| One of the main barriers to taking the leap into | | | | you to being a ‘jack of all trades and master |
| professional acting is a lack of confidence and not | | | | of none’. In my experience, it’s sensible |
| knowing whether you are any good or not. | | | | to look at what the most successful actors do to |
| This is a hard question to answer at the beginning. | | | | achieve a high standard of acting. |
| You have to view actor training in the same way | | | | With a little research on the subject, you will |
| as you would any other job. How would you | | | | discover that many leading actors, particularly in |
| know if you are any good at being an accountant | | | | the US, use Method Acting classes. One of the |
| until you have studied the subject? | | | | reasons they use it is because it achieves an |
| Most beginners have a desire and aptitude for | | | | exceptionally high standard of acting consistently. |
| acting, and that’s enough to start with. If you | | | | It is important to teach this approach - Method |
| take the correct drama course, you can begin to | | | | Acting - to people who have little or no acting |
| develop your raw ability to a professional | | | | experience. There are acting classes and acting |
| standard. | | | | courses that focus in depth on Method Acting, to |
| Right from the start it’s important to | | | | allow you to improve your acting ability to an |
| consider your acting training and what kind of | | | | exceptional standard, from day one. |
| acting approach you would like to study. A typical | | | | Some acting lessons are split between acting |
| Drama School or Acting School tends to give you | | | | technique and practical application within scenes. It |
| a pick’n’mix approach. They teach you a | | | | is important to find a Method Acting class that is |
| little bit of different techniques, and then you | | | | fundamental in training your talent, and are not |
| have to cobble together a mixture of everything. | | | | about merely saying lines effectively and |
| The problem with this approach is that it leads | | | | repeating them the same way each time. |