As an actor you are required to be able to elicit emotion. Stanislavski’s questions help produce such emotion through performances. Stanislavski’s questions are a series of questions which assist actors to enhance the emotion in their performance to make them more convincing. The method which was produced by Constantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor and director, was based on the concept of emotional memory in which an actor is able to focus on internally portraying a character’s emotions onstage. This questions were the result of Stanislavski’s hard work to discover how someone can control the most intangible and uncontrollable aspects of human behavior, such as emotions and art inspiration in their performance.
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The sixth question is, what do I want? This is what your character desires to accomplish in a scene. The goals of a character can change from scene to scene and even inside the scene. This question is very important for an actor because it gives the actor an objective to carryout throughout each scene. It gives life and meaning to the character because this is what the character want therefore motivating them to do something. For example if the character wants chocolate but doesn’t have money, his objective will to get money to buy the chocolate, so in the end he might borrow money from his friends.
The seventh question is, why do I want this? This is when you have to know why the character carries out something. What significance does it have to your character? Why is this happening? It gives the action that is taking place life. This question is very important in understanding why a character does certain things. For example, if the character was buying food because he was hungry, the purpose of what he is doing is because he is hungry.
The eighth question is, how will I achieve this goal? The actions needed to be performed to achieve what the character wants. After understanding what the goals, you have to find a way in achieving that goal. This helps the actor understand what is supposed to be done and how it is supposed to be down. If it is going to the mall, getting a ride from your parents to get