Anyone want to help me with ACTING....?

Question:I always ask questions on acting..oh wel!!

1) How can you truly get your feet in your character shoes?

2)How can you evaluate your performance?

3)How do you know what right body and hand movements to make in a scene or an intence moment.

(eg when shouting, do you arm go all over the place, or stay down???)

AL PACINO is an amazing actor, what do you think his secret is???

Thank you!!!

Also if you have any additional acting advice PLEASE ADD IT!!!

:)

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I always ask questions on acting..oh wel!!

1) How can you truly get your feet in your character shoes?

2)How can you evaluate your performance?

3)How do you know what right body and hand movements to make in a scene or an intence moment.

(eg when shouting, do you arm go all over the place, or stay down???)

AL PACINO is an amazing actor, what do you think his secret is???

Thank you!!!

Also if you have any additional acting advice PLEASE ADD IT!!!

:)

what you mean you don't want to find out how to get a job on the disney channel?? or how to get in High School musical 3?? Hurray! I love your question!

Q1- The trick to this is give as truthful of a performance as you can, know as much as you can about the character read the script over and over and over know what your character wants, how he/goes about getting what he wants, how he/she reacts when he gets or doesn’t get what he wants its all there in the script. What do you know about their physical mental emotional health how does it affect your character, what has your character experienced in the script how do those experiences shape your character. Play actions, what responses are you trying to get, how does changing your delivery change their responses? don’t play the end, find the moment of discovery. As for how I know when it’s right, it feels honest and truthful. You will know the feeling when you have it.

Q2- You can evaluate your performance several ways- videotape yourself and watch it, work with a partner, are you getting the responses you want (for example if you want to make your partner to feel accepted are they responding to you from a place of acceptance?).

Q3- Observe Observe Observe, watch yourself when you get mad do you pull inward, do you throw things across the room, how do others respond when they are mad, how would your character respond (it is in the text of the script), the more observations you make the more ammo you have in your acting arsenal. Watch all the acting you can who is your favorite, do they have trademark things they do?? Do you prefer actors who have a trademark (like Sally Fields or Jennifer Jason Leigh) reaction actors who work from their own expeirences or do you prefer actors who completely metamorphosize into another human, like Bill Nighy, Glenn Close. Watch them closely if you have a favorite actor, watch them all you can study them, how they change for their characters.

As for what I do when I get mad, it depends on the script, if I am Elizabeth Bennet telling off Lady Catheine de Bourgh then I am trying my best to hold my composure, if I am playing Theodora in the Haunting then I know I like attention and I will get up in Eleanor’s face and overturn furniture and really have my say, If I am Olga in the Three Sisters, I will sit quietly and listen and go do my crying in a hidden place, it depends on what character you are playing and what their circumstances are, but feeling at ease with your arms be they folded or failing comes from being confident in your performance and your abilities.

Pacino studied the Meisner Technique. They have tons of books and classes on this method of acting!

My only other advice is do all you the acting you can. Read all the acting books you can, take tons of classes, you can learn something from everyone.

Good Luck!

1.) If your character shoes are the right size, you should be able to get your feet in them! :)

2.) Have various people watch your scenes, monologues etc. and have them tell you what they think. Take direction and change it up a bit.

3.) Just feel it! Use Emotional Recall (taking personal experience and bringing it to your character) to get into character.

EDIT: Ooops! I thought that you were talking about "Character Shoes" (A type of dance shoes!)

To get into your character's shoes try to relate the characters situation. For example if you are playing Annie, you probably haven't ever been an orphan, but you have felt alone at some point in your life.

Don't Worry. 1) To get into your characters shoes, just act like you are that person, that you are never who you are before acting this out, stay focused and make the character look realistic. Good Luck.
2) To evaluate your performance. It is good to have others evaluate your performance, and yourself, try to think about the parts that you could work on and what you think you could work on.
3) If you are sad, you would be sitting without anyway gestures, hand movements etc, when your sad you will show more facial expression, eg through crying, etc. When shouting, you might want to give hand movements,eg, fists etc. BTW have you learnt about voice? When you are exited, you will be jumping up and down, waving your arms, and show true happiness on your face, you know, really get in to the character, make them come alive.

Other Advice - Don't Laugh
- Show real emotion
- Show real effective body langauge
- Get into the character mood
- Focus - Do not get distracted - when acting you are in a different world, just think, if you are laughed at, just think, well really there laughing at your character not you
- Have the passion to do well.

Any further qeuries add me on jsmith5657@hotmail.com

GOOD LUCK!!!

You again. Why don't you just read Acting for the Camera by Tony Barr?, it is the best book on acting for stage and screen.
I love the old fashioned answers the others have given you, what tripe!
1 You are in the character's shoes as soon as you take his place on stage or in front of the camera. Learn the lines word for word and make sure you use them as the emotional and intellectual reactions of the character to the stimuli of the scene. Listen and react fully without any inhibitions.
2. Evaluating a performance is complex and nearly impossible for someone to do for himself. See my free book, The Tao of Acting, for details on evaluation acting.
3. You do not plan such things. They happen naturally as part of the reactions I talk about in answer 1.
4, Pacino claims to be a method actor. But I doubt it. He just does what I said actors must do in my answer to number 1.
5. Be in lots and lots of plays.

observe what happens in real life, what you do, what others do, what your favorite actor does, in that situation, it helps alot