Daniel Dresner

A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Combining life-coaching and screen-acting tools and techniques in one accessible handbook, this guide empowers actors to overcome personal inhibitions and approach their work, characters and careers with the assuredness to produce powerful, real and believable acting on screen.

Structured to build confidence and understanding of yourself before you take on the role of someone else, this book offers the tools and techniques to give you the necessary conviction and self-assurance to perform uninhibited. Dresner then examines essential elements of a screen actor's craft, such as emotions, imagination, nerves, focus, listening, improvisation and line-learning.

Published in partnership with The Actor's Centre, the book includes online videos of coaching sessions with professional actors and is ideal for readers and teachers looking to replicate the method in their own training.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350039414
• Artikelnr.: 54684456

Autorenporträt

Daniel Dresner is a leading UK acting coach. He regularly teaches at the Actors Centre and drama schools as well as coaching privately. His clients range from actors starting out to Hollywood stars. His approach has been developed over more than 20 years as an actor, director, teacher and life coach in London, New York and Tokyo. He studied the Method at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York and life coaching with the Coaches Training Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 PART ONE WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK? 5 1
Get Out of Your Own Way 7 2 Values and Fulfi lment 11 Identify your values
13 Fulfi lment 14 The wheel of life 15 3 Saboteurs and Limiting Beliefs 16
Saboteur words and phrases 17 Limiting beliefs 19 A note on your inner
critic 20 Use of language 21 Fear 23 Getting help from your captain 23 4
The Impostor Syndrome 25 What can you do about it? 27 Some quotes from
people you may respect 28 5 Perfectionism 30 PART TWO MOVING FORWARDS 35 6
Confi dence, Success, Perspective and Reframing 37 Confi dence 37 Success
39 Perspective 41 Reframing 42 7 Learning Something New 44 The four stages
of learning and creating new habits 44 Believe you can develop 45 What are
habits and how do they form? 46 Neuroplasticity 46 The theory of marginal
gains 48 8 Trust and Creativity 50 Trust list 52 PART THREE AS YOU ARE
MOVING TOWARDS SOMEONE ELSE 53 9 Screen Experience 55 10 Focus and
Concentration 58 Milestones and anchors 60 11 Emotions 63 Pushing and
indicating - trying too hard 67 Affective memory 67 12 Imagination 70 13
Listening 74 14 Nerves and Nervousness 77 15 Lines and Learning Them 80 The
potential limitations of actioning 84 Playing stakes and consequences 85
Some ways people learn lines - a non-exhaustive list 86 16 Adjusting Your
Vocal Levels 88 Volume 88 Speed 90 17 Size Matters 92 Less is more 92 PART
FOUR TOOLS TO LIVE SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE 97 18 The Inner Actor and Inner
Character 99 19 Truth: It All Starts With You (and a Little About Method
Acting) 105 Method acting 107 20 The Senses and Sense Memory 111 A sense of
place 113 21 Thinking and the Inner Monologue 119 Thinking and the eyes 120
A kaleidoscope of thought 120 A third entity 122 Inner monologue 123 22
Improvise and Personalize 128 23 Meet Your Character 135 24 Mind, Body and
Soul (Thought, Physiology and Emotion) 136 The pressure cooker 137 Emotion
through physical manipulation 138 Keep it simmering 141 25 Wrapping It Up
142 Appendices 143 References 155 List of Video and Audio Links 157 Index
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