(LPS) Directing 1st Session Notes

Guide posts

1.) The Moment Before
2.) What are you fighting for?
3.) Where is the love in the scene.

For the directing the LPS work the guideposts should be in a different order.

1.) What are you fighting for?
2.) Where is the love in the scene / What type of love is in the scene for you as the actor...
3.) What is your moment before. ( when you get this the LPS director should be transitioning the moment before, moving chairs, setting up and defining "place & time"

We / I currently don't do this and will be making this modification to the LPS work. To provide the perception that the directing portion of the LPS is shorter.

Currently the time durations are as follows

3 min. to read
4 min. to direct
7 min. to work / perform

NLP & the work - its all in the syntax and the eyes.

Visual, auditory and Kinesthetic -

Identifying eye accessing cues, and language clues.

Knowing how the actors you direct process information will provide the director with the ability to create rapid induction and heightened rapport for the directed suggestions.

The question came up is it fair / right to manipulate, influence the relationship and or the trust of the cast and each other for the sake of the work? How do you know you have the actors permission to discover how they process information without their knowledge. Pretty sure this topic will be debated for a long time.

My initial take is the following - My goal is to create not just good functional acting and directing but the work that takes your breath away and leaves an audience in awe if for only an instant and repeat it. This work has the potential to creates timeless, memorial film moments.

I guess you could say do the ends justify the means? For me they do. However I will never use the skills I have been taught and will teach the directing crew to hijack any actors dreams for my own or the dreams of the entity or group. Its kinda like Google mission "don't be evil" Collectively the "we" of the company has to want "it" 24 /7 /365 it must be a passion.

Targeted intuition, guided NLP pacing when added to the instant rapport power of the guideposts and rapid induction strategies described in the book blink are powerful to say the least. These strategies are some of the key skills which opens the doorway to being able to create the outstanding acting and directing work that makes the LPS and this work at times amazing. If that is not enough incentive for this type of work, I don't know what would be stronger or more compelling. Since the acting and the directing work can't truly function independently if either party violates the trust in the goal of this type of work it all falls apart and you / I / the company would have to start all over again square one. The Magic of truly working in the moment rapidly disintegrates without the trust by all parties.

Eye Accessing cues. break down in the following areas.

1. Past - Future
2. Visual, Auditory, Kinesthic.

Modeling - Defined

NLP modeling is a method or strategy of learning that occurs as a function of observing or rather a model itself, retaining and replicating patterns of language and behavior observed in others. It is most often associated with the work of Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder who implemented some of the seminal studies in the area and initiated Neuro-linguistic programming.[1]

Modeling project

This theory holds that masters of a skill often fail to take into account the implicit processes involved in carrying out complex skills when they are teaching novices. To combat these tendencies, NLP modeling projects are designed to unconsciously assimilate the tacit processes. In order for modeling to be successful, the learner works on minimizing preconceptions with access to the master (although modeling from books, historical records of people's words, or video is not unknown), and engages in unconscious micro-muscle modeling so as to accurately reproduce the desired skill.

A "modeling project" involves spending time studying and observing in depth, discussing, and imitating and practicing many different aspects of the subject's thoughts, feelings, beliefs and behaviors (ie, acting ""as if" the modeler is the expert) until the modeler can replicate these with some consistency and precision. Once this has been achieved, the modeler then refines the target skills by removing certain features to eventually discover the essential features distinguishing average performance and top performance, thus building a learnable/transferable model, and tests it by seeing if it can be taught.

The aim of NLP modeling is to discover the elements of what the expert is doing that the expert is not aware of. [2]

“ When modeling another person the modeler suspends his or her own beliefs and adopts the structure of the physiology, language, strategies, and beliefs of the person being modeled. After the modeler is capable of behaviorally reproducing the patterns (of behavior, communication, and behavioral outcomes) of the one being modeled, a process occurs in which the modeler modifies and readopts his or her own belief system while also integrating the beliefs of the one who was modeled.

Because they are extraordinarily skilled at this way of learning, Bandler and Grinder were able to ferret out the essential patterns used by Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, and others, to codify these patterns in a succinct, understandable way, and to transfer the skills to others who are interested in learning them.[3] ”

The NLP theory behind modeling does not state that anyone can be Einstein. Rather it says that know-how can be separated from the person, documented and transferred experientially, and that the ability to perform the skills can be transferred subject to the modelers own limits, which can change, and improves with practice.