5 Simple Ways To Improve Your Acting Skills And Change Your Personality

As an aspiring actor, you need to enhance your acting skills that can lead you to a change in your personality. And improving your skills in acting takes a lot of time and can run throughout your life. However, to improve your acting skills, many of you consider attending acting classes in Ghaziabad or any big city such as Delhi and Mumbai. In addition, you can try yourself by using the following the steps/ways mentioned below:

1. Acquire sound knowledge

Before you start working on your skill improvement, you should have a sound idea about acting. Having the requisite idea will help you know what you must have and what you should keep learning. And for this, you should:

• Read books on acting
• Watch more theatre shows, favourite television programs, and films
• Read dramas/plays
• Make notes on the characters you liked most

2. Pay attention to your voice

For an actor, voice is crucial. Your voice is one of a few real assets that you must have as an actor. It is your articulation, breath support, resonance, and expression. Working on it is similar to working on an instrument. You must have a flexible, strong, and connected voice if you wish to tackle the Shakespearean language and Arthur Miller’s emotional demands.

Your voice should be flexible enough so that you can play the role of a character with a strong accent or make the role or a powerful character status. And for having the right voice for a bright acting career, you should:

• Have a voice coach
• Do articulation exercises
• Work on text – reading aloud  

3. Work on your body movement

Like voice, your body movements are your essential asset for your acting career. Working on your body movements is crucial for you, especially when you want to develop nuanced and distinguished characters.

Movement is the area that requires you to work daily if you are serious about having significant improvements soon. Working on it will make you a more expressive or relaxed actor. For having better body movements, you need to:

• Free your body
• Make your mind free
• Lower the limitations
• Be open to more ideas, opportunities, and instructions on body movement
• Perform movement exercises, yoga, Tai Chi,
• Work under a body movement coach

4. Practice reading

Before acting, actors have scripts for their own roles. They have to remember what they have to say while playing their roles before cameras on a director’s instruction. You should read your texts/scripts exactly what you have to do while playing your role. And for this, you can practice reading alone or before a few people. While reading the texts, your voice must be loud so that you can hear yourself or people can listen to what you are speaking. Through constant text practice, you will see noticeable changes in yourself.

5. Practice acting

Keep in mind theoretical training will help you know how to act or play a character’s role. Practical knowledge is crucial if you are serious about having a brighter acting career. As you decide to be an actor, you should start exposing yourself. And for this, you can participate in your school/college functions and play roles in dramas in local theatres. You can make a group of a few people your age and start organising stage shows, especially dramas in your locality.

Take Away

Improving acting skills is a lifelong process. As an aspiring or working actor, you need to keep skill improvements going on. And for this, you should acquire knowledge, tone your voice, work on movement, read texts well, and participate in local stage programs. You will get feedback from the audience. And this will help you have increased confidence and be successful in acting.