#acting class

[vic-ohara]

Horror Short film by me, acting by me, direct by me and edited by me, very low buget. I am a theater actress and want have fun with cameras

[filmcourage]

Everything You Don't Learn In Film School - Blayne Weaver [FULL INTERVIEW]

Watch the video interview on Youtube here.

[techtalkbyjames]

Have fun while U learn...

Summer class starts soon. Learn Logic Pro X with teacher James W...

[realitysaconstruct]

Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept — as much as one can bear.

—Marilyn Monroe

[worldsfinestgays]

Headcanon that Clark, upon first deciding to put on the cape and realizing he'll have to act like totally different men in his double life, becomes so overwhelmed at the prospect that any little slip up could have huge consequences that he decides its time. To TAKE AN ACTING CLASS

[lonelyplace64]

I can't wait till night. I am going to surprise my friends from acting class. I went to an athere group for the class but they didn't. Now, I am going to surprise them by showing up. And I missed them too.

[flipjack]

The professor is in

[southsideperformance]

Secrets of Screen Acting

There are no secrets or techniques for screen acting. That’s the truth! As a school offering the best screen acting classes in Glasgow, take it from us. Our experience and knowledge comes from actually doing it at the highest level.

Acting is acting. There is no specific method for screen acting or stage acting. You simply calibrate to the different environments, that’s all. 

When you work on screen, you’ll be working with a group of highly skilled technicians. They will take care of all the technical aspects to bring the scene together. It’s not your job to worry about positioning yourself for the camera, making the scene dramatic and all these other things that so called screen acting ‘coaches’ or books tell you to worry about. 

You simply turn up prepared, take on the director’s notes and then act! That’s it. 

Oh and another thing, the whole concept of ‘do less’ for camera couldn’t be more flawed. When we watch TV and Film we want to see something believable and watching someone consciously ‘do less’ and suppress expressions isn’t believable. 

Think about your favourite film or tv show. Are the actors ‘doing less’ or are they truthful. The latter right? 

Watch behind the scenes footage of films and TV shows, you won’t see the actors doing any special techniques for camera. Being on set is highly pressured as it is, you don’t need to make it worse by having some made up technique in your head. 

All you need to do is learn how to act well. If you can do that, then you’ll be able to make the necessary adjustments and nail screen acting and stage acting with ease.

Sign up to our affordable acting classes in Glasgow. We’ll teach you how to act well to an industry standard and we’ll show you how to make the necessary adjustments to both screen and stage! 

Don’t fall into the trap of charlatans who claim to know the secrets. They don’t! 

All our short films are on our YouTube channels. We release films starring our students in cinemas like the Odeon and we have a feature film and a TV series on Prime Video. It’s safe to say that you’ll be alright with us! 

Best,

Tharan

Head of Acting,

Southside Performance Studio

[a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives]

Luke Arnold shared new post on his upcoming acting class with him, only at Film & Television Studio International Australia. In his post captioned:

"Melbourne actors, who wants to come play? I’m joining @filmtvstudiointernational for a four-part class on screen acting, and there are still some places left! This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and I’m really looking forward to sharing my thoughts and exploring the many ways we can approach this work. Check out their website for more information, and I’d love to see you there!"

For more information, visit Film TV Australia to find out more his 4 week program.

[vic-ohara]

But the shoes continue to dance, even with Catarina's feet amputated...

The Little Red Shoes (Danish: De røde sko ) is a fairy tale by the Danish poet and author, Hans Christian Andersen.

Catarina gains a beautiful Red shoes. But the shoes Just want to dance forever, night and day, rain or shinemeets Catarina meets an executioner and asks him to cut off her feet. He does so, but the shoes continue to dance, even with Catarina's feet amputated.

I felt inspired by the story and the scene from the film possession (1981) the subway scene by the beautiful Isabelle Adjani.

[meganlynnhostetler]

Super fun shots of me playing opposite myself for my assignment from this month’s acting class. 🎬

[filmcourage]

12 Actors Cold Read For Acting Class - Brian Cutler Actors Studio via FilmCourage.com.

[techtalkbyjames]

Acting Lessons ? Contact student services: 1-877-310-1872

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[smashpages]

Drawn and Quarterly will release Acting Class by Nick Drnaso later this summer, and currently they’re offering a pre-order special on their website, which includes a signed bookplate and the chance to win a piece of original art from Drnaso.

