This term refers to one of the most powerful tools an actor can apply in her craft. Images come from sense memory, imagination and immediate stimuli. We do not usually refer to the other actor, the set or setting as a set of images but this is exactly what they are. Available images and imagined images can be referred to as available stimulus and imaginary stimulus. Available images or stimuli are physically present. Imaginary images or stimuli are created through the use of sense memory and imagination. The ability to be specific or notice images is about the actor's ability to connect to and receive the detail. Being specific with the images gives the actor two very strong anchors. The first is the feeling of security, the second is the 'object' that causes the reaction. Instead of manufacturing or creating a reaction artificially, the actor uses the images to cause or stimulate the reaction organically. It is much preferable to react than predetermine or predict reaction. Traditionally we understand that the actor uses sense memory which leads to emotional memory to cause a reaction. More specifically it is about the actor choosing the stimuli that most suits the reaction she needs to support the obligations of the scene. Being specific about the chosen stimuli will keep the emotional responses organically connected. The more specific the images created by the actor the more material or stimulus she has to refer to. The more specific the images the greater the likelihood of an emotional response.
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