Emotion memory

In rehearsal our BTEC level three drama class studied "emotion memory"; "emotion memory" is a technique that an actor can use to display real emotion while performing, emotional memory is where an actor thinks of a memory that makes them feel a certain way in order to make a performance believable. For example if an actor needed to convey anger the can think back to a time in their life where they were particularly angry to generate real emotion on stage, this technique when performed can generate more believable reactions, line deliverance and facial/body expression. In this rehearsal session we sat in a circle and individual members of the class where picked to tell the group about something in there life that had happened and made them feel emotional, a variety of emotions where expressed such as anger, sadness, fear and happiness. After a member of the class was picked to share a memory they then told to perform basic tasks given to us by our tutor, tasks included reciting children’s stories and directed scenes while imagining telling the story we shared Imagine this technique to be helpful in my scene because becomes extremely irritated so in order to convey I shall try and think back to a time in my life where I was particularly irritated and I shall use this in my performance. In order to use “Emotion memory” effectively memories that are used must have really happened in order to use this technique effectively and to generate real emotion. Stanislavski in an attempt to find a way of creating real emotion on stage formed this technique to be part of his system.