Acting

Personalization

Ayyyeeee, I haven't updated in a bit because there's been a lot going on but here's the next part. So it's like the part before this. It sounds really weird and probably won't make a lot of sense unless you actually do it. But first I kinda need to backtrack a bit. And hopefully at the end of this it all kinda makes sense.

So like, you know at the beginning there was this bit about extreme imaginary circumstances? Like imagining your mom dying in a car accident kind of circumstances? Taking someone real (my mom in this case) and putting her in these really, really extreme circumstances where there's no way out and it triggers an emotion (you can make them happy or sad or involving any type of emotion, but the exercise stays the same). Well like that exercise is useful up to a certain point. If you keep doing it, then it becomes easier the more you do it. So like as an example, when I first did this it would take me about 7-10 minutes until I could kinda concentrate just on what I was doing and not on 'I'm hungry','I have homework due', 'today was a shitty day' etc. and now I can kinda just do it in about a minute or sometimes less. But sometimes you don't get the chance to kinda concentrate on that type of exercise. Maybe you're in a play and you don't actually ever finish your scene for a really long time and there's a lot going on. It sometimes happens in 2-3 people plays. You may never leave the stage. Or if you're filming something you might've just done your 16th take of the same scene (yeah I'm not kidding there's a lot of retakes that get done. Every retake is usually different - lenses get changed, lighting gets changes, audio stuff gets changed, angle of the camera gets changed, etc). And if you're trying to think of this each time then it can kinda get difficult. Or if you haven't left the stage for like 30 minutes and now you're in a really emotional piece but you're talking a lot it gets difficult to talk, move and think of your circumstance as well as listen to the other person on stage with you and just aaahhh there's a lot. So that's where something called personalization comes into it.

Oh, like all these things are things you do during rehearsals and before you actually film or perform something. But they're really important.

So we all know what certain people mean to us in real life. If you say someone's name or think of someone it can sometimes make you feel something. Idk how to describe it but I'm guessing you know what I mean? So when you're doing it with someone that's in a make believe life then how do you get those same feelings? You do something called personalization. And it starts off with writing and finding things in a script or play called key facts and key phrases.

So a key fact is any person, place or thing that your character speaks about that is significant to him/her.

And a key phrase is something your character says that you feel is really important to him/her.

So I'm gonna do another chapter on this shit because it's hella riveting.