A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting by Daniel Dresner (English) Paperback

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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.

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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

Acknowledgements ixIntroduction 1PART ONE WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK? 51 Get Out of Your Own Way 72 Values and Fulfi lment 11Identify your values 13Fulfi lment 14The wheel of life 153 Saboteurs and Limiting Beliefs 16Saboteur words and phrases 17Limiting beliefs 19A note on your inner critic 20Use of language 21Fear 23Getting help from your captain 234 The Impostor Syndrome 25What can you do about it? 27Some quotes from people you may respect 285 Perfectionism 30PART TWO MOVING FORWARDS 356 Confi dence, Success, Perspective and Reframing 37Confi dence 37Success 39Perspective 41Reframing 427 Learning Something New 44The four stages of learning and creating new habits 44Believe you can develop 45What are habits and how do they form? 46Neuroplasticity 46The theory of marginal gains 488 Trust and Creativity 50Trust list 52PART THREE AS YOU ARE MOVING TOWARDS SOMEONE ELSE 539 Screen Experience 5510 Focus and Concentration 58Milestones and anchors 6011 Emotions 63Pushing and indicating – trying too hard 67Affective memory 6712 Imagination 7013 Listening 7414 Nerves and Nervousness 7715 Lines and Learning Them 80The potential limitations of actioning 84Playing stakes and consequences 85Some ways people learn lines – a non-exhaustive list 8616 Adjusting Your Vocal Levels 88Volume 88Speed 9017 Size Matters 92Less is more 92PART FOUR TOOLS TO LIVE SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE 9718 The Inner Actor and Inner Character 9919 Truth: It All Starts With You (and a Little About Method Acting) 105Method acting 10720 The Senses and Sense Memory 111A sense of place 11321 Thinking and the Inner Monologue 119Thinking and the eyes 120A kaleidoscope of thought 120A third entity 122Inner monologue 12322 Improvise and Personalize 12823 Meet Your Character 13524 Mind, Body and Soul (Thought,Physiology and Emotion) 136The pressure cooker 137Emotion through physical manipulation 138Keep it simmering 14125 Wrapping It Up 142Appendices 143References 155List of Video and Audio Links 157Index 158

Review

Daniel Dresner sets out to offer the student of film acting valuable support both as a fledgling artist and as a person in his book A Life-Coaching Approach to Screen Acting. I can report that he succeeds … A Life-Coaching Approach to Screen Acting is an excellent guide to truly important fundamental life skills. Life skills such as identifying your values, understanding what fulfillment means to you, how to avoid Imposter Syndrome, how to avoid perfectionism, are grouped with 'knowing yourself,' which most film people would call 'knowing your type' in the first part … These subjects are treated carefully and well, and then backed up with plenty of exercises. They are also reinforced with links to brief, pithy learning videos created with The Actors Centre. You can read about the work, do the exercise yourself, and watch Daniel Dresner work with students on the same material. This all adds up to an excellent resource for developing confidence in oneself and in the work. It also makes it easy to see why Daniel Dresner is considered a top private acting coach and teacher. * Theatre Library Association *"Know Thyself" proclaims the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and "Be Thyself" responds Oscar Wilde, many centuries later. It is with masterful insight that Daniel Dresner connects these simple but profound directives and brilliantly draws his revelatory parallel with well-being and the craft of screen acting. * Philip Wolff - Head of screen acting at the International School of Screen Acting *This original and timely book introduces the benefits of life-coaching to the stressful and uncertain lives of many actors, especially those who perform on a screen. * Michael Ferguson - television producer, director scriptwriter and teacher *This book not only transformed my approach to acting, it transformed my approach to life. Full of refreshing techniques that allowed me to simply get out of my own way and truly be the very best I can be. Written in a way that is extremely easy to take in and apply, a powerful tool that I will be using on every project I'm involved with. * Daniel de Bourg, actor, singer and songwriter *

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A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting is a handbook that combines effective life-coaching techniques with screen acting tools to enable the actor to approach their characters and their work with self-confidence.

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This original and timely book introduces the benefits of life-coaching to the stressful and uncertain lives of many actors, especially those who perform on a screen.

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A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting is a handbook that combines effective life-coaching techniques with screen acting tools to enable the actor to approach their characters and their work with self-confidence.

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Combines screen-acting techniques with life-coaching concepts, helping to lighten the anxiety and self-defeating thoughts that can obstruct actors' progress

Details ISBN1350039438 Author Daniel Dresner Pages 176 ISBN-10 1350039438 ISBN-13 9781350039438 Format Paperback Media Book Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-10-04 Imprint Methuen Drama Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 791.43028 Affiliation Freelance, UK Language English UK Release Date 2018-10-04 NZ Release Date 2018-10-04 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2018-10-03 We've got this

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