Emotional Preparation

Catching the Moment

8 Steps on How Actors can Catch the moment is incredible for training acting. Catching the moment is a skillset you want to achieve in acting training. This will give you the freedom and emotional range in your acting work earlier on in your training.

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“Catching the moment in acting takes Being aware to start to receive in a timing that starts the emotional experience.“
“The craft of catching the moment in acting is a sought-after and achievable item.“

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Step 1: Know that the Moment is not Reliable

Step 2: Being Aware in Acting

Step 3: Making the Effort to Catch the Moment (not convincing yourself)

Step 4: Catching the Others Perspective

Step 5: Knowing your own Point of View

Step 6: Having to Be Relaxed in Acting

Step 7: Listening and Being Willing to Be Affected

Step 8. Don’t Push the Moments

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Step 1: Know that the Moment is not reliable.

Simon always says, “Consistency requires constant change.” Everything is in flux, including your moment in acting. Knowing this early on can really help you find your acting talent.

The first thing in learning to catching the moment is to learn that the moment is not reliable. When you are in experiences you will notice that moments fly by. This means that experiences pass without being explored. This is normal until you can learn to catch the impulses and able yourself to be able to respond to how fast things occur.

Knowing that the moment is not reliable will smarten you up and sharpen your comfort with realizing that you are not going to catch everything that occurs. As you practice doing the work your averages will improve to catching the moments that occur.

If you realize that you need to be quick enough and aware enough to be able to be responsive to passing incidences you will better your chances of being able to catch the moment as an Actor.

Altering yourself as an Actor to be still enough to get into a relaxed enough state to feel the affect of something that happens to you is a key.

All of these steps can be used with Emotional Preparation. Using Emotional Preparation will enhance your experiences as an Actor.

Step 2: Being Aware in Acting

Awareness of how you are affected is key in Acting. Learning to Act in a way that you are really and truthfully affected will grant your abilities to able themselves and what will follow is your responsiveness.

Being Aware is a listening state of paying attention with a relaxedness that you are not blocking the other from affecting you. This is a real and tangible state of awareness rather than an intellectual state of awareness. Being Aware in Acting is a state of being and not a state of doing.

Altering yourself as an Actor to be still enough to get into a relaxed enough state to feel the effect of something that happens to you is a key. It often will take conscious effort to gain the ability to be affected when something real does occur. If you are too busy affecting yourself rather than being relaxed, you will miss the moment when it happens to you.

Catching the moment in acting takes Being aware to start to receive in a timing that starts the emotional experience.

Step 3: Making the Effort to Catching the Moment

When you are at the Moment of an occurrence you often must make an effort to respond with it. It is more beneficial to respond with the moment than respond to the moment.

The more you can be inclusive and synchronized with the stimulating element the more alive it will be within you.
Making the effort to catch the moment means that you become interactive in relating to the moment. The moment in acting is very similar to a ball being thrown in the air. If you don’t catch it it will fall out of reach.

You can catch the moment by interacting with it or even by clarifying it. Putting your focus on the clarification of what the intention is behind the action is a great way to become interactive with it. When you focus on gaining the intention behind the occurrence you really start to process internally what is occurring.

Step 4: Catching the others perspective

Often the moment in acting is a differencing opinion. Even when you disagree with the other Actors point of view your goal is to catch the others perspective. Do not put barriers up to ignoring the others’ behaviors or opinions.

What the other opinions do to you must activate. The contrast of notes and points of view must erupt. This may mean that you feel the effects of even rage in the differencing of opinions. The more you really specifically gain the others perspective the more it will do to you.

Step 5: Knowing your own Point of View

Many Actors work without knowing clearly their own point of view. It is a key component to every scene to be able to know the opinions you have.

How Actors can catch the moment is vital to the life of their acting. If you as an Actor do not know your own point of view you will never gain the contrast needed to become enthralled in your acting.

You need to work and practice being affected which also has to do with being clear about having your own point of view.

When you are catching the moment in your acting it benefits you to allow yourself to gain your point of view as things are occurring. This means that you are of course allowed take the time needed to realize what your point of view is as it occurs to you within the scene.

Many Actors leave out the real time adjustment of their own personal point of views in their acting. Encouraging yourself to adjust your point of view as it changes is an enormous asset to yourself as an Actor.

Step 6: Having to be Relaxed in Acting

Actors have to be relaxed if they are going to be able to catch the moment in their acting. Relaxed demeanors does not mean that there is not intense things ongoing. Being relaxed means that you are able to take in more than what you are already going through.

If you are incapable of intaking more than you are not ready to do your acting scenes. If you are doing intense Emotional Preparations and are not ready to find out more answers that you know will affect you than you are not ready to be relaxed enough to be in the scene.

Gaining the step of relaxed intake is key to acting more than most ever realize.

Step 7: Listening and Being Willing to be Affected

Learning to take in the moment as an Actor means that you are open to new stimulations and ideas. This is a must that functions in all scenes and acting exercises. Listening well means that you are seeking something that you do not possess or are open to including an additional point of view.

If you are not willing to be affected by something then there is no reason to be involved in the scene. There has to be a reason to listen and a willingness to be affected if you are going to be able to succeed as an Actor in acting. Every scene must include a reason to listen to the others in the scene even when a scene surprisingly happens to the Actor.

Step 8: Don’t Push the Moments

It is important that Actors learn catching the moment. Don’t look much for the moments or try to create the moments that occur. Sit on your intrigue enough for it to come into realization. Fascinate the happenings rather than trying to create the moments into a reality.

It needs to be more of a goal of Actors to not push the moments into occurring. This means that as an Actor lessons will have to be learned to be crafty in discovering your scenes happenings rather than making the scenes choreographed or implemented.

The less you push your work in acting the more real you will become and more unconsciously involved you will become in your acting. The more you will realize what is happening is when you are intaking the witness of the scene and respond out of the impulse of what erupts from you. Your emotional eruptions will be in sensitive adjustment to all that you are taking in rather than a performed force of pushing the moments into existence.

Catching the Moment Summary

Catching the moment in acting also entails the concept of moment to moment. “Moment to Moment” is the give and take between actors when they are both caught in the moment.

Being confident that you emotionally let yourself into the expression of having an experience is key when catching the moment in acting.

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The craft of catching the moment in acting is a sought-after and achievable item.

Copyright 2019, Simon Blake

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