ON-CAMERA ACTING CLASS
David Kagen All our ON-CAMERA ACTING CLASSES are 2-camera acting classes where you're filmed on a split screen so that when you watch your tape you can see yourself and your partner. That's very important because one of the things critical to all acting, and especially film acting, is that you see what's going on with your partner emotionally and you respond emotionally to what you see. And you respond emotionally to all the little emotional changes in your partner. So when you can see both yourself and your partner on your tape, you can see very quickly when you're doing that and when you're not. All our LA ON-CAMERA ACTING CLASSES are scene study classes that include cold-reading. You arrive at your acting class ten minutes early. Sometimes, you will read your scene ahead of time to yourself before you get up and do it. We want you to read it only once so that you don't formulate a lot of concepts and ideas about how to do the scene ahead of time. We just want you to have some sense of what it's about and the facts of the situation without pre-planning any emotions. Then, when it's your turn to do the scene, you sit in a chair opposite your partner and you and your partner are both filmed in a tight close-up on a split screen while you perform the scene. Each scene partner has all the work recorded on his or her individual DVD that you get to take home with you. After you've finished doing the scene, the instructor may ask you to do something else with it to get you to go beyond what you already did. Your entire critique is also recorded on DVD. This is very helpful because it's one thing for a teacher to tell you what they saw, but when you see what we're talking about for yourself, it gets very clear, very quickly. Next, you choose 2 pages from the scene you did the first half of class and do those 2 pages memorized for the second half of class. And then we go through the same process again, getting you to go beyond what you did if needed. And then you take your DVD home with you each week between classes to study it.
Located at 4629 Van Nuys Blvd., Ste. D, Sherman Oaks, CACall David Kagen at 818-783-5300
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