Advanced Weekend Seminar
- 2 Day (6 hours per day)
- Ages: 10 and up
- Cost: $395.00
- Introduction and application to sense memory, (emotional recall) literary regression, animate and inanimate objects.
- Emotional analysis and technique on how to bring out real emotion from your inner core using imagination and substitution.
- Character breakdown technique – Building your character from the inside out. Understanding subtext, how to apply it, and then implementing what you have learned in moment to moment acting.
- Script analysis – Understanding how to break down a script once you get it.
- Audition technique – You will learn how to audition using the room, the character you are playing and yourself to stand out from the crowd and get the callback and ultimately the job.
- Cold reading technique & camera terms – you will learn how to cold read on camera for film/tv.
- Comedy improvisation skills – you will learn the basics of comedy improv – to help you in your quest to listen.
- Marketing skills – you will learn how to market your most treasured possession – yourself.
Day One
- Overview of acting
- Applications
- Sense memory
- Emotional Recall
- Animate
- Inanimate objects
- Literary Regression
- Script and character breakdown
- Receive scene material with instructions (film/play scenes, 3 minutes in length)
- Lunch – 12:00–1:00pm
- Review scenes (1:15pm–4:00pm)
- Learn about event,
- Objective, urgency,
- Where coming from,
- Going to, urgency,
- Blocking, activities,
- Using the room
- Cold reading tech (4:00pm–5:00pm)
- Class Participation
Day Two
List of Approved Authors and Source Information
- Review of Day One (9:00am–10:00am)
- Hand outs for: film/tv related, internet links
- Scene performances (10:15am–1:00pm)
- All scenes taped (limit 3 minute scenes)
- Lunch (1:00pm–2:00pm)
- Scene critiques (2:15pm–6:00pm)
- Receive notes, perform scene again –live