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| Tain Strom |
Acting is about sharing. It is about action and reaction. This is a very simple principle in the actors tool box.
-knowing your back ground so you understand why you react like you do.
-acting is about having a goal and a problem reaching it.
- Action / reaction.
These very simple rules can be easily adapted to role-play, however, they can be very difficult tools to master. I do not expect that people are professional actors with a full understanding of good acting, however, I do expect that people will make an effort to try a bit harder than what I have often seen. This is the reason for this note card.
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Background :
Acting is about as Stanislavski would put it "Be like you were the evil Queen. Think to yourself what life did she live? (ie. What is her background story). How did her background impact her? How would she react to different things because of her background and so forth. Think like you would, if you were her, be her, live her and become her in the glimpses of role-play you do". What kind of circumstances does she have. Is she rich, poor. Where does she live, does she have a land, people? What kind of lover would she pick? Does she want to be a killer or is she feeling forced to into being a killer due to her background.
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Goal /problem/ situation :
The problem -
When making conversation, have a goal, and then a problem reaching this goal. Eg. Amanda is in love with Dawn, but she is too shy to tell her. The conversation could look something like this. Amanda looks at Dawn and moves closer to her, looking at her shoes, blushing, while trying to find the poem she has written for her. "Can....ca...can I please take a brief moment of your life Dawn?"
The important goal-
A very important thing is also it has to mean something for Amanda. If Amanda does not care to be rejected, what is the point of doing the role-play. It must mean a lot to Amanda and the more she make herself convinced this is a "life /death " sitatuion for her, the more exciting it will be for all involved.
If she gets rejested, and her only response is to role-play "Well whatever, who cares" and then walks off, it makes for bad role-play.
However, if it is vitally important to her, she will keep working on the goal dispite her problem achieving it, and a long and juicy role-play can then go on for weeks.
The situation-
A good acting situation is to build up a scenario between two people, them both sharing a the goal, and the problem. The important thing in the scenario is that it is hard to reach the goal. The more difficult the goal is, the more exciting it is for all involved. Amanda saying she is in love with Dawn ends the scenario immediately. If Amanda goes to Dawn with the goal being that she wants to tell her she is in love with her, but she is afraid of being rejected, and types out the example above (her Amanda blushing, and stuttering).. this will put Dawn in a situation where she can react, try to find out what is going on, why has this person written a poem to her, is she in love? This will make Dawn curious. So, Dawn’s reaction will be one of curiosity to find out what is going on.
A situation involve your rp - partner in a conflickt = goal and problem.
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Action/reaction:
Try to make your role-play partners feel something, provoke them, flirt whit them, move them emotional; involve them, instead of speaking of your self over and over and over.
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Good Scenes:
So what works on a screen, in sceond life.
The same that woks on stage and on movies.
Why are movies boring sometimes. Often it is becuse you just know the hero will never die and he beat all up whit out a drop of sweet, and there is nothing to worry about or be exitet about. We know he will win and he wont even have a hard time doing it.
San
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