Reflection Of Acting In Acting

Some of my favorite points that stuck with me throughout reading the first six chapters of The Actor and the Target are that fear makes us unable to act (p.31), that bad news is great news for the actor (p. 44) and that the target is waiting to be found (p.46).

Initially, I was so nervous about the whole process like the role-play and not to mention the video recording was a nerve-racking, but as we progress I got the confidence and the courage that I can do this. I had to force myself to do a better job and not to let down my colleagues in each practice session. Each session, I encourage and push myself into my limitation and at the end it was successful. I believe all the hard work paid off that I put into this class. I gained the ability to demonstrate active attending behaviors, as well as to listen to and understand non-verbal behaviors.

It has shown me that even if a person looks and acts normal day-to-day, on the inside they could be dealing with things beyond their reach. For example, Scott, didn’t know he was experiencing short-term PTSD. For all he knew, he was having bad dreams and haunting memories, which was normal in his mind. I would have never diagnosed him with short-term PTSD and been able to give him treatment possibilities without this class. Throughout these short months, my character in media has come to life and acted like a real client with actual troubles. Seeing that the “Longest Ride” is merely a movie, a plan to help and give insight wouldn’t be needed or

Graduating from the Acting program courses is bittersweet and as it draws to a close there are a few things I want to reflect on regarding Acting in general as well as people who have made this experience worth every minute. This semester was a major growth spurt in terms of Acting, and I’ve worked to improve my confidence level and volume especially while working in “The Audition”. However, I still have some trouble really dropping myself into a moment or character without getting somewhat distracted or out of focus. I think in the long run this will get easier the more experience I have, and it mostly just requires more practice. I aim to keep in mind that an actor’s work is never done, and just like a person of any other profession, there’s always room for improvement.

Perception is quite an important piece in real life as well. The power of perceptions is amazing how it can actually help one or bring one down. One has the power to determine the response from events. “Perceptions begin when the human brain receives data from the body’s five sense.” (Enayati, A., 2012, p.2). An example that demonstrates how perception is able to help is Victor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist who lived three years in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Frankl became aware that he had only one freedom during that time which was the freedom to determine his response for a sorrowful truth. To imagine is to have the power to decide the response to events. Frankl decided that he would image seeing his wife, teaching students about what happened during the Holocaust, and the lessons learned while being in camp.

Throughout the course I have learned about the key elements for the art forms of dance, visual art, music, and drama. I think the introduction piece of the course with the power points was very helpful for me to get the basic ideas in my mind for each art form. Then I like how we practice or explored each elements as a class. I think the end product of the groups creating work-shop lessons helped me tie in the aspects of that art form.

Why do we have imagination and work on it? It's because we want a better life, and they long to advance our future. If we don't have dream or imagination, they cannot innovate any new things and ideas. Reality always stays with imagination, but reality always stay away from imagination. We have to know and make a balance between reality and imagination. Jay Gatsby, who is a main character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the great example of someone who changes imagination to reality, keeps working on his dream, but be destroyed his dream by himself.

Imaginations allow individuals to use information and construct his or her own ideas. For example, individuals can imagine what his or her dream home looks like. This individual can see the home and describe what the home looks like. Anderson (2010) defined mental imagery as the processing of perceptual information without an

Insert Example of VMI. Mental Imagery is a familiar feature of everyday life that most people experience, even though some people report not doing so (e.g. Farah et al. 1984, 1988). Kosslyn, Ganis and Thompson (2009) refer to the idea that imagery is the experience of ‘seeing with the mind’s eye’. ‘Imagery’ invites people to simulate what they think would happen if they were looking at the actual event. It is believed to play a role in visuospatial reasoning, memory and creative thought, for instance evaluating options, reconstructing past perceptual events and anticipating future desired or feared experiences (Tversky, 2004; Pearson, 2007).

Since I was eleven years old, I have known that I wanted to act. It was something that my parents never particularly encouraged, nor supported, but the seed was planted. I was sixteen when I first stepped into my high school’s theatre for my first day of drama class, and it changed my life. I felt at home and I would even call it the point of my salvation. From discovering the theatre and joining the world of the performing arts, I have grown so much as a person and have found a sense of self and purpose that I didn’t have before. I could not have imagined that I would, or even could, have the immense passion for acting and theatre that I have today, and it is beyond me how I became so lucky as to find something that makes me so incredibly

Sticking to the wall, she keeps her eyes on the ceiling to try and find any hidden security cameras like he had shown her before. Once she decides that it’s all clear, she makes her move; feet discreetly moving her down the hall. Teeth bite into her bottom lip as the nervousness racks her petite frame while her brain is swimming in a swamp of thoughts.

I feel my strongest areas in this class is the nature of this course my understanding of the material, and the exemplary way of explaining of professor Joel help me to develop a strong way of learning and working. I also feel the are of the class that prove to be my weakest is the writing expectations. I honestly in my 4 years in college had teachers that expect I high level of writing, I feel that is the reason why I do not consider my self fully prepared. However, now that I am close to my graduation I am glad to be in this course, because of trough this semester I feel more confident in public speaking and my writing skills.

A problem that I found initially was that in Meditations Six, Rene Descartes claims that when the mind losses the power of imagination, they are still the same entity as before, nothing substantial or required to survive that is lost. I believed this to be false because the power to imagine unlocks hidden power, for your mind to bend, divide, move, and analyze substances that are not there. To envision yourself subtracting two numbers in your head is just a phenomenon in itself. To say that using your mind to separate and abstractly look at something is incredible. It allows you to prepare yourself for life’s challenges, to remember the past, and to dream about the future. Without that kind of power, our essence would be completely changed. We would not have something that drives us

Acting in a play called “Relationships” would be my most recent community service activity. My character in the production experienced addiction to prescription pills, miscarriages, and a disconnection in her marriage. In high school my experience in theater involved background roles that labeled me as an extra. Obtaining a leading role forced me live outside of my comfort zone. In the past, the feeling of eyes watching my every action gave me anxiety. Regardless of any butterflies I might have had, stage fright did not affect me. I was able to deliver my lines and executed the emotions for each scene. I also overcame my fear of singing a solo. Anxiety, a lack of confidence, and stage fright would typically stunt my progress in performing alone.

Reflection is considered as a vital element of professional practice as it precedes to insight and then subsequent change in practice. The hypothesis of reflection is not new as it can be tracked as far back in the 5th century by the influential Greek philosopher, Socrates and to the 1930s primarily focusing on John Dewey’s work. Dewey is one of the founders of learning from experience. He theorised reflection as ‘active, persistent and careful consideration’ (Dewey, 1933) initiated by a specific situation which was opposing, perplexing or uncertain. One of its most common use today is coming up with a thought, an idea, or opinion made or an observation made as a result of concentration, suggesting in essence a way of thinking in which one looks back and meditate upon (Agnes, 2004).