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Acting: Face to Face 2nd Edition: The Actor's Guide to Understanding How Your Face Communicates Emotion for TV and Film
Master your facial expressions...
... complete your on-camera training...
.... change your life.
Contrary to popular belief, the camera doesn’t magically place emotion or thought on your face - YOU do.
Here’s the thing about facial communication… your face speaks an emotional, cognitive and emblematic language. Knowing how to speak this language fluently and authentically is a skill and often the difference between booking the on-camera job or not.
Is this you?
Are you often told your facial expressions are too big, too small, too messy?Does your face frequently fail to represent what you’re really feeling inside?Do your headshots fail to capture who you really are?Is your face uncontrollable - Can’t stop it from moving? Can’t get it to move?Are you unable to figure out how to get what you feel and think on your face the way you intend?
Mastering how your face speaks to the camera starts here.
Face-to-Face, the Actor’s Guide to Understanding How Your Face Communicates Emotion for TV & Film is the first book in a two-book series about speaking what I call, “The Language of the Face.”
Our journey begins with-
Why only a small percentage of on-camera actors get the majority of the workWhat those actors do differently than the restWhy acting is an art of deception and why deception is the key to truthful actingWhy your facial messages may not be expressed the way we intend.
Then we’ll take a deep dive into-
The science of emotions -The 3 ways emotions are facially expressedHow to identify your personal emotion creating and revealing strengths and weaknessesThe 4 steps to achieving “Emotional Alignment”- The balance between what you feel and what your face reveals.
What’s new in the expanded 2nd edition?
Updated “Myths and Misconceptions.” chapter.What we've learned from mask-wearing.Deeper dive into EYE COMMUNICATION - what the eyes can and can’t say.35 new photos to illustrate specificity and subtlety of emotional expression.
Also added are 3 brand NEW chapters including a mini version of the proprietary Emotion Screen Test (EST).
The EST is a guided in-depth self-evaluation of your own facial expressions. Its main purpose is to help you clearly evaluate your emotion creating and revealing strengths and weaknesses.
Are ready to finally complete your on-camera training?
I’m pretty certain you’ll love this comprehensive book on facial communication because it’s easy to follow and the information you’ll take away may not only game-changing, it may very well be life-changing.
Let the journey begin…
... complete your on-camera training...
.... change your life.
Contrary to popular belief, the camera doesn’t magically place emotion or thought on your face - YOU do.
Here’s the thing about facial communication… your face speaks an emotional, cognitive and emblematic language. Knowing how to speak this language fluently and authentically is a skill and often the difference between booking the on-camera job or not.
Is this you?
Are you often told your facial expressions are too big, too small, too messy?Does your face frequently fail to represent what you’re really feeling inside?Do your headshots fail to capture who you really are?Is your face uncontrollable - Can’t stop it from moving? Can’t get it to move?Are you unable to figure out how to get what you feel and think on your face the way you intend?
Mastering how your face speaks to the camera starts here.
Face-to-Face, the Actor’s Guide to Understanding How Your Face Communicates Emotion for TV & Film is the first book in a two-book series about speaking what I call, “The Language of the Face.”
Our journey begins with-
Why only a small percentage of on-camera actors get the majority of the workWhat those actors do differently than the restWhy acting is an art of deception and why deception is the key to truthful actingWhy your facial messages may not be expressed the way we intend.
Then we’ll take a deep dive into-
The science of emotions -The 3 ways emotions are facially expressedHow to identify your personal emotion creating and revealing strengths and weaknessesThe 4 steps to achieving “Emotional Alignment”- The balance between what you feel and what your face reveals.
What’s new in the expanded 2nd edition?
Updated “Myths and Misconceptions.” chapter.What we've learned from mask-wearing.Deeper dive into EYE COMMUNICATION - what the eyes can and can’t say.35 new photos to illustrate specificity and subtlety of emotional expression.
Also added are 3 brand NEW chapters including a mini version of the proprietary Emotion Screen Test (EST).
The EST is a guided in-depth self-evaluation of your own facial expressions. Its main purpose is to help you clearly evaluate your emotion creating and revealing strengths and weaknesses.
Are ready to finally complete your on-camera training?
I’m pretty certain you’ll love this comprehensive book on facial communication because it’s easy to follow and the information you’ll take away may not only game-changing, it may very well be life-changing.
Let the journey begin…
199 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 24, 2021
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About the author
John Sudol
3 books1 followerAlthough John has been teaching acting for over 30 years, there’s much more to John’s story. During that time, he has worked successfully as an actor as well as a director. He was the Artistic Director and resident playwright of the 65th Street Theater in Seattle and the Co-Founder of Performing Actor’s Studio in Los Angeles.
During his Seattle days, in addition to running a theater and teaching, John also co-founded Casting Northwest, which cast numerous national and regional commercials, theatrical productions, features, voice-overs and led several talent searches in the Northwest for ABC.
