Foundation Senses - Memory Exercises (Method Acting Exercises Introduction)

A few months ago my acting for screen teacher Kelly gave my class and I method acting booklets to complete in our own time but before the end of the college year. It's my 49th day in Quarantine and I have completed all of the work I am supposed too and remembered about this booklet, so what better time to complete it! There are 4 tasks in the booklet that range in difficulty (I would say), so I'm going to make it my mission to complete a method acting task and write a blog post about each acting exercise (and make them as interesting as possible at the same time!).

At the start of the booklet there is a short introduction into why we're completing each of these tasks; 

'Lee Strasberg was a Polish-American actor, director, and theatre practitioner. In 1951 he became director of the non profit Actors studio in New York City, considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school", Strasberg urged his students to adopt a daily habit of asking themselves what sensory experiences they had and then noting down those detailed memories about weather, sounds, people, sights, activities or food. This increases your power of observation, as well as your ability to share with others unfamiliar with our methods what we had seen, smelled, heard, touched and tasted. You could also look at one simple object like, say, a matchbox and using each sense to memorize everything about it, then test your memories to see how much you had remembered, with no detail thought of as irrelevant.'

I'm excited to complete these exercises and broaden my skills when it comes to method acting. I understand that lots of actors use method acting whilst preparing for roles, who knows, maybe I will adapt to these lessons and use them every time I perform!