Acting For Camera

This exciting, practical course is suitable for anyone wishing to develop their acting for camera skills and promote themselves into the film and television industry.

There are 8 weeks each with a 3 hour class time (with 8 participants),7 weeks (with 6 participants).

The course will focus on:

Acting - Textual analysis; Creating a solid character; Human communicative chemistry; Active listening; Imagination, Spontaneity, 'Aliveness'; Emotional contact; Storytelling; Refining your performance; Confidence on the film/TV set.

Filming - Technical vocabulary; Crew hierarchy; Shot sizes; Eye-lines; Hitting your mark; Concentration, focus and relaxation on camera.

Director - Catrin Stewart

Catrin is a Welsh actor from Cardiff. She trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She also works as a freelancer teaching screen acting and audition technique at the Bristol School of Acting. Additionally, she works with students who are auditioning for drama school, and has a lot of experience sitting on audition panels for drama school.

Theatre credits include: Kill thy neighbour (Theatr Clwyd) Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic) , Hero of the People (Sherman Theatre) Valued Friends’ (Rose Theatre Kingston); 1984 ( West End); Maggie in ‘Cat On a Hot Tin Roof’ (Theatr Clwyd); Jew of Malta and Loves Sacrifice (RSC); ‘The Cherry Orchard’ (The Young Vic); ‘Mametz’ and 'The Devil Inside Him' (National Theatre of Wales); Longing’ (Hampstead Theatre); Juliet in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (Headlong); ‘Buried Child’ (Leicester Curve); ‘The Lady from the Sea’ (The Manchester Royal Exchange).

Television credits include: The Kill List (Sky) Doctors, Casualty (BBC); Lifelines (S4C); ‘Bang (BAFTA WALES WINNER) (S4C / BBC Wales); Doctor Who (BBC); Stella (Sky One); Misfits (E4); and Hearts of Gold (BBC).

She won Best Performance in a British Feature film award at the Edinburgh Film Festival for ’The Library Suicides’ (BFI/ Ffilm Cymru) directed by Euros Lyn.

She has also worked on many radio dramas for BBC Radio 4 and audio series for Big Finnish as well as short films for Ffilm Cymru.

Max is a shooting Producer/Director with over 30 years of experience working around the globe on a diverse range of productions from drama to long-term observational documentary projects, specialist factual and presenter lead wildlife programs. He has experience working in challenging environments from the Amazon to the Artic and an has extensive technical knowledge of camera, drone, location sound recording and lighting. In-between freelance film production work Max also ran the film production department of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for 15 years training actors and technical students to work in front of and behind the camera.

Awards include:

Grammy. Best Long Form Music Video for 'Coldplay Tour Diary'. Camera/Sound.

BAFTA. ‘Great British Bake Off’ Series 3. Shooting Location Director MORE

Broadcast Awards. Best Documentary Series. ‘Tribal Wives’. Shooting Director.

RTS Craft Award for Camerawork/Lighting Camerawork. ‘Seaside Rescue 3’. Shooting PD

Shoot Director - Richard Maxwell

Location - The Bristol School of Acting, Silver Street, Bristol, BS1 2AG

Dates and times - May 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, June 4th, 11th, 18th. Thursday evenings 6.30 to 9.30

Fees - £550 payable in full 4 weeks before the course begins. Payment details will be sent to you.

PLEASE BE AWARE - If there are 6 actors on the course it will be 7 weeks 8 actors the course will be 8 weeks.

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