Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and the objectives for Purther's textbook work for answer 2 post:

EQ

"What technique or method can an actor best use to engage the audience attention?"

Answer #2 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*

Answer #2: "The Stanislavski Method helps an actors to learn to become a believable character to the audience."  

3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)

Detail # 1:What the Method teaches is how to use physical action within the character. In order to do that, you learn the 13 steps to create the physical action of the character:

1. Units and Objectives 
2. Through line of actions and the super objective
3. Analysis of the text through action
4. Truth, Belief and the "Magic If"
5. Imagination
6. Subtext
7. Motivation
8. Concentration
9. Relaxation
10. Communion
11. Adaptation
12. Tempo-Rhythm
13. The Physical Apparatus

Each of this step go very detail and show the importance of how to become the character. If actor's learn to use these steps, they'll learn to act like the character on stage that will be believable to the audience

Detail # 2: What an actor needs to know is how to use the method as not just an external tool, but as an internal tool. This method teaches you use Emotional Memory, meaning you use your own past event memories and apply it to the character. what it dose is when a character is in a emotional moment, like they lost someone, you use your past memories of someone you love died and you use that emotion you feel in your character and image the place you were in that make you said. This tool helps to bring the character to life through emotion and this will help to create an effected scene to the audience. But an actor has to learn to use this tool carefully because if it use to much within the actor's emotional memories, it could lead to mentally disruption of the actors mind.

Detail # 3: Another thing that this method teaches actors is to learn to control feelings and knowing when to use it in a specific scene that can be relative to the audience. When it comes to different scene, each actor should know how will this character going to feel for the next scene. When a scene change from a happy moment to a sad moment, the actor should change form feeling glad to feeling depression scene this will fit well with the scene. The top four different scenes that each actor should practice on controlling feelings are weddings, funerals, children births, and relationship break ups. The reason why is because most actors have gone trough this situation and know how they feel in that moment. Not only that, most of the audience that an actor is performing will know exactly how the character is feeling and feel liking the character is going through a relative situation that they have gone through.

The research source (s) to support your details and answer

Source 27a,b, c, and d: Sawoski, Perviz. "THE STANISLAVSKI SYSTEM GROWTH AND METHODOLOGY." N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Sept. 2013

Source 26a and b: Verducci, Susan. "A Moral Method? Thoughts on Cultivating Empathy Through Method Acting." Journal of Moral Education, 29.1 (2000): 87-99. 

Source 23a and b: Goodwin, John, and Rick Deady. "The Art of Mental Health Practice: The Role of Drama in Developing Empathy." Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 49.2 (2013): 126-134. pg 1-4

Personal interview with Ginna Escobar of interview three.

Concluding Sentence

So the Stanislavski Method is one of the most significant acting tools that any actor can use when learning to become a believable character that will engage to the audience's attention. It may be difficult for same actors to interpret with this method, but with good practice and a good understanding of it, its easy to interpret it and become a better actor.