Showing posts with label Characters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Characters. Show all posts

Monday, 22 August 2022

August/September 2022 Monologue for INTERMEDIATES

Hey Housemates, 

Included below, is a monologue for the INTERMEDIATE CLASS ONLY. 

NOTE:

- Deadline is the 5th of September 2022 

- To submit, upload your monologue to your YouTube channel and make it UNLISTED (not private), then send the link to us via email (actorsplayhousecast@gmail.com).


MONOLOGUE:


Like Dreaming, Backwards is a series of monologues and scenes about the suicide of a young college student named Nell. Leah is Nell's mother. The play also includes monologues from an acquaintance, Yale, and her close friend, Natalie.


LEAH:

She had chronic depression, ever since she was twelve. Her father had depression, too. And her sister. And I was on antidepressants for a while, when I was her age. She was very high-functioning. She went years without any real incidents. She had control of it when she was in high school. And then, all of a sudden, things just... fell apart. She... spiraled.

I asked her to move back home, but she said no, over and over again. She was hospitalized last summer. But I really thought that she'd get past it. I thought, "It's just a matter of time before she finds the right medicine, or the right therapist... and things will go back to normal."

That day, we'd made plans to have breakfast. I called her, but she didn't answer her phone. I thought she'd turned it off and slept late, so I went to her apartment and knocked on her door. It wasn't locked. I went in, and... I found her lying on the floor in the kitchen...

Why didn't she come to me? I would have done anything for her. Anything. Didn't she know that?


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Wednesday, 9 September 2020

DIGGING DEEP - True Blood Ties Script

 Hey Housemates, 


This is the script for our DIGGING DEEP EXERCISE. Please refer to to my video on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7kv2rHMX4k0scdpL_314IG0Ea5IrOTc71CfE0/  for all the details you need. 


NOTE:

- Deadline is the 23rd of September 2020

- GIN is the male role

- JENA is the female role

- I only want to see you on the screen. 

- Let the voice of the person reading with you be audible. 

- You can send your video submissions vie email (actorsplayhousecast@gmail.com) or upload it on your YouTube channel and make it UNLISTED (not private), then send the link to us via email (actorsplayhousecast@gmail.com).


Please find attached the script below:







 

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Tuesday, 14 February 2017

RELATIONSHIP TREE

Relationship Tree is a word you may not find in many acting books, neither will you hear a lot of acting coaches mention it. They may use a different term to describe it but I like to call it what it is, just to simplify it.
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Tuesday, 25 October 2016

THE LINES

One of the mistakes I made when I was a much younger actor, was to get the script for the movie I was a part of and then start to memorize my own lines. 

I would immediately learn my lines, pick the last two words from the lines of my co-actor as my CUE and then go on set believing I had everything on lock down, but when I watched the movies after release, there was never a satisfactory feeling as regards my performance. 

I always knew there was something wrong because I couldn't feel the authenticity the character deserved, and the fact that people loved my work and even gave me some awards confused me more. 

I didn't quite understand how a "not so great performance" would be accepted. Then I realized that most people were carried away with the the whole movie, the story, the music and mood, the movements, the actions and everything as a whole. But on the other hand, I watched the movie isolating my own performance as though my scenes or SCREEN TIME were a stand alone movie, and I could see all the flaws and bad acting because there were no distractions for me. 

The problem I discovered with my work was that I always anticipated the CUE and had already prepared the reaction I would give for my LINES since I had memorized every word. So if I didn't hear the CUE, it would throw me off a bit because I had prepared myself based on the WORDS instead of allowing myself to FEEL.
After a while I knew it was time to learn my craft and do it the proper way. 

So this is what I know now:
  • When you receive the script or the SIDE, read it through as many times as you can. At this point you should know the story inside and out. The characters and their relationships should also be known as intimately as you know your friends in real life.

  • After that, you will have to break down the scenes and do a comprehensive SCENE STUDY. In breaking down the scenes, the mood, pace, time, intention, purpose and objective should be marked and understood.

  • By the time these steps are taken, your subconscious will already know what you are supposed to be saying. This may not be word for word, but knowing and understanding what you are saying, why you are saying it and how you should say it, which is more important than knowing the LINES word for word. 

The LINES are the last things I memorize and I do it this way because it makes it easier when all other factors have been taken in. 

Becoming a CHARACTER is not about knowing the LINES of the character. It is about knowing the WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHEN and HOW of the character. 
When you understand the details of every single scene, it makes it easier for you to have an easy flow even when your co-actor changes some words in his delivery.
It also takes away the frustration when the DIRECTOR makes quick changes just before he rolls CAMERA. 

As long as you understand your character and know the objective of each scene, knowing and saying the LINES will be much easier. 

Thank you for stopping by. 

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Friday, 2 September 2016

BUILDING YOUR ROLE


I have heard a lot of actors say that the action and the plot is more important than the character. They believe that the character is just a tool to achieve the goal of the story using actions and reactions.
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