These exercises are built around the need for simple, achievable techniques that can be applied by actors, teachers and directors to answer the myriad requirements of actor training. Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach is the first book to apply the Practical Aesthetics acting technique to the craft of directing. Featuring end-of-chapter exercises, this book provides a clear and effective means of breaking down a script in order to tell a story with clarity, simplicity, and dramatic force and gives directors a clear working vocabulary that will allow effective communication with actors.
The techniques in this book are applicable to any theatrical style and any media platform in which a director might work. 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! 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. The second edition focuses on the building blocks of drama and an exploration of the five senses as an expressive springboard, with a new section on the function of the Archetype in the Chekhov method.
Theory and practice are treated here with clarity and simplicity. Dedicated to students and teachers of acting, The Michael Chekhov Handbook provides readers with the essential tools they need to put the rewarding principles of this technique into use.
During theatre rehearsals, I often call out what I refer to as "Schrum's Rules of Theatre" for my actors. Arising from those rules is this handbook, a practical guide for staging plays. This is not a comprehensive "how-to" book, taking the reader from play selection to opening night.
Rather, I am here offering some staging ideas that I believe will be helpful to many: a beginning or intermediate director; an actor looking for an edge in working with directors; a high school English teacher who suddenly finds herself asked to direct a play with little or no prior experience. What would you do if you were walking down a street and suddenly the person beside you broke into song? You're just minding your own business and this weirdo next to you begins singing about how often he has walked this street before, but when he's done it in the past, the pavement always stayed beneath his feet.
Would you assume that this man was several stories high and walk faster? While trying to get away from this potentially dangerous weirdo, you turn a corner and come face to face with a malicious street gang whose members are armed with switchblades and zip guns. This little book goes over a method on how to analyze a character's actions within a script to bring an enhance the performance of an actor. Reading this will help me in the future develop believable and engaging performances in theatre.
A good one to go back and refer to from time to time. I think this is a good start and has a lot of good information in it BUT look at the publication date. There are somethings in here that just don't apply that much anymore. But for the bare bones it's a great place to start. A great read to enter the world of actors that guides one on leading them. This book is actually like class notes of David Mamet classes and productions in NY. What I like about it is its brevity and dense content.
Had to read this for a beginning acting class. It's really good, but awfully short. I don't intend to become an actor, but I wish there were more information here. However, what is here is very well said and very useful. Excellent book, not only for the actor, but for the writer who is looking to analyze a scene and portray the truth. In the final analysis I don't know how practical this book really is for the actor. The whole notion of constantly trying to break a scene down into actions good and then come up with analogies in one's own life to relate to those singular actions is tedious, and begins to resemble the very same methody hokum that the book purports to get away from.
Definitely worth a read but the Mamet school of acting desperately tries to avoid the problem of emotion in a way that perhaps overcomplicates an My boyfriend, when ordering a useful book, orders a stack , so that, if it comes up in conversation that someone needs to read up, or needs a little help on something be it cognitive therapy or the art of the theatre , he's good and ready to supply works of literature.
A few weeks back, right after we'd started rehearsing for Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard , I ordered a bunch of books on Stanislavsky technique in a panic, also because this is a golden opportunity to learn to use it, but because the This is one of the best books on the craft of acting. Also one of the shortest. It's concise and practical. Unlike a lot of traditional 'method' training techniques, this one doesn't get bogged down in the frustrating, inconsistent, and arguably impossible task of trying to make yourself feel a certain way.
Instead it teaches you to focus on the things that are within your control: what you want and what you do. In my experience, this is the best path to reliably truthful, spontaneous, compellin I would have to say that this is the Strunk and White of Acting. If you don't know what that is, it is a book to help you write more clearly. This book is geared towards analyzing and properly determining how to get the most out of a scene in an organic way.
An actor's job, the authors state, is to "find a way to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play. These and other mysteries of the film and TV actor's trade are revealed in this comprehensive guide.
Covering creating a character, auditions, marketing yourself as an actor, using green screen, handling props, monologues and quotes from famous actors. Anyone who has ever struggled with capes, fans, swords, doublets and crinolines should make this third edition their constant companion.
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