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October 15, 2015 – June 15, 2016
• Monday – Thursday 4:00 to to 6:30pm
OCTOBER “Inside Out”
- WEEK I: Examining what it is to be an actor. Getting rid of your inhibitions through relaxation techniques and improvisation to fully open you up to letting go.
- WEEK II: Exploring acting through exercises and improvisations.
- WEEK III: A session on analyzing acting on film by watching scenes from famous films. Guidelines for getting you started on your acting journals, analyzing the acting in one film a week, using films from different periods. Some weeks actors will choose the film.
- Continuing with voice and physical work.
NOVEMBER
- WEEK II/ III: Actors given scenes to work on. How to analyze a scene. Repetition exercises and improvisations using the characters from the scenes before learning the lines. This leads to performing the scenes in your own words which then leads to the scene’s text coming from within you.
- WEEK IV: Analyzing filmed scenes. A session on the history of film acting. Improvisations using acting styles from different periods. Monologues chosen. Exercises in “public solitude” and improvisation to arrive at performing monologues (as in scene work). Analysis of the scripts.
DECEMBER
- WEEK II – III: Improvising, performing, filming and analyzing monologues.
- 20th to January 7th – Winter Holiday
JANUARY ”Outside In”
- WEEK II– How to use your voice. Vocal and breathing techniques useful for theatre or film acting. How a character can effect how you use your voice. Work on English pronunciation where required.
- WEEK III – Focusing on the physicality of a character through mime, movement and improvisational exercises.
- WEEK IV: – Creating character through voice and movement.
FEBRUARY
- Casting workshop. How do we use the improve work we have done to think on your feet in a cold reading? How do you use your scene analysis to help break down a scene and make the script disappear? We will simulate casting sessions using a variety of different scripts while learning how to be both truthful and effective within a short and stressful timeframe.
We will prepare and analyze auditions.
We will prepare and analyze a monologue that will then be filmed professionally to use for your show reel.
FEATURE FILM AUDITIONS: LATE FEBRUARY – EARLY MARCH
MARCH
- – Film Acting
Understand what the screen requires from you and how you need to adjust your performance to give the best possible performance.
Analyze the difference between film acting and theatre acting.
On a film or television set you often do not have the time to improvise and analyze the way you do in a class or in the theater. How to use the techniques you have learned to think on your feet.
Exercises for acting in front of the camera.
Analysis of the film performances you have listed in your acting journals.
APRIL
- Feature Film Shoot – Actors form part of the cast/ crew (working with other actors)
MAY
- Theater Session
Using the January voice and movement sessions, learn about the “optic of the theatre”. How to make your performance bigger than life while retaining truth. We will prepare weekly scenes to be performed in the “mini Greek theatre” in Can Robert Park.
Intense Scene and Monologue Work: Using all that you have learned so far through scene analysis, improvisation, repetition exercises and acting on film, we will prepare scenes and monologues to be filmed in front of a camera.
JUNE
- WEEK I – II: To be determined. These last two weeks we will spend on what is needed most. As our classes are small we can focus on specific acting problems that have come up over the course and address these through specific exercises. This will include one-on-one sessions. SHOOT FINAL PIECE/ FINAL SHOWREEL
