A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting
Combining life-coaching and screen-acting tools and techniques in one accessible handbook, this guide empowers actors to overcome personal inhibitions and approach their work, characters and careers with the assuredness to produce powerful, real and believable acting on screen.

Structured to build confidence and understanding of yourself before you take on the role of someone else, this book offers the tools and techniques to give you the necessary conviction and self-assurance to perform uninhibited. Dresner then examines essential elements of a screen actor's craft, such as emotions, imagination, nerves, focus, listening, improvisation and line-learning.

Published in partnership with The Actor's Centre, the book includes online videos of coaching sessions with professional actors and is ideal for readers and teachers looking to replicate the method in their own training.

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A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting
Combining life-coaching and screen-acting tools and techniques in one accessible handbook, this guide empowers actors to overcome personal inhibitions and approach their work, characters and careers with the assuredness to produce powerful, real and believable acting on screen.

Structured to build confidence and understanding of yourself before you take on the role of someone else, this book offers the tools and techniques to give you the necessary conviction and self-assurance to perform uninhibited. Dresner then examines essential elements of a screen actor's craft, such as emotions, imagination, nerves, focus, listening, improvisation and line-learning.

Published in partnership with The Actor's Centre, the book includes online videos of coaching sessions with professional actors and is ideal for readers and teachers looking to replicate the method in their own training.

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A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting

A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting

by Daniel Dresner
A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting

A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting

by Daniel Dresner

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Combining life-coaching and screen-acting tools and techniques in one accessible handbook, this guide empowers actors to overcome personal inhibitions and approach their work, characters and careers with the assuredness to produce powerful, real and believable acting on screen.

Structured to build confidence and understanding of yourself before you take on the role of someone else, this book offers the tools and techniques to give you the necessary conviction and self-assurance to perform uninhibited. Dresner then examines essential elements of a screen actor's craft, such as emotions, imagination, nerves, focus, listening, improvisation and line-learning.

Published in partnership with The Actor's Centre, the book includes online videos of coaching sessions with professional actors and is ideal for readers and teachers looking to replicate the method in their own training.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350039438
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/04/2018
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Daniel Dresner is a leading UK acting coach. He regularly teaches at the Actors Centre and drama schools as well as coaching privately. His clients range from actors starting out to Hollywood stars. His approach has been developed over more than 20 years as an actor, director, teacher and life coach in London, New York and Tokyo. He studied the Method at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York and life coaching with the Coaches Training Institute.

Table of Contents

Table of contents
Introduction
Part 1 – Moving Away from Yourself
1. Get Out of Your Own Way
2. Trust and Instinct
3. How Learning Occurs - The Competence Theory and Neuro-Plasticity
4. Marginal Gains
5. The Imposter Syndrome
6. Saboteurs and Limiting Beliefs
7. Confidence and Self-Sufficiency
8. Perfectionism
9. Perspective
10. Success
Part 2 - Moving Towards Someone Else
1. Inner Actor/Inner Character
2. Screen Experience
3. Truth, It All Starts with You
4. Nerves
5. Listening
6. Emotions
7. Focus and Concentration
8. Imagination
9. A Kaleidoscope of Thought
10. Lines and Learning Them
11. Adjusting Your Vocal Levels – Volume and Speed
12. Size Matters a. Less is More b. Adjusting Performance for Change of Lens – The Technical Side
13. The Senses and Sense Memory
14. Improvise and Personalise
15. The Holy Trinity: Mind, Body and Soul (Thought – Physiology –Emotion)
16. Thinking and The Inner Monologue
17. Meet Your Character – A Guided Meditation
18. Final Thoughts
Bibliography
Exercise videos
Index

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