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Strasberg Legacy . An Essay by Giovanni Morassutti
Method acting is a range of training and rehearsal techniques that seek to encourage sincere and emotionally expressive performances, as formulated by several different theatre practitioners including Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Sanford Meisner, while the Organic Creative Process is a conscious, intuitive process that goes beyond it.
By Fred Goldman5 years ago in Geeks
Beats me . . . what do YOU want to watch?
PREAMBLE In 1965, Shirley Ellis released a hit single on the pop music charts, called “The Name Game”. I was in Grade Six at the time. I loved the song. In fact, everyone I knew, loved the song. I recall huddling together in classroom nooks and around water fountains in the hallway or on benches in the school playground to sing with my classmates, using the names that Shirley Ellis herself, used in that magical little number. Names like ‘Lincoln’, ‘Marsha’ and ‘Nick’ and ‘Tony’ – a person was fortunate to have one of those names – so as to simply imitate what she had done with it in the song. Most of us though, were not included in her list so, we had to listen closely to the ‘formula’ she espoused, and then substitute our names into it. As much as I enjoyed her catchy melody, even more so, I was enamored with that formula. I was also intrigued by her pedagogical approach in casually manipulating the formula, which qualified her to boast in the lyrics that she could, "make a rhyme out of anybody’s name!” Years later, while teaching cooking and high-school mathematics in China, I sometimes called on her song to enhance English usage in my classroom. On occasion, when the technical language seemed to be getting the better of my students, we would take a break from graphing periodic functions or decorating cheesecakes and sing a round or two of “The Name Game” . The effectiveness of Shirley’s jingle held up well even for Chinese names like Yuting and Peipei and Xiayan. Analogous to Stephen Hawking’s quest for a single formula that explains everything in the universe, that musical algorithm stood the test of time in a similar, but no less significant quest for, and explanation of, the rhyming of names.
By John Oliver Smith5 years ago in Geeks
Pretty in Pixels: Make a Spectacular Avatar of Yourself
There are many reasons why people use professional-looking photos for their social media profiles. While some can't be bothered to have a profile photo at all, some others want an artistic digital representation of themselves.
By Lovelli Fuad5 years ago in Geeks
3 Reasons It's Okay To Stop Reading That Book
I heard an agent once, talking about how she decides whether she’s going to read a manuscript. She said that if she likes a book, she knows she will be taking it to bed with her. Therefore, any book that wants her full attention, has to convince her that it’s worth taking to bed or else she’ll just stop reading.
By April Dávila5 years ago in Geeks
How To Recommend Anime To Your Friends
So, you like to watch anime. No, you don’t just like anime – it’s a passion. You aren’t quite at the weebification stage where every inch of your walls is coated with anime posters and the few spaces on your bookcases that don’t hold manga are holding figurines. But you love it. You love it so much that you want to spread the joy and get your friends and family into anime.
By Andy Walser5 years ago in Geeks
If This Then That: Pretty Woman
Every great love story must have relatability, comedy, a tragedy, turmoil, and intense intimacy with the main characters or anyone who is an essential part of the movie. Pretty woman is the ideal love story because it had all of that and more. The story is sort of a Cinderella framed novelty with a twist. The best romances stories also come with challenges that require great sacrifice. The challenges thicken the plot and build excitement this keeps the viewers engaged minimizing the chances of people getting bored or falling asleep. Also a happy ending is the icing on the cake of all romance movies.
By Curtis Greene5 years ago in Geeks
5 Tips for a Better Reading Experience
I love to read. If you're reading this, I guess you do too. When we are reading, we all want to have the best experience possible. Whether you are reading for pleasure, studying, research or even you're reading instructions on how to make a sweet potato pie. You want to get the most out of your experience as possible. Today, we are going to have a look at how to get a better experience from reading for pleasure, with each type of reading getting its own separate article on tips and advice on bettering your reading.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
BLACK SHAKSPEAR
My strategy follows a series of formulas that make up a human being and the life that they lived. The characters are basically what makes up the setting, they give purpose to a setting. Even though some settings can speak for themself, like Trump towers. The characters are a series of people who interact with the main character, how I would write it as if each person was they’re own individual. As if they were each living their own lives, and where do these lives come from? Well from you, silly. The best way to write a character is to use yourself or someone you know, most stories are redundant and follow something that has already happened. When writing the story you are basically telling what this person would do in the situation, this is an idea that you will be expanding on for the whole movie. Understand you can have as many ideas, thoughts, and concepts as long as it helps progress to the ending you intended. These all go into the main characters story, where is he from? Is he white or Asian? Is it a he? What are his special skills? Or is there nothing special about him? What about his background, if our main character was from the U. S. then the character will grow up living a certain lifestyle based on racial and wealth status. Give this person identity, make a connection with these characters. As you path the road for this character's life you should feel as if you were being put through the same trials, then figure out resolutions. These resolutions are for the main conflict, what are the issues you are going to put your creation through. Some creators use their powers as gods of this world and give the protagonist more than he can beare, and in the end the hero stands alone in an unwinnable fight. He falls to euphoric music as the camera zooms out on his last moments, while other gods are more merciful and end with a cheerful setting. Where everyone is magically brought back to life, which is lazy writing. Please avoid this at all cost if you find yourself at a brick walk, get some air and think deep about a clever and never seen before “ending”. The conflict has to be a strong enough reason for someone who would want to listen or appeal to a certain group of people. Issues like being alive during an apocalypse or zombieworld in Asia, To keep track of all ideas write them down like bullet points. Are we following the role of a survivor, an agent or as a zombie. As the creator you give this person in life and unlike the character you know what he's going to do with it. The character's life like yours is on a timeline, you have 60 to 99 pages minimum based off of the assignment to tell a well understood story. What makes a story that is so good isn’t the flashy thing you put in front of people, like in 6 Underground with Ryan Renolds. It lacked dialog and character development; however, it did have amazing action scenes. How high 2 is another example, it’s hard to take the movie seriously when it comes to it’s weak dialog and sense of humor. As a black person I want to speak to the black artist who read this, the black ignorant narrative has grown stale it honestly looks more like “COON” sh@$. I love Raven-Symone, her show “That So Raven” had a great story line following the life of a teenage girl with a loving black family. When I first saw her sequel “Raven’s House” it was a book of black cliches, the story of a single black mother raising two kids isn’t the lifestyle most people want to live. The kids in the story suffer from it too since they’re father doesn't come around, I want to inspire “you” since you have read this far, avoid repeating what has already been made and avoid the obvious. Surprise the viewer, this is not meant to be an insult but to give you the advantage. If I were to rewrite the story “Raven’s House” Raven would be a married mother of two, she’s a successful fashion designer and her kids are just as talented as they’re father who is an inventor. Because Raven had a strong supportive father and mother she would have had more than this sad reality of “Raven’s House”.
By La’Garyus Bonney5 years ago in Geeks
