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Personal Skills
- An ability to be self-motivated and interdependent. To work with energy, self commitment and focus utilizing their own psyche and vulnerability.
- An ability to work with directors by adapting to fulfill the production requirements.
- A level of physical mobility, fitness and flexibility to enable them to draw freely on their physicality as an integral component of characterization development.
Acting Skills
A comprehensive knowledge and practical experience in skills in acting.
- Listening – to experience the distinction of listening as opposed to hearing, and be able to actively and creatively listen as a character as part of communication in any given situation.
- Visualization – use their creative imagination to its maximum when visualizing characters and settings. This skill to be used both in auditions and on set whenever required.
- Voice - to demonstrate an open and free voice allowing full expression and good tone, using resonance, pitch, relaxation and projection.
- Speech – to have clarity of speech by discovering the energy & muscles needed to create specific sounds.
- Fitness and flexibility to develop physical fitness, and through yoga, flexibility, awareness and relaxation, allowing the actor to become centered physically, emotionally and mentally.
- Clarity - to understand and develop clarity of moves, motions, thoughts and intentions for use in characterization.
- Moves – to demonstrate an ability to move freely to specific marks naturally and with intent.
- Camera Awareness – to develop a complete awareness of camera positions and shots and be able to adjust performances accordingly.
- Body Harmony – through Eurythmy. To create an awareness of the human body as a spacial being whilst developing inner awareness and creative response through language, speech and poetry.
- Emotional Recall – to develop an ability to call on personal experiences in order to truthfully recreate any given emotion.
- Props – to freely, comfortably and naturally use any given prop in any given situation.
- Communicating – to employ communication freely and truthfully as a character, combining all the actors physical, emotional intellectual & spiritual talents.
- Eyes – to develop an understanding of the importance of the eyes in on screen acting and experience the level of authenticity needed.
- Improvisation – to freely and confidently improvise in any given situation both on set and in audition situations.
- Focus and energy – to understand & experience the level of focus concentration and flow of interactive energy required to play any scene with depth.
- Truth – an understanding of the need to inter-react with truth and authenticity at all times.
- Character Development – a comprehensive knowledge and practical skills in developing a character, utilizing the above skills with effectiveness, style, truth, subtlety and impact.
Script Analysis and Implementation
- Analysis – to demonstrate creative analysis with any given script, understanding form and style, creative stimuli to enhance the character, kinesthetics of interactions, and scene structure.
- Sub-text – to understand the depth of sub-text required to portray a scene effectively and truthfully, and to generate this freely and creatively through inner dialogue.
Associated Skills
- Accents – to have an understanding of the structure of both Australian and West Coast Californian accents in order to recreate them whenever needed.
- Microphone techniques – to experience and develop vocal techniques needed for radio, voice-over and post sync.
- Stunts – to have a basic awareness of stunt requirements and choreography and an heightened awareness of safety on set.
Professional Awareness
- Art - to appreciate the fundamental aim of acting as an art form is the creation of the inner life of a human spirit and expressing it in an artistic form.
- Job Seeking – to have a knowledge of the casting and auditioning process, with an in depth awareness of the use of: -
- agents, photos, CVs, show reels etc and become actively involved in their ongoing development.
- Selflessness – to recognize that acting is not about the actor, but about the character being portrayed, and identify when the viewers focus shifts to the actor and its effect on a scene.
Practical Acting Experience in Production Exercise
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Student Profile
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KERRI ROGGIO | 2009
Straight after graduation in December 2009, Kerri picked up work as Assistant Editor on the feature film The Insatiable Moon. “This was a low-budget film and my role was unpaid,” says Kerri. “But proving that taking unpaid jobs often leads to paid work, the editor of The Insatiable Moon, Paul Maxwell, is now editing a TV movie produced by Screentime and he has offered me a paid position as his Assistant Editor. Editing is awesome and I can't wait til I've learned enough to edit a feature of my own.” |
