Acting Techniques 101? Actors Answer?

Question:(please no answers like, get a drama teacher ect..)

Wat are sometechniques effective for great acting??
Method acting is famous what else is good?

And YOUR PERsONaL ways of acting!?

Effective ways of making a character come to life and live through you?eg/ how to adapt the WHOLE character and BE THEM and forget who you are.

Also how to have a variation of voice? Shouting, normal, upset ect.. eg/ normal voice tone should have a low tone, when shouting.... when upset the voice....

10 pts to ALOT OF Detail, explanations examples ect!
10 points are worth your knowledge, please give good answer that will help!!

THANK YOU!! :)

:)

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: (please no answers like, get a drama teacher ect..)

Wat are sometechniques effective for great acting??
Method acting is famous what else is good?

And YOUR PERsONaL ways of acting!?

Effective ways of making a character come to life and live through you?eg/ how to adapt the WHOLE character and BE THEM and forget who you are.

Also how to have a variation of voice? Shouting, normal, upset ect.. eg/ normal voice tone should have a low tone, when shouting.... when upset the voice....

10 pts to ALOT OF Detail, explanations examples ect!
10 points are worth your knowledge, please give good answer that will help!!

THANK YOU!! :)

:)

You should really research Constantin Stanislavsky. He has a great method for becoming the character. It has to do with putting yourself in the situation. Basically you substitute something that evokes in you as the actor the emotion that the character is feeling on stage. There's actually a lot more to it than that, but you'd have to do the research and PRACTICE yourself. Also, Rudolph Von Laban developed a wonderful technique for capturing the movement of a character. You know how some people make very short sharp movements, or some people make large elegant flowing movements, Laban teaches how to use each movement to characterize who you are on stage. The way a character moves says a lot about who they are, so getting the motions down can really help you became the character. For your voice, I don't know a whole hell of a lot about voice, but I can give you a few names and websites that have helped me and may help you.:
Kristin Linklater - http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/subjects/arts/...
Catherine Fitmaurice - www.fitmauricevoice.com
Arthur Lessac - www.lessacinstitute.com

www.gbmc.org/voice has some good stuff on vocal mechanism as well as www.upmc.edu/upmcvoice.

I hope all this helps.