I tend to stick to the same type of voice for each character, also when running out of words to say when improvising I use my body to express, instead of voice. Objectives I find useful but in ways to express emotion, such as "my objective is at the end of the scene to feel unwanted". I also feel that to be truthful in a scene, the acting style must flow, and be able to react to other emotions or physical actions as each actor or actress is different and has different way of interpreting a scene.
My acting habits are to at times turn to comedy if I start to run out if ideas. I can give very intense performances when playing certain characters and I like to inhabit a physicality when doing that.
I find the use of objectives useful in scenarios a your character has a clear goal and then truth should inherently come next. I also find that it can help a story progress and evolve naturally. There are times when it is difficult especially when you can't see what the characters motivations are and/or the character is talking nonsense or is just thinking or raging on the spot.
Truthfulness in acting to me is when you feel the emotion without feeling as if you need to gloss it up. You can brief moments exist entirely from yourself.
My acting habits during improvisation involve either sticking to characters similar to parts of my personality or going completely the opposite, i find it hard to get a middle ground and i enjoy reverting to comedy if i feel stuck.
I find objectives useful when I'm unclear of my characters intentions during a scene or the text doesn't make sense to me when reading it, so i'll workshop a few different objectives and actions, I find ones that fit for me and my character. I think it can give a scene/character variation and depth.
To me truthfulness in a scene means, total commitment to what i am doing and what i am feeling as that character in a scene. Total concentration and focus. I believe i have achieved truthfulness if the audience really believed in that moment/scene I was that character, believed what i said and felt what i was feeling along with me.
My acting habits tend to be that if I'm stuck I'll try and switch to comedy. I also sometimes need a second to process if a massive change happens suddenly and I'm not expecting it. If There are too many people putting in different ideas at once I tend to get overwhelmed and just stand their speechless as I try to make a coherent narrative. Objective can be very useful but if the people in the scenes objectives don't add together well one of the objectives tends to get overwritten by the other one and this can lead to confusion in the scenes. Truthfulness in scenes is a difficult thing to describe as I find that their is more than one kind of truth. Quite often I'll see someone do a scene one way and I'll feel that it's very truthful and then someone else will do it completely differently but It will still have a sense of truthfulness about it.
I personally tend to stay with the same voice for characters I play, I find it hard to change the tone, volume and accent of my voice, especially if it's improvised and I haven't rehearsed it. Another acting habit I have is when I'm improvising, if I get stuck or my idea hits a dead end, I tend to panic and then find it hard to think of other ideas to get the scene going again, as I'm stuck in 'panic mode'. Something I learnt to get yourself out of the panic mode, is to move a part of your body or walk in a different way and then your mind will eventually come up with an idea linking to that movement.
At first, the process of identifying an objectives seemed unusual to me. I didn't see the purpose, but now that we have actually looked at the difference it can make in a performance, I would definitely find it useful. It gives you, as a character an aim. It allows you to get into your characters unconscious mind and therefore play the character the your fullest potential.
To me, being truthful in a scene, is about fulling understanding the character you're playing. It is about knowing their personality, knowing how they'd react to certain situations and knowing how they would feel about different things. If you show truthfulness in a performance I think the audience are more likely to be able to relate to that character/scene.
For acting habits, I have the tendency to jump into characters in a laid back manner due to comfort it gives for my mind to obtain much more focus. I occasionally fall into the trap of asking question when it comes to improvisation in order to buy me some time to think of something quickly.
I found objectives a useful way to make each action truthful, in a way that it gives the feeling of not having to pretend. It provides the actor, with a purpose in what it's doing.
Being truthful in a scene, to me is when as an actor, there isn't a single though that what you're doing is pretending. It's when there is full commitment towards the character and to every little detail of all being done. I believe imagination plays a big part for achieving truthfulness, because it allows to there be belief.
My acting habits are to always take the higher status character as I feel more comfortable doing this a I have more options to go to where as being the lower status character gives me less options meaning it would be more challenging so I tend to take the safe easy option.
I did find the objectives useful as it gave you something that you had to achieve meaning you could make it a lot more truthful as it gave a purpose.
Being truthful in a scene is important to me as you don't want to feel as an actor that your just blagging your way through a scene as it helps to have a connection with what you are doing and saying. So however they are feeling by what is being said and done you show that.
One of my acting habits is to think more about the character which, when it comes to improvisation, can sometimes mean that I end up having to drop my idea and go with the flow the others have set up.
I find objectives useful because they give me a starting point for my character. For example: My character wants this, now I work out why and that helps me understand my character.
I'm not sure how best to answer this question because I feel that 'truth' can be subjective. I feel that to be truthful would require the actor to put their all into the scene, whether that means that they use emotional memory to replicate the characters emotions, spend hours watching what people do when they feel a particular emotion or to simply 'show' the character. What I think is most important when it comes to being truthful, is to be consistent.
