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Thursday Acting on Camera Class Teens – November 11th, 2010
We started with sensory recall work and vocal warm ups and then went straight to feature film work. The students worked on how to take a film scene and make it personal for themselves. Sarah Safuto made a big break … Continue reading
Teen Saturday Acting classes – November 6th & 7th, 2010 -
I had some wonderful work happening. We did a warm up of an audition scene. I gave them substitution, overall of panic attack and disorientation or dizziness. This was specifically planned out to see if this would be enough to … Continue reading
Jeff’s 7-12 Technique classes Saturday and Sunday November 6th and 7th
We started with “speaking out” exercises using the literal and checking in with your current mood and use JUST that and say one line from a film with those feelings. In addition we did a fun acting exercise of building … Continue reading
Andrew’s Saturday Morning Week 8 Class
Today we really focused on trying to apply the technique work the students have been acquiring the past eight weeks to an audition piece. Students were given a short scene from the movie “E.T.” (the scene where the government inspector … Continue reading
Andrew’s Saturday Morning Week 7 Class
The first exercise we did involving getting the student actors to be as hyper aware of their all their senses as possible by engaging with real life objects, and then trying to recreate it. Each student was given a bar … Continue reading
Acting on Film and Camera -Jeff’s Teen class
We did a commercial warm up and into a high stake short audition film. I’m throwing new audition material at them each week. Today we had some students work on 90210, a new feature film currently casting, and new TV … Continue reading
10-30 & 10-31 Teen Groups
We had great fun on both days. I worked with the students on Stanislavski’s Magic If exercise. We did “The Mad Man” exercise which was really fun. It deals with how to act extraordinary circumstances. It is an all time … Continue reading
10-30 and 10-31 Acting classes – 7-12 Actors
We had great fun on both days. I worked with the students on Stanislavski’s Magic If exercise. We did “The Mad Man” exercise which was really fun. It deals with how to act extraordinary circumstances. We also improved the end … Continue reading
Jeff’s Acting on Camera Class – Thursday Oct. 28th
We had a great first day! We started with vocal warm up and resonation and went into commercial copy and how to color a script and how to make personal choices and have them as well in the audition. We … Continue reading
Jeff’s Teen Classes Saturday 10-23 and 10-24
I’ve been thinking a lot about merging the literal set pieces of an audition room or set and how to use your own place work to recreate behavior. I came up with a wonderful exercise where students have short speech … Continue reading