Reflective Essay About Acting

-The actor is a story-teller and his goal is to deliver a particular story to the audience.

The second year was all about doing. By saying this I do not mean in any way that we stopped expanding our abilities and knowledge,of course that never happens within the acting world because as actors we always continue learning and develop our abilities, something that happens in our everyday life too.Changing is inevitable. It is our choice to stick to what we have or to be open to new possibilities.Throughout the year we had normal lessons and individual exercises, like in the first year, where we were introduced to many new for us acting techniques and how to create a character by applying different methods, methods that we found easier for us as

I had heard that phrase a lot of times in the past but I was never so sure what exactly meant. Now I know that it does not matter how good you know the theoritical part of the techniques and how well aware you are of your voice and body if you are not able to use them practically on stage and generally everytime you perform. This is the reason why acting is diffent from all the other known professions. The most knowledgable actor knowing every single detail of techniques such as Stanislavsky 's , Strasberg 's or Meisner 's is worthless as long as he is not able to use this knowlegde on stage.

That is also the answer to why many succesfull actors were able to give astonishing performances without having any prior acting education. Simply because Acting is all about doing. You are free to do whatever you want during rehearsals as long as it servers the character of the story and the director 's vision.

That leads me to say that the main difference between the first and second year was that this year we had the opportunity to work with different acting teachers and directors who were completelety different in the way they