Acting Skills Needed | Acting School Or A Coach? Pick

What Special Skills Should Every Aspiring Actor Have?

Acting is a very specialized profession, and it typically requires a number of special skills.

 Memorization:

A  good memory, for instance, is one of the greatest skills that any actor can have. If acting facing a live audience, such as in a stand-up comedy or theater, actors must be able to memorize all of their lines. Movie and film actors should also be able to memorize
NOT ONLY their lines, but also of their partners as well.

Transformation

Aspiring actors should also be able to easily transform and portray a character’s emotions and personality. For example, they should be able to make others truly believe that they are the character that they portray.

Online Research Ability

Research skills are also excellent for any actor to have. These will often come in handy when researching an upcoming role in an audition, such as for a historic character.
Ability to Work Hard
Actors should also be able and willing to work hard. Before a production, actors will typically spend long hours studying a script and practicing their lines. Movie an film actor will  need to be available to work at nearly any hour of the day in any sort of weather. Some physical stunts are also required as well.

Excellent Acting Ability

Now we come to one of the most important questions- 

Should Actors Get Trained in A school Or By A Coach?

Acting Schools vs. Acting Coaches?

The right teacher whether in a class or as a private tutor can make all the difference in fulfilling your dreams to be a Bollywood Star and can provide valuable contacts and skills that will help along the way.
Acting is a specialized type of performing arts, and it generally requires a great amount of skill. Although some actors are naturally talented, it often takes some type of formal training to get the most out of these talents. Because of this, many aspiring actors choose to attend performing arts or acting schools or hire an acting coach or a mentor.

Acting Schools

1. They give you a base (a platform) to work from.
2. They give you various acting techniques that you can fall back on and recreate time after time in different situations.
3. Taking acting classes will enable you to see the other actors work, which in itself is invaluable!
4. You will see how other actors overcome some of their own issues while acting and interpreting their roles.
5. If you have a good teacher (hopefully) and can give you sufficient time individually, he can give you good, constructive and personal feedback to help you improve your craft.
6. They will give you a sense of community (colleagues) so that you know you are not alone in your quest to become an actor.
7. They will give you a group of people with whom you can exchange ideas and to whom you can ask questions and share. This group of your co-learners will help you to develop networks and information about the film industry like auditions, director and casting directors
8. If you have a good acting teacher who is known and respected in the industry, you could gain (in him/her) an ally who might help promote you, get you auditions or help you work to get seen by the right people!

Acting Coach

1. A good coach can give you a sufficient amount of time needed for you to learn or fix problems
2. A coach can create and give you solid acting techniques, based on your individual emotional, mental and physical built up that you can fall back on and recreate time after time in different situations.
3. He can help you to be able to access your emotions and learn methods to control and alter it.
4. Can create methods for quick memorization of your lines/ script
5. Can help you to see where you need to improve.
6. Can give you good, constructive and personal feedback to help you improve your craft.
7. He can make you more comfortable while performing.
8. The most important- will guide and create a marketing strategy like your website, social networking on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, for you to succeed. Will guide you on how and where to go for making your portfolio and show reel.
9. Will design a career plan suited to you and guide you on its implementation
Finally, an acting coach could be economical.

Discussion

Although, acting schools cannot design a program on an individual basis, and cannot devote hours separately to each student, the success at school will depend on the quality of faculty. The schools are a good source for learning and working in a group with other students with distinct advantages. Secondly, these schools could be a good source for networking and getting information about auditions, castings, and industry.
Whereas, with an acting coach, as each individual is different and unique, each aspiring or even experienced male or female actor can learn and develop amazingly well with an individual coaching. A coach is your mentor and a friend who walks with you to help you to win as it is in the case of a sports coach. You can share your problems, worries and fix them without any fear of a crowd around. The coach may understand your psyche and can design a learning program. You may terminate an acting coach contract after the period or may continue seeking his/her guidance for a long period.

