STAYING IN 'THE 'MOMENT'

IN MY OPINION:

WILLIAM REYNOLDS;

STAYING IN 'THE 'MOMENT'

Being in the moment is about focus. It’s about paying attention to what is happening right now. If you can truly focus on the scene you are in, moment to moment, everything else will fall away. How can you be nervous, or worried about what you look like, sound like, smell like, if you are absolutely focused on what you are saying or what you are listening to? How can you be worried about posture, breathing or your accent, if your entire focus is on the moment right before you. All of those thoughts about your character arc, about what scene’s next, erode and you are left in the exciting, palpable and unpredictable living moment, which is what an audience wants to see.We’ve all had those moments when we are acting in a scene and we become aware of the fact that we are acting. Perhaps we have just said a line in a forced, mechanical way or perhaps we did something fresh and exciting, and it started a whole inner dialogue discussing what just happened, then, before we know it, we’ve lost all of our focus and are back on autopilot. It can then be very hard to get back into the scene and this frustration can lead to an onslaught of negative thoughts.

So, what I suggest you try is to practice staying completely focussed on the ‘now’! DIRECTORS WILL KNOW>>>>BELIEVE ME.