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  Does this apply to actor training?

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Barton 2010

Actor training apps so far.

Northbrook students and staff coming in with suggestions of apps they would like for their training:

• quite a few requests for voice apps; programmes for breathing, vocal warm-ups. With some kind of interaction with the user to measure improvement. And incentives; eg extra exercises unlocked after few days use.

• a wii/ playstation etc game that helps you practice different movement training. 
• an app that can record your deliver of lines; then it decodes it and suggests what your objective was. 
• a green screen app; records the actor as against green screen and poses different scenarios and challenges for you to act with. Then you can watch back the video.

    some apps i would like..

• a voice app that registers variation, pitch, volume and makes a graph
• an app to read audience engagement? measure their pulse maybe or visual focus at any given points?
• an app to detect correct volume for specific venues and their vocal demands. it might beep if you fall below certain level.

cross media actors

what kind of presence training does a cross media actor require?

The character i'm playing is tweeting, being filmed, animated, watched, augmented, on facebook, fragmented and cross mediatised. What will best prepare me for that?

the 'director' is not interested in clear or expressive physicality,  good diction, projection or truthfulness. i'm not sure what she is interested in to do with me.

Transmedia & Actor training

Either, transmedia, new media, cross platform, need additional skills which we have to make space for in our actor training.
OR
New technologies mean we have to radically rethink actor training and codify new actor training ideals and methodologies.

Is this a valid question?

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