Practicing acting by yourself may seem like it is not worthwhile, but actually, it can be the perfect opportunity to do acting exercises. Below are a few of our favourites.
1. Practice Your Lines While Doing Everyday Tasks
You have to do your chores anyway, so why not practice your lines while doing them? If you know your lines well when multi-tasking, you will know them and it will sound effortless when all your focus is on performing. Start with something easier like folding your laundry and then level up to more complex tasks such as cooking.
2. Record your scene partners lines
If the scene involves more than one person speaking, record yourself doing their lines and then use that recording to practice.
3. Do everyday tasks in character with or without lines
Body language is a big part of good acting. How would Jack Sparrow doing the dishes differ from James Bond doing the same? Practice the posture, gait, facial expressions, pace, and hand movements of different characters while doing your chores.
4. Physically Acting Out Your Moment Before
This is an acting exercise that you may heard of to add depth to your performance. Think of the backstory of your scene, and act out what your character was doing right before. For example, if in a scene, your character is at home telling their partner that they had a long day- act out the moment before where your partner came home and sat down with relief from the tiring day.
Try different scenarios. There are many possibilities for what might have happened before your first line, and they can really affect your character’s thoughts, feelings, and actions in your scene. Physically acting out those “moments before” can help you notice those effects more clearly.
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