This study is purposed to identify how acting games help the development of imagination which is an essential factor in acting training for actors and present the specific games. This study has, however, limitations in the application to actual traini...
This study is purposed to identify how acting games help the development of imagination which is an essential factor in acting training for actors and present the specific games. This study has, however, limitations in the application to actual training as it is an approach utilizing various academic theses and literature.
Imagination is a mental phenomenon arising from personal interest in certain subjects. Generally, it is believed that imaginations occur from individual actions of human brains independent of external stimuli. But E. Husserl says that all of human consciousness is exterior oriented and related to certain subjects. Not only that, Gaston Bachelard relates that imagination is a phenomenon of thinking that appears by the interest of each individual in external stimuli, i.e., concrete physical existences called subjects. That is, imagination is one of valuable human potentials that can become a motive to make new things.
The value of imagination is in the creation of images that are the products of human mental activities. Images are the sensual reproductions of certain subjects and such encapsulating works help actors make the reality out of fictitious beings and concrete forms.
There are games as the means to help the creation of images. Excitement, the essential property of games makes participants absorbed in the processes and concentration is developed through it. Also, concentration brings about the development of imagination by enhancing of association effects of images. Therefore, it can be seen that imagination is an effective method for the development of imagination.
Acting games are a type of games based on the imagination of actors which is one of the method for actor training. The concrete effects of acting games on actor training can be largely divided into the removal of metal barriers and the removal of physical barriers. The removal of mental barriers allows actors to focus on their roles and the removal of physical barriers allow the internal stimuli of actors to be followed by the acquisition of the motive of actions or physical expressions. This researcher divided the methods of training in acting games into the method using mental stimuli , the method using physical stimuli and the method using spot performances to research for the two effects. Mental stimuli and physical stimuli are the processes of the training of imagination and spot performances are the extension of the training that show what effects are exerted if the foregoing types of training are reflected on dramas. The effects to be obtained through the 3 types of training are as follows.
First, mental stimuli remove tensions, the mental stimuli for the training for the strengthening of concentration enhance the ability to recreate roles and the mental stimuli for the remembrance of emotion enhances the ability to encapsulate the casts. Eventually actors become to learn the processes of image associations and creations.
Second, Physical stimuli remove tensions through the relaxation of muscles and the physical stimuli for the training of bodily senses give the perceptions of interactions of 5 senses and the physical impulses that initiate physical movements. Therefore, physical stimuli bring about the stabilization of bodies and bodily stabilization helps the enhancement of imagination and bodily expressions.
Third, spot performances bring about the identification of the result of the training on mental·physical stimuli and the development of imagination by developing immediate and reflexive emotional responses to subjects. Also, through the characteristics owned by spot performances, actors become to develop instantaneous reactionary abilities, abilities to think logically and the ability to interpret scenarios. Consequently, spot performances play an important role in the development of the creative imagination of actors by making them to use entire minds and bodies.
It is a basic and essential requirement for actors to become free through the overcome of the mental or physical barriers and enhance imagination through the free activities to associate images. This thesis examined the correlation between the characteristics owned by the games and performances and researched the usefulness of games in the development of imagination in an actor training.