Acting Workshop: Strengthen your acting skills

Do you know? In the set of “My Left Foot”, Daniel Day-Lewis used to travel with a wheelchair and asked people to shift him from one place to other. In the movie “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, he goes beyond in acting by learning Czech so that he could impersonate a Czech character who speaks in English Accent. Now one may say, it is unnecessary, but cannot deny the fact that, his acting has made him win 3 Academy Awards. A good actor knows how to be impactful in front of the audience. To achieve that, one has to learn how to reach to that epitome. Legendary actors like Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Seymour Hoffman are some of the few actors who have transformed themselves on screen and made the audience believe they are really someone else.

Aspiring actors can always join an Acting workshop to sharpen their acting skill while learning something new every day. With training from a proper acting workshop, one not only looks more convincing on stage or camera but also build sensitivity and self-awareness by eliminating the self-consciousness factor.

Pushing yourself out of your comfort zone:

Acting is all about being someone else, being in someone else’s shoes. Let’s consider acting as a mirror. So when one looks in the mirror, he/she must see a different person or at least try to be a different person. Changing characters often become a hard task for beginners or even for experienced actors. According to most actors, an acting workshop helps to push them outside of their comfort zone and release those unnecessary tensions, which used to desensitize them.

Two most popular method used in Acting Workshop:

1. Meisner Technique

Under Meisner Technique of acting, students from acting workshop are taught the concept of “Truthful Acting”. An actor will be given an ideal circumstance and will be asked to live truthfully as per the circumstances. The primary objective of this technique is to act through one’s emotional impulses rather than using their brain. It curates the natural actor present within them. Jack Nicholson, Anthony Hopkins, Kill Basinger, and Jeff Bridges are some of the actors who became a legend, by implementing this technique in their acting. Moreover, it requires a mentor to guide you properly and a proper encouraging environment, both of which you can get in an acting workshop.

2. Lee Strasberg’s Method

Lee Strasberg, the father of Method acting, believes that carefully analyzing a script is essential for an actor to understand the character and to question the character’s existence. In other words, an actor should start asking questions about his/her character like who is the character, what is the character’s objective and what is the psychology behind the discoing making of the character etc. to give better justice to the act.

In an acting class, actors are taught about these various methods of acting and are trained on how to implement them onscreen. Moreover, a student will learn a variety of exercises such as overcoming self-consciousness and repetition thereby increasing attention span and acting spontaneously.