Getting Into Character for Actors and Actresses
Offered By: Skillshare
Course Description
Overview
Learning how to get into character can be a real challenge for actors and actresses. In this class you'll learn an extensive method you can use to create a fully fleshed out character.
Throughout this course, Actor and Voice Actor Justin Powell, takes you through a step by step process to understand your character and inhabit the role so you can deliver a truthful performance. This class is excellent for beginner's as well as intermediate actors and actresses. This class will break down:
- A Method for Mining the Script for Information
- The 6 Questions Needed to Understand a Part
- Tools to Ground you in Performance
- Using Research to Understand Character
- Creating Unique Physicality
- Nuance of Relationships
- Importance of Vulnerability
By the end of this class you will have a clear understanding and repeatable method for getting deeply into character that you can take forward on your acting journey.
I hope you enjoy the class and if you have any questions reach out here and I will respond as soon as possible.
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Reading the Script
- Who am I?
- Where am I?
- When am I?
- What do I want?
- What is my Obstacle?
- How do I get what I want?
- Additional Tools
- Research
- Physicality
- Relationships
- Voice
- Vulnerability
- Conclusion
Taught by
Justin Powell
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