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 …
Key Student Notes: Actor Training 6/23/2016
Bryce Harrison PETER VALENTINO ACTING STUDIO Key Student Notes: Observations and Analysis 6/23/2016 – Actors often read their lines like turtles. Speed up your dialogue or face the deadly reality of seeming like you’re acting. The core of this craft is to make it look like you’re LIVING. – The Actor is working towards the speed of life. This means …
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 …
The Work Of Acting
In order to be a working actor, you must first get real with the idea that acting is work! You have to work at it to be good enough to work in it. And I see time and again that in this field, probably more than any other, or let’s just say arts in general, people want the quick fix, …
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 …
The Beginner Strategy
Don’t be afraid to refer back to a feeling of inferiority. The beginner strategy: by reverting back to the beginner’s state of mind, your mind will then become curious about of all of the wonders of the field and script. You suddenly become more open to suggestion. The preconceptions become relinquished and you observe your field like a master anthropologist. …
Acting On Impulse
Acting on Impulse We live in a strange world, psychologically speaking. According to psychiatrists, we’re all mentally ill. That is the current definition of humanity and has been for quite some time. After all, we were all born sinners, according to many theological systems. These systems have the effect of making the human impulse an evil thing. By the …
The Introjection Strategy
Bryce Harrison PETER VALENTINO ACTING STUDIO While you are not performing in class, use the introjection strategy. But what is introjection? It is the unconscious adoption of the ideas or attitudes of others. You can reverse this definition to suit your needs; instead of it being “unconscious,” shift that into “conscious.” By consciously paying attention and living through the …
Acting Beyond Psychiatry
Expression is the answer to depression; it’s right there in the Latin. Yet, we hear so much these days about psychiatric so-called illnesses and their “cures” —pills. These disorders have been falsely created by a network of psychiatrists who have negatively influenced our culture with their labels of people. I hear people often say: that’s narcissistic, you’re being ADHD, he’s …
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 5/27/2016
Bryce Harrison 5/27/2016 PETER VALENTINO ACTING STUDIO Key student notes: observations and analysis The “Yes And” strategy: Everything in acting stems from the foundational understanding of the practicum of “yes and.” “Yes” is the acknowledgement of what your scene partner just said. “And” is the inventive content you improvise that spins off something specific your scene partner has previously said …
The Projection Strategy
Cultivated from Peter’s listening exercise we do before every class. Objective: Sharpening and strengthening the imagination. Bryce Harrison PETER VALENTINO ACTING STUDIO The Projection strategy: Close your eyes and just listen for a minute. Don’t speak Don’t move. Tune yourself in to all the sounds. Then use your imagination to see what is creating that sound. This can be taken …
Key Student Note: Actor Training 3/17/2016
Bryce Harrison Class notes and analysis: Thursday 3/17 Peter Valentino Acting studio In the “yes and” improvisation game, avoid questions and using the word” but.” But is a negative connotation and does not make the conversation travel somewhere new, it creates an argument which is the opposite of the “yes and” philosophy. Pay attention to all of your conversations in …
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 …