Returning to LA, John continued casting, working as a session director for some of the busiest casting directors in town while simultaneously acting, teaching and working as a screenwriter and story editor. But it was the years he spent in casting that most inspired his work in The Language of the Face. He realized that the hardest thing for the majority of actors to do was to come up with a real, recognizable reaction on demand. All this culminated in John writing two bestselling books Acting: Face to Face (2013) and Acting: Face to Face 2 (2015). These two books continue to sell globally and have resulted in John being known as the “Go-To Emotion Specialist.”
John has dedicated the bulk of his career to studying and understanding emotions and how that applies to artistic expression. He’s done this by studying the work of leading scientific researchers in the field of emotions. This study has made him an expert in not only how we do express emotion, but the various reasons that some people may actually fail to do so.
Developing the Language of the Face and the classes that go along with it has been John’s quest and passion. Currently, he teaches workshops, classes, seminars to actors, directors, animators and business professional around the world and most recently has made his entire curriculum available online for the first time (emotiontrainingcenter.com). It is the most comprehensive and deepest dive in online acting classes to date. In addition, he publishes articles in trade papers and blogs and is one of Backstage’s expert contributors.
What John prides himself most in his unique teaching process is that he gives his students more than just tips and tricks, but the very real, applicable tools they need to increase their level of skill. This gives them the confidence to achieve their goals, which translates directly into having a successful acting career.
His philosophy has always been to take in the whole actor in order to -
Educate, Inspire and Empower...
John’s holistic approach is not just for actors, but anyone who has a passion to go beyond what they think is possible. Each one of those 3 words has a specific meaning:
To Educate: This is not just about sharing information, but keeping the information current and as applicable as possible. Theory is fun at dinner parties but doesn’t necessarily help us in the real world of acting. John is constantly working with the top casting directors, agents and managers to stay on top of current trends and integrate those into his teaching.
To Inspire: To inspire someone, John delves into the individual's beliefs to find what they think they are capable of accomplishing. Together they work on expanding those that are limiting and dispel the ones that do not serve. When this is accomplished a new world with new possibilities opens up. Each actor is unique. They hear and take in information differently. So, to inspire someone to be better than what they thought they could be, he must know each actor on an individual level.
To Empower: To John, empowering is about raising an actor’s level of skill. This has two sides to it. The first is learning to understand how to break down and interpret the source material or script. This is about making choices. The other side is executing the choices you make. The more the actor is able to fuse these two sides
During his Seattle days, in addition to running a theater and teaching, John also co-founded Casting Northwest, which cast numerous national and regional commercials, theatrical productions, features, voice-overs and led several talent searches in the Northwest for ABC.
Returning to LA, John continued casting, working as a session director for some of the busiest casting directors in town while simultaneously acting, teaching and working as a screenwriter and story editor. But it was the years he spent in casting that most inspired his work in The Language of the Face. He realized that the hardest thing for the majority of actors to do was to come up with a real, recognizable reaction on demand. All this culminated in John writing two bestselling books Acting: Face to Face (2013) and Acting: Face to Face 2 (2015). These two books continue to sell globally and have resulted in John being known as the “Go-To Emotion Specialist.”
John has dedicated the bulk of his career to studying and understanding emotions and how that applies to artistic expression. He’s done this by studying the work of leading scientific researchers in the field of emotions. This study has made him an expert in not only how we do express emotion, but the various reasons that some people may actually fail to do so.
Developing the Language of the Face and the classes that go along with it has been John’s quest and passion. Currently, he teaches workshops, classes, seminars to actors, directors, animators and business professional around the world and most recently has made his entire curriculum available online for the first time (emotiontrainingcenter.com). It is the most comprehensive and deepest dive in online acting classes to date. In addition, he publishes articles in trade papers and blogs and is one of Backstage’s expert contributors.
What John prides himself most in his unique teaching process is that he gives his students more than just tips and tricks, but the very real, applicable tools they need to increase their level of skill. This gives them the confidence to achieve their goals, which translates directly into having a successful acting career.
His philosophy has always been to take in the whole actor in order to -
Educate, Inspire and Empower...
John’s holistic approach is not just for actors, but anyone who has a passion to go beyond what they think is possible. Each one of those 3 words has a specific meaning:
To Educate: This is not just about sharing information, but keeping the information current and as applicable as possible. Theory is fun at dinner parties but doesn’t necessarily help us in the real world of acting. John is constantly working with the top casting directors, agents and managers to stay on top of current trends and integrate those into his teaching.
To Inspire: To inspire someone, John delves into the individual's beliefs to find what they think they are capable of accomplishing. Together they work on expanding those that are limiting and dispel the ones that do not serve. When this is accomplished a new world with new possibilities opens up. Each actor is unique. They hear and take in information differently. So, to inspire someone to be better than what they thought they could be, he must know each actor on an individual level.
To Empower: To John, empowering is about raising an actor’s level of skill. This has two sides to it. The first is learning to understand how to break down and interpret the source material or script. This is about making choices. The other side is executing the choices you make. The more the actor is able to fuse these two sides
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