A Blog for my Glasgow Step 3 Scene Study Acting Class (A, B & C)
This is a test. To see which of my Step 3 students read the blog regularly, since I started it for my students, I expect them to read it if they come to class. It’s a supplement to their training and you never know, they might learn something.
Please leave a comment on this blog to show me that you read it.
Anyway. So we have some new people in Step 3 and I thought I would go over the expectation that is involved in the class.
You are expected to rehearse a scene and bring it to class and to show it to us. To do this, you are expected to put in about TWO HOURS of work. TWO HOURS, not thirty minutes, not a bit of time before the class, but REAL effort, sweat on your brow.
Here’s what we expect:
Learn your lines.
Do your analysis.
Meet your partner
Repeat
As If
Run the Scene
Chat together about what you think could change, consider new tactics, tell them something you liked
As If Again
Run the Scene
Repeat 7
Discuss the blocking.
As If
Run Scene
You should own a copy of Actions – The Actor’s Thesaurus, and should have read A Practical Handbook for the Actor andTrue and False – Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor. If not, it’s time to get your copy!
Do not lean on your partner, like YOU, they’ve got enough to do. We should rehearse with the highest standard of professionalism, don’t be late, don’t make excuses, you are making a name for yourself if you do and it’s the wrong kind of name.
If you want to improve, you need to work hard, with time and graft and a growing self awareness and a dimming self consciousness, you are really going to improve. That’s what the class is for guys, that’s what it’s for! To help you to become the great actors that you know that you can be. So do it.
No more excuses.
Step up to the plate and start swinging, it’s your acting career, it’s your commitment, it’s your investment. It’s your future.
I want to help you all I can. So step up.
And please please please, choose good writing. Choose good scenes, choose people that can make you look good and make you do great scenes and scenes that other people WISH they were in with you. How do you choose good writing? That’s the writing that makes you love the play as you read it, or makes you get excited just reading the sides, – how do you know it’s good? Well, because it’s not shit.
I’ll say it again Step Up. (And leave a comment)