Stanislavski's Techniques

Stanislavski’s techniques

The use of given circumstances for an actor give them extra conditions in which the actor can use to become more familiar with their environment. An example used in the lesson was that Ton had a headache ad so would have been holding his head as if he were in pain, the audience may not know that this is intentionally there to help the actor and may make the performance more naturalistic.

A circle of attention is the area around an character that they are focusing on, for example when Ton is talking to the Kid about his lack of achievements then Ton’s circle of attention would most likely be on himself and the kid, whereas when the Kid pushes Lynne’s head towards the bike then his circle of attention would be on everybody because he is doing it to show a point to all the characters.

Emotional memory is when the actor draws on an event from the past and uses the ‘feelings’ they felt at the time. The feelings are then regenerated and used when filling out the role with ‘human depth and personal involvement’ When acting the scene where the Kid feels frustrated we used emotional memory although I did not feel as if it worked that well as I didn’t feel I had the right memories to fit the scene.