Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 00089 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
00089
Language:
English
Contributor:
Internet Archive
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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CONCENTRATION Just sink into the emotion your own voice will augment (if you are an actor!) and, in complete concentration on what you are hearing, let that emotion unlock the flood gates. It is like priming a pump. These few seconds of concentration prepare you to speak the moving words the playwright has given you, when you actually start playing the scene. And when you begin to say them, even though they may not have been too divinely chosen by their author, they will complete the cycle and will seem to us, when we hear them, fraught with depth and emotion, warmth and pathos. Don't wear out the real words of the scene by constant repetition. Make all the mental pictures you can in prepara- tion of the scene —and the more graphic you make them, the better—but don't wait until you are in front of the camera! It's too late then. You'll begin to pick and choose, to select and reject, and flounder! Do exactly the same thing when you are acting that you do in life. If you were telling something that had actually happened to you, you wouldn't need to stop and reconstruct the scene at all. It would be alive in memory, wouldn't it? Make your mental pictures as real as you possibly can in studying the part, then play from memory — the synthetic memories you have invented. 63