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10-23-2006, 07:45 PM
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 hey people. my name is J. Andrew Roussakis, I've been acting for 3 years now, im self taught, I have only crying to learn before im considered a well rounded actor. I have a film comming up called crystal spray 2 please go see it. If you could give me an idea of how to cry it would make my day. any advice would be great. please email me with this advice at Andrew.Roussakis@sympatico.ca you can view me at www.myspace.com/Andrew_Roussakis Sincerely, J. Andrew Roussakis | ||
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10-24-2006, 01:20 PM
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hi congrats on the film (cant find any info though, do you have a link?) i dunno, ive not had to cry for a role yet, its best to just find inside you what makes you cry. its easier when you are in character than just saying "CRY" and you start to water. | ||
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10-25-2006, 03:14 PM
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sorry I dont have a link for the film, it was a request from a friend in alberta. I still have to sign the contract. I guess its still up in the air right now, but its gonna be fun once I get there. I go to the BVI's for it.  cant wait. ill do what I can to find a link for you all.have a good one, Sincerely, J. Andrew Roussakis | ||
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10-28-2006, 11:59 AM
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Hey, i'v never had to literally cry my eyes out but i've needed tears before. My best advice is practicing infront of the mirror. Let yourself get really into the character and think deeply about something which has hurt you in the past. Whatever you do don't think about how stupid you may think you look to people, focus on your facial expression and the tears will come  hope it helped! Spencer | ||
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11-03-2006, 09:24 AM
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Congrats on the film. Personal opinion: If you make it a technical thing, it will never happen. Thinking about crying, or trying to cry will have the exact opposite effect. How much water comes out of your eye is far less important than being real and expressing from whatever place you in at the moment. That being said, in order to get to a point where you MIGHT cry, you need to do the personal homework that entails finding out exactly what makes YOU cry. If you are going to have an organic emotion, then you must know where it comes from in you. Get to know that place that makes you cry as well as possible. (NOT conceptually, you must actually get yourself to that place emotionally and live in it for as long as possible) What did you WANT at that time that you weren't getting that made you sad? What INTENTION did you have? Then, when the time comes to do it in a film, give yourself an intention that will spark the feeling in you that you had before. And the act of carrying out that intention will hopefully bring out the crying.....or, at the very least, a deep, and real performance. | ||
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11-03-2006, 05:52 PM
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i have that one! just think of a person or event that makes you sad or hurt. i would probaly think of a person but you might need something else. i can cry, watching about hurricane katrina made me cry.
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11-04-2006, 08:31 AM
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"Crying on-call"... You must bring up an old tear jerking memory, and secretly relive it from deep within.. while trying to remember that you are acting, and have lines... Add it to your "mental toolbox"... First you need to establish your "Mind's Laboratory"... Close eyes, and see a blank sheet of paper in your "mind's eye"... Draw a single mark on that paper... then a second mark... Try to determine what it is you are drawing, just by studying those lines... then add a third... The moment you finish your drawing, or the moment it finishes itself.. light the paper, to be consumed in fire, and fall to dust... Behind that mind's eye paper is your "Mind's Lab"... Add a couple lab technicians, (or a better word for them would be "technicons"), and add a lab bench... and practice using the mind's lab... When I first established my mind's lab, I instantly established an 8-inch cube of solid pure gold, on the bench... I wanted a square hole in the block of metal, so I took a hand power drill, with a round drill-bit in it, and drilled a square hole right through it.. then I decided I wanted the hole closer to a corner of the block, so I pushed the hole to where I wanted it to be.. then studied my work with pride.. then tossed the block into the trash pail, and it burst into flames, and vanished... Get proficient in using the mind's lab... Later you can simple command your technicons to start work on something, and have it ready to show you it completed, in X amount of days, weeks, months, years..? Immediately after you command the techs to have an order ready in a certain amount of time, feel their immediate reaction... If it's too short a time period, you will sense it, and you will increase the time period until it feels comfortable... You don't want to stress the mind when you put it to work... It's sort of as if you need to establish a momentary split personality.. and be living the two for the moment... In that, it may well be that acting is "controlled insanity"... "Crying on-call"... You must bring up an old tear jerking memory, and secretly relive it from deep within.. while trying to remember that you are acting, and have lines... Add it to your "mental toolbox"... First you need to