Weekend Method Acting Training Camp
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And... Action! What is Method Acting? Famous Method Actors Confidence Learning The Lines Creating the Character Getting your foot in the door That’s a wrap Training with StandBy Method Acting Studio StandBy Method Acting Studio | Copyright 2016. All rights reserved | www.standbymethod.com Twitter: @StandByMethod | Facebook: StandByMethodActingStudio Become a professional method actor and make it to the top Congratulations on getting your insider secrets to becoming a method actor like Tom Hardy. In here you will find everything you need to take your acting dreams out of your head so you can turn them into a reality. Are you excited? I am! THE LIFE OF THE DREAMER Day to day life can be so busy can’t it? There aren’t enough hours in the day and there’s usually so much to do. Maybe you’re keeping down a full time job to pay the bills, maybe you’re hard at work with your studies, maybe you’re spending each day getting by but not really enjoying life OR maybe you’ve been pursuing your acting dream a while but not much is happening and you’re starting to feel the frustration. Either way you want to be an actor and can imagine how good it would feel to never have to work another boring shift again... No more dreading Monday mornings, getting paid for doing what you love, having the financial and time freedom that acting can bring and no more clock watching for the end of the shift. But uh-oh reality check, with all the stuff you’ve heard about acting; “it’s not a proper job”, “the competition is high”, “only the lucky ones make it” what’s the point in trying?! It’s no wonder most people end up living a life of regret. THE COST OF NOT TRYING Sadly, we can sometimes become wrapped up in life, even if we know our day to day existence doesn’t make us truly happy. And that’s key; when you’re not truly happy you feel unfulfilled, you drudge through life existing rather than living. Lack of confidence, lack of money, time or fear of failure may have held you back. But you know to live a happy, fulfilling life, it’s NOW OR NEVER. StandBy Method Acting Studio | Copyright 2016. All rights reserved | www.standbymethod.com Twitter: @StandByMethod | Facebook: StandByMethodActingStudio Become a professional method actor and make it to the top LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL No need to beat yourself up anymore or feel guilty. By downloading this powerful eBook you’ve taken the right first step in giving your acting dream the attention it needs and I’m so proud of you for doing that. You’ve done what many people will never do just by downloading this ebook, so you’re already one step ahead! I’M GONNA BE AN ACTOR!! › You absolutely can be! And I am here to help you every step of the way! Sometimes we are held back by not knowing where to begin or what to do. No need to worry anymore. I have a wealth of knowledge and experience that I am bursting to pass onto you. I originally trained at The Arden when I was 18, more recently I took training at The Actors Studio, NY, and have had coaching training at The American Academy of Dramatic Art. All that topped off with my experience as an actress means I have so much I can share with you. Oh and I specialise in Method Acting - the technique many of the acting elite use so you’re going to get off to a very strong start. You will find lots of powerful, game-changing tips to help you discover your acting potential and help you move in the right direction to get your foot in the door. On top of my free gift to you, I will also be in touch each week with my blog and even more top Method Acting tips to keep you on track with your acting dreams. Print it off, keep it handy and make time to work on your acting dreams. Please don’t just let it gather dust in your inbox To your success - don’t ever give up, keep learning! Artistic Director StandBy Method Acting Studio StandBy Method Acting Studio | Copyright 2016. All rights reserved | www.standbymethod.com Twitter: @StandByMethod | Facebook: StandByMethodActingStudio Become a professional method actor and make it to the top Method acting is a technique that produces world class acting ability. It is made up of in depth acting exercises that answer the question How can I (actor) be truthful when everything around me is fake? which was asked by everyone from Aristotle, Denis Diderot, Vaktanghov, Stanislavski to Strasberg and everyone in between. Denis Diderot Aristotle Stanislavski StandBy Method Acting Studio | Copyright 2016. All rights reserved | www.standbymethod.com Twitter: @StandByMethod | Facebook: StandByMethodActingStudio Become a professional method actor and make it to the top LEE STRASBERG Method Acting is a practice that was developed by