7 Easy Ways to Memorize Lines for Your Acting Audition | How to Read a Script and Memorize it FAST
What's the fastest way for an actor to read a script and memorize lines for an audition or a job? In this video, I break down how to memorize lines fast seven different ways. These are the memorization techniques that I use for my own auditions. Sometimes I'll use all of them for one audition, other times I'll pick and choose. But having all seven in my tool belt gives me confidence to know that I have other methods to try if one isn't working. Try these out for yourself the next time you need to memorize lines fast.
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What's your favorite way to memorize lines?
@ActingCareerCenter
4 жыл бұрын
@Sonali Bhoke great!
@heliahavvaei3125
3 жыл бұрын
I think record or have someone to help you for your lines is the best but i realy liked that idea to read our lines befor sleep and after wake up
@Karendonthamove
3 жыл бұрын
Acting Career Center, loved them all, but the last three, did it for me.😀😀😀💙💙💙
@tankkelly3571
3 жыл бұрын
Wooow this great
@HistoryHighwithLisaMarrie
3 жыл бұрын
I write down the lines, read before I go to sleep and then put the script under my pillow (I've done the pillow thing since hugh school).
The best memorizing technique is to ask questions about the script, like why I'm saying that? Why I'm behaving like this? What happened before this? This will help you alot :)
@ActingCareerCenter
4 жыл бұрын
Great recommendation!
@Vikassinghx
4 жыл бұрын
@@ActingCareerCenter thanks sir :)
@ActingCareerCenter
4 жыл бұрын
@@Vikassinghx thanks for sharing!
@HeritageDrPepper
2 жыл бұрын
Bruh, after all this time I never thought to *marry the two* Augh, you're a genius, thank you!
@joecook5689
2 жыл бұрын
Si. Good job.
I love the part when he JUST wakes up, puts on his glasses, and says "PREPARE TO DIE"
So, here’s the list of the ways to memorize: -Transcribe the lines -Reduce every word to the first letter only(used when you already know the lines fairly well) -Rehearse with another person -Record and Rehearse -Reed through RIGHT before you go to sleep -Read through RIGHT as you wake up -Do an activity while rehearsing Hope this helps!
@double0pium
3 жыл бұрын
You just got me an A thank you 🙏
@ashbinfrancis2931
3 жыл бұрын
💖
@ArunMPEdison
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, great tips, and lost count of the number of techniques. Almost all of them were new but First Letter Indexing is definitely compact and going to try after during the writing and transcribing.
@stephenrogers2164
2 жыл бұрын
So helpful. Thank you!
@codedstar25shotz29
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
As an educator, all of this makes perfect sense. Basically, you're using all of the different learning styles (visual, audio, kinesthetic, etc). Very cool to see it in this kind of application.
@finallyfree2BMe
3 жыл бұрын
Now I know how to study for them college and work exams! Wish someone would have taught me this memory trick in high school
@LaDiam-jz2jk
Жыл бұрын
yesssssssss
The clips actually killed me!😂 Feel free to come to my funeral!
Line learner- best app I’ve ever downloaded, beats getting a recording tape and allows you to rehearse lines while doing an other activity (even with your phone off). Highly recommend.
Just got an audition for the first time in over a year! I feel like your videos for sure helped and keep my passion alive.
I love these videos and I thing everyone else does to
@ActingCareerCenter
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@aaliyah.7655
3 жыл бұрын
I sure do
@annalacher
3 жыл бұрын
I definitely do too! 😌😊
@GLITCHED1
3 жыл бұрын
Damn straight!
@ericsanduprisacaru7655
3 жыл бұрын
@@ActingCareerCenter ROLL THE OUTRO AND CREDITS!
Here are my favourite ways to memorize lines: 1. Rehearse with a person 2. Record and Rehearse 3. Add an activity 4. Memorizing my lines before sleep
Thanks Kurt some great tips here! My memory isn't the best so I use any help I can get! One of the things that I do that helps me is that once I have my lines to roughly how I intend to deliver them I then read the script and record myself going through my lines. I then play this back to myself on repeat at times when I'm able to. It could be in the car, the bathroom etc. Even if I'm not consciously listening my sub conscious picks it up in the same way that we know the lyrics to a song because we've heard it so many times.
