Confused? 13 Easy Tips To Follow To Become A Good Actor

How to be a good actor

Don't just dream to be an actor and jump into the ruthless film and TV world

1. Start taking training and don't stop no matter how good you think you are or how good others tell you are, so that when you do put yourself up in front of the right people, you will be ready! Join a good school or preferably, hire an acting coach in the beginning who will focus on you alone.

2.
Research and research...Study Film and TV or commercial production industry.
Find out how it works. Find out who are casting actors, agents, and  what casting directors, coordinators look for in an actor, what the unions do, what the current trends and competition are in the industry, etc.

3.
Don't jump for any audition whether or not you meet the requirement of a "character" auditioners are looking for. It may lead to your being rejected. This is a concept you need to be familiar with! It will help you direction in  your marketing efforts.

4. Get into your head once for all that acting is a business like any other. Therefore, learn the basic business, networking, and self-promotional skills. So important! You need to make sure you stand out from everyone else. You need to be extremely persistent as well!

5. Get a portfolio made. Your headshot and other pictures exactly show who you are. No tempering to look great!

6. Learn how to audition. Auditioning and acting on set are two different beasts. Auditioning is like getting an entry ticket. It's completely different from the rest of the game.

7. Surround yourself with people who are already doing what you want and NOT with people who are trying to get what you want. You are more likely to learn from people who are already doing what you want to do. So go find them and learn from them!

8. Talk to both working actors, A: who is making a living from acting as well as.  B: to aspiring actors who have been talking a lot over the past couple of years and really haven't done very much. You can learn from both groups! From one you learn what to do. From the other, you will learn how NOT to be.

9. Stay curious and never ever think you know it all. Be good and humble. You can always get better, whether in your acting technique, auditioning, sharpening your monologue delivery, on-camera technique, learning about the industry or whatever. Never, never stop learning! Continue getting retrained from your acting coach

10. Once you start to achieve some success, help others who are in the same position you were once. You'll see that it will pay off.

11. At some point during all this, you should ask yourself (and be honest) if you really, honestly and truly have the passion for acting to DO WHAT IS NECESSARY to succeed. Without that passion much will be lost and it will be difficult for you to achieve the success you desire. And what's more, you probably won't be very happy.

12 Get registered with a good agent or with top casting directors / artist coordinators. Learn from their knowledge and experience. Follow them regularly for auditions

13. Finally, in your journey, there will be periods of considerable financial instability. Have you planned finances for the sufficient period of time? If not, then this could be a bottleneck to your long struggle.
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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)
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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)

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

5 Logical Reasons | Why Every Actor Should Take Yoga

Yoga exercises for actors to improve acting performance

How To resolve Actor's Dilemma of Audition and On Camera Scene Filming Performance Problems

Tension,  Anxiety, Fear, Nervousness, Dryness of mouth, trembling of hands, Forgetting lines, Breathlessness, Bad Dialog Delivery

 

An actor should develop a regular yoga practice.

Fact 1.

Yoga helps the body and its muscles to respond with my emotions to enlighten acting performance

It's like practicing something since childhood, for example, a particular sport, game, hobby or the habit of daily rituals using different parts of our body. As we do these things repeatedly, it becomes our habit and we don't have to think or make a conscious effort to do it. The habit then becomes a natural reactive response to a stimulus
Yoga works the same way. By different yoga exercises, the muscles of different parts of our body starting from forehead to toe becomes free and respond automatically and instantly accompanying  our actions. So, when an actor walks into an audition, his/her performance is a response from his/her entire acting instrument ie body and mind rather than from just a part of the acting instrument

Fact 2. 

Yoga helps my brain care less

As an actor, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to be in a character of the story/ script. Our minds get clogged. We try hard to perform well  worrying whether or not we would get the role. This may chain us to our thoughts and anxiety. Specific yoga exercises for actors relaxes calms our minds and  helps them let go of the person they think they're supposed to be. Then they can focus on and love who they are. This lets them work from the beginning up and be creative instead of having their head in the clouds.

Fact 3.

Yoga helps to breathe correctly to relax and create a confidence minutes before audition

Before an audition or while filming a scene, many actors feel forced faster breathing full of anxiety. This results in a poor dialog delivery or breaking of a long emotional dialog with pauses when it should not be.  Yoga gives them tools to work with their breath that acting classes never have. It’s so powerful to realize when you feel a normal relaxed breathing. A normal breathing helps actors to use the full potential of their voice and deliver dialog powerfully without any interruptions.

