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In this course, you will learn :
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Acting lessons for Actors and Directors. Analyze scripts and manage successful castings.
Syllabus :
1. Breaking Down The Script
- Story, Moral, and Spine
- Putting it into practice: "Casablanca"
- Scene Breakdown
- "Casablanca" clip
- Breaking Down The Script
2. Casting
- Analyzing the Headshot
- Meeting the Actor
- Evaluating the Actor
- Casting Session
3. Quick Tips: Casting
- Have a Good Gatekeeper
- Setting up the Room
- Sloppy Actors
- Grungy Actors
- Don't Help
- What Not to Say
- Casting
4. Class Exercises
- Partnering Exercise: Hot Objects
- Hot Objects: Examples
- Entrances & Exits: Airport Exercise
- Scene Adjustments: "Jerry Maguire"
5. Video Scene Analysis
- Introduction
- "Eat Drink Man Woman"
- "Boogie Nights"
- "Notting Hill"
- "The Graduate"
- "Almost Famous"
- "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"
- "Sex and the City"
6. Directing Lessons
- Two Truths Coming Together
- What is "sexy"?
- Share Your Life
- Correcting Bad Habits
- Dialogue Handles
- Close Your Eyes and Listen
- Directing Narration
- Stick to the Script
- Don't Rush the Table Read
- Include the Writer
- Let the Script Guide You
- Learn the Actor's Craft
- Be Prepared
- I Can't Hear You
- Furniture Is Movable
7. Quick Tips: Directing
- Win This Fight
- Actors Who Drink
- The Ten-minute Nap
- When an Actor Forgets Lines
- Don't Yawn
- Marking Props and Wardrobe
- Directing
8. Acting Lessons
- Don't Look Down
- Drunk, Drugged, or Insane
- Sources of Power
- Getting Turned On
- Filling Entrances and Exits
- Sequential Linkage
- Building Logical Character Beats
- Tap Dance Therapy
- Know the Setups
- Do Your Homework
- Make it Organic
- Lizards and Tarragon
- Going to a Zero
- Relaxation Techniques
9. Quick Tips: Acting
- Funny Feet
- Filling the Entrance
- Acting
10. Showbiz Tales
- "An American in Paris"
- Billy Wilder
- Laurence Olivier on Being Foolish
- John Wayne Was Right
- Cecil B. DeMille
- William Holden and Lee J. Cobb
- Cloris Leachman's Banana
- There are no Small Parts
- Lillian Gish and the Poorhouse
- Coaching "The Diary of Anne Frank"
- Giselda Weberser Piffle
- Wherever I'm standing is the Center
- The Nina Foch Memorial Light
11. Life Lessons
- Don't Be Late
- Failure is Your Friend
- Demand Your Best
- Be Brave
12. Nina Foch Critiques Herself in "Illegal"
- Problems in Partnering
- Limitations of Cameras
- Downstage Eye and Indirect Partnering
- Empty Entrances
13. Closing Thoughts
- Book Recommendations
- Closing Thoughts
- BASICS OF ACTING EXPLAINED
- Tributes
