How to Break Down a Script to Discover Your Character

[@TranskripFilm]

very clear crisp coaching

[@dpa2207]

just wanted to thank you for taking the time to go through all of this! I’ve been studying acting for a short while (1yr) and this has been a great help for me to pull together and recap on everything I’ve learnt thus far and prepare for my first true role on camera outside the classroom ! 👌🏻🙏🏻

[@Speak_Life_2016]

This is empowering! Thank you, Sophie. 🏆

[@jazzcampbellentertainment]

Thank you, Sophie Mensah. Your lecture has taught me in a way that I can understand of how to discover a character. Many Coaches and at school as well, I’d frequently hear, “the acting process is fun”. You helped me discover the fun and how the process works. Your use of diagrams, examples, quotes, etc were all perfect ways to make this process less complicated. I am a kinesthetic learner, so your choice to explain things in many ways helped me truly understand this particular approach to character development. My sincere thanks and appreciation for your time, preparation, and teachings 🤗🙏🏾🏆😁👌🏾

[@蒼井なつこ]

Thank you so much! I followed all the steps you recommended. And I got casted successfully in my school drama! I don’t have any acting experience before. I was really shocked when the director contacted me!

[@OlgaKuznetsova]

Thank you, Sophie Mensah!!! That was full of so much helpful information! And you are fantastic at describing everything in detail and explaining these concepts!

[@otsogiants]

This is remarkable and so well explained. Thank you.

[@kaylajackman6369]

Thank you so much for posting this! I'm currently taking a Theatre class in university and I'm just getting back into acting! This is all extremely helpful in order to get in the zone for a long period of time, which is something I struggle with. Thank you to Sophie as well! She is a literal genius 🤍

[@sharonspeer418]

Really great, thorough info- thank you for sharing!

[@IvaBedford]

This is sooooo helpful! Thank you so much for creating this video!

[@reelactorsrealanswers]

I like your teaching, but I really do like your voice and how you express yourself.

[@shanicehyslop]

Books recommended: Essential Acting - Brigid Panet The Energetic Performer - Amanda Brennan A Challenge for the Actor - Uta Hagen Respect for Acting - Uta Hagen Tackling Text and Subtext - Barbara Houseman The Actor Speaks - Patsy Rosenberg Acting Stanislavski - John Gillett An Actors Work - Stanislavski Building a Character - Stanislavski To the Actor - Michael Chekhov True & False - David Mamet

[@СветланаФомина-з7с]

Thank you so much! This is extremely helpful❤

[@andreajones-sojola3106]

Wonderful advice. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the public. I’ll definitely be using these tactics going forward

[@karonshelton3652]

Lots of great approaches! Thank you!

[@SaajanKataria]

it was a great explanation... and thank you so much Sophie Mensah for the time and effort you have put into that. I loved you while listening you :)

[@tutkufilms]

Really good video! A lot of reminded me of the exercises in Barbara Houseman's "Tackling text and subtext".

[@IndieMusiCon]

And perhaps add a 4th question: What does the screenwriter say about my character? This is such an amazing resource Sophie, can't thank you enough for this video.

[@arunkumarpathak5785]

Lots of love❤ thank you

[@joslynjones4857]

This was fantastic!

[@ameerasuthakar]

This was very helpful and I got a lot of information out of this, thank you 👍🏻😄

[@sithandiwePruRadebeRamokolo]

Thank you so much, so helpful

[@biancajbooks]

Loved this chat! Super helpful! Thanks for the encouragement for actors starting later in life!

[@gemmaroaming]

Amazing! Thank you so much :-)

[@MelissaDeVriesJoseph]

Loving this thank you for sharing

[@sumitgoswami5672]

Thank you for the video.. would you please share that universal need text...it's not even in the book "essential acting".

[@randomperson9876]

Good information

[@CHH3.]

Thank you!

[@alexandervue9464]

Thank you

[@sithandiwePruRadebeRamokolo]

May you please list the books on the comments.

[@randomperson9876]

The whole time I thought she just wear talking to me😳 and then at minute 34:37 comes another person haha

[@renee8893]

30:45

[@MasterpieceCoach]

Hey Sophie in my own interesting point of view, you didn't mention one of the greatest acting teachers alive Larry Moss. And full disclosure, he's a good friend. 😃 His book is "Intent To Live" and check him it out on KZbin as well. Be well, sending rich blessings, Garrett

[@ladyrenibifamovon-artistmo5935]

Good evening

[@PatMahoneyEnterTrainer]

Good suggestions all around, although I would argue that discovering how other characters feel about yours isn't "one-size-fits-all." A lot of comedies, for instance, revolve around that old Shakespearean trope where there's an irony of a character with inflated self-importance, unaware of the mocking happening behind their back. (Bottom from MSND comes to mind). A lot of cases aren't so obvious. For me, I've found it easier to initially take stock of those differences and then simply disregard them later.

[@Iamsophiemensah]

Thanks for your comment, I definitely wouldn’t recommend anything to do with character creation from a one size fits approach. Once you have your three lists you need to then further interrogate what could be a ‘fact/opinions/lies/surmise’. Because of course not everything is as it seems! Hope this helps.

[@actorpoet53]

Good tips.... just needs to be louder.

[@iisleepyq4015]

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