This class introduces acting students to the language and grammar of filmmaking. This includes an understanding of shot language, eyelines, screen direction, camera movement, and lighting. Film Craft aims to help the actor communicate more effectively with directors and increase their understanding of the film medium. Scene and Monologue Work Students work with original and published material through an application of The Method. Scenes are extensively rehearsed and performed.
Students receive critiques and adjustments from the instructor and fellow students.
In Voice and Singing class, students are taught a repertoire of exercises that increase mental and physical awareness, improve body alignment, and stimulate natural, reflexive breathing. Students study how to open channels in the body that control the vibrations, resonance, and range of the human voice. Yoga for Actors Yoga can be used as an invaluable addition to the actor's craft, helping to develop the actor's health and physical and spiritual relaxation abilities. Yoga warms the actor up for the day's work. This class directs the actor's attention towards the body as an instrument of expression.