Season 3 of the BLS Acting Tutorial

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Where Season 2 of the BLS Acting Tutorial strengthened your foundational tools, Season 3 is almost entirely new information for your toolbox. Now, let’s expand your technique and make you a more capable actor. Welcome to Season 3 of the BLS Acting Tutorial. Dive Deeper.

Course Content

3.1 Judging Characters
One of the biggest mistakes that actors make is to play their characters from a place of judgment. Avoid the trap.

  • The Trap of Judgment Pt 1
    07:15

3.2 Advanced Investigation
Let’s take everything we know about the Investigation, apply it to a one-page scene, and see just how much we can find.

3.3 Bolsters
One of the most useful tools at an actors disposal when substitutions and regular triggers just aren’t cutting it.

3.4 Advanced Objective
By now, you should have a pretty good hold on Objective. Let’s make that hold rock solid.

3.5 Traps
There are a variety of traps that are common for actors to fall into during performance. Learn them and rise above.

3.6 Withholding Information & Lying
As in real life, it’s incredibly common for characters to go around not telling the full truth but holding that truth in their minds. Actors forget this at their peril.

3.7 Withholding Emotion & Lying
One of the biggest keys to ‘being real’ and creating layers is to remember that most of the time, people are covering up some portion of what they’re really feeling.

3.8 Advanced Triggering
And now a variety of tips and tricks to enhance your ability in everyone's favorite subject: emotional triggering.

3.9 Broad Environment
One of the quickest ways for an audience's suspension of disbelief to be shattered is for an actor to forget their environment.

3.10 Auditioning Pt.1 – Physicality
Physicality in an audition scenario can be confusing. How much of what's in the stage direction should be brought in? Here's your answer.