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Stonestreet Screen Acting Workshop ONE
Course Descriptions
First Semester
Offered in Fall, Spring and Summer
8 Points
Screen Acting and Character
Instructors: McCabe and Guest Professionals
This course is designed to give theater-based trained actors a specific and detailed introduction to the technical challenges of acting for film. Using discussion of theory, on-camera exercises and on-camera performance, along with playback, we explore the way an actor must use film technique to bring a character to life on the screen. Students learn the particularities of film acting by working on scripts and monologues in a single camera setting.
This class addresses the rigorous and specific technical and esthetic skills essential for truthful and interesting film acting. It analyzes the differences between stagecraft and film craft, as well as contrasting theater and film as distinct art forms. Students are confronted with the magic and the mystery of the camera and the film editor’s cut, and how film grammar affects an actor’s performance from the perspective of the audience. This class debunks the conventional wisdom that film craft requires only a minor adjustment to stagecraft; film acting is significantly different than stage acting, and this class will show you the truth of this proposition.
Multi-Camera: Live on Tape-Soaps
Instructors: Laundras
This class addresses the particular demands of working with multiple cameras live, such as in daytime television. The First half of the semester is devoted to script analysis and camera technique. During the second half of the semester, students tape an actual soap opera episode in an environment that simulates a typical day’s work on a real soap opera set using Stonestreet’s professional control room with multiple cameras, sound and lights.
Screen Comedy, Improv and Sit-Coms
Instructor: Atkinson
This class analyzes comedy in film, sit-com material and working conditions, and the demands placed on actors who are asked to be creative and "funny" (however that may be defined or interpreted). The class attempts to identify and nurture each student’s individual comic persona. The class culminates in a production of finalized scenes.
Screen Audition Techniques
Instructor: Galligan
This class provides a forum for students to learn how the camera and industry professionals perceive them. With the guidance of the instructor, students choose and prepare dynamic 1-2 minute monologues that will showcase them in a unique way in film, television and theater auditions. The class also warms-up and preps students for the legit agents and casting directors attend Stonestreet's Monday Night Showcase Class.
Voiceovers, Voice and Character on Film
Instructors: Braga
How does an actor “sound REAL?” Using the Alexander Technique as our ground, this class will focus on voice for commercials, TV, and film. We will explore vocal freedom, expressive bodies, and authentic sound. We will begin with voice and advertising, finding the part of us that sells in “real life” so we don’t just sound real, we are real. We will end the semester working on voice for TV and film by using scenes from your other classes. What is a “character voice”? How much is too much? This class is about freedom and expressive presence so dress to move.
History of Film Acting
Instructor: Bass
This class explores some of the most inspiring examples of this relatively infant art, from as early as 1910 to approximately the 1950s, thereby creating a base of knowledge that show not only what has been, but what can be.
Audition and Showcase
Instructors: Galligan, Guest Talent Agents, Casting Directors and Managers
Students work on audition material that includes all television formats, theater and film. Each week, students then present the material, individually or in a scene, to visiting professional talent agents and casting directors, showcasing their work and their talent, and receiving professional feedback. This is a general audition class that maximizes industry contact between students and professionals. This class is highly regarded by the industry because of Stonestreet’s entire training program and the impact it has on its student’s work and their auditioning skills.
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