Screen Acting Essentials

Description

Looking refresh and advance your technical screen acting skills? This 5 Day Screen Acting Essentials course held at the World Famous Pinewood Studios has been crafted for those who are committed to improving and developing their knowledge in a practical setting on camera. Over the week you will build camera awareness, understand shot sizes and how they impact performance, hitting marks, script analysis and audition tips. Filming footage throughout the week you will receive immediate feedback from the experienced Directors and see progression to a confidence that can be applied both in self-tapes and on set.

Course Outline

Screen Acting Essentials

Your Week On Camera

The course aims to help actors leave feeling prepared and confident in their new skills enabling them to deliver better performances on screen.

Day 1: The Technicals

Learn and Practice the basic technical skills an actor needs to master to perform successfully in front of the camera. Understand the differences between acting for stage and screen. Topics include: shot sizes, continuity, eye-lines, vocal control, physicality and hitting marks.

Day 2: Understanding The Script & Character Development

Learn techniques and methods to successfully analyse a script in order to create inspirational and authentic characters. Developing characters you will identify their arc, and find contrast even within a page of script underpinned by voice, diction, physicality and improvisation skills.

Day 3: Working on a Film Set

To raise your awareness on a film set, you will participate in filming as members of the crew including sound, script supervising and Directing to really understand the challenges of each role and it you should communicate as an actor. You will also film a scene as part of this role-play process.

Day 4: Audition Technique

Understand how you should prepare for a screen audition. Experience the casting process most commonly in use today and how to avoid the pitfalls of interview ‘overkill’, preparing you for your next audition.

Day 5: Lights, Camera, Action

Implementing everything you have learned throughout the week, you will film a scene with a crew.

Actors Studio, Pinewood Studios, Pinewood Road, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, SL0 0NH