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DURATION 9 Days Saturday – Sunday, •11:00-14:00 & 16:30 a 20:30 Total: 63 hours
COST 1.117 euros + VAT (1.319 euros)
INCLUDES
- 9 night’s accommodations in a 4 person apartment hotel
- Breakfast and lunch included. - Shuttle airport- hotel included
WHERE Portinax, Ibiza. See more
This 9 day Acting Workshop examines the reality of the actor’s daily work, in a practical manner, helping the actor to create useful working methodologies. The workshops include the shooting of a showreel, with a photo session for each participant.
The Workshop is led by Javier Ortega, who has taught workshops and lectured at the RESAD, (Madrid), Universidad de Coimbra, (Portugal), Universidad de Filosofía y Letras (Sevilla).
The creation of practical exercises by the actors/ actresses will be the basis of the program:
DAY I Introduction to the Process: The Actor’s Real Work.
- The basic fundamentals: What is the actor’s role within the context of a film or play:
- Story Plot (facts) and Emotions (sensations).
- Acting and the creation of the character: two indivisible concepts
- “To be or not to be”, that really is the question
- Brief history of Dramatic Art
- Memory: that ill advisor
DAY II The Actor’s tools.
- The script: what is should be… what function it should serve. Accepting or not.
- Breakdown of work to be carried out
- Practical Exercise 1: Initial contact (words as the final result of a process)
- When to speak, when not to.
- Script work: two alternatives
- Working from the text to the emotional reaction
- Working from the emotional reaction towards the script
- Breakdown of pure script ideas, isolated within the context.
- Practical Exercise 2: How to approach the emotions through the conceptual ideas the script contains. Action- Reaction.
- The emotional motor: Character objectives
- Emotional cocktail: How not to be a single thing
DAY III Concentration and Objectives
- Working through emotions. Flat or dynamic performances.
- What are an actor’s emotions. How they interfere in a performance.
- Including the subtext in the performance.
- Character psychological concepts: normal and abnormal.
- Practical Exercise 3: Performing on time and in form (timing).
DAY IV Shaping an Entire Process
- Practical Exercise 4: Working the moment before and transitions
- Lecture: The actor’s predisposition on set
- Lecture and practical exercise: Working the dramatic moment, the intensity and it’s dynamic.
DAY V The First Rehearsal.
- Lecture: The peripheral (ability, predisposition, isolation)
- Practical Exercise 5: Presenting all worked on so far
DAY VI The Second Rehearsal. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. If it’s corrupt, break it.
- Practical exercise 6: Solving individual issues.
DAY VII Third Rehearsal. The organic memory.
- Practical exercise 7: working without a script.
DAYS VIII & IX*
- Individual monologue digital recording sessions. With Director of Photography.
- Individual digital photo sessions
- Conclusions (Conversation with actors)
*Each actor will receive a dvd video-book/ showreel with photos, and a CD with the video files and copies of the photos.
