ACTOR, KNOW THY LINES - Part I

If hope you've been able to follow along with the progression of work we've been doing with SPACE and AGE SKIP. If so, my true desires are that each of you have grown tremendously because of this work. I guess it could be said that we've all just experienced a rather unique form of the SPACE AGE.

Now that space work and age skip are behind us...let's take a look at some of the many other practical areas of the craft. 

  

LINES AND MEMORIZATION  

We'll be going over the importance of line memorization, when it's necessary and the many ways of how to memorize lines. However, your first clue can be found in this weeks definition... [work]! You have to do the work. Becoming an effective actor means changing the way you not only look at life - but live your life.

Sir Anthony Hopkins not only reads his lines well over 200 times (that's right, 200) but he writes each line down three times. By the third time, he feels he's committed the line to memory. Writing your lines down will help you process and memorize them. 

 

This is just one of the many ways to help you to memorize. It's incredibly important for me to stress the amount of 'work' that's involved in properly preparing for a scene.

We'll be covering all of this in greater detail in the next series of blogs as well as this week in the studio. Until then, start working those memory muscles. 

See You In The Studio!

Coach