The Essence Of Acting

The essence of acting. The state of being true to your character. To be able to answer the questions, who am i? What am i doing? How am I doing it? How can I reach within my self and pull on the emotions i need to commit to my character. To find the essence of acting. As actors we need to do these things, ask our selves these questions in order to bring out the realness of what role your playing. You need to be able to audition for a role or perform and allow your audience or adjudicator to feel like they're in the moment with your character more than you are. Allow them to fall in love with your character. You want them to stop what there doing and just watch you. Make it so real that they wouldn't even want to blink during your performance. As an actor you want to convince your self that you are that character. You are no longer yourself. You have become that character. You breath, eat and sleep just like that character. Tell your self that character is you, because your actions on how you play out your character is a very important aspect to finding the essence of acting. Your personality has to play a role into your character. Actor William Gillete said "emphasizes the actors personal or real life-and therefore the actors own personality-within the fiction of the role"."live the life of their character on stage. There most likely to live it in the casting office and audition room as well. Which then becomes their daily life. They say that in order to see the essence in acting you need to know what your character desires. When you do, your self needs to be able to desire the same thing. To fulfill those desires you need to pull on your emotions. Don't try to use emotions that don't come from within you, because that could end up looking real bad. Search deep down inside of you. Start pulling on  your past if you have too. If you don't have a past to pull from use someone else that you know and try to pull the emotion they felt.  For some people they find it hard to go and dig deep but for others its quite easy because they've probably been in that situation before. Finding the essence to acting can make you, stand out to directors or people from the casting agencies. Being true to your self and to your character can make you a better actor. In this book I'm reading they say "don't try to be what you think they want you to be. Don't  worry about your self be proud of yourself. Like yourself. If you don't it's hard to see how somebody else will".  Pull essence into your life into your character and become an artist who goes beyond their limits. Never stop at one accomplishment, just keep on going because theirs always lots more out there to accomplish. Reach outside the box. You're already a great actor now find the essence and become the best actor!

The End Of Branding

This Is It. Wow. Both groups did an amazing job. Stellar. Over the top. The whole weak we have been on our feet. Mornings and evenings and late nights. Staying up through sickness and headaches with red eyes because of the hard work we put into this production. In the end it all payed off. Today went extremely well. We may of had some mini complications here and there but nothing can stop us. Like we said Soul Visionary's are unstoppable. It was a long day, a long week. This is my first time in an acting academy class and this was my first time doing branding. As a beginner i thought i did an amazing job. I felt as if i had fit right in with the rest of the class who has done this before. Both groups were real supportive to one another and gracious. At times things did get to us for both groups but as a family we worked things out and looked beyond our flaws and disagreements. This week has worn me out completely. I literally dropped asleep as soon as i got home. Getting up erased from my mine. I wanted to stay in bed for the rest of the night. But work doesn't stop here for me. The show must go on and so does the work. I have learned so much already and it had only been the first month of class. wow. I can only imagine what else my teacher has to throw at me. She is an amazing teacher and i would recommend any insipring people who want to become actors to get a hold of her because she will prepare you for acting. That's not only what she will prepare you for but she will also prepare you for your feature life. She will improve your acting skills, reading skills, preparation skills, writing skills, BRANDING SKILLS and much more. What an amazing week. Now we just sit and wait for the results on who won. Boys V.S Girls. Best Of Luck to both teams.


And the results are in, Girls team wins SOUL VISIONARY'S IT IS!

Method Acting

Today was an amazing day! My Acting Academy class went on a trip to "So You Think You Can Dance Canada". During our trip we were giving a method acting assignment . We were each given roles by our teacher that we had to commit too. Everyone had great characters and did an amazing job. No. A stellar job. Everyone who i seen from my class had to their character established and went full force. They found their character and committed to their character. Our class was top notch. The character i had to play was a diva dancer. A know it all. I had to act as if i knew everything about dancing. I had to be blunt, rude and extra. I went to the point were i had Josh (the stage manager) come up to me and tell me that i should be a director and/or manager because of how i was acting with one of my accomplices. That right there was my ah ha! moment. As i watched people dance i started critiquing them on every single thing. Then i was surprised that the people around me who didn't even know me started agreeing with me. I wanted to laugh so hard but i knew i had to stay in character. What a day. Everyone did a fabulous job, especially the groupies and our "celebrity Mickey G" along with his entourage. I give everyone a round of applause and wish we could do this again.

Our Life (A Message)

Our life is nothing but a mystery already solved.

Our life was already planed before the day we were even born.

If our life was already planed then that means our life has a meaning.

You may think your life serves no purpose because of all the bad things happening to you.

Everyone has to go through some kind of battle field in their life.

You may think your going through more battles fields than anyone else, and you probably are,

but that doesn't give you any reason to give up on life. To give up on a life that was already planned out for you. Don't cut your life short. These are just life lessons to show you right from wrong.

These are just life lessons to make you stronger not to make you weaker.

Do you think we're going through all this pain and trouble for nothing. No. Something big is coming.

Something great is coming. We are all destined for something.

You all need to sit and think and understand how life works. You weren't put here by mistake.

You have a destiny, a path to follow. Don't let No Body get in your way.

Today might not be your day, but just know it will come one day.

Opening Remarks And Pre-Branding

Acting Academy was something new to me. The first time I heard about acting academy was last year when it was being pitched by an arts teacher at my school. I understood that it would be a course filled with massive work, but i was still interested in joining. At first I was very nervous and several times i was thinking about sticking with comprehensive drama. Later on i decided to put my nerves aside and do what i had to. If acting is going to be my life then i knew i had to be in that class no matter what. I was really happy that i made the interview and audition. It has been almost a month since I've joined the class and like we were told it is a lot of work. I do not complain about the work because the work we are given to do is work that will help us in our post secondary. I have learned things that I've never even knew about until i came to this class. I learned what a precis is and how to do a precis. I have become better at presenting dissertations and learning how to take better notes while reading an article. Branding is also something new to me and that's what stage were at right now. I am learning as we go along and getting used to the idea of branding. I now know about look books, play bills, mission statements, vision statements for productions, creating your own website, creating your own logo and much more. This is an exciting experience and I'm glad i choose this class for my last year. I regret nothing. I expected it to be hard, stressful and frustrating. IT IS! But, it's not like that all the time. I do enjoy it and feel good about it. My class is full of talented people.This class has a lot of things coming my way and i expect my self to give it my all and keep on going beyond my limits. -Naomi Reid