I tend to stick to the same type of voice for each character, also when running out of words to say when improvising I use my body to express, instead of voice. Objectives I find useful but in ways to express emotion, such as "my objective is at the end of the scene to feel unwanted". I also feel that to be truthful in a scene, the acting style must flow, and be able to react to other emotions or physical actions as each actor or actress is different and has different way of interpreting a scene.
ReplyDeleteMy acting habits are to at times turn to comedy if I start to run out if ideas. I can give very intense performances when playing certain characters and I like to inhabit a physicality when doing that.
ReplyDeleteI find the use of objectives useful in scenarios a your character has a clear goal and then truth should inherently come next. I also find that it can help a story progress and evolve naturally. There are times when it is difficult especially when you can't see what the characters motivations are and/or the character is talking nonsense or is just thinking or raging on the spot.
Truthfulness in acting to me is when you feel the emotion without feeling as if you need to gloss it up. You can brief moments exist entirely from yourself.
My acting habits during improvisation involve either sticking to characters similar to parts of my personality or going completely the opposite, i find it hard to get a middle ground and i enjoy reverting to comedy if i feel stuck.
ReplyDeleteI find objectives useful when I'm unclear of my characters intentions during a scene or the text doesn't make sense to me when reading it, so i'll workshop a few different objectives and actions, I find ones that fit for me and my character. I think it can give a scene/character variation and depth.
To me truthfulness in a scene means, total commitment to what i am doing and what i am feeling as that character in a scene. Total concentration and focus. I believe i have achieved truthfulness if the audience really believed in that moment/scene I was that character, believed what i said and felt what i was feeling along with me.
My acting habits tend to be that if I'm stuck I'll try and switch to comedy. I also sometimes need a second to process if a massive change happens suddenly and I'm not expecting it. If There are too many people putting in different ideas at once I tend to get overwhelmed and just stand their speechless as I try to make a coherent narrative.
ReplyDeleteObjective can be very useful but if the people in the scenes objectives don't add together well one of the objectives tends to get overwritten by the other one and this can lead to confusion in the scenes.
Truthfulness in scenes is a difficult thing to describe as I find that their is more than one kind of truth. Quite often I'll see someone do a scene one way and I'll feel that it's very truthful and then someone else will do it completely differently but It will still have a sense of truthfulness about it.
I personally tend to stay with the same voice for characters I play, I find it hard to change the tone, volume and accent of my voice, especially if it's improvised and I haven't rehearsed it. Another acting habit I have is when I'm improvising, if I get stuck or my idea hits a dead end, I tend to panic and then find it hard to think of other ideas to get the scene going again, as I'm stuck in 'panic mode'. Something I learnt to get yourself out of the panic mode, is to move a part of your body or walk in a different way and then your mind will eventually come up with an idea linking to that movement.
ReplyDeleteAt first, the process of identifying an objectives seemed unusual to me. I didn't see the purpose, but now that we have actually looked at the difference it can make in a performance, I would definitely find it useful. It gives you, as a character an aim. It allows you to get into your characters unconscious mind and therefore play the character the your fullest potential.
To me, being truthful in a scene, is about fulling understanding the character you're playing. It is about knowing their personality, knowing how they'd react to certain situations and knowing how they would feel about different things. If you show truthfulness in a performance I think the audience are more likely to be able to relate to that character/scene.
For acting habits, I have the tendency to jump into characters in a laid back manner due to comfort it gives for my mind to obtain much more focus. I occasionally fall into the trap of asking question when it comes to improvisation in order to buy me some time to think of something quickly.
ReplyDeleteI found objectives a useful way to make each action truthful, in a way that it gives the feeling of not having to pretend. It provides the actor, with a purpose in what it's doing.
Being truthful in a scene, to me is when as an actor, there isn't a single though that what you're doing is pretending. It's when there is full commitment towards the character and to every little detail of all being done. I believe imagination plays a big part for achieving truthfulness, because it allows to there be belief.
My acting habits are to always take the higher status character as I feel more comfortable doing this a I have more options to go to where as being the lower status character gives me less options meaning it would be more challenging so I tend to take the safe easy option.
ReplyDeleteI did find the objectives useful as it gave you something that you had to achieve meaning you could make it a lot more truthful as it gave a purpose.
Being truthful in a scene is important to me as you don't want to feel as an actor that your just blagging your way through a scene as it helps to have a connection with what you are doing and saying. So however they are feeling by what is being said and done you show that.
One of my acting habits is to think more about the character which, when it comes to improvisation, can sometimes mean that I end up having to drop my idea and go with the flow the others have set up.
ReplyDeleteI find objectives useful because they give me a starting point for my character. For example: My character wants this, now I work out why and that helps me understand my character.
I'm not sure how best to answer this question because I feel that 'truth' can be subjective. I feel that to be truthful would require the actor to put their all into the scene, whether that means that they use emotional memory to replicate the characters emotions, spend hours watching what people do when they feel a particular emotion or to simply 'show' the character. What I think is most important when it comes to being truthful, is to be consistent.