Fact 4. 

Yoga reminds me acting is a practice

Yoga has played a huge role in a number of cultures for thousands of years. It doesn’t belong to anyone and it deserves our respect. It makes us realize that if you practice anything (of course, “good”) regularly, it becomes our habit. This learned knowledge from Yoga will always remind
us to continue practicing acting craft till we die!
We can do this by regularly taking refresher courses in acting schools, with our acting coach or participating in various acting workshops
If I want to deepen my yoga practice I have to make it a necessity to my daily life. Now reread this little blurb and replace “yoga” with acting/performance.

Fact 5. 

Yoga helps me give thanks for my acting abilities and practice

At the end of each yoga practice, I would suggest a little prayer to yourself thanking the universe for giving me the opportunity to do yoga. Please carry this Thanking Yoga habit after exercise and especially  before every performance or class.  Close your eyes for  a second and give thanks to Yoga for the opportunity to experience my acting art. It feels good to be grateful for things that help you feel good!

8 Simple Yoga Exercises For Actors At Home

(Click to know the steps in each pose)

Wanna A Top Body To Enter Films? 1 Exercise 4 Minutes 1 Month

Bollywood Star Actor Hrithik Roshan In a 'Plank Workout' With His Mother, Pinky

• Do You have A Poor Body  And A Sick Look?
• Poor Confidence?
• Apprehensive Of Audition Rejections?
• Are You Meeting One Of The Prime Success Requirements For An Actor-

"A Good Body"?

• Can't Meet Big Fees Of Top Gyms?
• No?

 I can Understand Your Difficulty

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Before I reveal the secret and the importance of “Plank Exercises” for an actor, the truth of the matter is that in order to have a perfectly sculpted body, you need to get your food intake under control and exercise.
Spend more calories than you take in every single day. 

But one exercise stands out from the rest

The Humble Plank

What is a Plank Exercise?

Look the position, in the picture,  below

A Plank Exercise Pose

Planking (Keeping your body just like a straight wooden board) is a simple but effective body weight exercise. Holding the body (light as a feather) stiff as a board develops strength primarily in the core—the muscles that connect the upper and lower body—as well as the shoulders, arms, and glutes.

You've probably may or may not have seen people doing this exercise and don't think too much of it. Too simple? Well, don't underestimate the power of the plank.

The plank exercise is one of the most effective out there because it strengthens both the shoulders and the abdominal region, as well as the legs.

Planks are also useful for helping burn off stubborn belly fat. Planking builds your core muscles, and muscles burn even more calories. This extra burn makes it easier to lose weight.

Planking is also wonderful because it is low impact. You're very unlikely to hurt yourself and you won't end up straining any of your muscles, joints, or ligaments.

But four minutes of planking must be pretty hard, right? Well, the fortunate thing is that we build our way up to it. The plank challenge adds just a few seconds most days.

You start at 20 seconds a day, move up to 30, 40, then 45 and so on. This allows your body to get used to the exercise and helps you get better at it. The longer you caPlanking (no, not that bizarre craze) is a simple but effective bodyweight exercise. Holding the body (light as a feather) stiff as a board develops strength primarily in the core—the muscles that connect the upper and lower body—as well as the shoulders, arms, and glutes.

This static exercise—meaning the body stays in one position for the entirety of the move—requires no equipment and can be performed just about anywhere (well, use your judgment). Find out how to perfect your plank and fix some of the most common planking mistakes with this guide.

Standard Plank Exercise

1. Plant the hands directly under the shoulders (slightly wider than shoulder-width apart) like you’re about to do a push-up.
2. Ground the toes into the floor and squeeze the glutes to stabilize the body. Your legs should be working on the move too; careful not to lock or extra-stretch your knees.
3. Neutralize the neck and spine by looking at a spot on the floor about a foot beyond the hands. Your head should be in line with your back.
4. Hold the position for 20 seconds. As you get more comfortable with the move, hold your plank for as long as possible without compromising form or breath.

What's The challenge?

There is no challenge. Planking is very simple.

You can begin with a single position for a month, later exercising with other positions which are mentioned in the links mentioned at the end of this post 

Here is your daily work out Plank Exercise Plan

This static exercise—meaning the body stays in one position for the entirety of the move—requires no equipment and can be performed just about anywhere (well, use your judgment). There are different positions of plank exercises. Find out what is convenient to you how to perfect your plank. But in opinion, you start with the standard one explained above for a month and then decide on practicing other positions.
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Theater Or Films? Difference And Benefits Nobody Told You

An actor's dilemma-Theatre or films?

