WORKSHOPS ON-CAMERA TV COMMERCIAL WORKSHOP This workshop covers everything you need to win auditions and perform in commercials. Novices and professionals learn at their own level to achieve a truly natural delivery and feel comfortable working on camera with props, cue cards, improvisation, cold reading, the proper approach to interviews, auditions, photographs, unions, agents, effective resume preparation and many other subjects which will help you become more successful. Also included, is a 140 page ten-session textbook. You will perform on camera with videotape playback, and be critiqued in every session. You are exposed to the experience of actual auditions as we introduce you to four top agents and casting directors, who conduct the final session of the workshop. Sessions are two hours long twice a week for five weeks, or once a week for ten weeks, plus 20 free hours of on-camera practice. ADVANCED ON-CAMERA COMMERCIAL &IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP This workshop is designed to give actors constant on-camera practice and intensive coaching. Actors will work on all possible types of commercial auditions with special emphasis on dialogue and no dialogue improvisation, group scenes, doubles, cue card practice, use of blocking, props, building a repertoire of characters, successful interview techniques and more. The workshop is two hours long, once a week and includes showcases with top commercial casting directors and agents. TV COMMERCIAL AGENTS AND CASTING DIRECTORS SHOWCASE In these six-two hour sessions, twelve agents and casting directors give actors an opportunity to receive a professional appraisal of their TV commercial acting technique. The actors get to know and receive instruction from these twelve different casting executives. In many instances actors have been signed and cast as a result of these showcases. VOICE-OVER WORKSHOP This workshop helps those with good or unusual voices learn the very special requirements of voice-over work for commercials and other important voice-over opportunities. Emphasis is placed on the actor's individual style in preparation for making an excellent demo tape that will command the attention of agents and casting directors. A special voice-over textbook and one-on-one semi-private sessions are features of this workshop, which meets for one and one half hours once a week for ten weeks. ACTING WORKSHOPS ON-CAMERA TV, FILM, SOAP OPERA, SITCOM WORKSHOPS These workshops are conducted in our multi-camera video studios for actors who wish to master acting for film, as well as the unique style and requirements of the three camera technique used in night-time and soap opera TV shows. The enrollment is limited so that each actor appears at least twice in on-camera scenes in each session, and is critiqued in depth. Emphasis is placed on mastering cold readings, script and character analysis and auditioning techniques. Your own videotape, directed by the instructor, may be prepared during the workshops. Many new faces have worked in TV and film for the first time due to the professional training received in this workshop. Showcases with agents and casting directors are included with this workshop. ADVANCED ACTING CONTINUING WORKSHOP This workshop enables advanced actors to experience continuing on-camera practice and intensive coaching. Scenes from TV shows, films and plays are performed first as cold readings, then worked on until both actor and director feel they are perfected. The workshop is three hours long once a week, and limited to twelve actors so that each works on camera at least twice, and up to four times in every session. Showcases with agents and casting directors are included with this workshop. CHILDREN AND TEEN WORKSHOPS ON-CAMERA TV COMMERCIAL AND FILM ACTING WORKSHOPS These workshops cover everything young people need to know to win auditions and perform on the job. Our goal is to improve cold reading technique, instill self-confidence and ease in front of the camera and bring out each student's unique strengths. Young actors develop a solid foundation for a professional career in television and film. Workshops include scene work, for television and film, commercial technique, with emphasis on character study, freeing the emotions, script analyzing, improvisation, monologues and theatre games. Class meets for one and one half hours once a week for eight weeks. Lesson eight is a showcase where young people perform for a top agent and casting director.

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