A bit all over the place!
First Blog - (Lens 2)
So... I seem to be blogging. The start of this course like myself... is a bit all over the place really. Not totally my fault but now 5 weeks in only really just being told I am indeed enrolled and already a part of this- so sorry for those I have not met of this Skype call, hello dear friends!
I am a bit overwhelmed with what it is I can bring/want/need from this course and have had a little look through some blogs to get some thoughts and beginning of 'A PRACTICE' what indeed this actually means. I tend to be a very busy person with lots of fingers in lots of pies- so I really hope this will help streamline my life as an actor, what it means to me and how I can use this to help others and my own learning....
Quite simply Practise means "the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it" and "the customary, habitual, or expected procedure or way of doing of something".
Which is hard when most of what I do as an actor/presenter/voice artist is so practical. At Drama School it was very easy to do a class and then reflect on it - what I had learned/ what others did and I could, therefore, compare and learn from/ how to make it better for next time. So I guess I'm struggling to know how to understand what I do now as a 'practice'.
I suppose I am initially breaking it into:
MINDSET - POSITIVE THINKING - for auditions and generally in life to keep doing my job
WAYS IN WHICH I APPLY FOR WORK- creating showreels/writing/ networking
PREPARING FOR THE JOB - once receiving the work, how I apply myself to do said job
TEXT/RESEARCH - Expanding my knowledge of others work (practices) to help my understanding as an actor.
This is all very ad-hoc thinking and I am not too sure what to do next... how I even go about turning my chaotic, up and down, here and there self-employed life into a practice!? So if any one could help me with the starting blocks that would be most helpful...
As Amy Jayne wrote in her reflections- 'Better late than never"
So... I seem to be blogging. The start of this course like myself... is a bit all over the place really. Not totally my fault but now 5 weeks in only really just being told I am indeed enrolled and already a part of this- so sorry for those I have not met of this Skype call, hello dear friends!
I am a bit overwhelmed with what it is I can bring/want/need from this course and have had a little look through some blogs to get some thoughts and beginning of 'A PRACTICE' what indeed this actually means. I tend to be a very busy person with lots of fingers in lots of pies- so I really hope this will help streamline my life as an actor, what it means to me and how I can use this to help others and my own learning....
Quite simply Practise means "the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it" and "the customary, habitual, or expected procedure or way of doing of something".
Which is hard when most of what I do as an actor/presenter/voice artist is so practical. At Drama School it was very easy to do a class and then reflect on it - what I had learned/ what others did and I could, therefore, compare and learn from/ how to make it better for next time. So I guess I'm struggling to know how to understand what I do now as a 'practice'.
I suppose I am initially breaking it into:
MINDSET - POSITIVE THINKING - for auditions and generally in life to keep doing my job
WAYS IN WHICH I APPLY FOR WORK- creating showreels/writing/ networking
PREPARING FOR THE JOB - once receiving the work, how I apply myself to do said job
TEXT/RESEARCH - Expanding my knowledge of others work (practices) to help my understanding as an actor.
This is all very ad-hoc thinking and I am not too sure what to do next... how I even go about turning my chaotic, up and down, here and there self-employed life into a practice!? So if any one could help me with the starting blocks that would be most helpful...
As Amy Jayne wrote in her reflections- 'Better late than never"
I feel really similar!
ReplyDeleteI think the lenses will make it easier to reflect on practice- definitely interesting to note as an actor as well that Web 2.0 massively affects auditioning and ways to apply for work?
Because acting is such a practical skill I think a lot of it has to come from us realising what we've been doing all this time using the theories to back up what we do within our creative process up to performance :)