"Another Actor in LA" is now "Acting Daily". For every one of the next 365 days I will take action to grow as an actor and expand my experience as a human being. I will also endeavor to create something, a product of some kind, as evidence of that growth.
Examples include:
- Learning and performing a monologue.
- Writing a scene.
- Creating a web video.
- Playing a song on my ukulele.
- Sketching.
- Painting.
- Cooking a gourmet meal.
And so it begins...
2 comments:
this is a good start, but before i go any further, let me say i, um, applaud your undertaking; i wanted to kick myself many times into a higher gear and have failed. and being constitutionally a better 'editor' than a creator, i will mention some things here.
i think beyond doing something every day, it is a matter of what we do and how much time we devote to it: the great larry moss says we should be spending 8 hours a day on our craft and art, much the same as a dancer or symphony musician or athlete or writer or painter (ok, maybe 8 hours is an exagggeration, but think where we would all be a year from now if we devoted this much time to acting).
eight hours is a lot of time so let's give ourselves a break and say 2 hours -- i bet most of us, when we're not shooting or rehears-ing would be hard-pressed to do 2 hours of work. how do we spend that time. i bring this aspect up only because you mention learning a monologue, which cannot be done in one day, in most cases. maybe the goal of one monologue every three weeks is a motivating micro-goal within the macro goal.
just something to think about.
i'll look forward to reading your posts and wishing you, and all of us, the best. btw, i like your sonnet post today.
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for taking the time to write such a thoughtful response.
All the greats seem to want 8 hours from us. When I'm on set, or rehearsing for a play, or training in a conservatory, that's easy enough. But when I'm on my own, I'm at a loss for what to do, and I'm lucky if I even dedicate 8min to my craft.
The hope is that the daily creations will force me into doing, and break me out of the gridlock that is indecision.
As to whether a monologue can be learned in one day... have you ever watched a soap opera? At the moment, I cop to being unable to learn a monologue in a day and perform it at any sort of proficiency, but the hope is that by the time I'm done with this process I'll be able to write, memorize, shoot, edit, and post a 30sec scene a day.
And yeah, I'll probably be coming down from that cloud soon enough.
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