Read more

[nathanpenlington]

Books of the year 2022

I'm not sure where the year went, but here we are again at my books of the year list. 

Like my previous books of the year posts, date of publication is not relevant for this list. This year I had to reread about 70 Choose Your Own Adventure books for a project - they are still as smart, funny, and engaging as ever, but as my love for those is so well documented I haven't included any here. 

So, these are the best books to find me - for the first time - in 2022.

#1 - My favourite thing is monsters - Volume 1 - Emil Ferris (2017)

This book is truly incredible, but not an easy read. 

Drawn mostly with Bic ballpoint pen, it breaks the conventions of graphic novels in many ways. On the surface Monsters is a coming of age story set in 60's Chicago, but it is a multi-layered narrative that catalogues monsters in all forms - those in pulp comics, those responsible for the horrors of the holocaust, and monsters that enable brutal sexual exploitation and abuse.   

It's embedded with sadness, weighed with the heaviness of human struggle, but shot through with light and love. A genuinely important work. 

Volume 2 is forthcoming, I hope in 2023. If so, I can't see it not making next year's list.

#2 - Acting Class - Nick Drnaso (2022)

I loved Nick's previous books - Beverly, and Sabrina - but Acting Class, for me, surpasses both. In Acting Class, as you'd expect, a disparate group of strangers join an amateur acting class. But what the title doesn't give away is the David Lynch like sense of uncanny, an under the surface oddness, which makes the ongoing narrative full of tension. It's compelling in every way.

  #3 - The Labyrinth - Simon Stålenhag (2021)

All of Simon's other books have made my previous books of the year lists, The Labyrinth deserves its place on this year's list too. 

In short The Labyrinth is a brutal sci-fi graphic novel, in which guilt and redemption collide. The art and words work together to build a darker world, where everyday horror seeps into an alternate past future.

  #4 - The Confidence Men - Margalit Fox (2021)

During the 1st World War, two British officers conspired to escape a remote Turkish prisoner of war camp. What follows is a true story of an elaborately planned, long running con, involving seances, spirits, and sleight of hand trickery. It's an outstandingly researched and written book. Film rights have been optioned by Fox, which doesn't surprise me, but the detail in the writing is a joy.

  #5 - Magritte in 400 images - Julie Waseige (2021)

Rene Magritte has been one of my favourite artists since discovering his work as a teenager, tucked away in the tiny Abergele library  in a book on surrealist painters.

This book covers a huge amount of his output, in chronological order. It's interesting to track his obsessions and motifs as they recur and develop. Magritte's use of the ordinary made strange creates a quiet unease, at odds with the more fleshy surrealism of someone like Dali. Magritte's work often playfully explores aspects of illusion and unreality, an area I'm constantly drawn to.  And the best children's book we've read this last year? My oldest daughter is now 6, she's learnt to read using the Biff, Chip and Kipper series (created by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta in 1986). The illustrations are full of incidental details that are brilliant asides to a world bigger than the story. Creating compelling stories using a limited vocabulary is a constraint greater in challenge than anything used by George Perec.

  My daughter's favourite books have been the Pizazz series by Sophy Henn.

Imagine a girl who is a reluctant super-hero, embarrassed by her super-power (glitter jazz hands anyone?), always wearing her too long cape (chosen by her mum), having to save the world before school, and still forced to do homework. We read them all in a month, thanks to the well stocked Hackney library. Pizazz is funny, smart, and identifiable.

[mxrainbowsheep]

I'm watching a charlie brown video essay and it reminded me of Dog Sees God so I thought I might tell a story.

In my second semester at college I participated in an acting class, naturally we had to do scenes with partners.

Two of my buddies got stuck with Dog Sees God and both of them hated the play so much they literally could only do the first scene because neither of them felt comfortable doing any other.

The younger of the two apparently is evidently a big fan of Charlie Brown and was disgusted that this play had even been written.