This course has been designed for actors who took the Film Scene Study, or the equivalent
elsewhere. They should be familiar with the basic requirements on a film set and have had
some experience and want to achieve more confidence in their acting choices under challenging
conditions in the professional shooting day.
With this intensive course, the scene analysis process deepens and improvisation exercises are
confronting the realities with the content of the script. A special emphasis is on the use of
the whole body. The connection between all the senses and the brain, as well as the connection
between the brain and the emotions are getting "tuned in." To work with these conflicting
entities in a conscious and self-exploring way, we'll use techniques to break through emotional
and physical barriers the actor might have and allow him/her to develop "notes" to help him/her
to retrieve complicated and difficult emotions. In order to do this exciting work, the students
will need to have worked on their class in the basic class to have some time to deepen their
knowledge of the specific, individual tasks they need to work on, usually connected with a
thorough self-opening process that cannot be achieved in the Basic Class, but provides the
basis for excellence and truth in a performance. In this class, students can work on scenes
they choose. The critique of the dailies is more strict, we look through the eyes of the
director and the producer and put ourselves in the merciless shoes of the audience who is not
interested in anything else but the result on the screen.
This course brings great results because of the personal connection that has been developed
with the instructor/director in the Basic Course. There is no need to spend time with finding
what needs to be worked on, the actor gets training exactly where he or she needs it most in
order to bring out their most truthful, courageous and original performance at any time under
any circumstances and after as many repetitions as it might take.