Strasberg following on from the work Stanislavski initially set out. It allows you to work from the inside out, using your own personal life experience and marinating it with your imagination to create truly unique, authentic human behaviour whilst living moment to moment in the imaginary given circumstances without forcing, faking or “acting”. Method Acting will transform your acting skills from that of an average actor to that of an outstanding, world class actor, by asking you to truly understand who you are and your experiences, so you are able to empathise with and understand what motivates each character. Another great benefit of Method Acting is that it allows you to understand why people behave the way they do, thus allowing you in your own life to be able to start to read people’s behaviour and body language. Method Acting exercises include: Relaxation Substitution Sense Memory Object of Attention The Animal Exercise Triggering Imagination Affective Memory Method Acting Improvisation Script Analysis Repetition Exercise (Sanford Meisner) Character Analysis Private Moment Exercise/Fourth Wall The need, the motivation, the action StandBy Method Acting Studio | Copyright 2016. All rights reserved | www.standbymethod.com Twitter: @StandByMethod | Facebook: StandByMethodActingStudio Become a professional method actor and make it to the top Award winning actors that practise The Method Robert De Niro Al Pacino Meryl Streep Forrest Whitaker Angelina Jolie Bradley Cooper StandBy Method Acting Studio | Copyright 2016. All rights reserved | www.standbymethod.com Twitter: @StandByMethod | Facebook: StandByMethodActingStudio Become a professional method actor and make it to the top Marilyn Monroe Marlon Brando James Dean Daniel Day – Lewis Christian Bale Dustin Hoffman Tom Hardy Jennifer Lawrence Amy Adams StandBy Method Acting Studio | Copyright 2016. All rights reserved | www.standbymethod.com Twitter: @StandByMethod | Facebook: StandByMethodActingStudio Become a professional method actor and make it to the top As Lee Strasberg (founder of The Method), the world’s most amazing acting tutor (he trained everyone from Marlon Brando to Marilyn Monroe) discovered, many of the actor’s problems are nothing to do with acting but to do with their personal problems. As an acting coach and actress I 1000% agree with him. Whenever I am training an actor and they “can’t do something”, whether that’s connect to the text or connect to their emotions, it’s usually because of something going on in their head - “I’m not good enough”, “I’ll make a fool of myself”. We use a great technique at the studio called stepping out, which resets the actors’ mind-set. If you want to be a world class actor and want to work in the same way the acting elite do - Daniel Day-Lewis, Angelina Jolie, Tom Hardy etc. then the first thing you must do is work on your self- belief, even if you don’t think you have confidence problems, most actors do and it penetrates the audition room/production whether you’re aware of it or not. StandBy Method Acting Studio | Copyright 2016. All rights reserved | www.standbymethod.com Twitter: @StandByMethod | Facebook: StandByMethodActingStudio Become a professional method actor and make it to the top 1. Identify your strong points. Maybe you’re a good listener, good at telling stories, have a big imagination, are good at expressing yourself clearly, are empathetic to others situations. Whatever your strengths are they will always be useful within acting as we work with the human condition. Make a huge list of your strong points. 2. Affirm your strengths by writing them on a phone, in a diary, or on a piece of paper you can stick somewhere you will see every day. I find placing them on your phone with alarms, set to music you really like works very well at affirming these strengths and boosting your confidence. 3. Recognise your insecurities by writing them down, this will also help you disassociate yourself from them. 4. Challenge your insecurities with positive evidence. Prove to yourself that your insecurity isn’t true. E.g. “I will be rubbish at learning learns”. Maybe you can remember lots of random facts or you can remember what you read in the papers this week. Learning lines is about memory so challenge that insecurity with times your memory has been on point. When we challenge our insecurities, we begin to slowly but surely change our thought process and our confidence grows. 5. Speak with friends/family/fellow acting students to recognise everyone is insecure/un-confident about something. It’s part of being human. StandBy Method Acting Studio | Copyright 2016. All rights reserved | www.standbymethod.com Twitter: @StandByMethod | Facebook: StandByMethodActingStudio Become a professional method actor and make it to the top 6.