Film Acting Workshop – Part #1 – Saturday August 12 2017
(Registration still possible!)

Class Preparation:
Actors are asked to memorize a 2 minute long monologue to present during the workshop. It can be comic or dramatic, from a film or a play, something they have performed before or new material. This will be a very important part of the overall workshop, with each actor performing his or her monologue ON CAMERA multiple times.

Part #1 Workshop Format:

• Open discussion: The difference between STAGE and FILM acting. What casting directors are looking for during AUDITIONS. How best to move your acting career forward.
• Warm-ups for the BODY (stretching and breathing) and the MIND (improvisation games).
• Actors perform their monologue ON CAMERA. This allows for evaluation of each Actor’s FILM ACTING skills on an individualized bases. They are then coached toward areas that need improvement.
• COLD READING skills are refined. Actors are given a few minutes to study short scenes from FILM SCRIPTS with a scene partner. Then both actors perform the scene ON CAMERA.
• The monologues are performed ON CAMERA once more, reflecting newly expanded FILM ACTING skills. After multiple takes, the raw footage will be sent to the actor (via Dropbox) for their personal library or to be used in their acting reel.

Film Acting Workshop – Part #2 – Sunday August 13 2017. <—- This class is FULL!!!

(Open to actors who have taken the workshop before OR actors enrolled in the Part #1 Workshop who want to do both)

Part #2 Workshop Format:

• Open discussion: What directors want from actors ON SET. The international casting market. How best to move your acting career forward.
• Unlike the Part #1 Workshop the monologues will be assigned to each actor by Ms. Chappelle a few days before the workshop begins. The roles will be chosen based on her past experience of working with each actor during her previous workshops (students taking both workshops can use the same monologue from part #1 in the part #2 workshop). Having a history with each returning actor allows for assigning a role that will focus on the actors strengths and work toward overcoming any weaknesses.
• In the Scene Study portion of the Advanced Workshop, actors are assigned highly challenging scenes to perform ON CAMERA with a scene partner. Shifting the focus toward developing raw, authentic performances beyond what is written on the page, using Improvisation as a way to dive deeper into the character, while at the same time following all the ON CAMERA rules:
  a) After a few run-throughs of the script as written, actors will improvise the scenes again using their own words.b) They will then improvise a scene that may have taken place before or after what is written in the original script.c) Multiple characters from various scripts will be combined to create group improvisation scenarios.
• As in the past, each actor will perform the monologue ON CAMERA at the end of the workshop. After multiple takes, the raw footage will be sent to each Actor (via Dropbox) for their personal performance library or acting reel.