Focus on Acting - Emotional Range Exercise

[@idkhow]

90% of acting is voice control. you get the right voice, your body will naturally feel the emotions and start acting as if you were actually physically feeling them

[@cormacobroin]

tazz 505 why not just actually experience the emotions and express that?

[@idkhow]

its hard for most to automatically just feel emotions if they aren't caused by any. i'm luckily blessed to be able to automatically make myself (ex.) feel sad or scared but not so much angry, so as long as i start yelling and breathing as if i were angry then i'll usually start feeling angry and then i express it a lot

[@EliMardirossian]

​@@idkhow I'm the opposite, actually. I can literally showcase/portray any and every type of emotion physically speaking, I can even cry on cue, but my issue is with voice control... I can't seem to be able to act with my voice

[@ceci.c4558]

Omg, that's so trueeee

[@ceci.c4558]

@@cormacobroin it's not as easy as it sounds

[@zoemarie5335]

Ive done a lot of things for acting, but watching a horror movie alone in a dark room is not going to be one of them

[@corgisrule21]

Zoe Marie oh come on...it’s fun!

[@iammaryly]

Robert, I just want to say a big "Thank You" for sharing this. I truly truly appreciate it. All my years training in LA, no one has ever put it as simple and effective as you did. I kept wondering why it was so difficult for me to connect with the characters I audition for or if I'm in my head to much...but it made complete sense what you just said. I suppressed so much of my emotions, it's no wonder I couldn't deliver raw truth. Thank you for the light switch. 😊💡

[@EAmeda7]

I can't begin to tell you how helpful this is. I never thought to train the instruments with movies themselves!

[@GoldensnitchAJ]

How am supposed to express emotion When I got the emotional range of a teaspoon?

[@stxllr4687]

i swear i see and animal jammer in every video i go on.

[@maxgoldfaden4957]

Goldensnitch AJ68677 bruh

[@hi.8336]

Hi Won won

[@iAnasazi]

A teaspoon? I'm so envious!

[@kaylithorsen7017]

Love the Harry Potter reference

[@CARETAKER89able]

Emotion is just the tip of the iceberg in good acting.

[@CARETAKER89able]

Look at the tip of the pen, for Marlon type acting!

[@EliMardirossian]

And what's the rest if I may ask?

[@nfltrrrqwsa7512]

@@EliMardirossian surname

[@lauraaschentrupp4332]

Johnny Marlin emotion is actually 80% os acting. Once you feel what your character needs to feel, the rest will follow. You’ll understand the plot and the line will come easily

[@corgisrule21]

If by “just the tip” you mean 90% of the job, then I agree

[@MonkeyMadness1989]

Wow. Such simple, concise, amazing advice. Thank you so much. Time to try.

[@love4musicuk]

Great advice! I was just sat here listening to what you were saying while picturing a scene from the movie Warm Bodies (a sad one, to me) and i started crying. Definitely works! I usually use this method when I need to draw on emotions for acting in my web series (I have some quite dramatic scenes were I break down or get really mad)

[@sifugurusensei]

Yes, in the darkened room, alone. You know what happens in those situations.

[@Demetrix13]

Honestly this video has helped me alot towards my emotions in acting , thank you

[@lydiabrown2425]

A good movie to do this with is Stuck in Love. It is on Netflix and is one of my favorites. The emotions of the actors help you open up yourself. They seem to emote in a free way and I feel all of the emotion every single time I watch it. I've seen it at least ten times!

[@homeactingcourse]

Hi, I'm glad you are enjoying the videos! I have a few more in mind so keep an eye out. All the best! :)

[@choloman72]

Wow this helps a lot. I have two auditions/casting calls tomorrow and this technique will definitely help me, thanks.

[@greatnesssingh9491]

I cant wait to try this tonight

[@osn9003]

can i listen to emotionally evocative music instead of a movie?

[@abbiec.4854]

Thank you for the tip. I have an audition coming up and I for sure need to try this.

[@brandonforgione15]

You are simply amazing! Fantastic video!

[@ashleyedwards4964]

Before I watched this video, I was doing this while watching Law and order in the same settings as he described. Law & order svu is very emotionally evocative and extremely interesting. I feel surprised, angry, I even cry. Try it :)

[@Diamond_tip]

Ugh thanks that’s a good one. I used to not watch that show cause it was just eerie and made me uncomfortable but now I know what I must do haha

[@taliyahcarter9761]

Help full thanks.im trying to get free lessons on acting cause im trying to get in to acting. Acting been my dream sence I was 4.I been trying to sigh up for acting a long time ago.and im still trying.im really good.

[@jondavid1256]

Excellent video

[@shakiacarter7226]

Watch Hachi, that movie about the dog who's owner died. I cried for 42 minutes.

[@mossmortis]

Hachico. Yeah I almost cried too when I watched that.

[@wave9079]

Also try a dogs porpoise it’s the most stressful, sad, happy, movie ever!!!

[@ritadipsengupta5278]

It was beautiful!😊

[@JonathanXavierSterling]

This is great! I'm coming at this exercise from the the viewpoint of a musician, and the possibilities seem pretty cool.

