{"id":9411,"date":"2020-03-16T01:23:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2020-03-16T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:29:10","slug":"wooden-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/acting\/wooden-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When an actor&#8217;s performance is described as &#8220;wooden,&#8221; what does that mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Basically it means that the performance is forced, in other words, the feelings and emotions are &#8220;acted,&#8221; not felt. Good acting is living in the moment and truthfully experiencing what the character is feeling emotionally from moment to moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wooden acting can be caused by nervousness, embarrassment or insecurity, or a lack of effective screen acting training.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The basic keys for truthful acting for the camera are&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep it simple (let the camera work its magic)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep it passionate (in other words, inject the appropriate amount of energy that the scene requires)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep it real (don&#8217;t act, listen and react. Don&#8217;t fake feelings and emotions &#8211; experience them as the character does)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow these simple rules and you&#8217;ll take your screen acting to the next level.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an actor&#8217;s performance is described as &#8220;wooden,&#8221; what does that mean? Basically it means that the performance is forced, in other words, the feelings and emotions are &#8220;acted,&#8221; not felt. Good acting is living in the moment and truthfully experiencing what the character is feeling emotionally from moment to moment. Wooden acting can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[287,262,247,264,289,290,288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}