Acting for love & money : connecting the craft to the industry /

Product Description: This collection of seventy-five acting exercises is designed to prepare actors and acting students for a professional career. The exercises were created during workshop sessions conducted by the authors with participants of the Paul G. Gleason Theatre in Hollywood. Over three hu...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Gleason, Paul G.
Andere auteurs: Levy, Gavin
Formaat: Boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Colorado Springs, Colo. : Meriwether Pub. Ltd., ©2010.
Editie:1st ed.
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  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Acting Is Not A Business, But It Can Be Business-Like
  • 1: Way of being
  • 2: Acting all the way
  • 3: Home
  • 4: Ask a question
  • 5: In search of excellence
  • Chapter 2: Audience
  • 6: Gathering 2
  • 7: I am exercise
  • 8: Template
  • 9: New beginning
  • 10: Day's journey
  • Chapter 3: Technology And Information For The Actor
  • 11: Technology and the actor
  • 12: Sound off
  • 13: Acting is everywhere
  • Chapter 4: Fix Yourself, Then Use Yourself
  • 14: Energy in, energy out
  • 15: Scanning the body
  • 16: Six awareness
  • 17: Child's play
  • 18: Sing us a song
  • 19: Body bio
  • Chapter 5: Sound And Vocal Levels
  • 20: Directing the voice
  • 21: Whisper exercise
  • 22: Falling inflection
  • 23: In a word
  • 24: Walk and talk
  • 25: Boomlay boomlay boomlay boom
  • Chapter 6: Storyteller
  • 26: Over the top
  • 27: Impulse
  • 28: Punctuation out
  • 29: Alternating between thoughts, or the intent exercise
  • 30: Teach yourself
  • 31: Release of reaction
  • Chapter 7: Magnetic Personality
  • 32: Gathering
  • 33: Plumb line
  • 34: Unmask yourself
  • 35: Throw it away
  • 36: Using senses to make sense
  • Chapter 8: Auditioning
  • 37: To be an actor, or not to be
  • 38: Falling in line
  • 39: Animation exercise
  • 40: Conservation with the actor (part 1)
  • 41: Dancing like a star
  • 42: Conservation with the actor (part 2)
  • Chapter 9: Imagination
  • 43: Descriptive imagination
  • 44: Character discoveries
  • 45: Up and down
  • 46: Cross the line
  • Chapter 10: Physical Actor
  • 47: Breathe in and out
  • 48: Pre-pre-exercise
  • 49: Air bubble
  • 50: Elbow to the knee
  • 51: Alexander exercise
  • Chapter 11: State Of Being
  • 52: Being present
  • 53: Who you are and who you are not
  • 54: Inhibit
  • 55: Opposites
  • 56: Big muscle, little muscle
  • Chapter 12: Eureka!
  • 57: Inside out
  • 58: Room scan
  • 59: Eureka! moment
  • 60: Memory exercise
  • Chapter 13: Creating A World
  • 61: Begin again
  • 62: Begin again part 2
  • 63: Sounds
  • 64: Maybe exercise
  • 65: Inner dialogue
  • Chapter 14: Mirror Neurons
  • Back to back
  • 67: Connections
  • 68: Mirror endowment
  • 69: Mirroring
  • Chapter 15: Intimacy And Confrontation
  • 70: Limitless possibilities
  • 71: Conversation with the actor (part 3)
  • 72: Conservation with the actor (part 4)
  • 73: Spontaneous moves
  • 74: Clean slate
  • 75: Intimacy and confrontation in acting
  • In closing
  • About the authors.