Their truthful characterizations provide filmmakers with the opportunity to create a filmic reality, which suspends the audience's disbelief and captivates its imagination. This program is not about being a star. It is about being prepared. It is not about you the student but about how you the actor can contribute to making a story or a scene or a moment irrefutably real. They build portfolios and production credits to present to the industry by participating in casting calls, independent projects and cross-program collaboration.
Successful students leave the program better prepared for a professional film and television career.
Acting Technique Students develop fundamental acting skills and define a core process for themselves from a variety of established approaches. Through exercises, improvisations, monologues and scene study, students transform their rehearsal and performance process into on-camera preparedness. Film and Television Students are introduced to camera techniques, including frame sizes, shot definitions, marks, physical continuity, emotional continuity, eye-lines, screen direction, acting for the edit and the actor's relationship with the director and film crew. Students shoot in single and multiple camera setups, both in studio and on location. They regularly view and critique dailies.