Emotional Preparation

How Actors Prepare for Emotional Scenes

How Actors Prepare for Emotional Scenes makes an enormous difference. Activating your Emotions before scenes that match the scenes intent is key. Learn by doing the Being side of acting work, called the Emotional work!

Prepare for scenes using Emotions, not Feelings!

Some Key Quotes of this Acting Article:
“An Activated emotion is worth far more to an Actor than an inactive one.“
“Visceral effects of emotions occur to Actors who have achieved Realism.“
“You benefit as an Actor to learn how to meditate both good and bad emotions.“
“How Actors Prepare for Emotional Scenes is through both Emotional Preparation and Emotional Activation!“

Copyright 2022 Simon Blake

How Actors Prepare for Emotional Scenes matters to if scenes work or not. Knowing acting techniques makes all the differences to the Actor and Acting Student.

Knowing how to Find your Emotions

Knowing how to find more than a few Emotions is important for an Actor.

Find the emotions that you can readily Activate. An Activated emotion is worth far more to an Actor than an inactive one.

Emotions are deeper than fleeting feelings. Feelings are instinctual in nature and help add spontaneity to acting but often leave the Actor when they use their Feelings for their Emotional Preparations.

Using Deep Feelings and Emotions in Emotional Preparation tends to work more consistently.

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How Emotions and Deep Feelings work for Actors

An Emotion is a spicket tapped into to access your own acting talent.

Deep Feelings can sometimes stay close enough to the Actor to become part of acting Interactions. Activated emotions are for certain able to reactivate and become part of the acting interaction.

The truth is that it takes time for the Actor to achieve Depth of Emotion.

Many Actors will need to work for weeks to find or expand a certain emotional range for their acting work. This is a normal process of discovery for the Actor. How Actors Prepare for Emotional Scenes is through both Emotional Preparation and Emotional Activation!

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Using Emotional Preparation

Using Emotional Preparation is the determination of which emotion is required to match the acting materials. The overall Emotional Preparation process must include Emotional Activation to have any realized value to acting scene.

The more specific you can isolate an emotional range that matches the scene and your own abilities of talent the better the outcome will be for your acting.

Including a very specific range of emotion into your acting Improvisations can also help discover more of that emotional range towards the acting scene.

Being capable of finding a real emotion within yourself that you can work with takes the skill of talent for the Actor.

Activating Emotion

The action of activating a scene is how Actors prepare for Emotional Scenes.

The vitality of emotional life that you are able to activate makes a direct difference in the acting materials. Whatever spark of emotions you can spur up need to match the material and be really affecting you viscerally.

Visceral effects of emotions occur to Actors who have achieved Realism.

Activating an emotion that feels good will lead to feelings of that emotion. Activating an emotion that feels not so good will lead to feelings of that emotion.

If you prepare on Despair, you will activate real and genuine despair within you. This is the reason why Simon Blake encourages letting go of Acting Baggage after your acting. Emotional fragments will ensue in your actual life when working on real deep emotional scenes.

How Actors Prepare for Emotional Scenes will leave them with emotional baggage in life, unless they release it!

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Emotional Meditation Technique

Emotional Meditation Technique is the intentional practice of inviting in a specific emotion to fill yourself up internally, and then, releasing it completely. Often times after deep Meditation on an emotion you may have to release the emotion more times than you have needed to invite it in.

Meditation works both as a manifestation technique for gaining feel-good emotions and a manifestation technique to for gaining not-so-good to feel emotions.

You benefit as an Actor to learn how to meditate both good and bad emotions.

Actors need both good and bad activated emotions. How Actors Prepare for Emotional Scenes for an outcome to feel Regret in a scene requires the Actor to achieve through Emotional Meditation Technique Regret.

Regret, Sorrow, Foulness, need to all be friends of the Actor working with emotions.

Happiness, Giddiness, Elation all need to be friends of the Actor working with emotions. Both good and bad emotions can be invited in and let out using the Emotional Meditation Technique.

Matching the Emotion to the Scene

The skill level that the Actor needs to match the activated emotion to a scene is the tight wire that the Actor walks.

It takes the ability to know how to find, and the willingness to activate an internal release from within to an external participation of interaction.

Finding the interaction of your acting takes the skill of matching the emotion to the scene.

Be clear with yourself to make a determined choice of emotion for the scene, then find that within yourself. Matching emotions to scene work materials is a lot of fun.

How Actors Prepare for Emotional Scenes is by matching materials with their own available emotions.

Activations Journal

The Activations Journal tools are incredible self-study tools to build up your talent as an Actor.

Using one of many Emotions Lists on this website you find emotions that resonate with you. After you identify between 5-20 emotions you can start the work of recalling your own real-life experiences. Recall which times you felt in your own life the real emotion listed.

Next, write down 2-4 experiences where you have seen others in that specific emotional state. Use Bullet Points at first, and then work to write more later if you wish. Key details are important so you can later use the materials you write to activate your own emotions.

Next, write down 1-3 Imaginary Experiences that, if true, you would be in an expression of that specific emotional state. You can get very creative as you brainstorm reasons that if true, you would feel regret, shame, elation, despair, or heartbreak.

Use the Activations Journal to find your own talent. Find your Emotions, Find your Talent!

Actors Emotion Triangle Diagram

The Actors Emotion Triangle is a tool that Actors should be aware of.

At the TOP of the Triangle is:
Thoughts
Clever Ideas
Intuition
Feelings
Deep Feelings
Emotions
Deep Emotions

Emotions are the widest area of self that can be activated for work in your acting.

Copyright 2022 Simon Blake

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