ON ACTING: Views on Preparation
"Preparation" is the actor's process of sensitizing oneself emotionally (before a scene) so that the subsequent scene (and its specific stimuli) will impact an actor most acutely--and therefore more excitingly--during the scene.
"Preparation" is similar to a safe cracker sanding their fingertips before unlocking a safe...so that the safe cracker can minutely feel the most minute clicks of lock-turning more acutely and effectively during action of their occupation.
"Preparation" is the actor's heightening one's potential for subsequent performance feeling: by softening or even eradicating the (actor's) dead outer layer of skin in advance of the scene, to shed the desensitized outer layer of protection (created by a life time of fear, doubts) that can minimize deep, powerful feelings in a scene; to enable the actor to walk into a scene 'raw'--subject to 'the thousand shocks' of pain and pleasure that audiences pay good money to see the actor-as-character experience.
"Preparation" is similar to a safe cracker sanding their fingertips before unlocking a safe...so that the safe cracker can minutely feel the most minute clicks of lock-turning more acutely and effectively during action of their occupation.
"Preparation" is the actor's heightening one's potential for subsequent performance feeling: by softening or even eradicating the (actor's) dead outer layer of skin in advance of the scene, to shed the desensitized outer layer of protection (created by a life time of fear, doubts) that can minimize deep, powerful feelings in a scene; to enable the actor to walk into a scene 'raw'--subject to 'the thousand shocks' of pain and pleasure that audiences pay good money to see the actor-as-character experience.
posted by Cliff Osmond at 9:57 PM
2 Comments:
I'm determined to peel all that dead stuff off of me. One layer at a time. It's harder than I'd imagined, but with your guidance and patience rolling down from that mountain top, I'm gonna get it. Thanks.
Myles
Everytime I read this particular blog on preparation I get excited. Being able to walk into a scene 'raw', you gotta love that one! thanks Cliff.
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