Bryce Harrison PETER VALENTINO ACTING STUDIO Key Student Notes: Observations and Analysis 6/26/2016 – The objects you have created with your imagination and intend to use in a cold reading must be real. In other words, these imaginary objects must be accounted for as sense memory objects. Think the object into reality by engaging your human senses and responding to …
Yoga And The Actor
It is highly important for the Actor to keep themselves in good physical condition. This is because it is part of our neutrality. Since freedom of motion is essential to the Actor, we must understand physical neutrality and be able to let go of tensions. Each preexistent tension is really a part of one’s own persona, and therefore it blocks …
Key Student Note: Actor Training 6/19/2016
Bryce Harrison PETER VALENTINO ACTING STUDIO Key Student Notes: Observations and Analysis 6/18/2016 – Law: In terms of acting on set during the shooting phase, your continuity must be the same every time. There are no exceptions. Every take, regardless if it is your camera angle or not, must be the same every time. Your level of desire will dictate …
Key Student Notes: Actor Training 6/16/2016
Bryce Harrison PETER VALENTINO ACTING STUDIO Key Student Notes: Observations and Analysis 6/16/2016 – Don’t delude yourself by attending a bigger class with more people in it and believing it will grant you better results. Take a step back to understand that less people in a particular class can be a blessing. Usually Peter’s classes are packed, but it’s summer …
The Actor And Their System
What stresses people more than anything else is trying to fit in with a system. But, when we look at it deeply, we see that we each have our own system, which has reference to a number of other people’s systems. Still as systemized as things are becoming in this brave new world post-9/11, the individual still has the ability …
Key Student Notes: Actor Training 6/12/2016
Bryce Harrison PETER VALENTINO ACTING STUDIO Key student notes: observations and analysis 6/12/2016 – Everything in acting stems from an acknowledgement and a response. The acknowledgement resonates with the word “yes.” The response follows the word “and.” The improvisational game of “yes and” can be universally applied to all aspects within the acting proximity. The Actor must always agree to …
Key Student Notes: Actor Training 6/04/2016
Bryce Harrison PETER VALENTINO ACTING STUDIO Key Student Notes: Observations and Analysis 6/04/1016 The Actor is an intelligent child. The Actor must be able to articulate diction and proximity relationships most efficiently. There is no excuse as to why during a shoot the actor has forgotten their continuity marks. It is the actors job to keep mental marks …
Key Student Notes: Actor Training 2/07/2016
Get a monologue and practice it for class! “Yes and…” drill: “Yes and” is a positive connotation, “Yes BUT…” is a negative connotation. Always look for the specificity of your scene partners dialogue and ideas. Look to create a new thread off the previous idea or sentence. Continuously making the conversation and dialogue travel to new places and ideas. Don’t …