30 Days of Acting
How to make this work? The keys to the 30 day challenges are:
- Variety – The reason I’ve been successful exercising daily is that I have a large variety of exercises. In the beginning I decided that it was ok if I only did one of the exercises on my list. Walking a half mile is considered “exercising”.
- Did I mention, “Variety”? – With my 30 day practice challenge I have 5 instruments to choose from. So far I’ve been able to focus on a couple a day. When I feel like I’m burning out on one, I can easily shift to another the next day.
- Variety, oh wait… I covered that. I mean to say “Being prepared – I went into each of my 30 day challenges with my tools in place. I track my progress on the blog. I set up the exercises before I began. I made a list of my options, so I wouldn’t be caught wondering “What do I do today?”
This begs the question: What are the tools of the acting trade?
- Reading plays/scripts
- Attending plays/readings
- Watching movies (movies out, or DVD’s in)
- Watching the commentary or special features on a DVD
- Reading a biography of an actor or director
- Checking Backstage for leads
- Sending out headshots, or committing to a Headshot Thursday
- Researching theatre companies/directors online
- Researching / Developing contacts
- Working on my voice & speech
- Working on an accent
- Researching/finding monologues at bookstores
- Learning a monologue
- Auditioning
- Taking an acting class
That’s probably enough of a list to start with. I’ve been putting this off for some time now, mostly out of fear of not being able to pull it off or not being able to do it perfectly.
Screw it. I’m just going to do it, and see what happens.
For the next 30 days, I’ll spend a minimum of 20 minutes a day, doing one of the things on the list above.
I’ll add things to the list as they come to me, and check-in 30 days from now.
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30 Day of Acting
Start date: Friday, 7/21/06
Next check-in date: Saturday, 8/19/06