Innate ability of a person
Acting
Ways on how to do acting
Acting process
Line found on the script
Text
- Your interpretation of the text
- also known as “Quotation analysis”
Sub-text
Defined as the character’s wants in every scene
Objective
- What the character desires to achieve at the end of the play
- is also called the “spine”
Super objective
- also known as “beats” or “units”
- changes in mood, intentions, objects
Sub-objective
Writer of Acting Power
Robert Cohen
- known as “relationship communication”
- a term coined by Robert Cohen
- ration if the actors on stage
Relcom
Two parts of the message
Content dimension and relationship dimensions
- hidden meaning
- reading between the lines
- the underlying emotional motivation
Subtext
- you are the one who can be seen and recognized because you are on stage
- people involved in a play, role
Production role
His purpose is to reject the overly-acted use of gestures to convey a message wc sometimes created an unnatural way of acting.
The Method/Stanislavski Method
Russian actor and director who created the The Method
Konstantin Stanislavski
An acting technique that inudes a variety of scting systems combined as one
Classical acting technique
A French influential theorist who invented the Classical Acting Technique?
He also established the London Theatre Studio
Michel Saint-denis
- A Technique which includes staying in the role even if he is not performing.
- by Lee Strasberg
Method Acting Technique
- Technique created by Sanford Meisner, in collaboration with Stella Adler.
- this technique oblige the actors to forget himself for a while ( during performance)
- “in the moment” Actors
- has 3 distinctive exercises
Meisner Technique
One of Meisner Technique’s exercises which:
* imaginary circumstances
* must illustrate a vast emotional experience of the character to make it more interesting
Emotional Preparation
One of Meisner Technique’s exercises wherein:
* dialogue rehearsal
* practice the repetition of Meisner Technique
Repetition exercises
One of Meisner Technique’s exercises wherein:
* a person will act before they can think.
* actors performing the actions developed via instinct and expressive construction
Improvisation
This Technique by Michael Chekhov (nephew of Anton) which:
* aims to touch the subconscious mind and the wisdom of the acceptability of people.
* commands bodily exercises (psychological gestures)
Chekhov Technique
- A Technique derivated of Stanislavski, Meisner, and Epictetus.
- created by David Mamet and William Macy
Practical Aesthetics Acting Technique
Four elements of PAAT
Literal
Want
Essential Action
As if
