This course introduces students to an online environment where they are provided with the opportunity to connect, broaden, and re-imagine an actor’s creative workspace.
The course works out, renews, stretches, explores, and maintains an ongoing diagnostic relationship with the acting profession; where actors explore internal and external resources for building self-awareness, developing imagination and concentration, recognize their emotional truth, learn the actor’s vocabulary, and demonstrate the ability, to be honest, and committed in their Acting.
This course features advanced practice with complex scenes and exercises to help the actor compete and thrive as a professional. The student expands their repertoire, strengthens their technique, and develops reliable tools for solving challenges outside the actor’s comfort zone.
Week 1
The founding of modern acting and the techniques that shaped what acting is today.
The founding of modern acting and the techniques that shaped what acting is today.
Develop the character and confidence to portray your acting role in a production convincingly to connect with your audiences.
Quiz on "Qualities Of A Great Actor" course
Explore acting from a psychological perspective by identifying popular acting tools that are commonly used in actor training, rehearsals, and performances.
Auditioning and the deliberate steps you can take to start making your way down the path on becoming a great actor.
Tips on how to do a self-tape audition at home that will hopefully help you get your next good part.
Test yourself on how to do a self-tape audition at home that will hopefully help you get your next good part.
Explore specific techniques that help create a more effective performance for each type of acting.
Explore specific techniques that help create a more effective performance for each type of acting.
Avoid being a planned actor and work with impulse, imagination and intuition.
Avoid being a planned actor and work with impulse, imagination and intuition.
Week 2
Investigate tips and qualities to enable you to become connected to the character.
Develop the magic of natural impulses and innate wisdom to truly connect to the character,
Test yourself on how you develop the magic of natural impulses and innate wisdom to truly connect to the character
Developing focus to be ‘in the moment’ with your character.
Test your knowledge on developing focus to be ‘in the moment’ with your character
Knowing your lines or memorizing your lines: What really helps the actor connect to the character?
Week 3 (Elements To Great Acting)
Gaining clarity about the scene and its purpose; giving the material a personal interpretation; making character quality consistent; creating specific, consistent realities
Gaining clarity about the scene and its purpose; giving the material a personal interpretation; making character quality consistent; creating specific, consistent realities.
Discovering the formula to giving that character a full and real life. Understanding the framework for what drives the character, how they react, relate to others, and make decisions.
Discovering the formula to giving that character a full and real life. Understanding the framework for what drives the character, how they react, relate to others, and make decisions.
Understanding what is expected of you in the audition room which can go a long way toward reducing your nerves and allowing you to focus on your acting.
What it takes to be more personable in the room, to connect on a genuine level.
Understanding what is expected of you in the audition room which can go a long way toward reducing your nerves and allowing you to focus on your acting.
Navigate differences of opinion, entertain varying perspectives, and rise to the challenge of maintaining clear communication.
Navigate differences of opinion, entertain varying perspectives, and rise to the challenge of maintaining clear communication.
Week 4 (Prepare. Practice. Proceed.)
Speak your professionalism with the way you conduct yourself on set.
Speak your professionalism with the way you conduct yourself on set.
Know what to expect before/and when you walk on stage/set.
Speak your professionalism with the way you conduct yourself on set.
Quiz on Prepping For Set & On-Set Conduct
Find the place for fun and enjoying the journey to create more creative and productive acting.