Conclusion

1. Taking into account that acting school courses may range from a few months to a few years with the fees from Rs 50,000 to 9 Lacks, I would recommend:
2. The beginners may join an acting coach for an individual, personalized and focused attention. Or both together if they can afford.
3. Experienced and working actors but not trained formally may join a good acting school. They may hire an acting coach for a specific objective like how to act with a group (a scene with multiple characters), how to excel in auditions, portraying emotions or how to develop the power of Imagination and transform instantly into a different life (Character)
Based on http://bestactoracademy.blogspot.com

Joining Acting Schools? Don't Throw Money | Learn How To Select

One of the Top International actor Al Pacino in one of the best acting school-NYFA

Before You Jump And Throw Money, Remember:

• An acting school / institute can train you in an acting craft and help you as a catalyst. However, do not be under this false hope that they can give you acting jobs.
• Film or  TV episodic  or even commercial ads and documentaries sometimes require huge investments of millions of Dollars and under no circumstances, they can compromise with the characters of their story and be foolish to take actors based on recommendations or on any other considerations. In any good production house or any reputed casting director’s auditions, the selection is based solely on merit and how best and closely you transform into the story’s character among hundreds of other applicants. How can they risk and compromise production’s success factors ? No way!
• It is a large number of cheaters and fraudsters who throw baits to young aspiring and innocent actors who fall prey to such alluring offers due to their desperate dreams to be an actor at any cost.

Some of the important feature that you must look for while selecting the right cinema school or mass communication institute or a radio and tv school.

Infrastructure

It is always good to enroll yourself at a film school that has facilities like the studios, preview center, post-production labs and other facilities. You must also take notice of the fact that the facilities are up to the mark and meet the standards of professional works.

Training Procedure

You should carefully study the training procedures of the film or journalism schools. Preference should always be given to the institutes with more practical oriented training procedures. Especially while selecting among the digital film schools you should look for the digital equipment of latest technology.

Industry Exposure

One of the aspects that are instrumental in shaping your career as a filmmaker or media professional is the exposure to the industry. More and more faculties and counselors from the industry mean more industry exposure. You not only gain from their experience but also build up contacts, which prove to be beneficial in the future.

Cost

Cost is obviously a great concern in the film and television training. Though it is a very expensive field of study, still you must find out the best things and in less price. In respect to the international film schools you get relatively cheaper but quality film education in India.

Before you choose an acting school, go through these steps and then ask discretely the following questions to the concerned  people at the establishment.

Four Important Steps

1. Do a proper online research on the school / institute. Look for reviews
2. Ask questions under comments in acting blogs and websites on schools. Read comments of other aspiring actors related to schools
3. Keep in mind you are joining an acting school and not a school to learn physics or history or French. Acting is a fine art and a game of emotions, reactions and portraying different life than yours. Every actor response to learning acting differs. Some transform quickly while others take time ( Like suddenly crying, fear, instant comedy etc). Be careful if a class has too many students. Though good for scene enacting and group practice, a class with 10 or 20 students may be counter-productive for many beginners.
4. Then visit schools /institutes personally and be a detective. Ask discretely on a suggested pattern questions. The best source could be student counselors (If they have one) or another way is to be pally with receptionists ( I call them ‘gatekeepers’).  It is important to go through the facilities of a number of film schools and journalism schools so that you can get the best of the training because it is the most vital step to launch your career in Bollywood / Hollywood or other forms of media.

A. Who is the teaching faculty? Their background (their films etc) eg director, producer, 

cinematographer, production, actor etc. and their reputation as A TEACHER / COACH?

B. How much time they devote to training? 1 hour, 3 hours each day when classes are held?

C. How many students are in a class and what’s the time duration of each class eg 45 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours or more? Calculate how much time each student gets to learn.

D. What's the syllabus? Is it individualized? (I don’t think they have sufficient time to do this).
What do they teach under acting for a camera?

E. What if you need help after passing out for a school? Like audition sources, production houses, casting directors etc.

F. What’s the fee and duration? If it’s high eg 2 Lakhs or 9 Lakhs then why? What extra or good they provide which others don’t offer?

G. Do they have weekend classes? (For working actors)

Top 12 International Acting Schools In The World

1. Juilliard School, New York City

2. Yale School of Drama, New Haven

3. Oxford School of Drama, Woodstock

4. National School of Drama, Delhi

5. Carnegie Mellon School, Pittsburg

6. Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London

7. DePaul University, Chicago

8. The Actors Studio, New York City

9. Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London

10. National Institute of Dramatic Art, Kensington, Sydney, Australia 
11. New York Film Academy, New York City, New York · Manhattan (Branch in Mumbai also)

Source for above

12. Subhash Ghai's Whistling Woods International, Mumbai (Reported fee: Rs. 9 Lakhs. Check current status)