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• Are You Really a Professional?

  2012-11-17 1:42AM / 資料 / Jeanne Hartman Acting Weekend Update!

              

                           ARE YOU REALLY A PROFESSIONAL?

  Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them."
  -- Julius "Dr. J." Erving

  What makes you a professional?  I like the above quote by Dr. J.  

  When do you turn into a professional?   As a coach, director and teacher, I watch student after student and there is a moment when they start to work like a professional.  Here are some of the signs:

              A professional works constantly on improving his talent.

  A professional scrutinizes herself after each performance, audition, and practice or rehearsal.          

  A professional knows that if you are standing still you are really falling    behind.

  A professional believes in “the team principle”.   He realizes that for his optimal performance it does “take a village”.        He knows that even the top professional athletes still have coaches and other people who help him perform at a optimum level.

  A professional realizes what he knows AND what he doesn’t know.  And nothing will stop him from learning what he DOESN’T know!

  Why am I talking about this?  People ask me why actors continue to study their craft, practice, rehearse?  As if somehow learning to act is like taking 2 aspirin. And yet everyone understands that the best professional athletes continue to practice and be coached. Just like athletes actors and writers need to strive to be the best every time they perform their craft.  They need to continue to understand human nature and to explore the reasonings of their characters.  And every time they work on a new script it is like starting over – once again. 

   I have some workshops scheduled in Hong Kong starting December 1^st.  Go to Jason Tobin’s Event page to make sure you have a place.  

  I do think you will get a great work out as an actor, director, and writer when you come to my workshops but most important is that as a professional artist you need to find ways to continue to grow. 

  You can work on your craft in many ways.  The point is do you do it?   Part of why Jason and I try to schedule my workshops at least twice a year is to both teach you new techniques and also show you how to practice those techniques.  Practicing has no substitute.   You can’t learn to become a first class soccer player or basketball prayer unless you practice.   You can’t just think about it.  You need to work the muscles and that is true for actors and writers as well. 

  So find a way to practice and learn about your craft.  I welcome you to come to my workshops this December.  If you can’t do that, find other ways to practice your craft.

  It can be a joyful and enjoyable journey – learning about your craft.   Also find your community – your artistic community of people who understand why it is important to continue to study and practice.   It’s your club!  They understand you and will be of support to you.  It is also a great way to “network”.  Let people know what you can do and what you are willing to do to help them realize their dreams as well as your dreams. 

  John Lennon said, “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

  You can find Jeanne Hartman’s schedule of workshops in Hong Kong at www.actingisbelieving.com.

   

  For more information about Jeanne go to:

  JeanneHartmanActorsDetective.com

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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• Do you know how to make it believable?

  2012-05-03 11:22PM / 標準BLOG

  
  

  Hey Actors, Directors and Writers, 

  
  

  You can learn how to make the magic!  Make it believable!  There are techniques, tricks and truths to creating exciting memorable moments on stage and screen.  

  
  

  As actors it is really important to be able to create the emotion for every take!  Not just once!  That takes knowledge and practice.  Come find out how it can work for you. 

  
  

  Directors and writers:  Taking this acting workshop will open your eyes as to how to communicate with your actors at such a level that you can get what you want on screen. 

  
  

  I also will be teaching the Writers Lab again this time. 

  
  

  My first workshop starts May 19th.  Enrollment is limited so that everyone gets the maximum time to practice what they learn.  

  
  

  Go to www.actingisbelieving.com

  
  

  Come join us work hard and have a great time doing it. 

  
  

  
  

  
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KcVopr1BbE
  

  
  

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• Good enough is never good enough

  2011-11-28 2:37PM / 標準BLOG

  
  There are times that I find myself saying the same thing a lot and this is one of these times.  I have found that many people don't understand what actors do to create something exciting to watch and yet very believable.  They don't understand how we create this magic. 
  
  I try to tell them how actors practice and rehearsal in the same way that professional athletes prepare for the "big game". And still most people don't understand or just don't believe me because it "looks so easy". But I know it's true. 
  
    What I must tell actors and directors and writers that they must prepare as strongly as these athletes do.  I tell them
  
  GOOD ENOUGH IS NEVER GOOD ENOUGH.
  
  Everyone likes a short cut.  I know that I do.  But sometimes it doesn't offer the same results.  Today a friend sent me this piece about a man watching a butterfly struggling to get out of his cocoon.  The man kindly cuts the cocoon to help the butterfly get out but when the butterfly emerges part of his wing is withered.  The butterfly needed to struggle for his wing to come to full growth.  We all need to struggle to come to our full growth. 
  
  Strive to be more than good enough.  Stand out from the crowd.  Show your worth.
  Offer your uniqueness!  Don't just think that good enough is good enough because
  
  GOOD ENOUGH IS NEVER GOOD ENOUGH!
  

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• Missing All of you in Hong Kong

  2011-11-12 12:10PM / 標準BLOG

  
  I am so excited that it is getting close to time for me to return to Hong Kong.  It just seems too long since I have been there.  I told Jason (you know that wonderful artist and my producer on my workshops) the other day as we were skyping to plan the workshop schedule that I know it is close to when I leave for Hong Kong since I start dreaming about the workshops.  Sounds a bit crazy maybe but that is what happens to me when I am excited about the work ahead.  I hope you all feel that way about your work as well. 
  
