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Technique Class, Jan 2021, Pt 2
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03/26/23 • 31 min
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Know Where You’re Going
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11/03/20 • 16 min
It essential for us to step back and look at our character's timeline in the play, to know where he or she is going. One of the benefits of playing a role is that, unlike in life, we know what the future is. And so the actor, unlike your character, knows where your character is headed. This is important information to have because it informs what pieces of past we need to build in order to get there.
Going There, Wherever There Is
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10/27/20 • 14 min
This week, Milton talks about what it means to “go there,” or commit 100% to giving ourselves over to the circumstances of the play. It’s an enormous emotional risk because by letting go completely, we make ourselves vulnerable, revealing our true selves through a character. “It’s like going off a high diving board. You know you won’t die because there’s water there, but it’s so far down. It’s not a comfortable place to go.” Have a question for Milton? Email him at: [email protected]
Greasing the Gears
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10/13/20 • 13 min
When building a craft, it’s important that we actively put to use the tools and techniques that we’ve learned. Otherwise we’ll keep “winging it”, hoping and praying that it lands. Also, kicking ass on an exercise doesn’t mean that we’ve mastered the concept. We must be disciplined, practicing the techniques over and over again in order to integrate them into our way of working, and eventually it becomes second nature. This is about understanding that “connecting” and “being believable” isn’t enough. If the goal is to become a great actor, we must keep pushing ourselves, asking ourselves: what else could I try here? What technique could I apply to what I’m working on that will help me go deeper?
Events
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10/06/20 • 11 min
There are many different aspects of acting technique. One of them is building a character’s past. A helpful way to approach this is to know what the major events are in this person’s life. We ‘build’ these events by talking them out in improvised monologues so the character’s past is in us. If an event is referred to in the text, then you know you have to build it. But there are other events that are not mentioned in the text that we choose to build imaginatively, because it helps us get specific and fully own the character’s past, thus giving us confidence.
Acting as an Artform
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09/29/20 • 13 min
In this episode, Milton talks about the difference between acting as an art form and acting to “get a job,” and how one is much more fulfilling than the other. The Art of Acting is about the pursuit of uncovering the essence, or human spirit, of the role. But that cannot be found overnight— it’s a journey through the complexity of the human condition. Part of our job, as actors is to actively make an effort to connect to other human beings and our own human emotion, especially during a time when we’re isolated from others and cut off from ourselves. “You become a better person when you become an actor,” says Milton. “It broadens you.”
The Method is a Culture
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09/21/20 • 13 min
We begin our second season with a reminder that acting is not a math equation. “The method,” said Stanislavsky, “is not a guide, it’s a culture.” This means that a creative process, like a culture, is meant to change and grow. There is no hard and fast, static rule book for acting; we require different things for different roles. But if we keep digging, exploring, trying new things, seeing what works and what doesn’t, we will find choices we love, choices that feed us and give us confidence. When we can trust that everything we’ve built is *in* us and let go, that is when the most unexpected and exciting work happens.
Coming Soon: Season 2
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08/17/20 • 1 min
Don't panic. We'll be back with Season 2 of I Don't Need an Acting Class in September!
Putting It Together
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08/04/20 • 10 min
This week, Milton talks about how building different moments in your characters past reveals new information about them, and the importance of knowing exactly what that information is. We must ask the question: What does this moment I’m building tell me about my character? Your answer will clarify a new dimension of this human being. Then, we must integrate every character-discovery, so that you have a process where each piece builds on the next, or in the words of Stephen Sondheim: “the art of making art is putting it together, bit by bit.”
26 Different Kinds of Films
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06/05/23 • 15 min
Film Genres
Genre Conventions are specific settings, roles, events, and values that define individual genres and their sub-genres.
- Love Story
- Buddy Salvation
- Road Picture
- Horror Film
- Uncanny – source of horror is astound but subject to “rational” explanation – such as beings from outer space, science-made monsters, or a maniac.
- Supernational – in which the source of horror is an “irrational” phenomenon from the spirit realm.
- Super-Uncanny – in which the audience is kept guessing between the other two possibilities
- Modern Epic – individual versus the state – Spartacus, Erin Brockovich
- Western
- War Genre
- Pro-war – covertly glorifying war
- Anti-war
- Maturation Plot – Coming of age Story
- Redemption Plot – film arcs on a moral change within the protagonist from bad to good
- Punitive Plot – good guy turns bad and is punished
- Testing Plot – stories of will power versus temptation to surrender – Forest Gump
- Education Plot – Deep change within the protagonist’s view of life, people, or self from the negative (naïve, distrustful, fatalistic, self0hating) to the positive (wise, trusting, optimistic, self-possessed)
- Disillusionment Plot – a deep change of worldview from the positive to the negative – Great Gatsby, Macbeth
- Comedy
- Parody
- Satire
- Sitcom
- Romantic
- Screwball
- Farce
- Black Comedy
- Bro Comedy
- Crime
- Murder Mystery (master detective POV)
- Caper (master criminal’s POV)
- Detective (cop’s POV)
- Gangster (crook’s POV)
- Thriller or Revenge Tale (victim’s POV)
- Courtroom (lawyer’s POV)
- Newspaper (reporter’s POV)
- Espionage (spy’s POV)
- Prison Drama (inmate’s POV)
- Film Noir (POV of a protagonist who may be part criminal, part detective, part victim of a femme fatale)
- Social Drama – problems in society 0 poverty, the education system, then constructs a story demonstrating a cure.
- Domestic Drama (family problems)
- Woman’s film (dilemmas such as career versus family, lover versus children)
- Political Drama (corruption in politics)
- Eco-Drama (battles to save the environment)
- Medical Drama
- Psycho-Drama
- Action/Adventure
- High Adventure
- Disaster/Survival Film
- Historical Drama
- Biography – must have point of view Gandhi becomes the hero of a Modern Epic, Nixon suffers from Punitive Plot
- Docu-Drama
- Mockumentary
- Musical
- Science Fiction – often marry the man0against0state Modern Epic with Action/Adventure: Star Wars
- Sports Genre - a natural home for Maturation Plot, Redemption Plot, Education Plot, Punitive Plot, Testing Plot, Disillusionment Plot, Beddy Salvation, Social Drama.
- Fantasy
- Animation
- Art Film
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