"Summer Acting Intensive" - 5 days of fun - a wonderful learning experience

DATES: Monday 11th - 15th January 2010 TIMES: 10am - 5pm VENUE: The Rehearsal Room, 18 Clendon Road, Armadale.   SPEND A GREAT 5 DAYS refining your acting skills with a highly experienced TV Director in Armadale, Melbourne, Victoria. You play a variety of scenes in sessions which explore TV performance technique, blocking processes, Stanislavski practice made easy, monologues and on the final day shoot a scene, film style. A WORKSHOP THAT EXPLORES PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND BUILDS PROFESSIONAL OUTCOMES.

CLARE DEA & LEONIE EARL shooting their final scene in January 2009

Find out ... HOW REHEARSAL ROOM PROCESS WORKS!!
Summer Acting Intensive.

DAY ONE – A process refresher. How believable are you or can we tell you are acting? How quickly can you find your place in the story and the scene? How quickly can you change? Is your acting process a balance of the intuitive and the logical? Is it is easy to manage?

DAY TWO – Trusting Impulses & Blocking. Actor driven blocking. Director driven blocking. Finding reasons for the things you do. A day spent getting some practice.

MICK CAHILL & LAUREN WALSH shooting a scene in the Summer Intensive 2009

DAY THREE – Monologues. A great test of performance skill. But there are simple tricks to performing monologues. This is a great workshop in itself. DAY FOUR – Television Technique. Understanding the TV proscenium (Acting for the Close Up). And rehearsing a scene. (You will also rehearse the scene you will be shooting on Day 5.) DAY FIVE – Shooting Your Scene – We will shoot your scene on a location. You will be allocated approximately 4 shots per scene and a reasonable number of takes. At the end of the day we will have an assessment session to analyse the outcomes.

A light lunch is supplied on all days.

Editing and DVD: If you are happy with your scene you can decide if you want The Rehearsal Room to edit it for you. For an extra cost of $80 you can have your scene edited and dubbed to a DVD. This option can be chosen after you have seen the outcome of the shoot.

Preparation: Prior to the commencement of the Workshop you will need to submit a 2-character scene that you are interested in shooting on the final day. (You can choose a scene in which there is one other minor character if you wish.) The scene should be no longer than two minutes. It isn’t guaranteed that your scene will be selected to be shot – you may be cast in a scene that someone else has suggested. All scenes will be cast from members of this class. Actors will supply their own wardrobe.

These classes are based on workshops that have been conducted previously and have very high approval ratings from participants.

Maximum of 8 places available. COST: $680 DEPOSIT: $150   Spend a fabulous week exploring the unique Rehearsal Room performance process with Richard Sarell – it will change your view of acting forever.

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