Acting Training 2011 – Day 2
Mar 27th, 2011 by Alan Yu
This class was a little different. The primary focus it seemed was to emphasize the point on when you are focused in achieving a goal of sort everything else becomes a blank. As well, in doing so you are not so caught up on what you have to do to try and get a reaction out of people as opposed to simply displaying genuine emotion and reactions to the scene.
There was one interesting activity where a remote control was put on a stool and you as a performer had to take the batteries out of it. This remote was supposed to be like a “bomb” of sort and in the beginning you were told out loud all the stipulations such as you can’t make a sound, moving too fast would trigger off the sensors to blow it up, etc.
Like in that scenario, people would tend to try and dramatize the situation as it seemed like they were trying to get a reaction from people. Example, breathing heavily, using fancy moves and so fourth. When they were told to just focus on the task as if it was real everything became more “entertaining” to the audience.
Other than that, we were given a three page script to breakdown as apparently we will be working with this until the end. That is about two more classes to be exact. I also handed in answers to these questionnaires that they asked for where I expressed what I think acting is all about and what I am looking for when it comes to training, so we’ll see where it goes from there.
