12 Week Extensive Acting Course
Venue: Ou Meul Teater
Dates: 22/04/2017 to 08/07/2017
Times: 11:00
Follow your dreams and start your journey to becoming an Actor today!
Join us for this comprehensive 12 week course that will give you all the tools, both creatively and strategically, to begin carving out YOUR career as an actor. Class is held once a week in Paarl with an additional online class each week.
Start Date: 22 April 2017
Here’s What You Will Learn: (we work a new scene every two weeks)
Week 1:
Given Circumstances: Beginning, Middle & End; Text, Context & Subtext; First Readings; Research (extrinsic & intrinsic); Imagination.
Getting to Know Yourself: Briggs-Meyers Test; Your Artistic Dream; Understanding your Acting ‘Type’
Week 2:
Overall Objective & Scene Objective: Building a compelling objective that drives your character; creating a map of your scene objectives; finding emotional equivalents; winning your objectives.
Creating Goals & Dreams: Professional; Financial; Relationships; Education; Community; Winning in Life
Week 3:
Obstacles & Intentions: Physical, Emotional & Mental; using your imagination to grow your character through obstacle; personalizing obstacles & intentions; raising the stakes.
Your Five Year Plan: It is your obligation to be successful and you must plan to be successful.
Week 4:
Substitution & Endowment: Using your imagination and sensory recall (affective memory) to substitute a person from your real life who best fills your need; The Personal Object Exercise; Places, persons & history.
Making your Five Year Plan Happen: Logical Actions; handling obstacles.
Week 5:
Inner Objects & Internal Monologue: Using Imagery & words to create emotional resonance & truth; choices – wrong & right; developing your memories and emotions through sensory recall; verbal & non-verbal moments.
Budget, Budget, Budget: Running your career as a small business.
Week 6:
Beats & Actions: Breaking a scene down into playable units; driving your scene through character strategy; breathe & focus; Alba emoting.
The Business of Acting: finding & working with your Agent; auditions & castings; marketing yourself.
Week 7:
The Moment Before and Place: Positioning your character in time & place; creating a sense of internal urgency; finding an emotional connection to place.
Branding Yourself: Using Briggs-Meyers to develop a public image.
Week 8:
Doings: Destination, Business & Gesture: defining the physicality of your character; using gesture symbolically; handling props to engage emotions; body energy.
Social Media: Develop a strategy to promote yourself as an Actor; followers; IMDB; & more.
Week 9:
Relationships: Defining & Redefining & The Meisner Technique: Energy exchange; hearing words for the first time; changing relationships, moment to moment; using Meisner to foster trust.
Photos, Show Reels & Websites: Effective marketing.
Week 10:
History & Biography: Using your given circumstances & imagination to create a backstory; the importance of backstory; Emotional Diary.
Creating Your Own Work: Content generation; YouTube; Short Films; One Man Shows; Playwrighting; Production & Marketing.
Week 11:
The Moment Before & Moment to Moment: Characters are always coming from somewhere & going somewhere else; shooting film out of sequence; emotional pitch.
Art versus Commerce: Building a career that balances financial security with artistic fulfillment; developing your ancillary skills.
Week 12:
Voice, Accent & Letting It All Go: Using your voice to communicate character & emotion; keys to learning accents; relaxation; mental positioning for confidence & trust.
The Difference Between Stage, Film & TV: Pitching your performance for your medium.
Bonus Class:
Putting It All Together & Where To From Here?
Places are limited in this class; so booking is essential.
Investment: R2500 in total (payable in three instalments R800/ R850/ R850.)
Pricing & Booking Information
R2500 in total (payable in three instalments R800/ R850/ R850)
Venue Details & Map
Ou Meul Teater
Physical Address: Meul StreetPaarl
Telephone: +27(0)82 464 2883 Mobile No.: +27(0)82 464 2883 Email: anelskye@gmail.com Website: http://www.oumeulteater.co.za Directions: As jy op die N1 ry van die Kaap se kant af, neem jy die R45 afdraai links. In die Hoofstraat draai jy weer links. Hou reguit aan met die Hoofstraat tot jy vir MacDonalds sien, 1ste straat na McD’s neem jy links, dit is Meulstraat. Ons is dan net na die 2de stop straat, aan jou linkerkant. Latitude: -33.730942701367624 Longitude: 18.957724571228027