2009 : ... * 2007 - google.com/group/acting2 acting2 - Spring 2008 ...

2007 updates : ... ? [ 0 ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Dionysis -- Biomechanics Method -- Apollo 2004 Summary Fall 2003: FIVE APPROACHES TO ACTING (A TEXTBOOK) by David Kaplan, foreword by Stephen Holden, film critic, The New York Times -- recommended by Robert Brustein, American Repertory Theater; Judith Malina, The Living Theatre; Sir Nigel Hawthorne; and acting teachers on three continents! (published by West Broadway Press) This course is designed for the beginning acting student, especially the theatre major acting student. The student will be introduced to the foundations of acting through the use of exercises, presentations, monologue(s), scenework, play attendance and written assignments and tests. Notes * Acting is the work of imagination. Oedipus review Shrew poster The Possessed 2003 video pages -- acting2 & acting3 Method: Yoga & Freud * Chaplin Pages * Chaplin Lessons * Film Acting & Biomechanics Michael Chekhov Method Acting * Stanislavsky on Stanislavsky Terminology * Acting in Film Analysis class * Film Acting Pages: actors 2004: I do not know when I will have time to write about "acting in movies" -- here is a short list of actors I refer to in Film Analysis class. Acting is a part of "mise-en-scene" in many textbooks (need explaination). Maybe I will put my comments to the titles and actors later. Anatoly ...

BioMethod Acting : Video Page

Film & Biomechanics

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ACTIONS (objectives), ADJUSTMENTS (strategies), ACTIVITIES (physical behavior and movement), BEATS, POSTS, VALVES and HITS etc.

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developing script analysis techniques

developing acting range

tapping into exsisting networks both in the independent film scene and the mainstream film industry

developing an appreciation of rudimentary script writing skills

learning about stock characters presented in film and television scripts

acquiring technical skills that allow the actor to adjust the performance to the type of shot (extreme close up, close up, medium, wide etc...)

allowing emotions, thoughts and actions to flow out in front of the camera

finding one’s vulnerability.

allowing the impulses to sink deep enough to find the emotional truth in the scene.

investing as much of oneself as possible.

affecting and being influenced by others.

adjusting on a moment by moment basis to others in the scene.

listening with ears, eyes, body, mind and heart through the filter of one’s objective.

using the technical tools of the medium to help the film maker tell a story (i.e. are the lights, camera, sound and crew helping or hindering the actor’s performance?)

play the role at a size that fits the medium.

Simposia, Discussion, Feedback

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Dionysos: But where are the movies?

Apollo: Yes, films!

Meyerhold: Cinema!

Stanislavsky: You said "video", Anatoly -- where is it?

-- What all of you know about youtube?
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Homework

see move page

Next : video directory + web

Scott Acting Conservatory at the Actors Theatre Workshop

[ monologue assignment samples ] 

- hey, this is Rachel Blackwell and this is the monologue that I am 
going to do next, to contrast with my other one: 

Boiling People in My Coffee by Jonathan Yukich
Dorian

Sometimes I think there are boiling people in my coffee. I know it's 
odd, but, I tell you, I wonder. Small persons, tiny beings… in my 
coffee. Invisible to the eye, they are. Invisible to all the major 
senses. Very small, these people. Very, very small. Small brains, 
small hearts, small toes. Like Swift's Liliputians, except smaller. 
Itty-bitty. Total size equals a tenth of an atom. A mere tenth, 
Donald. A single Tic-Tac would crush millions. Shrimp would consume 
entire villages in massive gulps. Ants would use them as bowling 
balls. We're talking small, Donald. These are not big people. They 
are micro-people. Yes, micro-people… in my coffee. Boiling. 
(speaking to her coffee) Hello, micro-people! I know you're there! 
Don't speak. Conserve your energy. I realize you must be in a great 
deal of pain at the moment. After all, you are boiling. I must 
apologize. You're so tiny that I didn't notice your micro-community 
in my coffee pot. Therefore, naturally, I filled it with water and 
let it heat. You're so weak that I didn't hear your tiny screams, so 
small that I couldn't see your S.O.S. If I had, you may rest 
assured, I would have stopped. Certainly, I would have stopped. 
Donald could do without his coffee for a day while you relocated, 
but I had no idea, you see. None at all. Until now. Oh, the agony 
you must be going through. I'll drink no more. I'm sorry for the 
friends and family I've already consumed, but I'll drink no more. No 
more! A ban on coffee in this household! I hereby disclaim all 
coffee in this household! 

Actor's Studio : Casey

film.vtheatre.net/act :

French Connection

Taxi Driver

Dog Day Afternoon

www.actingland.com

youtube.com/anatolant