OBJECTIONS I HAVE HEARD OVER THE YEARS
| OBJECTION 4 = 'I'm afraid that people will think that my performance is rubbish'. |
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ANSWER: Well - you and every other wannabe and every other successful actor.
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You have to meet up with reality sometime. And with an attitude like this, you need to meet reality as soon as possible. You need a critique of your acting abilities from an objective source - search it out. Have you ever had a critique, on the negative technical aspects of your acting? Have you had a 'diagnosis'? Do you only want praise? Have you had only praise so far? Realise how dangerous it is to act without a realistic, valid critique.
Don't be confused about the difference between exhibitionism and performance. |
| Sometimes, acting wannabes have lived in a cloud of praise - from family, friends and even from an acting teacher. That cannot be real. It leads them to associate performing with praise, and to avoid a critique on the technical aspects of acting. Perhaps they have not access to a realistic, valid critique. You have to get your acting to the next level, at all costs. |
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Sometimes an acting teacher at school or even later, operates as an 'inspirational' teacher - giving applause, cheer, compliments, congratulations. That teacher has got the balance wrong between instruction, challenge, support and all-round critique. The 'inspirational' teacher traps students into seeking and receiving praise. The 'inspirational' teacher is a snare and teaching is turned into an empty routine that de-skills the students. You should search out an acting critique from an anti-'inspirational' teacher.
Anti-'inspirational' teaching results in the empowerment of students, where they are brought to understand the necessary range of acting techniques and their terms. Anti-'inspirational' teaching results in respect and not always liking. Anti-'inspirational' teaching creates a challenging course, based on real expectations, while creating support for students. A quick look at web sites advertising acting and modelling opportunities shows you that they headline 'Wannabe famous?' and 'Your springboard to celebrity'. Reading this page here should give you some balance to these headlines. |
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Surveys show that young people decide that they want to be actors at the age of 11. This ambition is stated and restated, and builds into a personal script of its own. As a teacher, I am the latest in a long line of family, friends, aunts and uncles, who have responded to this 'I want to be an actor'. I don't wish, on my part, to be caught in whatever history lies underneath - maybe rebellion, maybe praise. I don't ask the apprentice actor 'why?', but I ask 'how - really?'. Often, that 'how - really?' has never been asked objectively.
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| The young ambitious actor has not been encouraged to meet the hurdle of an audition at a good acting school. |
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