Emotional And Sense Memory

Emotional and Sense Memory

Two tools that Actors can use to help them better play their roles are emotional and sense memory. Emotional memory deals with the problem of finding a substitution in order to release emotions. Sense memory is the recall of physical sensations. Emotional memory is where you use an object or a picture and think about how you felt when you saw it, and that brings about emotions of sadness, anger, happiness or anything. Like instead of thinking of something sad to make yourself cry, you could think of a present that your ex-boyfriend that you really liked gave you, and then remember how you felt when he broke up with you, and you will be sad. You must have some distance from the experience though, or else