Special video sessions will take place throughout the course to give each participant a valuable, hands-on experience in acting for the camera. The actors are able to see and evaluate each other's film work during a special screening session at the end of the course. In the process of demystifying the craft, the student discovers the energy, power, and vulnerability of self. The second semester introduces the basics of acting coaching and is coordinated with the script analysis and dramatic criticism.
Semester culminates with student staging and coaching a medium-length scene from a modern play.
At the course's end, the student should possess a firm understanding of the process involved in script analysis, be thoroughly familiar with the composite types of dramatic literature, begin to understand the nature of an informed aesthetic, and understand the consequences of each element of a performance on its audience.