After a thoroughly enjoyable acting class last week I arrived all pumped up and ready to go and have fun with the script last night to put my advice into practice, me and my partner worked through the script and it was another lighthearted one so we had fun and felt good to go! But the exercise we did in front of the class on 'Finding the Focus' completely stumped me! After each line from the other character we had to verbalize what we thought they were feeling or what we were feeling, or what we were really thinking. As other groups went up I oh so naïvely thought it seemed easy and wondered why some of my fellow class mates were struggling for words. Well, I was soon knocked off my high horse (and rightly so) when it was my turn to go up, because all 'feeling' words completely fell from my head. My brain, which is usually permanently going ten to the dozen was a complete desert.
The point of the exercise was that it gets us to focus on the other character instead of the line coming up, but I felt that I said something's I didn't genuinely think just for the sake of saying something because I couldn't articulate what I really felt! Many months ago we did a class on working on our internal dialogue which was a technique I felt really helped, I think the difference was that that was dialogue and this was 'feelings'.....
Hopefully the words will come with practice, if not its maybe a technique I'm better leaving alone!
xx
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