Acting Tool #1: Sensory
Sense-Memory or Sense-Fantasy are equally powerful tools. They are the key that opens the door to an Imaginal Subspace in the mind. This subspace can also be described as an Altered Reality, Creative Reality or Artistic Reality. Whatever name you give it, it has the power to CHANGE your performance. It also has the power to make you believe you are somewhere else or someone else.
It is in this Subspace that the actor has a fuller, richer experience of the character and a truly visceral understanding of their true capabilities.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:10 am
Imagination is such a powerful tool. Everyone uses their imagination constantly whether they realize it or not. I guarantee that even people who say they are not imaginative sit around living fictional scenarios or worries in their minds. The truth is that we all do such things on a continual basis. The difference is the Actor uses his imagination more precisely in the moment to induce specific results. The artist uses imagination to express and bring forth what is within, out. To where the average person imagines unknowingly as if in a haze between fiction and reality. The actor is a real time craftsman of the imagination and the secret lies in the mastery of this ability.