Acting for Camera: Professional Practice

Overview

This ten week course is ideal for those who are keen to develop both their confidence and skill in acting on camera. Following on from Introduction to Acting for Camera, Acting for Camera: Professional Practice will both recap and develop the skills learned in the Introduction to Acting for Camera course, and will begin to look at the more complex aspects of acting for screen.

This will include:

• Exercises on working with props and understanding how to keep your own continuity
• Energy conservation. Some scenes may shoot for hours on end, so it is important to know how to moderate your performance depending on a number of factors, such as shot size and coverage
• Working with cold reads, script changes, and adjusting performance to new notes
• Maintaining focus throughout longer and ensemble scenes
• Working with complex blocking and continuity
• Gaining first-hand experience of how a film crew work

On this ten week evening course you will look at more demanding and advanced scenes, both in terms of their length, but also factoring in many of the elements mentioned above. The focus of the course will be group and scene work but, time permitting, if students had specific monologues they were keen to perform, this might be possible.

During the course you will also take part in a masterclass with a filmmaking lecturer who will guide you through the various roles that make up a film crew and give you the opportunity to work first hand with the filmmaking equipment used throughout the various Short Courses at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

By the end of the course you will:

• Have shot a scene for use in your personal portfolios
• Had a hands-on masterclass in how a film set operates and runs and used a variety of filmmaking equipment
• Developed your analytical skills of film scripts and scenes
• Receive feedback and guidance on your chosen scene
• Developed your understand of the more advanced aspects of acting for screen

Students will get an edited version of their scenes, and can have access, upon request, to their ‘raw’ footage, should they want to use it or edit the footage together themselves.

Courses you may be interested in

• Introduction to Acting for Camera

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