  As all of you artists know so much of the creative preparation for each project starts so much sooner than most people realize.   Most people don't realize all the preparation that goes into each performance.  And hey they are not suppose to!  It is suppose to look natural and easy and most of all believe but all of you who are performers know that it is not easy.  That's why I use the symbol of the iceberg.  The audience sees the tip of the iceberg.   The performer has to prepare the 90% of the iceberg unseen under the water. 
  
  Well that is the part that we work on in workshops, in practice, in rehearsal, in research.   My goal is to bring each time I come to teach in Hong Kong more ways, techniques, styles, tricks, ways to prepare your material.  In acting, in writing, in performing, in singing, in dancing, in all the arts.  We gather to work on what happens behind closed doors. 
  
  I look forward to seeing all of you in a few weeks.  I hope that you will come take one of the scheduled workshops and add to your arsenal of techniques.  We all keep learning and that is what make the life ahead so exciting and something we all look forward to. 
  
  For those of you that have been in my workshops before, I will of course be bringing new scenes and exercises.   This time I want to address the use of music in your preparation.  I think you will find this an exiciting way to prepare for your roles. 
  
  If you have some particular needs coming out of your current auditions and work, do write me at my website with your questions or the challenges you are dealing with. 
  write me at jeannehartman@JeanneHartmanActorsDetective.com if you prefer to send it to me privately or you can put your thoughts and questions right here on AnD in the comments below.
  
  See you very soon.
  
  Jeanne
  

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• NO ONE EVERY TAUGHT ME THAT!!!

  2011-05-18 12:47PM / 標準BLOG

  
  
   

  NO ONE EVERY TAUGHT ME THAT! 

   

  Actors over the years have said over and over after we work,  “No one every taught me that!!!”   I am always amazed that with all the classes they have taken no one every taught them things like:

              How to REALLY break down a script and analyze it. All the way. 

              How to use that analysis to decide what choices you need to make.

              How to fill in the details that the script didn’t give you.

              How to figure out what those details are!!

   

  And after all that you have to make it look EASY!!!!!

   

  I really am thrilled that so many of Hong Kong’s professional actors understand how important it is to keep tuning their craft.  These are the actors who continue to get better and better. 

   

  But some of you may wonder exactly what do I do when I teach these 2-day workshops.  And others of you who may have taken an acting class might think, “well, all you do is scene work, right?”  Let me tell you some of things we will be working on in the upcoming workshops. 

   

  These are some of the top complaints professional actors tell me give them lots of problems, drives them crazy when they go to auditions or get work and just are frustrating.   That’s why I am always bringing different problems that actors must face so we can work on these challenges, practice what to do to solve the difficulties, the problems the obstacles. 

   

  For example:

   

  An actor will ask me:

   

  What do I do when the scenes they give me are REALLY BAD? 

   

  Yes sometimes you must take material that is not top level and do something with it.  My students cringe when I saw, “Okay everyone this time we are going to work on BAD SCENES.”   Why do they cringe because they know that they will have to work 10 times as hard to make this scene believeable.  I do this to my wonderful students so they can practice making something mediocre into something that is good, interesting to watch and even more difficult to accomplish make it believable. 

   

  The first thing you must learn is that it takes 10 times the amount of preparation to prepare a mediocre piece of writing than a wonderful piece of writing.  So come and se how we do that preparation.  

   

   

  Actors wonder:

   

  Do I prepare for a small role in a different way than for a large role? 

   

   

  A casting director told me many years ago that the most difficult roles for him to cast were small roles.  He talked to me about how actors had never really learned how to prepare for them.  I took that to heart and have always required my actors to learn the questions they must ask to prepare to audition for small roles.  I want every actor that works with me to learn the difference between the job of preparing for a small role and the job or preparing a large role.  And if you are a director it is really important to know the difference because you will direct those differently as well. 

   

   

  Actors always ask me about:

   

  How can I conquer those BIG EMOTION SCENES consistently? 

   

  People who are not actors think it is easy for actors to show emotion.  They could not be more wrong.  Human beings, all human beings fight big emotions.  So when actors attempt to “be emotional” they are already in trouble.  Do you know why?  Because real people, real human beings, fight their emotions and then lose their battle.  Actors must learn that so that their scenes are believable.  So in my workshops we practice how to do that.

   

  These are just a few of the Big Questions that Actors need to face and conquer. 

   

  Everytime I take on another Acting Workshop I want to challenge each person to rise up and become better at their craft than when they walked into the workshop. 

   

   

  I want you to be prepared for anything you have to face so I must challenge you.

   

  I probably should call it BOOT CAMP.  But the joy of discovering what you have inside of you is just too much fun to call it boot camp.  Come join us. 

   

   

  For information on my upcoming workshops go to:

   

  http://www.alivenotdead.com/jasontobin/Hollywood-Acting-Coach-Jeanne-Hartman-s-2-Day-Workshop-event-1223810.html

   

   

  
  

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