The Basic skills that we need to master in order to become successful actors and actresses.
Wow! Acting class with Madam Joanna Bessey. Actually, we only had our interaction with her for about 45 minutes which started at 11.45am until 12.30 pm. Why? Emm... We had to go down and have out lunch!
This was what we had done.... Again, we started the class with a warm up session. In that class, we focused on our voice projecting's exercise. Madam Joanna said she did that before she acted. It really helps us to have consistent voice projection. Other than that, it helps us to deliver and acts out our script clearly and efficiently.
What aspects to drill? 1. Breathing skills 2. Voice projection from the upper parts (head) and abdomen parts (stomach/diaphragm). 3. Shake our body to make our body less stiff. 4. We should train ourself to be confident to act in front of the camera and the audience.
Introducing Joanna Bessey
Joanna Bessey explaIned to us a little bit about the acting class she conducted.
Joanna Bessey is an Asian film and television actress from Malaysia. She was born in the year of 1976. Her father is British and her mother is Malaysian. Her husband is Aurel Wunderer and had a son named Aditya.
Joanna is an award-winning actress and acted in a lot of film and television series. She involved as an actress in 'Kopitiam', 'Waris Jari Hantu', Lips to Lips', '1957-Hati Malaya' and 'Buli'. 'Kopitiam' was awarded the Asian Televisions Awards (Singapore). In 2000, Joanna won the Best Female Artists by a public online poll.
Bella Awards 2013
Joanna Bessey was nominated for the 'Bella On-Stage' Award.
Our findings
Basically, this was the information we obtained from Madam Joanna Bessey in her Acting Class.