What is the difference between acting in Theater plays and Acting in a film?

Understanding the difference from an actor's point of view

What can an actor achieve in terms of objectives?

Theater: Talent, Moderate Name, and Fame
Film: Money, Name, and Fame

1. The Act

A.
The main difference between stage all over the world and film acting can be summed up in one word:
SIZE.
The voice and body are generally used much more fully on stage, whereas in the film (in relatively close-up shots) it is more as if actors are under a microscope, so smaller voice projection and physicality are appropriate.

B.
Film acting is almost always performed out-of-sequence. Often, all the scenes with a particular actor will be shot on one day (or in a sequence of days) so that, once done, the producers can let him go and stop paying him. If that actor is only in two scenes, say the first and last scenes of the movie, those scenes will be shot together, maybe on the same day.

the Shooting order can also get jumbled due to locations. If a character travels back-and-forth from New York to Paris, the New York scenes will generally be filmed all at once. Then the Paris scenes will be shot. (Or the other way around.)

Many films are unrehearsed or just slightly rehearsed. It's simply too expensive to pay an actor for a month of rehearsal. In the film, the "rehearsal" generally takes place on camera. If the actors aren't ready yet, those shots just don't get used.

In theater acting, stage actors generally have a minimum of two-weeks rehearsal before stepping in front of an audience.

On stage (in most plays), an actor can simply remain and go through in his character's experiences in proper  chronological order. So it's relatively easy. Stage actors generally have much more freedom of movement, improvising their movements, at least to some extent.

In films, this is rarely possible for film actors due to filming requirements. For example. a shot must be precisely lit and the cameras must be focused on a particular angle. So actors have to stand in very specific places or they'll be out of camera range or out of focus. This one one of the major reason why film actors sometimes either fail to maintain being in a character or make mistakes in movements causing retakes

Every time you see a cut in a movie, that means there had to be a new setup. Most of the time, it's much more complex than just pointing the camera in a new direction. The whole scene has to be re-lit.

2. Flow

On stage, acting is live storytelling. The flow of the story is shaped by the audience and the actors in real-time. It is never exactly the same story two nights running. If the audience is slow to respond, the actors can modify the performance to match. And they can watch in the wings to see how other parts of the play are progressing. The play is the thing!

In Films, there is a flow, but this is completely beyond the actor's control. An actor is a much more passive participant in a movie than the final result would suggest. Usually, the only thing an actor can focus on is the individual performance.

3. Preparation.

The Film seems to have a greater emphasis on spontaneous performances. You learn your lines, you get told where to stand - and someone yells "action".

On stage, you learn your lines, you get told where to stand - and then you spend several weeks rehearsing to understand the story and the character's place in it.
On a stage, you must be heard, so you have to adequately project your voice.  People aren't going to see subtle facial expressions, so you must instead express yourself with body language.
Stage actors have to rehearse to perfection.  They don't have a chance to attempt something more than once.  They're in front of the audience, delivering their performance to them right there and then.  Stage actors have to repeat their performance over multiple days, often multiple weeks.  Maybe even months or years.

Film acting is in some ways, closer to reality as if they were the character they were portraying.  This character should be completely believable as if it were a real person. Invariably, this is a  self-preparation (without rehearsals)
What they do, down to the minor responses, facial twitches, habits, etc should be along the lines of what you would expect from them if they actually the character.  A film actor gets to "try again until they get it right".  It could be  a retake 10 times before the take is approved.

4. Performance

• For the film, a talented editor can create a stunning performance out of several average or bad ones.
• For live theater, everything is right there, warts and all, for audiences to see. There is no 'change or re-performing unless it's improvisation (improv). If an actor forgets a line, bungles a line, steps on another actor's line (cue), or falls off the stage, nothing can be done. Just called as a terrible mess-up and continue  with the play.
• In my view acting on stage is far more demanding. Filming a scene can be undertaken in small scenes allowing retakes. Once you are on stage and the show is underway it's down to you, your knowledge of lines and character and of course talent.
• Apart from the differences mentioned above, for an aspiring actor's success, it's the “business angle”. The career planning and promotion required for to be a star actor in films is staggering and phenomenal! This is primarily due to size of world's Cine/TV industry and a frightening competition among actors

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My final views

A.
In the larger interest of aspiring actors, I would recommend going for both, Theater and Film
B.
looking at the intricacies of acting for theater and films, and whether you have an inborn talent or not, a top level training in acting craft is absolutely essential and remember, you to go on learning till you die

Follow 8 Simple Tips And Practice Them To Be A Great Actor

Transforming beautifully into a character! Daniel Radcliffe as Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer in 'The Woman in Black'

Do You Know The Trick To Master Acting And Be A Great Actor?

