ABOUT ACTING AND MODELING COURSE IN GIFD

Actors are, if nothing else communicators. No, not all of them are extroverted social butterflies, but when your job is to get on stage or in front of a camera and entertain people, you get pretty good at learning to communicate effectively. Actors know how and when to say things because they have

played about a thousand different characters and been in a thousand different scenes. Jumping into the rich business man or the happy-go-lucky hippy is all too easy. They are chameleons, and since half of communication is learning how to speak another person’s language, they have it down to a science.

Acting is public speaking. Sure an actor uses someone else’s words, and sure they memorize them, but who is to say they could not do the same with a speech of their own? An actor is comfortable being the center of attention and comfortable being in front of a crowd because they have to perform in front of a cast, crew, and sometimes outside members constantly. Speaking in front of a room full of people is nothing compared to some of the things that actors must do while on camera or stage.

Actors know how to memorize. Every time they perform they have to know a line so well that it will come out at the proper time and in the proper way. Sometimes getting the perfect take requires that a shot continues regardless of what happens. After memorizing line after line and monologue after monologue, an actor’s memory is as sharp as can be.

An actor goes through audition after audition and faces disappointment regularly. After so many auditions, how could an actor not be ready for a simple interview? Getting up in front of a director and reading lines cold takes a lot more nerve than spitting out the rehearsed answer to a typical interview question. You never know what is going to be asked of you when you walk into an audition room, getting through a simple interview is comparatively effortless.

As an actor, you are often told to take things too far. A common director phrase is “give me more until I say you are giving too much.” This allows you to explore your full range of emotion in a scene and choose the proper actions and reactions based on a character’s motives. This exploration often leads to some pretty weird stuff, but it can also lead to the best interpretation possible. We can see this from the many famous scenes that have been entirely improvised over the years. The point? Actors are incredible at taking an existing idea or thought and turning it on its head. They are forced to think about things differently and approach them from all angles. Applied to the world outside of acting this leads to inventiveness and innovation.