TEEN SCREEN ACTING TECHNIQUES

Term 1 2024 - Acting Techniques and Performance

  • Mondays 5:00pm - 7:00pm, 9 weeks, 5 February - 1 April 2024

  • Tuesdays 5:00pm - 7:00pm, 9 weeks, 6 February - 2 April 2024

Term 2 2024 - Screen Testing and Self Testing

  • Mondays 5:00pm - 7:00pm, 9 weeks, 29 April - 24 June 2024

  • Tuesdays 5:00pm - 7:00pm, 9 weeks, 30 April - 25 June 2024

Term 3 2024 - Working on Set and Preparing Scenes

  • Mondays 5:00pm - 7:00pm, 9 weeks, 22 July - 16 September 2024

  • Tuesdays 5:00pm - 7:00pm, 9 weeks, 23 July - 17 September 2024

Term 4 2024 - Recreating Famous Film and Television Scenes

  • Mondays 5:00pm - 7:00pm, 9 weeks, 14 October - 9 December 2024

  • Tuesdays 5:00pm - 7:00pm, 9 weeks, 15 July - 10 December 2024

At a young age it is vital that the right habits and skills are given to bright young minds ensuring they understand the difference between theatre and film. Some habits are hard to break and at Mitchell Actors, hard work and developing confidence is essential to a young actor’s ability and skill. In these classes, young actors will learn how to navigate themselves through scene work, delivering naturalism for camera, the foundations of acting techniques and modern approaches, audition preparation and script analysis. Like most things in life, hard work and discipline is what makes an actor good at what they do. Screen classes at Mitchell Actors are designed to prepare young actors for the challenges they will face in the film industry, both on and off a film set.

Course components:

  • Understand the subtle nature of realism and naturalism for camera.

  • Explore both the fundamentals and modern techniques of acting.

  • Understand the audition process and learn how to take direction.

  • Learn how to prepare and deliver a scene on a film set.

  • Learn scene analysis and how to create better actor’s choices.

  • Receive guidance and feedback from an industry professional to
    ensure you are making creative choices suitable to a scene.

Course outcome:
Our goal is to create confident, mature and creative actors who are autonomous and professional in their work, whatever their ambitions may be.

2024 Syllabus:
Term 1
Understanding the vital foundations to screen acting, realism and the method is essential to every young actor. The focus here is developing both the self awareness and emotional intelligence to tackle the complexities of human behaviour and deliver them in front of the camera.

Term 2
Auditioning is a crucial part of the film industry and developing both the confidence and skills to efficiently deliver high quality scene work is essential for every actor. Throughout this term, each actor will be asked to prepare a new scene each week while delivering their work under audition circumstances.

Term 3
Working on set can be very different to delivering a scene in the audition room. Understanding how to prepare a scene, what to expect on set and how to work with other actors and crew cannot be underestimated to an actor’s career. This term we will create various mock productions where students will not only take part as actors, but as directors, cinematographers and assistant directors.

Term 4
Recreating and deconstructing well known scenes will allow students to understand the mechanics and logistics of great acting. In many cases students will succeed, but more importantly fail at recreating the magic that defined such a well known scene and thus understand missing ingredients that they must develop and master to reach their goals.

Course dates:
This is a 2 hour class that starts at 5:00pm till 7:00pm on either a Monday or Tuesday over a 9 week term.

Location:
Heesom Casting, Adelaide Studios, 226 Fullarton Road, Glenside SA.

Enrolment:
Please contact Heesom Casting via email or phone to enrol in this course.
E: admin@heesomcasting.com
P: (08) 8394 2545