What do you use to channel your feelings?

Question

When you have to do a dramatic scene, what do you use to get to that place. If music, what song really sets the tone in your mind?

Answer 1

I have a few different methods. When I play a charactor, I try to embody the charactor wholly throughout the scene leading up to it.

First you have to know the lines so well that you could say them backwards in your sleep. Then I concentrate on creating the right relationship with my fellow actor. If the actor is playing my brother, I first have to convince myself that he is my brother, and if I can fool myself, then I can fool the audience.

I was recently Helen Gant in 'Look Homeward, Angel' and I did a scene where my beloved brother, Ben dies, and I am the one by his bed when he goes, and it is I who bring the news to the rest of the family. I got myself really thinking about how I (as Helen) was never going to see him again, and how much he was suffering, and how there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. I was sobbing and shaking when the time came.

If that doesn't work for you, you could try imagining your favorite person in the world, lying dead in their coffin, imagine what you would say to them, or about them, at their eulogy. Run a monologue through your mind about how much they meant to you in life and how much you'll miss them, and what you wished you could have told them before it was too late.

Answer 2

I ran across the greatest thing. Of course it's just my opinion, but it's been used thousands of years and I finally got it. We don't so much invent ourselves as copy people we admire and the collective traits and ideas we admire. I knew they where right in saying we should get a mentor to guide us in life, meerly a stage. In fact we are not a character, but have a character, hopefully, although I guess I sort of wanted to be a character and sometimes I'm more a joke,character than I had planned to be and I kind of like it sometimes, as in New Yorkers are characters or to have character also. Anyway, since we are only awareness and everything else is modelling, then we really are all actors on a stage living out out vision of life. I so much wanted to say that since I read http no www self-confidence .co .uk , you should check it out. Now you can be an actoer 24 seven living out your dream as in LOA, affirmations, the bible, modeling Jesus and now they say that is self hypnosis. I don't know, but wow it works. You can pick someone you would like to be and model the way they stand, how they feel even, gesture, attitudes and it's even Christianity and psychology when you understand that you are only an awareness living the life you model. No identity crisis as we are not an identity, but identify with our thoughts. They say we are as happy as we decide to be, fine but how. It turns out it's having those models. Imagining we are them. The moral is, pick a character you want to be or it's very depresssing. Doctors have the highest suicide rate, if you get the connection. They see sick people all day. The possibilities are too rich to itemize them all in here. That's a new definition of self, we are not oursleves, but besides our selves, excuse the pun, and awareness, besides what we identify with, which isn't exactly ourselves, but yet a way of life. I hope that sparks you imagination, because it's more than what I've said, but all you can imagine or find in your environement to emulate. Who would have thought that the secret to life would be to become all that you love and become an actor too. Obviously the more you add to your dream the richer your life and your character. That floored me and is my new vision. And, yeh, visualizations too. My model is happy, sane, resonably confident, at least not morose and so on. I knew someone, who had a problem of course, who got so much into their character that they would end up somewhere across town a couple of days later and not know how they got there, Now that's acting! Just dont act crazy, please!