Actor Growth

Today just felt so unproductive. I literally felt like just another number in some acting workshop/classroom as it didn’t feel like the instructors really cared too much about my personal growth at all.

Essentially, we were working on the scene that was given to us last week. I studied the script and took initiative to try and memorize the lines in hopes to see what magic the instructors could do in enlightening us. In the scene are two characters and each person in the class was assigned one. We were simply told to find anyone and partner up with them.

From there we did and we had about ten minutes to just talk with our partner to go over things like lines while quickly determining a back story and character relationship. Afterwards, people were called up and preformed the scene cold until they were told to stop. From there on the instructors gave feedback on what they wanted to see.

When we did the scene it was very quick and abrupt. In fact, we didn’t even get to do the whole scene as it seemed like they were highly focused in trying to get my partner to be more into the moment. I really did feel like I was just a non factor in their enrollment of students.

Just like that, the day came to an end and they said that we would be taping it next week which will be our last day. So literally, we didn’t even go through the whole script with the instructor to get a good feel on what they want overall. It feels like a scenario similar to just grabbing a bunch of actors on craigslist, finding a random script and then start shooting at this point I feel.

Thinking back so far though, I think it was a mistake to enroll in this class as I focused more on hopefully learning something new from a different instructor when it seems like the class is more focused on introductory techniques. I definitely want to learn more, but I am not getting that unfortunately here.

As well, it doesn’t seem like the questionnaires we handed in last week had any kind of a factor too in regards to the instructors figuring out the best way to help each student individually. I suppose since it seems like I am a non factor here that I will finish the last week and start to look elsewhere for growth and knowledge.