or read book The Politics of American Actor Training written by Ellen Margolis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning voices about our nation’s acting training as it stands, thereby contributing to the national dialogue the diverse perspectives and proposals needed to keep American actor training dynamic and germane, both within the U.S. and abroad. Prominent academics and artists view actor training through a political, cultural or ethical lens, tackling fraught topics about power as it plays out in acting curricula and classrooms. The essays in this volume offer a survey of trends in thinking on actor training and investigate the way American theatre expresses our national identity through the globalization of arts education policy and in the politics of our curriculum decisions.
Download or read book A Practical Handbook for the Actor written by Melissa Bruder and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, "this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years" (David Mamet, from the Introduction). This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the Actor is written for any actor who has ever experienced the frustrations of acting classes that lacked clarity and objectivity, and that failed to provide a dependable set of tools. An actor's job, the authors state, is to "find a way to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play." The ways in which an actor can attain that truth form the substance of this eloquent book.
Download or read book Freeing the Actor written by Eric Morris and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freeing the Actor is the seventh in a series of books by Eric Morris which explain and describe his unique system of acting. His previous books are among the most popular texts used by students and professional actors alike. In this book, which is totally aimed at the instrument, Eric has implemented a complete approach to eliminating the obstacles, dependencies, traps and habits that plague and block actors from functioning from an authentic, organic place. Historically most acting coaches and teachers have failed to adequately address the instrumental problems that cripple actors. By teaching them how not to act, Eric has influenced scores of people to become experiential actors. His teaching has led them to understand that they must experience in reality what the character is experiencing in the material. In order to accomplish that, they must be instrumentally free to connect with and express their authentic emotional realities. Liberating the instrument allows them to access all the colors of their emotional rainbow.
Download or read book To the Actor on the Technique of Acting written by Michael Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook for professional and amateur actors and directors provides simple and practical methods to train actors to quickly and effectively call up emotion, develop characters, and strengthen awareness.
Download or read book Respect for Acting written by Uta Hagen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respect for Acting "This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she [taught], and an explanation of the means to the end." --Publishers Weekly "Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience, skill, and a sense of personal and professional worth. Her principal asset in this treatment is her truly significant imagination. Her 'object exercises' display a wealth of detail with which to stimulate the student preparing a scene for presentation." --Library Journal "Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting . . . is a relatively small book. But within it, Miss Hagen tells the young actor about as much as can be conveyed in print of his craft." --Los Angeles Times "There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by Uta Hagen." --Fritz Weaver "This is a textbook for aspiring actors, but working thespians can profit much by it. Anyone with just a casual interest in the theater should also enjoy its behind-the-scenes flavor." --King Features Syndicate
Download or read book A Field Guide to Actor Training written by Laura Wayth and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). A Field Guide to Actor Training will help you answer this question! The book is designed to be an introduction to various theater training methodologies, highlighting their basic tenets and comparing and contrasting each system of training and rehearsal. The goal is to provide a one-stop-shopping kind of resource for student/beginning actors who are seeking training through private studios or graduate schools and who crave guidance in selecting training that is right for them. Starting with the big question of "Why is actor training important?" and moving on to overviews of the major acting methodologies, vocal training, physical actor training, and advice on how to find the right kind of training for each individual, A Field Guide to Actor Training is an essential resource for the student actor.
Download or read book An Actor Prepares written by Konstantin Sergeevič Stanislavskij and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Challenge for the Actor written by Uta Hagen and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2024-08-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I held onto this book for dear life throughout my twenties, and still thumb through it when I need a tune up. If I lose my car keys and I’m frantically turning my house upside down trying to find them I look up at the heavens and hope she’s having a good laugh." - Amanda Peet "I was extraordinarily privileged to work with Uta Hagen in Circle in the Square’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s play, You Never Can Tell. She was committed to revealing the truth and we are the beneficiaries of her brilliant observations." - Victor Garber "CHALLENGE FOR THE ACTOR, written by one of the most important actors of the 20th Century, is a remarkable source of practical principles on how to be a human being in your work and to not just “act." Uta's purpose for this book is to clarify and update the articulation of her technique as stated in RESPECT FOR ACTING. In "Chapter 8" of this book particularly, she provides a self-empowering approach to acting that is an invaluable resource for achieving the art of acting for stage, film, and television at its highest level." - Ted Brunetti "Uta Hagen changed my life. She changed the lives of thousands and thousands of other people as well. To have Uta’s books and to be able to look through them at the drop of a hat keeps me going and keeps me inspired to keep going." - Austin Pendleton "Uta Hagen’s A CHALLENGE FOR THE ACTOR is simply the bible for any acting student serious about their craft. Even as a professional I refer to it time and again for the basics. It is a touchstone." - Laila Robins “'Cynicism leads to mental illness and insanity.' Words of warning Uta Hagen spoke often to her students. Here in lies the difference between Ms. Hagen’s classic RESPECT FOR ACTING and its companion A CHALLENGE FOR THE ACTOR. She meets head on the soul killing demon that threatens the art and craft of all actors, cynicism. The challenge is to remain curious, caring, innocent, disciplined, educated, and life-loving amid dark times. To have the courage to fight the forces of apathy and disbelief in order to serve with all one’s heart the profession that one loves.” - Victor Slezak Uta Hagen, one of the world's most renowned stage actresses, also taught acting for more than 40 years at the HB Studio in New York. Her first book, Respect for Acting, published in 1973, remains a best seller in print. In this edition of her second classic book, A Challenge for the Actor, she greatly expands her thinking about acting in a work that brings the full flowering of her artistry, both as an actor and as a teacher. She raises the issue of the actor's goals and examines the specifics of the actor's techniques. She goes on to consider the actor's relationship to the physical and psychological senses. There is a brilliantly conceived section on the animation of the body and mind, of listening and talking, and the concept of expectation. But perhaps the most useful are the exercises that Uta Hagen has created and elaborated to help the actor learn his craft. The exercises deal with developing the actor's physical destination in a role; making changes in the self serviceable in the creation of a character; recreating physical sensations; bringing the outdoors on stage; finding occupation while waiting; talking to oneself and the audience; and employing historical imagination. The scope and range of Uta Hagen here is extraordinary. Her years of acting and teaching have made her as finely seasoned an artist as the theatre has produced.
