How to Rehearse when There is No Rehearsal: Acting and the Media(Limelight). This practical book on the subject of how to act, based on Ms. Spivak's forty years of acting, coaching, and teaching classes first at Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen's HB Studio, then on her own provides a step-by-step system for analyzing and building a character organically, which can be applied even in the short time an actor has to prepare for auditions and for many television performances. Timely advice includes how to do camera takes, interpret and follow stage directions, and how to prepare for auditions and work in theater, film, television commercials, and television soap operas, sitcoms, and nighttime dramas. |
Contents
The Stanislavsky System Explored | 3 |
Why Rehearse? | 19 |
Film and Television The End of Rehearsal | 31 |
Rehearsing on Your Own | 49 |
Developing the Process | 51 |
Step 1 How to Read the Script | 69 |
Step 2 Developing the Relationships | 81 |
Step 3 Paying Attention to the Inner Objects | 95 |
Step 7 Delving into the Prior Relationship | 147 |
Step 8 The Character Chart Part 1 Writing a Preliminary Character Background | 153 |
Step 9 The Character Chart Part 2 Deciding on the Character Traits | 169 |
Step 10 The Character Chart Part 3 Life Drives | 181 |
Step 11 Becoming the Character | 187 |
The Steps Condensed When You Have No Time My Experience in the Media | 207 |
The Ideal and the Practical Working in Film and Television | 209 |
The Director and the Camera | 229 |
Step 4 Finding the Objective | 103 |
Step 5 Following Up on Place and Circumstances The Here and Now | 127 |
Step 6 Planning the Activity | 137 |
Auditions | 247 |
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