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The Great Acting Blog: “Paranoid Actors Should Quit”

28.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 54 Comments

A sort of companion piece to yesterday's post. Creating an environment where everyone is secure in their position is only one side of the coin. The flip side is that actors need to control themselves and their insecurities. We all have fears but we mustn't allow them...

The Great Acting Blog: “Pick The Right Goals”

06.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

What are your goals? When you accomplished one of your goals, how did it feel? Was it worth the trade-offs we have to make as actors? And if it wasn't worth it, why not? If it wasn't worth the trade-offs then the goal didn't fulfil you, it wasn't what...

The Great Acting Blog: “Own Your Work”

05.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

"what chance has made yours is not really yours" - Seneca If you follow the industrial model of acting then you can survive by being merely competent. That is the lure of it. It's reassuring, it's safe, there's no pressure to be extraordinary, it's just a...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Driven Actor”

02.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

One of the objections to producing your own work is that many actors just want to be actors. They want to be left free of the additional worry and distraction that comes with directing and producing, they want to be able to concentrate on their performance...

The Great Acting Blog: “Take A Point Of View And Act On It”

29.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

Take a point of view on everything you do. If you don't like the way something is done, don't just accept it, make a note of it, work-out how it can be done better, and do it in the new way. Perhaps you don't like the way...

The Great Acting Blog: “What Have You Got To Offer?”

26.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

The constant stream of actors moaning about work, or lack thereof I should say, really doesn't make any sense at all. Firstly, there are actors who complain about not having any work but never actually attempt to get any. Draw your own conclusion there. But...

The Great Acting Blog: “True Collaborators”

20.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

It is said that there is only a certain number of people who we can collaborate with successfully, and that that number is not high. The number of people we can collaborate with successfully is finite. Therefore, we need to be able to correctly identify...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Much Will That Lie Cost?”

19.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

It is often said that actors must do years of bad work before they can do anything good. As though they must give up their soul in order to enjoy some paradisal future. It's a dangerous game for the actor to play and requires him to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Define An Aesthetic”

13.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

We are living in an era where there are more people offering themselves as actors than ever before. You can try to get ahead of the game by turning yourself into a great actor, by striving to be better than everyone else. But you can...

The Great Acting Blog: “Being Adaptable”

09.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

One of the key lessons learned while making Noirish Project has been adaptability, adjusting our plan to deal with the actual situation in front of us. This was especially true of locations, where very often the actual location used was very different to what was in...

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