Acting; Find Your Voice

By Actor Academy

Acting; Find Your Voice

From script to performance, learn how an actor creates a character from scratch and brings the role to life off the pages of the script. 

In this book, you will learn the building blocks for creating a character for the stage and the camera. You will learn how to analyze a script, construct a character backstory, understand the character's goals and challenges, and build the character's physicality and vocal qualities.

Each lesson in this book will introduce one step in the character creation process and include a worksheet and an optional activity for you to complete. Each activity builds on the one before, and by the end of the course, you will have built a foundation for a character who's ready to come alive off the pages of the script.

Performing Art has a powerful and important role in inspiring, educating, and empowering people worldwide, breaking through cultural and language barriers. Whether you want acting to be your full-time, part-time, or side hobby, this book will guide you through the essentials of acting; how an actor creates a character for film and stage.

This is an introductory level book, and if you are new to acting, thinking about acting, or need a refresher after a long time away from acting, this course is for you!

 

What you'll learn:

Analyze a Script

Construct a Character Backstory

Understand the Character's Goals and Challenges

Build the Character's Physicality & Vocal Qualities

Understand the Character's Looks and Props

• Language: English
• Publisher: Royal Hawaiian Press
• Release date: Jan 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201049485

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Acting

Finding Your Voice

By Actor Academy

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Table of Contents

Intro

Construct the Background Story

Activity 1, Character Biography

Identify Goals and Challenges

Activity 2, Analyze the Scene

Build Your Character Physicality

Activity 3, We Create a Movement Sequence

Express the Character’s Voice

Activity 4 – Perform a Scene

Understanding Costumes & Props

Activity 5 – Design a Fashion Style

Recap - Next Steps

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Intro

Welcome to Artist Academy, theatre artist and content hub, and this is introduction to Character Creation Process. In this course, we will learn the building blocks for creating a character for both the stage and the camera.

You will learn how to analyze a script, construct that character back story, understand the character's goals and challenges, and build the character's physicality and vocal qualities.

The team of Actor Academy is very excited to be teaching this new course in this book. Each lesson in this course will introduce you to one step into character creation process and will include a worksheet and an optional activity for you to complete.

Each activity builds on the one before, and by the end of the course you will have built a foundation for a character who is ready to come alive of the pages of the script. This is an introductory level course and if you are new to acting, thinking about acting or need a refresher after a long time away from acting, this course is for you.

If you are ready to begin, we will see you in lesson one, the background story creation. 

Construct the Background Story

Welcome to lesson 1 of the character creation course. Before we begin, let's talk about what tools you as an actor have to build a character. The script is the main source of information about your character and every choice you as an actor make has to ultimately honor the script and the writers intense.

You as an actor will need to do further research on the time and location where the story takes place and any other factor that could be part of your character's upbringing and development, such as the times and location, when and where the story takes place.

The more information you have about the character, the richer your character will be, but not everything will be available to you in the script or the research, especially for fictional or ancient history characters.

And that's when your actor's imagination comes into play. You will have to use your imagination to fill in the blanks and make choices that still honor the script and the world created by the writer.

The first step to building a character as an actor is to