establish your "Mind's Laboratory"... Close eyes, and see a blank sheet of paper in your "mind's eye"... Draw a single mark on that paper... then a second mark... Try to determine what it is you are drawing, just by studying those lines... then add a third... The moment you finish your drawing, or the moment it finishes itself.. light the paper, to be consumed in fire, and fall to dust... Behind that mind's eye paper is your "Mind's Lab"... Add a couple lab technicians, (or a better word for them would be "technicons"), and add a lab bench... and practice using the mind's lab... When I first established my mind's lab, I instantly established an 8-inch cube of solid pure gold, on the bench... I wanted a square hole in the block of metal, so I took a hand power drill, with a round drill-bit in it, and drilled a square hole right through it.. then I decided I wanted the hole closer to a corner of the block, so I pushed the hole to where I wanted it to be.. then studied my work with pride.. then tossed the block into the trash pail, and it burst into flames, and vanished... Get proficient in using the mind's lab... Later you can simple command your technicons to start work on something, and have it ready to show you it completed, in X amount of days, weeks, months, years..? Immediately after you command the techs to have an order ready in a certain amount of time, feel their immediate reaction... If it's too short a time period, you will sense it, and you will increase the time period until it feels comfortable... You don't want to stress the mind when you put it to work... The last time I used the lab, I commanded my techs to have an electric rocket ready for me to spectate the initial test-firing, 90-days from now... 90-days to the second, something called my attention to the lab, and I dove into trance, and entered the lab, to see that my guys had the thing all built, and ready to fire... I postured myself ten feet out from the barrel, and commanded "FIRE!".. As the beam exited the engine, I dove into the beam, and into the barrel, pausing (freezing Frame), every time the beam changed.. not knowing if this was a safe thing to do.. I just did it.. to study and document the hardware and electronics that caused that modification in the beam.. then reanimated onto the next beam change... It's an electric rocket.. "engines for flying cars".. but the world's scientific community can't even begin to fathom it... Those crazies all call me "crazy" for even mentioning it, and they desperately try to suck the data out of my computers and mind.. and have destroyed four computers in their efforts to rob my ideas.. till I designed, developed, and implemented ways to serious harm attacking remote viewers upon approach... Seems the corporate money world doesn't see any value in something new unless they can steal it outright... At this moment, it seems I am being forced to take these engines to the grave... Too bad too, cuz with them we could visit other solar systems... I guess I'm a little ahead of our time... It feels like I don't belong on this planet... I should just stop my heart for the last time, and leave... _____________ In on-call crying, it's as if you need to establish a momentary "split personality".. and be living the two for the moment... In that, it may well be that acting is actually "controlled insanity"... _____________ Find yourself a video, that has a scene that brings tears to your eyes, and set it into your memory, to be a tool that you can summon as you need it... Another way is to imagine that a hoodlum has murdered all your family, and you have just come home to see the bloody mess all over the house.. but while that one works, it might be an extremely dangerous focus to set into the flows, if you are in any way connected to the powers that be... Or your tear jerker trigger could be in recalling a funeral you attended that left you crying, but that would be a difficult one to recover from, should the scene suddenly take a 180-degree emotional roundabout turn... Find yourself a video, that has a scene that brings tears to your eyes, and set it into your memory, to be a tool that you can summon as you need it... Another way is to imagine that a hoodlum has murdered all your family, and you have just come home to see the bloody mess all over the house.. but while that one works, it might be an extremely dangerous focus to set into the flows, if you are in any way connected to the powers that be... Or a tear jerker trigger could be in recalling a funeral, but that might be a difficult one to recover from, should the scene suddenly take a 180-degree emotional twist... To be an actor, you MUST have on-call control over your emotions... To get that control, you need to maintain your body's amino-acids levels... Go to a drug store, wallmart, or health food stores, and purchase "Amino Acids Complex", or Weider Aminos 2000, and take one a day... Also take daily, a "Jamison Power for men", or a "Centrum Forte"... and if you smoke, take a couple extra vitamin C's daily... And if you need to boost your sex-prowess and passion-emotions, take a Zinc supplement daily... These nutrients are a Must for healthy living.. because our processed foods just don't have what we need these days... Most of the foods we get, the nutrients are nearly all processed out... It's as if they are giving us pre-poop to eat... If you are to act this day.. don't ingest any meat the day before... Digesting meat cripples your thought processing... In this, it may well be that meat eaters make poor actors... All you need to live healthy, is a little meat.. say about half a pound per week... anymore is just bigtime unhealthy... Study the diets of those on Okinawa.. those people truly know what healthy living is all about... Last edited by Edder : 11-08-2006 at 04:35 PM. | ||
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