New guest blog on @IDSAblog bit.ly/w4Xuh2
Category: Acting
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 […]
A fellow Twitterer asked me recently how acting could be brave. I had been tweeting about Dominic West’s ‘brave’ performance as Fred West. Of course, I tweeted my interlocuter back explaining that, in this instance, I meant brave as in: not taking easy options, daring to fail, exciting, unusual – bravura, if you like. I […]
It’s really important to stay on relaxed breathing when nerves set in at the audition, presentation or interview. if you go into upper chest breathing, you get an imbalance of oxygen and carbon dioxide which makes you feel dizzy, nervous, sound unconfident and stops you thinking clearly. That’s why it’s called a ‘fight and flight’ […]
It’s really important to stay on relaxed breathing when nerves set in at the audition, presentation or interview. if you go into upper chest breathing, you get an imbalance of oxygen and carbon dioxide which makes you feel dizzy, nervous, sound unconfident and stops you thinking clearly. That’s why it’s called a ‘fight and flight’ […]
Stand still for a moment, shut your eyes. Imagine a string pulling from the crown of your head to the sky. Go up onto your toes. Now lower yourself back slowly until you really make contact with the ground (don’t lock your knees). But still feel the string taking you upwards. Rub your hands together […]
Many actors forget to do a warm up when working on screen. In fact, the only component of a vocal warmup that isn’t usually required for camera work is projection. And even that’s not always true. I have been on a film set where work with the leading actor (who had to yell at his […]
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