Acting techniques I've used and skills I've learned


                   
     For this character I have used both techniques that I've learned about, which are Stanislavski's and Meisner's. 
     In the building process of my character I have started by fixing the basic information; who am I?, where am I?, what am doing?, why am I doing it?, what is my relationship with other characters?, what is my goal in this scene?, what is my goal in the whole play?. I have answered these questions and I talked about them in the previous blog. Then I started familiarize myself with my character's lifestyle, by using the magic ''If''. I've never been a prince, so I would not know exactly what one would feel like, but what if I was? How would I react, how would I think as a prince? It's an imagination and empathy game. that I needed to work on all the time.
    When I advanced in the process and started to absorb the qualities I thought Malcolm would have, I began to use the emotional memory. For example, when Malcolm was walking with his father, king Duncan, and found the wounded sergeant and helped him, I thought of a time when I helped my grandmother walk because she couldn't no more. But when Malcolm found out his father was killed; I have never experienced something like that, so how could I know how to react? Well, I thought of when my mother told me my uncle died, but why would I be angry? And here I had options: I could be angry because he continued to smoke even when he knew his health was weak or I could be angry because I wasn't there with him when he passed away or both. And I chose both.
     After Stanislavski, I started using the repetition game learned from Meisner's technique. I've never done it on rehearsals with my partner, but I've done it by myself. I took a line I had difficulties with and I started repeating it till it came out of my mind without thinking it, but keeping the emotion. For example ''What, man? Never pull your hat upon your brows!'' was one line that I was saying unnaturally, so I kept playing with it till I felt it came out right. 
      
       
      I've brought to this process some skills I was relying on, like a good communication with my partner/s, good context and focus, but I've also gained skills from this process: confidence, projection, physicality, facial expressions, gesture and learning lines. 
      Learning and improvement is about keeping all you learn with you and use it when time will come, so I will definitely take it forward into the next production.