This title just isn’t giving me the glam factor – but I love this topic!
One of the challenges that young actors face in character study is to distinguish between that which is set in the script (given circumstances) and that which is created by the environment, response to the moment at hand, and conjecture at what is likely. Sometimes the actors have trouble separating the givens from the “likelies.” To assist them, I have asked them to work in both pen and pencil.
Pen is reserved for the given circumstances. It is indelible. It does not change. It is locked down. Once written it cannot be taken back. Pencil is designed for the likely. You can erase the pencil information. You can shade the pencil from light to dark depending on the pressure you give the pencil. Pen can always go over the pencil once you find that it is actually not a variable, but pencil does very little to distort the writing of the ink underneath it. Read more