Acting is actively used not only directly by actors. If you take a closer look, you can see that many people play in life. And we ourselves often have to play - at work, when talking with friends, at home. Many participate in creative amateur groups or competitions, speak at corporate parties.
In order to arouse with your game not condescending smirks, but admiring glances, it is worth paying attention to the basics of acting.
Basic concepts
As a novice theater and movie star, an amateur needs to understand what is required of him in acting classes, what qualities need to be actively developed in himself, and which ones should be hidden in a distant box and remembered as rarely as possible.
Self-esteem and self-love
Loving yourself is the natural state of every person. But it is worth distinguishing between a positive feeling - healthy vanity and negatively colored selfishness.
Self-esteem compels us to improve from day to day, to be better than ourselves yesterday, not to let down our weaknesses, not to give up, even when it's hard. And acting lessons, especially at first, is not an easy task.
Self-love is, in other words, narcissism. When a person just thinks about how beautiful he looks now, revels in the thought that he is on stage, then, as a rule, he forgets his immediate task - to live on stage in the guise of a hero, and rolls into banal narcissism.
Healthy self-esteem pushes us to new heights and achievements, to constant work on ourselves. Self-love kills any creative principle, quenches an impulse, devastates the soul.
Attention
In any field of activity, a person with distracted attention is unlikely to succeed. Acting for beginners includes many exercises aimed specifically at the development of voluntary attention. A lot is tied to this in acting, starting with the fact that in the first place attention is included in the classroom so that not a single word of the teacher is missed, and ending with the fact that on stage the actor must act exactly along the line of the role, without being distracted by outsiders noise, but at the same time keep the partner and his actions under control so as not to turn into a mechanical performer.
To improve attention, acting for beginners exercises offers quite simple.
Keeping a creative diary
The development of attention does not even begin in the classes themselves, but in everyday life. The newcomer is invited to observe people and situations wherever he is, pay special attention to interesting personalities, their behavior, because in the future they can be used as prototypes for roles.
Attentiveness to surrounding objects is added to this exercise. Every day you need to record what changes have occurred, what has not been noticed before, what exactly has changed.
Listening to the silence
The exercise is to learn how to direct your attention to a certain circle of external space. Gradually, this circle expands.
- We are listening to ourselves.
- We listen to what is happening in the audience (class).
- We listen to what is happening in the building.
- We listen to what is happening on the street.
Show Observations
After the beginner’s creative diary is filled, acting lessons are transferred to the stage. The student should, based on his observations, accurately and interestingly convey on the stage the image of the observed: his gait, gestures, behavior, facial expressions. At the same time, the teacher can put this hero in unusual situations that did not actually happen. At the same time, it will be seen how carefully the aspiring actor made observation, how much he understood this person and was imbued with his image - his organicity in the given circumstances will depend on this.
Act
When taking the course "Acting" training begins with an analysis of the basic concepts. So, without such a thing as action, there can be no performance. In defining an action, the main meaning of any role is laid. The main thing from this is that action is an act of will. The actor on stage is not a thoughtless mechanism that performs movements and actions, because he was ordered to do so, and not a monkey who, without realizing it, simply repeats a set of actions and words. The actor first of all thinks, and each action on the stage should be meaningful and logically justified by him.
Acting for beginners is based on the fact that there is no action for the sake of the action itself. Each action must have a goal, for the sake of which it is accomplished. Therefore, it turns out that everything that an actor does in the form of a hero, he does consciously and voluntarily, and not just like that, for beauty.
Any acting exercise involves the conscious action of the one on stage.
Work in the proposed circumstances
In this exercise, students are invited to some place of action: a forest, an old castle, a prison, a hospital, etc. Novice actors need to find an excuse for who they got here, you need to see this place in your imagination to the smallest detail. Then the teacher will produce sounds that the actors respond to depending on the proposed circumstances. The atmosphere is also created with the help of music - it can be a dark fairytale forest or a light birch grove. And here acting for beginners has three goals. Firstly, this is a test of attentiveness (how quickly an actor reacts to changes in music or sounds), secondly, it teaches beginner actors to act in given circumstances that need to be adapted for themselves, and thirdly, it teaches to keep the atmosphere. without jumping from sadness to fun and back.
Shadow
In the discipline "Acting" training is always complex, the basic concepts are intertwined in one exercise, require the actor to constantly concentrate.
Interesting exercise with shadow. The first person makes some kind of movement, justifying their goal (this may be some pointless action), and the second person is his “shadow” - completely repeats each action. Of course, the first should work slowly so that the second has time to repeat. But the task of the second participant is to carefully monitor the leader and try to predict his actions. In addition, he also needs to understand what kind of action is performed, and justify it, because the purpose of man and shadow always coincides.
Similar exercises, with which acting skills for beginners are honed, develop a sense of shoulder - it always reminds the actor that he works not alone, but depends on everyone, and everyone depends on him in the same way.