A practical guide to acting for the camera: scale and shot sizes, preparation, hitting marks, eyelines, continuity, repeating takes and working on a film set.
Category: Acting Craft
Techniques, exercises and practical advice for building your craft as an actor.
What psychology and neuroscience say about how emotions work, and how actors can use that knowledge: circumstances, body and breath, listening, mixed emotions and stepping out of a role.
A practical overview of the major acting techniques, from Stanislavski, Meisner and the Method to Adler, Hagen, Chekhov and Practical Aesthetics, with exercises to try.
Why movement matters for actors, the main approaches from Laban and Alexander Technique to Lecoq and Viewpoints, and practical exercises for finding a character’s body.
A step-by-step approach to scene study: choosing a scene, finding the facts and given circumstances, objectives, beats, rehearsing with a partner and taking notes.
Why short films matter for actors, how to find and choose good projects, how to prepare and behave on set, and how to use the footage and relationships afterwards.