Basics of Acting

Introduction

It's said that actors derive the maximum creative satisfaction that any performer can draw from his art. Imagination, observation of the human psyche, sensitivity helps one to become an actor. But these are not the only prerequisite of becoming an actor. Actors perform on stage, radio, television, motion pictures, videos, etc. They are not actually bound to any single medium. They have a vast area of operation and hence the word "boredom" does not feature in their vocabulary. Actors feature in advertisements, computer games, narrate the background for some films, lend their voice for animated films, make cameo appearances, teach at acting and drama schools.

An acting career entails two aspects which are to be given equal importance if one wants to taste success in his career. The knowledge about photos, resumes, networking come in handy to promote oneself as an actor and the emotional approach one takes in his career are the two aspects one has to keep in mind.

Nature of Work

With the growth of population every profession under the sun is becoming competitive and acting is no exception. Hence an aspiring actors needs to take the first step properly to have a good start. Though a good start doesn't rule out struggle from his/her life but things do become slightly easy for the debutant.

Generally people struggle at the start to have a firm foot hold in the entertainment industry. One of the best launching platforms for a beginner is an acting school or featuring in advertisements, soaps and serials. Numerous people watch the television which has become the biggest medium for mass communication.

The initial phase of an acting career leaves minimal choices to an actor. They take up anything that is being offered to them on a platter. If one picks and choose then his/ her dream of becoming an actor might only remain a dream and never see the light of a day. After a few years when the actor has proved his metal then he can chose the kind of roles he want to do according to his strength and area of comfort. The situation is similar for theatre aspirants as well, at the beginning there are asked to do support the team of actors. Unlike corporate world, actors don't have well defined jobs they have to do a certain peripheral jobs also. But it will be wrong to say that things become smooth for them from there on. Competition is cut throat and proving oneself is the name of the game. One has to constantly reinvent oneself to keep boredom at bay. But this does not only apply for movie actors, even theatre personalities and television actors have to reinvent themselves form time to time. But theatre offers a lot more variety for the actors. Generally no two character played by a theatre personality are the same. In television there is a risk of being typecast mostly because of dearth of roles.

When one reaches the experienced stage, scripts and roles are written keeping them on mind. The whole story takes shape revolving around the character. These experienced actors do one movie in two or three years and gets highly paid for his appearance in the movie. Sometimes they select their genres like art house films, comedy films, romantic, action flicks and tend to stick to it. But one thing has to be mentioned each and every experienced actor does not get this treatment because everybody does not have the inherent abilities to reach this stage. An actor who has reached this stage can get under the skin of the character that he needs to depict, and injects life into character. Apart from monetary remuneration, this stage offers immense intellectual satisfaction to both the actor and the audience.

                                                                                                                 To be continued......