MOMENT BEFORE + MOMENT AFTER
🥶 Most actors freeze during the intro and again during the outro.
Don’t do that!
👈 The MOMENT BEFORE is more than a pause, it’s ignition. What just happened that cracked your heart open and made the song inevitable?
The intro is not dead space. It’s story time. Start acting the moment the music begins — with breath, movement, thought, and discovery.
👉 The MOMENT AFTER matters just as much. Don’t drop the character the second the vocal ends. Stay in it. Keep breathing. Let the ripple land.
Keep acting 3 seconds beyond the last note of the piano. Think thoughts as the character and keep moving. Then slowly melt back into yourself.
📹 Pro tip: film yourself and watch it back. Are you really acting before and after the song, or just during?
