Directing and Acting for the Camera - Directors

This course is an essential hands-on laboratory for directors and actors who want to work in film and television. All scenes are shot film style on a high-end digital camera. Directors will explore every facet of the directorial process, learning what a set is like, how scenes are structured, how to create scene coverage by creating storyboards and shot lists and what the important issues for a director are. This class will teach you to interpret and translate the written ideas of the screenplay into cinematic form and improve your abilities to communicate with actors.

Actors will learn to identify the specific demands of the scene and how to tailor their performance to the needs of the camera. Instruction emphasizes developing the ability to focus on character and intent while navigating the external distractions of a movie set. Actors will work on a variety of scenes being assigned a new director for each new scene.  For actors interested in enrolling, please look at the class description here.

Please note that you will be expected to be available for rehearsal outside of regularly-scheduled class time.