Screen Acting Course, Advanced: ONLINE

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An Online Screen Acting Course for Advanced Level Actors

COURSE DETAILS

FEBRUARY 14th, 21st, 28th & MARCH 7th & 14th 2025

5 FRIDAYS IN FEBRUARY & MARCH

Greenwhich Mean Time (GMT):
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EG. LONDON, GB)

Join us from any timezone around the world.
The course runs at generally convenient times for the following Timezones:

Pacific Time (PDT): 08:00 – 10:00 HRS (EG. LOS ANGELES, US)
Mountain Time (MDT): 09:00 AM – 11:00 HRS
Central Time (CDT): 10:00 – 12:00 HRS
Eastern Time (EDT) 11:00 – 13:00 HRS (EG. NEW YORK, US, QUEBEC, CAN)

Universal Time Coordinated (UTC): 16:00 – 18:00 HRS

Central European Time (CET): 17:00 – 19:00 HRS (EG, BERLIN, PARIS, ROME)

Not a convenient time for you? Don’t worry this course will run again at a time more suitable for your timezone. Keep up with upcoming courses by signing up to our newsletter!

Here at the Academy, we’ve brought knowledge gained across producing, writing, directing and coaching to bear on the question of how to do great, memorable screen acting performances. We’ve discovered that it comes down to the actor’s ownership of the character. Indeed, when we think of memorable or iconic screen performances we find it difficult to separate the actor from the character. There is a sense in which the character becomes the character. Or another way of thinking about it, the actor owns the character.

The skill of becoming or owning the character is even harder on screen than it is on stage. On stage, performances rely heavily on the actor’s skill in voice and movement – as well of course their ability to use emotions the way they are supposed to. Mastery over physicality, voice and emotion is often what makes the stage actor memorable in a role.

But if the stage actor relies on voice and movement primarily, what does the screen actor need to hold onto to elevate their on-screen characters? How does ‘becoming the character’ look like for the actor working on screen?

Great on screen performances leave their mark in our memories. Some performances even become iconic.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is a first step into helping you create memorable characters on screen – character performances you own. Over the course of the 5 weeks, the Online Screen Acting Course will deliver key insights into how to do screen acting the most powerful but also, most efficient way.

Key to our practice will be teaching you how to read scripts deeply and helping you see how you can search the text for clues into characterisation that may lie under the surface.

In the final weeks of the course, students will learn how to make confident choices, take the risk of committing to some choices while at the same time remaining flexible enough to change, adapt and adjust their performances in line with the casting director notes or the director’s requirements.

Take the first step into learning screen acting technique the powerful, intuitive but yet also easy way.

Pre-requisites

BEGINNING ACTORS:
This course is not recommended to actors who are new to the craft.

INTERMEDIATE ACTORS:
To join the course you will need at least intermediate acting skills. Good script analysis skills are presumed. If you are London based, consider first doing the Screen Acting Course Intermediate or any of our Intermediate Level Online courses such as the Portraying Realistic Relationships Course. You will benefit much more from this course if you are well equipped with sound screen acting and script analysis skills.

EXPERIENCED ACTORS: This course is recommend for you! Elevate existing acting skills.

Key Points

5 WEEK COURSE, 5 X 2HR WEEKLY CLASS (TOTAL 10HRS)
SMALL GROUP (MAX 12 PEOPLE) TO POWER LEARNING
SESSIONS CONDUCTED LIVE OVER GOOGLE MEET
CLASSES AVAILABLE TO WATCH BACK WHILE THE COURSE IS RUNNING
50% THEORY, 50% PRACTICE/HOMEWORK PLAYBACK

Learning
Outcomes

The course introduces actors to a powerful method which takes from the level of script analysis and discussion to character embodiment and performance.

Gained an understanding of how to use the camera for maximum effect
Practiced on-camera Building Character exercises
Learnt useful tools to control facial expressions conveying nuance and specificity
Practiced useful techniques to direct emotional delivery and behaviour
Discovered exercises to strengthen Fay Beck’s principle of the ‘Outside-in/Inside-Out Perspective’