Ten tips for action

You can improve your performance dramatically on your own or with a friend by doing some simple and easy things to do and they will cost you nothing. First and most important:

 

* Consonants: Learn to speak clearly. Practice your consonants. It is the most important and dramatic way to improve your acting skills. Speaking clearly does not only reflect the language of news presenters and aristocrats. It allows a person to transcend their local incomprehensible dialects. Dropping consonants is a victim of daily interaction, lazy card garden with friends, family and colleagues. Consonants shape the emotional resonance of vocal sounds. The vocal sounds of the actor suggest the inner feeling, and the consonants allow the audience to know what that feeling is. Consonants are like the frame of the house. They shape it. Learn to exaggerate these consonants.

 

It may sound very unnatural at first, but after a while it becomes more natural and becomes a user-friendly tool and important in landing roles. You need to practice hitting the consonants in the middle and at the ends of the words. Playgrounds can vary in kind with the ear. For example, the sound in the theater may not travel. I could reverberate. It can be perfect Cinema and television can have different qualities in audio equipment and sound mix. With certain movies at one key point, I had to play that moment over and over again to understand what the actor was saying. Be kind to people with hearing loss and aging. Speak clearly. Practice it every day. Don't think that by releasing consonants you are genuine or true to your art. Instead, you will find it difficult to hire.

 

* Fantasy: put your imagination in the form of combat. Watch a play, and use your imagination to get into the character's head, his heart, his soul. Your imagination is a powerful tool that we all share. We may be different physically, in appearance and talent, but we can all harness that power of imagination. If an author portrays life on the streets, use your imagination to find that character within you. If the character is the president of the United States, use your imagination to learn the intersections and tricks of the trade. Imagination is the most important tool you have to have inside the head of another character. It is the most important tool you have for inhabiting the world of work. Having all the talent and tools in the world means nothing if you lack imagination.

 

Your imagination can only be fed by learning as much as you can about the world around you. Read novels, history and watch movies and plays, listen to music and games. Imagination can take you to places where technique and talent cannot. It allows you to walk with kings and queens through desert sand lit by the moon. It allows you to close a pharmaceutical business in an alley. Imagination allows you to give life to words on a page and translate them into a live world that the audience can see. Bend the muscles of your imagination, spread your wings and fly over the ground like Oberon and Titania in A Midsummer Night's theater college tours.

 

* Projection: must be heard. While not as important in film and television, it is important in theater, and theater is an easily accessible way of acting, and acquiring the necessary skills to succeed in other media. Theater is the best way to make connections that can help you advance your career, so learn to be heard. Don't be shy It's your right to be heard. Go into a large room, open your mouth and point your voice towards the back wall. Focus on the back wall and your voice will travel there, even in a large room. Use your diaphragm, the muscles under the ribs to push air and voice. Most people speak with shallow breaths. They speak not to be heard. Talk to be heard. See Patsy Rodenburg's books. His books are gold mines of the technique to enhance his ability to act in terms of speaking.