Do you have to go to drama school to be an actor? Well, if you were under 25 and asking me that question, I would certainly recommend you to do so. Life is much harder if you don’t. There are not the same opportunities in the business to apprentice as there used to be. The […]
Month: October 2011
New guest blog on @IDSAblog bit.ly/w4Xuh2
Find my guest blog on Robert Donat, his views on acting and my acting notes on: http://wp.me/p1Sr2y-D
This blog on sub-text (with lots of clips!) is a guest blog on ‘The Great Acting Blog’ – find it here: http://wp.me/p2ybSN-4KJtm
Screen acting and theatre acting have differences. Here are my big three: The first and most important is often the last one that actors think about and yet the most crucial: In theatre, there is an audience. In film, at the moment of acting, there is no audience. Sounds obvious. Yet understanding this […]
SourceURL:file:///Users/annchurcher/Documents/Teaching/RP%20extras.doc ‘S’ turns to ‘Z’ in most words with long vowels or those followed by ‘e’ (There are, as always, exceptions!) So ‘rise’ becomes ‘riZe’ ‘says’ becomes ‘sayZ’. In English ‘V’ is a consonant and always made by pressing top teeth against bottom lip. It is always sounded when ‘V’ appears and never changes to […]
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