DEVELOP A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO WORKING WITH ACTORS
Communicate your ideas effectively with the actors portraying them on screen. Designed for directors and practitioners with an existing understanding of screen storytelling, this advanced two-day course provides practical tools for developing an effective rehearsal process and communicating with actors with greater clarity and precision.
If you’re unsure about the language you should use to communicate your ideas, confused about how to approach a rehearsal or wondering how to create a safe workspace when dealing with difficult material, this course will give you the tools and confidence to better identify and engage with an actor’s process and get the best out of the time you have with your cast.
Delivered by Nadia Townsend, experience how a rehearsal can become a genuinely creative part of the filmmaking process while you explore how to establish an ethical, psychologically safe and creatively rigorous rehearsal environment.
At the end of this course you will be able to:
Work with appropriate actor-focused language to get the best performance outcomes under pressure.
Construct and facilitate effective rehearsal processes.
Communicate ideas with actors in a clear and practical way.
Is AFTRS Advanced: Acting for Directors right for you?
This intensive two-day workshop is for directors, producers and writers looking to deepen and refine their approach to working with actors. Course participants will be safely stepping into the acting process, working on small one-page scenes as a way of understanding first-hand the task they are asking of the actors. By doing these practical exercises, you will gain an understanding of what an actor goes through and better bridge the gap between the inside experience (acting) and the outside experience (directing).
As a participant, you’ll deepen and widen your scope for how to explore the nature of a scene, character relationships, dynamics and character engines. This course is also designed to give you a pathway to create a healthy working environment and an ethical rehearsal practice.
$900
$810 (10%)
Early bird price is automatically applied at checkout until 14 days prior to course start date.
In Person
Over 18 years
12
Meet Your Tutors
AFTRS short courses are taught by leading industry professionals.
Nadia Townsend
Nadia Townsend is a screen dramaturg, director and writer who began her career as a professional actor. With over 25…
Aftrs Advanced: Acting For Directors Offerings
Sydney
$900
This is the standard course price.
Building 130, The Entertainment QuarterMoore Park NSW 2021
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
AFTRS reserves the right to cancel any course for any reason at any time. In the event of a course being cancelled a full refund of course fees will be provided. If you are planning to travel to attend a course, please confirm with us via email that the course will be proceeding before you make your travel bookings. AFTRS is not liable for any travel costs incurred due to course postponement, cancellation, or any other circumstance.
If an attendee wishes to withdraw from a course, they may do so up to 15 days before the course commences and get a full refund. Cancellations 14 days or less before course commencement will incur a fee.
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For more information email shortcourses@aftrs.edu.au or call 1300 223 877.