Acting Skills Audit Lesson-1/10/2014

Acting Audit

Lesson-1/10/2014 

This lesson I further developed my acting skills in my participation of various exercises that the entire class took part in. Although these most exercises are designed in order to push the actor's mindset in to the correct phase for rehearsals, performances and lessons on various techniques for them.

The first way I have analyzed my developments was by looking back on the rehearsals that I went through over my scene. My entire class rehearses for our final performance every lesson and I believe this not only strengthens our existing acting skills, but I also believe that it encourages growth as actors as it gives us a level of responsibility to make our rehearsals as effective as possible without the director's supervision and even to begin developing skills that could potentially aid some of us in becoming directors which would be an extremely powerful development as actors. In my rehearsals I practice my use of key acting skills and immediately analyze how I have used them and how much they have developed since my last rehearsal. Every rehearsal I act the scene that I will be performing, therefore I automatically utilize a range of acting skills without conscious choice. However various skills that I have not yet fully grasped how to properly apply to my performance, I make a conscious choice to apply and immediately make an analyzation on how I have developed them. 

Another technique that I believe has further developed my acting skills  was when I participated in the exercise that mainly focused on strengthening my abilities in physical theater. The exercise required my partner and I to go through our entire scene using only our physical movements and gestures towards one another during the actual scene, however we were not allowed to make any sounds which was what our standard performance required. I believe this helped me to better develop my character's physicality and to have more spacial awareness during my performance.