Intensive Screen Acting

Description

With Acting Coach Mel Churcher

This Zoom course will offer ways to tap into your confident, powerful self; preparation for filming challenging self-tapes; new thoughts on screen work. Resist the idea of typecasting! You can play the roles you find difficult, or have never had the chance to work on. You can surprise yourself; find the joy of stepping into an unfamiliar self. Let’s open the gates and explore the deep or wild unknown – in a positive way. This course offers guidance, tips and exercises to enable your unique charisma to shine through in any role you play. Suitable both emerging talent and working professionals looking to improve.

Mel Churcher
A-Lister Coach

Mel Churcher is an international acting, dialogue and voice coach who has worked with companies including the Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and coaches a wide range of professionals from budding newcomers to top film stars like Daniel Craig, Angelina Jolie, Keira Knightley and Jet Li; from presenters like Raymond Blanc and Goldie to singers like Tricky and Joss Stone.

Course Outline

This course will increase your confidence with all aspects of screen work and with self-taping scenes for auditions. We’ll also work on a monologue that you film yourself during the course. 

This course will offer guidance, tips and exercises to enable your charisma to shine through in any role you play.

All sessions are recorded and students expected to watch any filming done of themselves each evening. Also, during the course, to self-film a monologue, and work on a scene to self tape and submit to Mel at conclusion of the course.

Day 1 -Monday | Time (UK) 10:30am – 1.00pm & 2:30pm – 5.15pm

You will be introduced to the course, discuss screen acting, self-taping and talk about the actors’ toolbox.

Mel will then invite you to each share a real-life story and do your given monologue. Here you will observe how specific you are, and how much muscle memory you still have in your body from your real experiences. You will explore games and techniques that allow you to find the same life and truth when you are using learned lines.

Homework: Students to watch their work on playback.

Day 2 -Tuesday | Time (UK) 10:30am – 1.00pm & 2:30pm – 5.15pm

On day two you will continue on your real life stories and monologues. Continuing work on real stories/ monologues. Each actor will get individual time within the group. (all present can see but participant is filmed as solo performance to watch later.) Homework: Students to watch their work on playback. Scenes sent after class; partners chosen – these to be learned and self-taped after the course.

Day 3 -Wednesday | Time (UK) 10:30am – 1.00pm & 2:30pm – 5.30pm

On day three you will complete your individual monologue. Mel will also give you self-tape technical tips, elements toolbox and scenes read with partners.

Homework: Studio watch their work on playback.

Day 4 – Thursday | SELF WORK DAY – MEL NOT PRESENT

Actors to film their monologues and send to Mel by 2pm latest! Scenes to be worked on in pairs (if possible) or explored alone.

Day 5 – Friday | Time (UK) 10.30am – 1:00pm & 2.30pm – 5.15pm

Watching filmed monologues together, with feedback. Toolbox, any remaining thoughts and games, feedbacks. roundup of the course.

Homework: Students to film their scenes and send self-tapes within the next fortnight. (If no reader, course partner (or someone else) can read in remotely.)

Every participant will have individual feedback on these self-tapes via a personal recording.

A strong internet connection is required to join our live online courses and workshops. Please test your internet connection before booking as we cannot refund due to technical issues. Please familiarise yourself with Zoom before attending your workshop. Your camera will be required to be switched on during the workshop.Students will receive a Zoom link via email to join the workshop. Please log on at least 10 mins before the workshop begins.