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Actors’ Boot
Camp® II– Into Battle
(8 Weeks, 5 days a week)
The Army’s Boot Camp prepares you for war; The Actors' Boot Camp® II prepares you for a much tougher battle – SHOW BUSINESS; that’s why it’s eight glorious weeks of daily work. Because after Boot Camp II, you will never again be able to return to civilian life, you are now an actor.
 Here you will continue to learn and APPLY only the relevant aspects of the Meisner Technique and the Michael Chekhov Technique, you will learn TRUE on-camera skills so that you can work on ANY type of shoot, and you will learn and APPLY business tools that will get you going in your career. As a matter of fact, we INSIST not only that you have an appropriate and effective picture and resume by the end of Boot Camp II, but that you also start AUDITIONING.
Here’s how it happens 5 days a week, 3 hours a day:
- Cold
Reading/Scene
Study - Going deep in your scene work, truly playing actions, staying in the moment the whole time, taking chances, and making bold choices. Creating character, finding a character’s arc, audition technique, mock auditions, breaking down a script into beats, and taking adjustments as you work with scenes appropriate to your type.
- Acting Corps Technique - Transitioning from the useful elements of The Meisner Technique into text, working from a point of view, and independent activities. But now, more and more, it is about getting in your body, using your imagination, attacking the Michael Chekhov Technique and psychological gestures and atmosphere as you stay in the moment.
- On
Camera Technique - Difference between frame sizes, matching action, keeping it alive the whole time. Hitting marks, blocking, coverage, and shooting and playing back scenes. All scenes will be shot on 2 cameras, you will get your own individual take, and you will get individual critique during playback.
- Business
of Show Business - Determining your type, learning how the business really works, creating the best possible resume, finding a photographer, SCHEDULING a SHOOT DATE. Bringing back your pictures, choosing the right one given your type, finalizing your resume, absorbing info on agents, submissions, and auditioning. By the end of this class you will have your entire business package ready and you will go on at least ONE AUDITION. No excuses here - are you in or are you just going to sit in a class somewhere and talk about this acting thing?
And…INCLUDED, STRONGLY SUGGESTED, but NOT MANDATORY:
- 8 SESSIONS of The Daily Acting Workout - One hour a day, on your feet, utilizing all the skills you learn in your acting classes. The all important DAW, whenever you have time, day or night, 8 sessions to be attended at your discretion.
Morning Boot Camp II schedule is Monday to Friday, 10:30 to 1:30pm.
Evening Boot Camp II schedule is Sunday to Thursday, 7:30 to 10:30pm.
Admission is by audition or completion of Boot Camp I and invitation into Boot Camp II.
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