Top Secret: Just Kick Yourself Out From 'YOU', Be Blank And Then Transform Into New Life! 

Acting, to be an actor, as I have has been making me free for a while and become somebody else who I will never be. It is like living an alternate life for a brief period of time. It is a terrible struggle and an opportunity to win over ‘ME’ (Whatever I’m), all my inhibitions, imposed by society, religion, customs and release myself from them.

Here are Undisclosed Tips for Beginners

1. Empty your mind

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many constraints, wandering mind, possibilities, but in the expert actor’s mind, there are none or few.
As the Zen masters say, if you try to fill a cup, which is already full, it will spill all over. To fill something new in a cup, first, it must be emptied.

Therefore, before a script and your character analysis, remove everything which is in your mind. Remove clutter and move with creating a new life (of your character)
Though may look difficult to throw away yourself from your body and mind and transform into a new ‘character’, not only me but hundreds of other actors have mastered this trick.

2. How to achieve this?

Practice relaxation techniques, including Yoga, self-hypnotism, and auto-suggestion
(If you don’t know how to do it, join our one on one coaching)

3. The fear of the camera, people and forgetting your lines

How to deal?

To deal with it and forget it: Concentrate on your role and think about nothing else. Learn to enjoy the location, crew, co-actors, lights, set, spotlights on the set and just do what you need to do! The fact is with your every performance you will get better at handling it. A little fright will always remain which is good and will keep you alert on a shoot.

4. Beware of Overacting or Faking Acting

Warning! What separates good actors from bad ones is their sincerity of emotion and belief in front of a camera. The audience can spot a phony actor right away! Good acting is not over-acting or mechanically saying lines. Words flow when real emotions bring them out of memory or imagination and it's not the other way round. Feel the emotion by identifying what triggers an emotion; connect with it, embrace it and words will then flow naturally.
An exception: to this rule is a “Star” who can fake it so beautifully that to an audience, it looks real. The other truth, in this case, is that the actor playing a character is audience favorite “Star” and that’s all matters to them

5. Belief and Creative Imagination for Acting

The acting is living a different life, as I said before. It is 'creating truth in an imaginary scene'. The audience is only going to believe that you are the person you are playing to be if you yourself believe that you are that person!
The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how)

How to do it?

Learn the art of Observing:  watch carefully people of different attitudes, note the details, let your imagination run wild, and create a small story with dialogs and practice it. This way your imagination will improve considerably to help you to transform into a character you intend playing

"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind." - Stella Adler

6. Why to Repeatedly Read the Script?

To get to the soul of the story!
Read the script thoroughly. Then, read it yet again. Keep reading till you get to the soul of the story. Understand the script first and think about what the story writer has tried to say through the script. This a view from the outside. Then again read the story from the angle of the role you are playing.
Don’t hesitate! Ask the director what exactly you feel about the story and clarify your doubts. This is very important, as you need to understand the people, the surroundings, the time of the story and its message.

The Process

A. The father: The author of the story or screenplay or script
B. The mother: That’s you (actor) who is pregnant with the role inside
C. The child: The role (Character) to be born.
And finally
D. The doctor: The director who helps in role (child) birth

7. Lose Yourself in the Role but Stay Aware

On a character level you must become that “character” and get involved, but your awareness as 'YOU', an actor should also be there, all the time while performing. What I mean here is being aware of the limitations on a set, camera –position, shots, angles, width and length, blocking; lights, props and their uses, where the co-actors are and listening to them and reacting.
You got to have a “switch on-off” mechanism in your acting instrument (mind and body) which puts instantly into a “character” or an “actor” mode

8. Why to Enjoy Acting in Films?

Last but not the least, to do it right, you must enjoy the process! A very important part is bonding with your co-actors and developing good chemistry on a set with everybody. A film is a team job and you need to be a team player. The success of a role or a film is directly proportional to how much the team enjoyed while preparing! Keep learning and always have the passion of a beginner's mind and you will never cease to progress.
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