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SUMMER ACTING
FOR FILM PROGRAM |
[ introduction
] [ schedule ] [ sample
schedule ] [ sample films
] [ gallery ]
INTRODUCTION
Our Acting
for Film program is closely tied to our Advanced and Introductory
Filmmaking programs. When the filmmaking students go out
to make their assigned films each week, they utilize the
talent in the Acting for Film program. This provides our
acting students with immediate on-camera experience and
allows them to walk away from the program with a portfolio
of films in which they have performed. Our filmmaking students
are shooting on both 16mm film and state-of-the-art digital
cameras with sync sound and are cutting on nonlinear digital
systems so your reel will look slick and professional.
CURRICULUM
Classes in
the Acting for Film program are designed to prepare our
students for being on camera as quickly as possible. Many
acting schools will spend weeks, months, even years on theater
games and exercises before they give their students actual
scenes to work on. At SOCAPA, we instead choose to prepare
you immediately for the films you will be performing in
during the program and the auditions you will be going on
once you graduate. Casting directors will give you scenes
at auditions and filmmakers will give you scenes in their
films; our focus, then, is on scene preparation. This is
not to say that we will not teach you exercises and tools
to draw upon, but rather that these exercises and tools
will always be taught within the context of preparing for
a scene.
CULMINATION SCENE
In addition to performing in the many student films, each
SOCAPA acting student will be directed by their instructor
in a scene of their choosing. This culmination scene will
be professionally filmed and edited by a SOCAPA directing
instructor and will be shown at the Showcase Festival at
the end of the three-week program. The culmination scenes
will all be put on a DVD compilation along with the many
student films. In this way, each acting student will leave
the program with a DVD portfolio of all their summer work.
SUMMER ACTING FOR FILM
PROGRAM LINKS
[ introduction
] [ schedule ] [ sample
schedule ] [ sample films
] [ gallery ]
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