Principles Covered:
- Trusting your Instincts & spontaneity
- Developing & Strengthening your Point of View
- Accepting and Expressing your Full Range
of Emotions
- How to Read the True Meaning Behind People’s
Words (Subtext)
- Learning to Pinpoint the Behavior of Others
Course Incorporates:
- Lecture
- Materials
- Film Clips
- Improvisations
- Scene work with conflicts within the students emotional range
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Principles Covered:
- Mastering The Cue Card
- Directing Your Own Performance
- Boosting Your Improvisational Skills
- MOS Spots / Character Spots
- Corporate Spots
- PSA’s / Industrials
- The Callback: Zero In On What The Client Wants
- Working With The Director
- Making Sure You’re Pliable & Able To Take Direction
Previous Guest Included:
- Abrams Artists
- Acme Talent
- Beverly Hecht Agency
- Bobby Ball Talent Agency
- The Culbertson Group
- Epstein, Wyckoff, Corsa & Ross
- Danny Goldman
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Principles Covered:
- Slating
- Improvisation
- Establishing Place
- Establishing Character
- Finding Objectives
- Previous Moment
- Understanding Commercial Copy
- The Business of Auditioning
(Agents, Wardrobe, Headshots)
Work On:
- One-Liners
- Food, Drink, and Medication Spots
- MOS Spots (No Dialogue)
- Character Spokesperson Spots
- Group Spots
- Slice of Life Spots
- Corporate Copy
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Principles Covered:
- Slating
- Cold Reading Technique
- Establishing Place
- Finding Objectives and Subtext
- Units of Action
- Marking your Script
- Previous Moments
- Emotional Preparation
- Auditioning Etiquette
- Applying Physical and Emotional Actions
Course Incorporates:
- One Liners and Under Fives
- Day Players
- Monologues
- Guest Stars
- Contract Roles
- Scripts from Day Time, Primetime, Sitcoms, & Films
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Course is designed to:
- Give Hands-On Work in Front of the Camera
- To Incorporate the skills necessary to work successfully in Film and TV
- Types of Camera Shots
- The Challenge of Continuity
- To Intensify the Actor’s Improvisational skills
- To nurture the Actor’s Reactive and Listening techniques
Course Covers:
- Scenes
- Monologues
- Advanced Audition Techniques for the Camera
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Acting Technique:
- Basic Acting & Improvisation
- Becoming confident
- Trusting your instincts
- Moment to moment responses
- Expanding your imagination
- Listening skills
- Character development
- Scene work
On Camera Technique:
- TV & Film Technique for acting in soap operas, prime time shows, sitcoms and films
- Cold Reading Techniques
- Establishing Place & Character
- Script Analysis
- Emotional preparation
Commercial Technique:
- Develop skills for commercials One Liners, food & drink spots, group spots, MOS Spots (No Dialogue) and character spots
- Improvisational exercises
- Breaking down the script
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Kennedy Brown has taught Speech and Accent Reduction for five years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and Hollywood. He is now offering this intensive speech class for students wanting to acquire a clear General American Dialect or who want to gain a greater understanding and control of their speech skills. The class is targeted to International students and American students with regional dialects.
Focuses on:
- Extensive Articulation Work
- Phonetics & Transcription Techniques
- Individual Diagnosis & Personalized Feedback
- Text Work
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Destructuring is a system of physical exercises designed to free the natural voice. The exercises result in greater vocal energy, range and spontaneity. It is a challenging class designed for actors looking to excel at their craft. The techniques are supportive to your work in acting class as well as in your performance career.
- Awareness - Develop tools that lead to an understanding of your acting instrument
- Connection - Discover your authentic voice
- Expression - Develop a flexible voice that carries feelings & meaning
- Imagination - Discover a new relationship to words and text
In this class students will also develop basic restructuring techniques. Restructuring is a system of vocal production based on the classical Belli Canto School of voice training. Using this technique students will learn how to harness the energy of the voice and project it with power, efficiency and skill.
- Power - Learn how to use your voice to get what you want
- Efficiency - Experience the freedom of producing voice with minimal effort and an absence of strain.
- Skill - Learn to combine vocal production techniques and articulation exercises with text work.
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