Calling all actors........

[Deexter Jorgan]

Can anyone give me some advice in regards to learning lines.... have to be off script by January the 18th.

I usually attempt to break the lines down and repeat to myself, and everything seems to come together when we reherse but this time around i dont have the option...

Any advice is much appreciated

 

[Scotty]

What are you auditioning for?

 

[Deexter Jorgan]

What are you auditioning for?

Im transitioning from Television and Film to Theatre,doing my BA in Drama and Theatre

The play im learning lines from is Three Birds Alighting on the field, Im playing YOYO Andreas one of the leads.

The issue is i have to get off script which is something i can only do when rehersing

 

[Scotty]

Call a friend and try rehearsing?

 

[Blade]

Rehearse on your own for a while, learn off the lines, then get a friend come in and act out the scenes.

When you're working with a friend with them reading the script and you trying to remember it, they can tell you if you said something wrong alot quicker and they can tell you what to say when you forget so you don't have to keep looking at the script.

 

[One Punch Doug Crashin]

its just like memorizing music. try hearing the lines spoken first. that worked for me. then practice them one by one then paragraph by paragraph. you get where I'm going with this?

 

[Deexter Jorgan]

Rehearse on your own for a while, learn off the lines, then get a friend come in and act out the scenes.

When you're working with a friend with them reading the script and you trying to remember it, they can tell you if you said something wrong alot quicker and they can tell you what to say when you forget so you don't have to keep looking at the script.

This is what i usually do, anything else anyone i can think of?

 

[X]

Don't try to memorize lines so much as try to memorize the story itself. Once you've gotten the story and sequence of events down each line will come after the next because you'll know where the story is going.

Then again I haven't acted in atleast like eight years, but I used to be really into it when I was younger.

 

[Deexter Jorgan]

its just like memorizing music. try hearing the lines spoken first. that worked for me. then practice them one by one then paragraph by paragraph. you get where I'm going with this?

This is what i do with the bit by bit scenario, I learn each line and then put them all together and keep speaking them out

 

[Cena's Little Helper]

Dude, aren't you a professional actor? Shouldn't you already know this shit?

 

[Deexter Jorgan]

Don't try to memorize lines so much as try to memorize the story itself. Once you've gotten the story and sequence of events down each line will come after the next because you'll know where the story is going.

Then again I haven't acted in atleast like eight years, but I used to be really into it when I was younger.

With film and TV you can always just analyse the scene and have an idea of the total concept, theatre is more harder then that lol

 

[X]

With film and TV you can always just analyse the scene and have an idea of the total concept, theatre is more harder then that lol

If anything it's easier with theatre, you have the entire story on the page right there infront of you. I only worked theatre.

 

[Deexter Jorgan]

Dude, aren't you a professional actor? Shouldn't you already know this shit?

Theatre is a totally different animal compared to Film and Television, hence tools such as the method can be used more apropriatly in Film and Television then in Theatre.

Im looking more outside the box and not just conventional methods Tdigs, I do know what to do but sometimes you need to look at other methods in order to help me grasp the text better.

 

[Deexter Jorgan]

If anything it's easier with theatre, you have the entire story on the page right there infront of you. I only worked theatre.

Theatre I feel you can experiment with more, what type of work did you specialise in X?, post structualist like the wooster group? or more classic like shakespeare?, or modern?

 

[Scotty]

What shows or movies were you in?

 

[Deexter Jorgan]

I was in children of men (featured mostly), had an indie film debut at the london and cambridge film festivals called A Long time gone, had a role in alot of british television such as the bill.

Was doing pretty good for someone who had less then no experience, I decided to train more and get better, hence the reason to tackle theatre, I feel that if i can better myself as a theatre actor then i can always renue my career later.

 

[Scotty]

How do you even get into acting? Just curious, wanting to give it a try.

 

[X]

Theatre I feel you can experiment with more, what type of work did you specialise in X?, post structualist like the wooster group? or more classic like shakespeare?, or modern?

I was doing your basic post-high school drama, Our Town and the like.

 

[Deexter Jorgan]

I was doing your basic post-high school drama, Our Town and the like.

Ah a mixture between the classic, modern and amatrure, Im in the middle of that now doing the university style.

How do you even get into acting? Just curious, wanting to give it a try.

I just fell into it, I had no experience and went to an open audition, Acting also has braught me love, faimly and everything i now have, I owe my life to my career