INTERMEDIATE SCREEN ACTING

Screen Acting | Ages 12+ | $400 - $450 / Term

Intermediate Year 1

Ages 12+

This course introduces specific acting terminology and refines techniques in improvisation. Students learn about and build skills in making choices and making changes in acting. Students are introduced to constructive critique to help begin recognizing barriers, habits and challenges, and apply ‘changes and choices’ as tools towards overcoming these.

Semester 1: Introduces specific acting terminology and refines techniques in improvisation. Introduces ‘changes and choice’ through improvisation. Introduces 6th W – Wants. Revises and adds to scene creation tools with the 5 P’s (people, place, problem, props and physical purpose). Encourages students to identify their own goals for the semester, as well as to begin approaching acting as a craft.

Semester 2: Builds upon the actor’s abilities to demonstrate choices and changes in improvisation and apply these improvisation skills to story and character. Actors work as a team to create and develop short films using the 5 P’s and explore changes in character through the story. Actors create the story in Term 3, then in Term 4, it’s production term! Actors perform in one film and work behind the camera on the other as crew. The films are shown on the big screen at Premiere Night in March the following year.

Course Structure

Weekly 2-Hour Classes in 4 10-Week Terms

Term fees $400 / term

INTERMEDIATE Year 1 SCREEN ACTING CLASSES

Term 3, 2024

MALAGA

Tuesdays 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Filmbites Malaga, Oxleigh Drive

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Intermediate Year 2

Ages 13+

Semester 1: Introduces script skills and character arcs. Students learn to read and understand scripts, learn lines and meaning, develop natural lines and meaning, develop natural line delivery and bring characters to life from the page. Introduces monologues to expand character development. Students apply improvisation as a tool to explore and expand character and scene. Students apply choices and changes by working with redirection.

Semester 2: Actors practice scene work and character development with a number of scrips. Introduces archetypes and character research. Actors use their research skills and character understanding to identify characters and scenes from films and/or TV they want to work on. Showcase scenes are chosen for actors based on their research and Term 4 is production term, where the actors work on and film showcase scenes. These are screened at Filmbites’ Premiere Night the following March on the big screen and can be included in a showreel.

Course Structure

Weekly 2-Hour Classes in 4 10-Week Terms

Term fees $400 / term

INTERMEDIATE YEAR 2 SCREEN ACTING CLASSES

Term 3, 2024

MALAGA

Mondays 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Filmbites Malaga, Oxleigh Drive

Thursdays 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Filmbites Malaga, Oxleigh Drive

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Intermediate Year 3

Ages 13+

Introduces actors to physical exploration exercises and script analysis. Actors identify default physicality and work with tools and techniques to expand physical choices. Actors practice physical exploration through improvisation and script work.

Extends actors in their script understanding and script analysis. Actors work with breath and punctuation to identify character tone, rhythm and dynamic through a scene. Actors work with character briefs, scripts and plays to practice and develop their scene study skills

Filmed production is a short film or linked scenes that focus on relationships between people. Scene study and physicality tools are applied to the preparation and rehearsal for this filming. Films will be shown at Premier Night in the following March.

Course Structure

Weekly 2.5-Hour Classes in 4 10-Week Terms

Term fees $450 / term