Here's a few questions that I've found coming up constantly over the past two years in acting school.
"What is acting?"At first... I didn't really know how to respond but then slowly I spewed out a simple.
"Acting is the act of taking on the role of another character."
A lot of us came up with the same sort of answer. Stuff about how it's expressing emotion and it's about creating feeling and all that jazz. None of us really got to the point... and said the simple and rather basic facts of acting.
What
is acting? It's not expressing emotion when you really look at it. Acting isn't about being emotional.. that comes
from the actions that you re-enact when you do act in the first place.
Acting... means 'to act' or 'to do'
So acting is the means of doing something as honestly as possible. There isn't real 'acting' when you act but only the act of doing something to accomplish a goal or break through an obstacle.
It's revealing a truth through the re-enactment of an experience of a character using your own experiences.
A moment to moment reality.
There's more to it but I can't remember it off hand. >.<
Anyway..
What do you think acting is?
*edit*
What is the difference between performance and acting?Performance is done for an audience.
Acting doesn't have an audience and should never take an audience into consideration. Acting is not pretending or miming for the sake of someone else understanding the scene. Basically that if you have to pretend... then you're not acting. When you're acting, you relive a moment and there should be truth and believability. Nothing should have jam on it.
^_^
What is a character? WHO is a character to you?A character is anyone other then yourself. You cannot be a character to yourself because you are
you.
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