The Great Acting Blog: “Know What You’re Doing – The Importance Of Technique”
You’ve always got to know what you’re doing. That means having a concrete, controllable, repeatable acting technique which enables you to deliver the goods in any situation. It means understanding why you got the results you did and knowing how to change those things you don’t like. It also means enjoying your work; being confident about activating your creativity and working with it, being able to give it a form meaningful to the outside world.
Further, you’ll become less dependent on the views of others; directors, peers, teachers, the public etcetera. You’ll be less perturbed by criticism and you’ll be able to keep compliments in perspective. You become you’re own judge and jury, working to your own standards, working for yourself.
There are myriad acting techniques out there. It’s a question of finding the one that makes sense to you and enables you to get the results you want. “Feeling it” just isn’t a technique of acting, and will not help you deal with the pressures actors face.
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