How Actors Create Emotions
Have you ever wondered how good actors such as Brad Pitt,
Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio and so on, could ever be so good on the emotions
that they have to portray that you start to doubt about if what is going on is
real or not?
Well, as I started to think about what my blogpost should be
about, that big question came immediately to my mind.
Emotions is an ongoing process that tells us really what we
like and what we dislike. We cannot say that feelings and emotions are the
same.
Professional actors really do transmit the right emotions on
stage to us, but how do they do it?
Well, in a book called Acting emotions: written by Elly
Konijin I really did get to understand better the concept used for them
to transmit the right emotion and that some levels of them exists.
It is said that the artist is its own material, some moments
of enactment has to exist simultaneously as the moment the actor is portraying
emotions on stage.
Both the actor itself and the character that he or she are
acting, can be seen in two levels.
This makes four levels of enactment which can be seen while
the actor is acting:
1.
The actor as a private person;
2.
The actor as an actor-craftsman;
3.
The inner model;
4.
The character that is being presented in the
performance.
If the audience shows capability of distinguishing these
four levels, it will be difficult for them to differentiate the emotions that
are trying to be transmitted.
There can be emotions in each of the levels that were told
respectively:
1.
The private emotions of the actor as a private
person- these emotions arise by the experiences of the actor in its daily life.
2.
The emotion of the actor which is related to
crafts man- it is when a connection is shown on doing its tasks as an actor on
stage.
3.
The emotion that follows the inner model-
arrangements are made during the rehearsals, making a formation of an inner
model.
4.
The portrayed emotion of the character in the
performance- these is when the right emotions that the actor intends to portray
whilst performing.
It is known that the emotions that are being transmitted in
the last level aren’t real, meaning that an illusion of real emotion is
created. They are formed by the behaviour of the actor, which is referred to
the behaviour of the character-As characters do not exist, they cannot have
emotion, therefore, they cannot act according to them.
Reference:
Konijn,
E. (2000). Acting Emotions. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Bio:
Sofia Sá
Student nº 6880
aifos-sa@hotmail.com
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