[@alia-ye3jm]

i watched the vow and the notebook AND OH MY GOD IT WAS THE HARDEST THING I HAVE EVER DONE.

[@Star-ph2rr]

I love this ! And its really helps and works

[@ilOvepurple675]

The Titanic, The Notebook and Requiem for a Dream get my tears going.

[@MAGNETO-i1i]

I was just about to say Titanic.... lol I almost cried last time I saw it

[@VampyTwat]

Seriously?

[@daviddushaj4622]

Very good video. Thanks

[@Larry21924]

I'm amazed by the pioneering ideas in this content. A similar book I read inspired substantial changes in my life. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

[@alekandkwon]

Beasts of No Nation on Netflix is a great one

[@Don___3]

truee. the main kid was found on the street.

[@YvonneSenat]

Can’t wait to try this out! 🙌🏽

[@OjonugwaMansu]

What movies do you suggest?

[@CARETAKER89able]

That emotion is the end result,over intention and overall action.

[@lukenash3772]

Good advice it makes sense

[@imstephruiz]

great advice!!!!

[@RealRed01]

My range has been really out of balance. Never really had too use my sad too much in life.

[@heycrazyoverthere]

can u do more videos please, i'm starting to get into wanting to act more

[@lightningbolt4451]

i cant find the film alone,who directed it

[@LivinAllegro]

So, do you recommend for this exercise that it be a movie that you have not seen before, or does that not matter?

[@saracobain4902]

anyone looking for good emotional movies to watch for this exercise , I recommend 500 days of summer , it' very good movie , one of my favorites

[@jw12ification]

(Cont'd) Ladies in wearing a hoopskirt in a period piece, lift the skirt just lightly while running. I once watched in horror how an actress so sought after by the name Diane Varsi was executing a run in a long, to the ground dress, and honestly I thought she would fall flat, it was such a clumsy attempt. I would've thought the wearing of the long dress would be part of acting school. Women of the 30s were superb in wearing the long dress and running while lifting the skirt slightly.

[@victorvalderrama9941]

I have a question. Can music also work your emotional ranges? Cause every time I listen to music is where I also have access to my emotions the most.

[@apsalmsbeat]

I am the same way! Music makes me emotionally open

[@DoTheFlopp]

I do, but I stopped using it because when I don't have the music I can't do anything

[@DoTheFlopp]

as in on stage, without the music I forget everything

[@ZaynBrando]

Have people tried this? Does it actually work?

[@lilyhorton7880]

Yes It helped me

[@_f_]

interesting! acting as a start for acting...

[@homeactingcourse]

I would tend to agree, an unhindered emotional range is healthy. Thanks for watching! :)

[@richiediagostino1468]

I'm wanna be an actor I'm trying to take classes at the HB studios in New York I really enjoyed ur utube video in I would love to know more thanks

[@angelerossi5641]

hi i am So lost when it comes to applying tactics to a script or monologue i know what my characters overall objective is but thats it

[@haleyeyre2418]

Simply Brilliant! Thank you 😊

[@vickierukavina6227]

How am I supposed to know how to get into character?

[@prashantsiddhu2517]

Good very good

[@janovesakkestad7097]

That was news for me that the arms and feets is kind protect you against emotions. But it makes sense in a evolutional prespective when attacted we protect our self.

[@MultiFuckyoushit]

Thank You!

[@BrunoBaba]

helpful

[@unclebillytruck]

Ummmm.... I never heard about any of this, but it may work for some

[@SelfAwareSaga]

Just watch the Notebook....😨😢

[@twofifthsofmaria2274]

watch a monster calls, i have never cried so much

[@glencostley8466]

thank youuuuu

[@jamesmcavoy5946]

anyone, any sugestion?

[@saracobain4902]

500 days of summer , mr nobody , 50/50 , these are the movies that really made me feel something

[@dudeguy311]

James McAvoy i would definitely recommend the chronicles of narnia.

[@heycrazyoverthere]

btw thank u so much

[@jw12ification]

(Con't) running as if in a chase or on the trail of a criminal, don't run as if in running the 100 yard dash as many an actor has a tendency to do. Crouch, with arms spread out as if about to fly. But for heaven's sake, do not give your audience to understand you've just heard the whistle and start running as if in the 100 yard dash.

[@SupaDay1]

supa day wuz here

[@DK79462]

Like

[@jw12ification]

And will acting instructors please teach the novice that all screaming and yelling at the top of the voice is more realistic when generated from the diaphragm. I was a sci fi in which an earthquake is plundering southern California. The screaming doesn't ring true since it is generated from the throat. Listen to anyone pissed off and those baleful emotions generate from the diaphragm. In song it's called belting. Go to a beach and shout from the diaphragm.

[@King_Megu]

*Academy Award winning actors entered the chat 😑

[@ruzickaw]

Stupid as most actors are. Always emotion emotion, emotion. Why don't you start with thinking and understanding? The emotion comes in second place and comes by itself when you understand the character rightly.

[@exito3317]

This is very dangerous! Booo

[@haleyeyre2418]

Simply Brilliant! Thank you 😊