Rewriting my notes for school always helped me. I also did time lines
Many thanks, hand writing the script while reading it outloud, then recitying it many times; plus reading it just before I sleep and first thing when I get up are my three favoutite tips. Once I learn the script; I recite it to my son, wife or friend outloud from my head, without looking at any papers.
Have a big audition on Wednesday and today is Saturday. I still have to do university work and regular work until then, so I don't have that much time. I don't have to know it word by word exactly. I hope I can do it. I will just treat it like a big monologue and practice it in one piece. I think it's better than chopping it up.
This is great! Thank you! I have also reaped memorization rewards from paralleling the lines after I have read them a couple of times. As soon as I feel like I understand the scene and have an intention or objective to win, then I will say my lines and fumble through it in my own words whilst still keeping my intention throughout. It helps alot with perspective - learned that in acting class.
@ActingCareerCenter
4 жыл бұрын
Great suggestion. Thanks for sharing!
My favorite memorization technique is to take my sides on a long walk. While I'm walking I'm memorizing. I don't know why but I can get off book really fast that way.
@joecook5689
2 жыл бұрын
What does get off book mean? And what does taking sides for a walk mean?
@DebbieBanos
2 жыл бұрын
@@joecook5689 hey there! Getting Off Book just means to memorize your lines as in not having to have your face in your book. When I say taking sides for a walk I just mean memorizing while walking around outside.
@joecook5689
2 жыл бұрын
@@DebbieBanos thanks, debbie. After I hit send I was like, wait, I think I get what getting off book means. I was right. You confirmed. Thanks again.
I tend to use a combo of scoring and using a recorder. Also, I find that memorizing in 20-minute chunks with a 10-minute break in between chunks helps, too, while also making sure to memorize without any inflection at all, so that I don't get trapped in a particular delivery!
@ActingCareerCenter
4 жыл бұрын
Great recommendations. Agree with all of it!
You talked about the mnemonic part but I never believed it would work but then you talked about the Oscar winning actress so I decided to give it a shot and I read an entire paragraph from the movie dark knights from script slug (Thanks a lot for the recommendation) just once and I typed down the first letters of each word on notepad and opened the notepad file and it worked, I could remember the entire paragraph! Thanks so much you made my work soooo much easier and you are such a great inspiration and I very much truly hope that you win an Oscar :)
I literally just did a virtual audition two 2hrs ago. They liked it, but if i had seen this video, i probably could've done even better.
I just had to come back 1 week later and let you know I still remember the lines you went over in this video. I didn't study them over the week either. I can't believe I retained this information without studying every single day. I realize that it was only one sentence, but I have trouble remembering what I had for breakfast sometimes! I can't thank you enough for sharing how to do this. I've put it in to action for other things I want to remember and will definitely be using this any time I need to memorize lines. I have a long paragraph im trying to remember now so I'm going to try the thing where you read every night before fall asleep and every day when 1st wake up along with the letter thing.
Love these tips! Thank you!
Helpful. Thank you!
Such great advice. So happy to have found your channel.
Really appreciated!!
So helpful!! thank you
The second technique initialing each word including punctuation it definitely works.
@ActingCareerCenter
4 жыл бұрын
Yep, it absolutely does. Thanks for watching!
@floweryoung8931
3 жыл бұрын
The second technique is new to me, I'm gonna try it. Thank you so much.
Great stuff. Thanks!
Great techniques, thank you! Love your demonstrations!
I’m so glad I found your channel! Thank you for all of your insight.
I discovered your channel this morning and I love it. I’ve watched like 20 videos already.
Such a helpful video!!! Thanks so much!!!
What a nice, bright, helpful dude for aspiring actors. Thanks, mate.
The One where a friend or family member plays the scene with you, I thought was An Amazing Idea!
I do love all the memorizing techniques you shared with us 👍 that was awesome
Enjoyed this video!!! Good work.
These were all very helpful!! Thank you Kurt!
Great video! I loved your famous line readings!
This is very useful, thanks! I just signed up for your audition cheat sheet!
Extremely helpful tips. Thank you so much!
You are great love all of them. Will be trying them all.
Thank you for creating these videos. It helps so much!
Amazing! Very useful tips! Thank you so much
Amazing techniques❤thanks buddy
very good techniques, thank you so much.
This was great. Thank you for sharing these tips. Much appreciated.
