Acting and auditioning are two completely different skill sets. This ongoing workshop is designed to help prepare you for real world auditions,
while helping hone your craft of on-camera acting. Work is shot in medium close-up, with a reader, as
you would have in a real audition. Performances are adjusted, and you’ll typically
run a scene several times. We provide students with their video footage each week
to review. We address key factors that differentiate the auditioning process from acting,
whether it be on set or on stage; eyelines, dynamics, volume, and on-camera
movement. We also cover how to adapt to the tone a reader sets, or how to create
the performance and set the tone if the reader is not providing one. We stress the
importance of acting in the moment and adapting. Another big part of the workshop is learning how to accept your nerves and use
them to your advantage! We also cover how to research your material and what to expect depending on the
type of audition you are going in for. Is it a feature length film, or a three camera
sitcom? Is it a comedy, a drama, or something in between? We stress the importance of the actors tools; headshots, resumes, and video footage. Creating your own material is also an important part of the new paradigm for the
actor; and it is a big part of this workshop. We do this not only by covering it
conceptually, but by creating class projects, and getting students on film with
professional footage that they can use to submit to casting directors. It all comes down to preparing you to go out and audition.
