Develop practical skills to use in the film and television industry, and get ready to build your overall confidence and self-esteem as an actor with industry professional Matt Dwyer from Barefoot Casting!
This course will teach you to:
• Communicate and interpret acting concepts
• Develop critical analysis skills
• Recognise and evaluate acting forms
• Experience best professional practices in film and TV
• Meet film and TV industry professionals
The course structure is:
Day 1 – TVC (Commercial) Prep & Auditioning (learning a script sent prior to the course)
- Meet the camera
- Your cast-able self
- You and industry requirements
- Introduction to script and character analysis
- The 5 W’s / A Good I.D / Analyse / Critique / Interpret
- Auditions: perform a non-dialogue TVC script - everyone to get in front of the camera and have a go!
- Investigations: redefine & advance
- Review - critique as a group all non-dialogue TVC auditions. Learn by watching others perform.
- Discuss self-development and self-analysis.
- Homework - prepare, prepare, prepare!Refresh learning of the dialogue drama script. Refocus on previous learning. Make strong choices. Utilise new intentions. Process new direction and bring it all into Day 2!
Day 2 – Drama Prep & Auditioning (learning a script sent out prior)
- Refresh - The 5 W’s / Analyse / Critique / Interpret / Group rehearsals of script. Take all that you have learnt from Day 01 and inject into Day 02
- Auditions: Perform the TV drama script - everyone to get in front of the camera and have a go. All students will be a reader behind the camera as well.
- Investigations: redefine & advance
- Review - critique as a group all dialogue drama auditions. Learn by watching others perform.
- Discuss self-development and self-analysis.
Parents are invited to watch the director’s picks of their children's TV drama scenes in the last hour of the course.