Lets Review Acting as a Career What are

Lets Review

Acting as a Career • What are some of the struggles a person might face in choosing acting as a career? – – hard work the hours are long regular employment is unlikely income may be limited • What are some of the rewards of choosing acting as a career? – personal rewards are huge; fame and influence in society – making a living doing something that you really want to do – For many actors, income enough to provide a decent living for the individual and a family

• What is acting? Acting – at the basic level acting is storytelling • How has storytelling evolved? – "storyteller" (the shaman) around the campfires of prehistoric or primitive villages. – The stories painted or drawn on the walls of caves, on animal skins and in the oral tradition, were man's first form of education – Storytelling is communication, entertainment and healing that far predates the written word

What is the process for creating character? • What is the First Responsibility of an Actor? – He must know each event down to the tiniest detail in proper sequence • Acting is a by-production of what? – Listening • What are the Given Circumstances? – visible physical characteristics he cannot change; height, weight, race, etc • What is the Second Responsibility of an Actor? – To create a Back Story • What is the Back Story? – A complete biography of the character from birth up to the time the story takes place.

Character Building Outside IN • How do you create character from the outside in ? –by exploring the character through improvisation. • How does Creating character from the outside in help with creating a believable character? – by helping you think of how your character would react to others in new situations.

What are three ingredients of a Drama? • Plot: answers the question “What happens in the story? ” –exposition –inciting incident –rising action –climax –falling action • Theme: answers the question “what is the story about? ” –the theme is the moral or meaning of the story, it can be expressed in one sentence. • Characters –Protagonist – your character in the monologue

Freytag's Pyramid – graphs the dramatic structure of the plot Rising Action Climax Falling Action Inciting Incident Exposition

More Review • What is sense memory? – "sense memory" is the remembering by the five senses experienced by people in everyday life. These memories are stored in our subconscious mind. The actor can learn to recall these sense memories from the subconscious by concentrating on the real-life memory that is associated with them. • What is emotional recall ? –Stanislavski's exercise which helps the performer present realistic emotions. The performer feels a character's emotion by thinking of an event in his or her own life which led to a similar emotion. • Who ‘invented theory of method acting behind sense memory and emotional recall? –Russian actor and playwright Konstantin Stanislawsky

How do you label a STAGE MAP?

STAGE MAP

• A speech and actor gives alone on the stage is called ? – monologue • That which motivates through a series of actions is ? – Super objective • A unit of thought or action is called ? – Beat • What a character wants in a beat is called an ? – Objective • The action taken to reach an objective is called a ? – Tactic • An_______stands in the way of the character reaching their objective. – Obstacle • The directed movement on a stage is called the ? – blocking