Love your cut scenes. I have learnt so much from you, thank you for everything you do.
Wow I was struggling... these tips really helped... love the writing out each letter... and recording the opposite lines
your such a lengend mate, helping me get inspierd and grow in the industry, thank you
I love you for this. Thank you.🥰
Great recommendations for memorizing. Never thought of tips 1 & 2 before. Thanks!
This seriously helped a lot, thank you!!
Fantastic tips! Your pace in teaching the steps is easy-going, natural, and therefore, memorable! Thank you!
OMG, these tips are just amazing!! thanks for sharing them with us
Thank you for your good advices.
Wow a wealth of info. Thanks you you’re a gem.
A brilliant advice from a cool teacher.
Very useful! Thank so much for such a great video. 😊
Great new tips and very helpful different variations of techniques I use.
Amazing tips thank you. So kind of y sharing this with us!!.
I love all 7 techniques. I already use several of them. 😆 Will add the others to my repertoire. THANKS!
Love these tips...some of them I was already doing! I like the doing an activity after you've internalized the lines.
I'm definitly going to use them... Thanks for the tips!
Great tips... thanks so much for sharing the knowledge!
Thank you for the information.
This is the best approach I've seen yet. Very helpful!
Thank you! Super helpful.
Very neat!! Exceptional advice, thank you!!!
The activity is so so so important, it’s a whole different game . Great stuff
Thanks guy! Excellent!
Kurt i really appreciate everything you do. Ive almost watched every video youve uploaded and i cant stress enough how much ive learnt from you. Great content and humour makes me never get bored
Thank you so much this was very helpful
You are sooo amazing. Thank you for this video... Thank you for all you do.
Woaw this first and second techniques actually works
I would like to say thank you, for a great piece of advice on varius ways , we can improve a-pound our technique of memorization.
This was really helpful. I am going to use all of the techniques. THANK YOU.
Nice tips, thanks Kurt 👍
Thanks Kurt for sharing some great tips. I love reducing every word in the line to the first letter. Great advice 👍
The time stamps were really helpful!
I do several of the memorization tecinques that you do. My favorite is writing the lines down, and reading them over and over again. My second favorite is recording the lines into my phone, and listening to it as I walk, drive or any other activity. Thank you for sharing all of these awesome tips.
Thank you very much. I will follow you recommendations.
OMG - this is totally awesome, The single letter in the margin method is amazing!! Really works! WOW!
Each technique Kurt provided is extremely helpful for memorizing. Thank you!
Finally, someone is giving practical tips that CAN BE used. Thank you so much 🌸
Good tips. The first letter one was new. I’ll try it.
I liked the ways you mentioned and i will use them in my next movie role .. thanks for these amazing advice
This is actually helpful, thank you so much
I officially have been using you as an audition and career advice guru lol thanks for all the advice Kurt and keep it up!
The best explanation sir
Yes! LOVE THIS!
i have a video audition to submit so i came to this video to know how to memorize the lines and the one about recording myself as another person, that one really helps. thank you very much kurt. youre awesome.
Thank you so much, Kurt!
Very Helpful and Educational videos
Thank you I have to major roles with a tone of lines. This is all helpful. I will do this all!
Thank you so much, the 7tips is very useful 👍
Fantastic!!! Thank you!!! Some of these I naturally do and learned some great new techniques!~ Awesome. Im loving your videos Kurt! Thanks a million!IM going to try them all today, Im excited to try the one letter and lines with task! I have to lay out a self tape today for class while Im in quarantine in Australia returning from Ojai! Have a great day! Blessings, 'Iolani
Gonna try them all
Thank you good sir! These are very helpful
Thank you so very much mr Kurt you are amazing and you are my mentor
This is such great advice and all of these techniques take time and dedication. I’ve used all of them to learn reams of texts in recent years. When I don’t have the time or situation where I can use them, I struggle. I had to work long hours in the lead up to an audition just last week so couldn’t use my usual approach (which sets the foundation) and I had to pull out of the audition because I knew the lines weren’t embedded enough to do the scene justice. Seeing this video has confirmed to me, the importance of those crucial steps. Also getting enough sleep so your memory and focus can be sharp.
All of the techniques are of great help to me especially the copying of the lines or writing the first letter of each word in the line and the little voice recorder... I am grateful sir. Thank you