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u/mirrorsarereflective ยท 3 pointsr/acting

no matter how many classes you take. a coach can never teach you how to act. they can help you and guide you (which clearly your acting coach is not). I'm not saying to not take classes, but definitely there are things that cannot be taught in a 3 hour or so class. Your coach is not at all constructive.

I think you should consider working on these before taking more classes. for the love of god, I'd find a different coach too once you work on these things below first. she gave some good notes like with substitution, but again, if she told you that about your face, it's abrasive.

A few things I think was mentioned:

  • voice work:
    I never realized how having good voice work helped open up my emotional range and the way I spoke. I was always a soft speaker because I always had tension in my neck from bad posture and improper breathing. When you arent using proper voice work, it's not just your voice that is improperly used, it's your entire body.
    Most people can speak adequately, but that is not enough for acting. especially if you want to broaden your range.
    I could never and always felt uncomfortable going big in an emotion because I never had the relaxed voice to do it. I would recommend reading this book, but also look at some articulation word exercises like tongue twisters. A lot of nuances get lost if you don't have a strong voice work.... Try saying things with different subtexts to change the intonation. If you said "hello" to a creeper you want to dismiss, it'd be very different from if you were saying "hello" from a hot guy you want to flirt with.

  • emotions/empathy: this is something no one can teach you. This involves a few things. Imo you need a strong sense of imagination in order to feel empathetic. Reading fiction or just going out and having experiences with friends and whatever helps. Also an exercise I find helpful is to film yourself doing a scene, and choose 1 emotion. You want to go from smallest of that emotion and bigger and bigger and even if you think you did the maximum, go even beyond that. I think a lot of the times, most of us don't have these hardcore lives and we're not arguing and running away from a serial killer in our daily lives. this means that your body isn't use to recognizing what it feels like to be scared shitless or yelling at your boyfriend. So practice this at home so you get use to it. It helps to imagine and try to access in your personal life times that you felt that particular emotion. Sometimes you can't access such an emotion genuinely because you've never been scared so shitless... if that's the case, try remember a low level of scared and try faking it to make it bigger but also trying to keep in believable. Then watch it back and try to see if it seems believable. You gotta be careful here because I've seen some people confuse big with cringey.

  • higher stakes:
    a lot of the times people will try to play it natural. this sometimes can be good but also comes off as low energy. I think for now, maybe make the stakes higher. like if you found out your boyfriend cheated on you, don't be like "oh well we only dated a few weeks", be more like "I cant believe I was gonna marry you and you slept with my best friend you asshole, and this was my last chance to get a husband to have a child because my eggs are drying up".

  • script work:
    I know you probably know this already... but i think what happened in your tape you showed us.... It seems like you didn't layer thoughts into your mind while listening. I think this goes back to stakes. Like how is your character suppose to be reacting in this context? Is she hyperaware of what the guy's response is because she really wants to go to california to escape her dad who molests her? I understand that sometimes we are very neutral in real life when we listen to others talk, but in acting you kinda want to layer meaning into what your partner is saying.
    Here is an example. Notice how both actresses when the other is speaking have some kind of reaction when listening? It's clear there is some kind of significance and history layered into the conversation. When she says "i should have made sure you gone to college"... the other girl is looking up and down as if a thought just triggered in her head, which then she reacts by saying "you know, I don't need your guidance..."

  • character analysis: this kinda is an off branch of the script analysis... but try to see the difference between the character you are playing versus you. Don't play it as you. maybe there are parts of you like the character, but know the difference between how you would react versus your character. Like if some idiot told me he loved me and wanted us to start a family at age 17. I would tell him to fuck off. but if my character was homeless, had abusive family, and desperate for love.... I would say yes because he is the first guy who has ever been nice to me. I think for now, try making your background of the characters more rich and embellished but believable. interpret the characters with high stakes for now. The most liberating thing I ever had was realizing that the character i'm playing is not me. maybe parts of me, but definitely not me. i found i stopped trying to force myself to feel what the character would feel after i did this. instead I started thinking, what can i use to "substitute" for an emotion my character needs but also if I can't substitute, I will just re-enact how my body felt with x emotion.

  • random:
    I'd noticed you had watery eyes in the scene. This is gonna sound a bit contradicting to what I said about "empathy", but sometimes you can't connect with a character on an emotional level on the spot, and instead you re-enact those emotions based on memory or how you remember your body felt when you had such emotion for that particular character. don't try to force yourself to cry, it will make you appear stiff because you are more focused on that than the scene itself. This is why I think going through a wide emotional range in the safety of your room is a good idea, but make sure it's believable. You don't necessarily have to genuinely feel what the character feels, but sometimes it does happen. also i would try to pick scenes from plays and not so much scenes from films with well known cast. sometimes we try to copy the actors who did this scene before us or sometimes we won't do all the work (script analysis, character, objectives) because we have already seen it in a movie.

    Try these out first for awhile before you sign up for a class. No class will ever go into details about this stuff, so you gotta do it on your own and it shouldn't feel like a chore. most of these things are quite fun imo. voice work helps a lot in your life and i find people take me a lot more seriously now because i no longer speak softly and i can easily raise my voice when needed. reading is fun too imo, and it is great for exercisisng your imagination and seeing from a character's perspective.