DCT-ATG Actor's Training Guide (Sampler 1)

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The DCT-ATG Actor's Training Guide will strive to grow a work-and-prep ethic in you, help you learn your craft, illustrate how to find & interview an acting coach, and build a reputation that will serve you for years.

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IN THE DCT-ATG VOLUME: We will be exploring the process of film acting, with our Acting Instructor and Coach, Stephen Heu. We will be preparing, rehearsing and performing a scene from Mr. Heu's unpublished script titled "THE CAMERA". Stephen will help you understand how to prepare the "wholeness" of a role prior to filming, where the actor has discovered, prepared the character, and is as ready as can be for any contingency.

ON-SCREEN GRAPHICS: Will speed up the learning of the material, and solidify it in such a way that it will be available in your long-term memory. After each short section, there will be a Q & A review to refresh what you've just learned. Also, a final review at the end of the program imprints the information.

When you have worked and discovered and explored your character so that at any time, you can be prepared for whatever scene, whatever contingency as best as you can be. If you know how to prepare your character in such a way that you make it easy for the director, the DP and all the other actors, you'll inspire everyone. You'll be called back again and again to work. They will be glad to work with you. All the time. You will be the diamond in the rough: a star. Doesn't matter the part, they will know you by your work ethic.

SUBJECTS COVERED IN "LESSON" SEGMENT: The Audition; the Sides; the Look; the Script; the Process; exploring the Character; finding Identity; Believability and the Organic Performance; the Struggle; Impressions and the Seasons; Subtext, content underneath the spoken dialog; Empathy, Living the moment; Inspiring other actors; Slowing down; Exercises; How to not abandon the character; Working on lessons; Honing our craft; The actor's goals and the audience's goals; Loaning emotions to a character; Catharsis; Dealing with separation anxiety; Stage and Film acting differences.

SUBJECTS COVERED IN "PERFORMANCE" SEGMENT: Holding the last look; Slowing down, taking a beat; Matching other actors' level; Retrieve then speak; Controlling the words; Proper breathing; Right to speak; To edit, criticize, or judge an actor; Stretching the emotion; Muscle for Continuing; Looking at an actor as part of the whole script, as part of your own emotional process; Involving the character; Intuition; Learning the process of rehearsal and abandoning the script; Find where your gifts are and utilise them to the fullest; Sharpening your tools; Understanding the process and the script, internalizing the information and LIVING the characters; using blocking to convey emotion.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Acting
• filmmaking
• film