Adult Acting Class
This class meets on Saturday afternoons at 2:30 and/or on Wednesday nights at 6:00pm.
The class explores acting techniques that focus on acting with an emphasis on acting for the camera. This class allows actors to work together in scene-study, with a variety of texts, thereby developing listening and reacting skills and an understanding of the different styles of text. Focus is on creating real, in-depth emotions on-demand and keeping it conversational and spontaneous for every take
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3 months, 1x per Week |
3 months, 2x per Week |
1 Year, 2x per Week |
In this curriculum students will experience interviews, cold readings, on-camera auditions for various genres, and call-backs through filmed mock auditions. With directorial adjustment, students gain a specific and effective approach to auditioning for television and film. Analysis and performance will be brought to the camera as actors learn the varied demands of working in Close Ups, MCU's and Master shots. Students work on spontaneity, active listening, making and committing to choices, and effectively triggering real emotions, throughout this course. Scene-study is the main focus of the class. Student prepare scenes and perform them in class for feedback, giving actors an opportunity to take the exercises they've learned in class and use them in your work.
This curriculum is designed to teach you how to prepare independently so that you show up on the set as a collaborator and not as a blank page for the director to write on. The class teaches advanced script analysis based in action and in doing, preparation techniques, relaxation techniques, on-set performance skills, imagination work, and concentration/focus work. Once acting foundations are developed, students will then apply these skills to more complicated material. Students focus on more advanced character development, script analysis and active listening skills throughout the course. As the course progresses, the scripts become more sophisticated, as does the actor's ability to recognize clues to characterization and style.
Upon completion of this course student will have a firm understanding of:
- Approach: (How Sitcoms, Soaps, & Film differ for actors?)
- Understanding "The Business" (Unions, Resumes & Industry Publications, Contracts, Agents & Managers)
- Improvisation: (Objectives and Obstacles, Making Active Choices)
- Text Analysis 1: (Breaking down a script, clues to look for)
- Text Analysis 2: (Reading for information, What makes it a comedy or drama, Hidden clues in text)
- Text Analysis 3 — Audition: (Making choices, Timing, laughs, emotions, moment before)
- Improvisation: ("What are you fighting for?", Increase the obstacles)
- Cold Reading: (Tips and technical adjustments)
- Building a Character: (Identify and convey Pathology, Environment, History)
- Proto-Scene: (Reviving your Imagination)
- Script Selection: (Choosing & assigning scenes)
- On-Camera Acting Techniques: (Advanced techniques, how to stand, move)
- Working On-Set: (What to do & What not to do when you walk on the set, What’s expected- speed, vocabulary, crew)
- Understanding Editing: (Impact on the actor, Continuity, Eye-line)
- Rehearsal/Camera Blocking: (Taking Direction, dealing with last minute revisions)
- Audition Technique - Tips for Getting the Call Back: (What works, What doesn’t & Why)
- Obstacles - The Key to Great Acting: (Making Good acting Great)
- Mock Auditions
- Active Listening — The Key to being Real: (Story, "Face Time", Exercises)
- Sense Memory: (emotional history, substituting your history and friends)
- Understanding "The Business" Review: (Unions, Resumes & Industry Publications, Contracts, Agents/Managers)
- Shoot: (Tape Polished Scenes and Critique)
- Text 4: (In-depth text analysis - for film).
Instructors
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Scott RogersHead InstructorScott served as Acting Coach for 20th Century Fox Studios under a 3-year, exclusive contract, coaching actors for film and television projects. This past year he served as Acting Coach on the soon-to-be-released feature film “Princess Ka`iulani” starring Barry Pepper, Will Patton, and Q’orianka Kilcher. Scott has coached principal actors, for more than 3000 hours on the sets of motion pictures and national television shows. He has produced, cast, and/or directed more than 100 professional productions and written, directed, and produced dozens of TV commercials. He was the full-time, on-set, Acting Coach for the TV series North Shore and was previously the Acting Coach for the hit TV show Baywatch. |
Jeanne RogersDirector of Youth Education A New York actress, Jeanne was trained at the world renowned Neighborhood Playhouse in N.Y.C., where she studied under legendary acting teacher, Sanford Meisner.A professional actress for over 30 years and a member of SAG, AFTRA, and Equity, Jeanne has performed in leading roles opposite many well-known actors such as Nick Nolte, Don Johnson. Ron Howard, Marion Ross, Ted Lange, Terry Quinn, and Margaret Hamilton. In Honolulu, she has guest starred on TV shows such as LOST, been featured in movies such as Into the Blue II and You May Not Kiss the Bride, and recently played the role of Alice in The Honeymooners opposite Pat Sajak and Joe Moore, at the Hawaii Theatre. Jeanne also has extensive experience teaching children's drama classes on a regular basis at Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Temple Emanu-el and the non-profit Free Arts Clinic in Los Angeles. For the past 6 years Jeanne has taught drama at the Honolulu Waldorf High School in Kahala, where she has directed more than a dozen plays. |
Theo CoumbisTeens on Camera Theo has worked for over 25 years in film, television and theatre as a professional actor. He is a member of SAG and AFTRA and has guest starred in shows such as LOST, HAWAII FIVE-O, OFF THE MAP, BAYWATCH, NORTH SHORE, FANTASY ISLAND and many others. He was also featured in movies such as INTO THE BLUE 2, YOU MAY NOT KISS THE BRIDE, TESTAMENTS and most recently was the lead in the HIFF short The ROUND UP. His work with children in drama includes: Callidus (Expressive Arts and Education), The Alliance for Drama Education and Kids Gym USA (LA). He also worked on independent movie productions as an acting coach, casting director, co-producer, writer and director. Theo has a Diploma in Performing Arts from WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts). His work in film, television and theatre has taken him to Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and the USA. |
James McCarthyMedia Coach, Acting Teacher James earned a Masters in Education from Harvard University, with a special emphasis in training individuals for performance. James' innovative approach to media training and public speaking has earned praise from college presidients, internationally recognized scientists and civic leaders. He has significant teaching experience at every level of the educational system, and was a co-founder of Flint Hill School in Oakton, Virginia. James has extensive television, stage, writing, directng and composing credits. |
