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The Exercise
Lee's Idea About It
Facts
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The actor is asked to do something on the stage that they do in life, but it is so private, that if someone walked into the room they would have to stop doing whatever it is.
What is Lee Strasberg's exercise?
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connecting to a character by drawing on personal emotions and memories, aided by a set of exercises and practices including sense memory and affective memory.
What does this exercise do to/for the actor?
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Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, and Steve Buscemi
What famous actors experienced the "private moment"
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To let the actors experience a "private moment" and allow them to learn how to act it out with other people watching, for them to learn to not be uncomfortable with the task.
What is the purpose of this exercise?
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Could this exercise benefit you in another situation outside of acting?
What is yes
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remembering by the five senses of the sensory impressions experienced by the individual organism in everyday life. The actor can learn to recall these sensory impressions from the subconscious by concentrating on the stimuli associated with them. If you have ever been hungry enough, and thought about your favorite food, chances are your mouth "watered".
What is the exercise "The Sense Memory"
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Lee Strasberg
Who created this exercise?
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by letting you feel more comfortable about yourself and really knowing your senses. Knowing your senses and how you act about different things can be helpful to know what you’re dealing with. This could happen when you’re trying to identify something by smelling it or looking at it or using any of your senses really.
How could this exercise benefit you in another situation outside of acting?
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There are three parts, the first is assign the taking of the shower, the second is actually getting under the water, the third part is actually getting into a bath thats already full. The whole idea of this exercise is to react to the different temperatures and the different type of ways you can take a shower.
What is the exercise "Over-alls"
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Early 1950's
When did Lee Strasberg create this exercise?
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He liked Stanislavsky’s method but they wanted to revolutionize the ideas that he had
What motivated them to create this exercise?
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You substitute one thing that does not elicit a specific reaction from you, with someone else that does.
What is the exercise "Substitution Exercise"
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At The Actors Studio
Where did they implement this exercise?
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Some say it really helped, but others said it had little to no value
what was people's response?
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Who is presenting this project???
Paige and Sophia:)