How to Break Down a Script to Discover Your Character

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Sophie Mensah is an actress and acting coach at many drama schools across the U.K. including; East15 Acting School, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, ALRA, St. Mary’s University, and more. This class will focus on how to approach a script and a character from scratch, from the first reading of the text to creating a timeline of events and how to work through the text and get all of the information you need to create your character. You will discover the initial detective work the actor needs to do when approaching a role and how to work on a text as a whole.
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@dpa2207 2 года назад

just wanted to thank you for taking the time to go through all of this! I’ve been studying acting for a short while (1yr) and this has been a great help for me to pull together and recap on everything I’ve learnt thus far and prepare for my first true role on camera outside the classroom ! 👌🏻🙏🏻

@jazzcampbellentertainment Год назад

Thank you, Sophie Mensah. Your lecture has taught me in a way that I can understand of how to discover a character. Many Coaches and at school as well, I’d frequently hear, “the acting process is fun”. You helped me discover the fun and how the process works. Your use of diagrams, examples, quotes, etc were all perfect ways to make this process less complicated. I am a kinesthetic learner, so your choice to explain things in many ways helped me truly understand this particular approach to character development. My sincere thanks and appreciation for your time, preparation, and teachings 🤗🙏🏾🏆😁👌🏾

@OlgaKuznetsova 4 года назад

Thank you, Sophie Mensah!!! That was full of so much helpful information! And you are fantastic at describing everything in detail and explaining these concepts!

@TranskripFilm 9 месяцев назад

very clear crisp coaching

@kaylajackman6369 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for posting this! I'm currently taking a Theatre class in university and I'm just getting back into acting! This is all extremely helpful in order to get in the zone for a long period of time, which is something I struggle with. Thank you to Sophie as well! She is a literal genius 🤍

@sharonspeer418 4 года назад

Really great, thorough info- thank you for sharing!

@bianca.jenesse 3 года назад

Loved this chat! Super helpful! Thanks for the encouragement for actors starting later in life!

@otsogiants Год назад

This is remarkable and so well explained. Thank you.

@karonshelton3652 4 года назад

Lots of great approaches! Thank you!

@andreajones-sojola3106 2 года назад

Wonderful advice. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the public. I’ll definitely be using these tactics going forward

@tutkufilms 4 года назад

Really good video! A lot of reminded me of the exercises in Barbara Houseman's "Tackling text and subtext".

@IvaBedford Год назад

This is sooooo helpful! Thank you so much for creating this video!

@SaajanKataria Год назад

it was a great explanation... and thank you so much Sophie Mensah for the time and effort you have put into that. I loved you while listening you :)

@IndieMusiCon 3 года назад

And perhaps add a 4th question: What does the screenwriter say about my character? This is such an amazing resource Sophie, can't thank you enough for this video.

@ameerasuthakar 4 года назад

This was very helpful and I got a lot of information out of this, thank you 👍🏻😄

@MelissaDeVriesJoseph 4 года назад

Loving this thank you for sharing

@user-is5hj6in6n 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! This is extremely helpful❤

@user-ej6kj3rv1b 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! I followed all the steps you recommended. And I got casted successfully in my school drama! I don’t have any acting experience before. I was really shocked when the director contacted me!

@sithandiweradeber9528 2 года назад

Thank you so much, so helpful

@joslynjones4857 2 года назад

This was fantastic!

@reelactorsrealanswers Год назад

I like your teaching, but I really do like your voice and how you express yourself.

@arunkumarpathak5785 Год назад

Lots of love❤ thank you

@gemmaroaming 2 года назад

Amazing! Thank you so much :-)

@CHH3. 2 года назад

Thank you!

@randomperson9876 3 года назад

Good information

@alexandervue9464 2 года назад

Thank you

@sumitgoswami5672 2 года назад

Thank you for the video.. would you please share that universal need text...it's not even in the book "essential acting".

@sithandiweradeber9528 2 года назад

May you please list the books on the comments.

@randomperson9876 3 года назад

The whole time I thought she just wear talking to me😳 and then at minute 34:37 comes another person haha

@renee8893 2 года назад

30:45

@MasterpieceCoach 2 года назад

Hey Sophie in my own interesting point of view, you didn't mention one of the greatest acting teachers alive Larry Moss. And full disclosure, he's a good friend. 😃 His book is "Intent To Live" and check him it out on RU-vid as well. Be well, sending rich blessings, Garrett

@ladyrenibifamovon-artistmo5935 4 года назад

Good evening

@iisleepyq4015 4 года назад

first

@actorpoet53 2 года назад

Good tips.... just needs to be louder.

@PatMahoneyEnterTrainer 4 года назад

Good suggestions all around, although I would argue that discovering how other characters feel about yours isn't "one-size-fits-all." A lot of comedies, for instance, revolve around that old Shakespearean trope where there's an irony of a character with inflated self-importance, unaware of the mocking happening behind their back. (Bottom from MSND comes to mind). A lot of cases aren't so obvious. For me, I've found it easier to initially take stock of those differences and then simply disregard them later.

@Iamsophiemensah 4 года назад

Thanks for your comment, I definitely wouldn’t recommend anything to do with character creation from a one size fits approach. Once you have your three lists you need to then further interrogate what could be a ‘fact/opinions/lies/surmise’. Because of course not everything is as it seems! Hope this helps.