COURSE DURATION: 4 WEEKS
LEARNING HOURS: 160
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH WITH SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION INTO YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE
OPTION: MASTER CLASSES CONDUCTED BY HOLLYWOOD STARS
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The program ‘Acting career as a business’ targets mostly young people, who have already acquired an actor’s education, and students of theatre schools.
The name of the program ‘Acting career as a business’ itself implies that the main objective of the offered course is teaching students the right and efficient building of a successful acting career both in Hollywood and back home. Our Program is aimed at upgrading the level of the actors’ professional skills, with an emphasis on the peculiarities of working in Hollywood.
The 4-week training course ‘Acting career as a business’ is focused on teaching foreign students the American approach to filmmaking, as well as the role and place of an actor in film production. The course is designed to foster an environment for students to engage in in-depth vocational training in the short period of their stay in Hollywood. For this purpose the HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL MOVIE CENTER (HIMC) in collaboration with Columbia College Hollywood (CCH), Emerson College LA (ELA) and Musicians Institute (MI) provides students access to fully equipped classrooms and sets/stages for training, and comfortable dwelling quarters not far from the Academy. This allows to achieve three essential objectives:
These goals are achieved through daily intensive learning using an original improvisational method in modern well-equipped Academy classrooms, and directly at Universal Studios sets, where students can apply what they learn to a variety of different offered settings.
Working in collaboration with partners and representatives of other film disciplines, taking part in the joint creative search, students apply their own impressions of dramatic or comic situations they had once experienced themselves. The scenes they have thought up and acted through are filmed at a contemporary professional level in the genre of short miniatures. This enables an actor to gain an unprecedented experience of working on a film set, a realistic inner understanding of his/her abilities, his/her character type, acquire the skills and experience of collaborative work, and most importantly, hear an objective analysis of his/her professional abilities, assessed by a teacher – head of the group, or a visiting guest-professor. They can be a famous actor or film critic. All NYFA faculty – are the highest-level professionals, working in the American film industry.
Apart from the fundamental acting skills, students also acquire accompanying skills. Upon completion of the training course the students will be able to:
The comprehensive training course ‘Acting career as a Business’ embraces theoretical and hands-on training in acting skills, classes in screenwriting and directing, the art of editing and producing, with an emphasis on business as an integral part of filmmaking. Apart from that, students will be read a special course ‘Hollywood as the synthesis of art and business, and the place of an actor in it’.
In addition to the basic course, HIMC organizes master-classes conducted by famous Hollywood actors and directors.
All lectures, seminars and practical sessions are provided with simultaneous translation into your native language!
In the first 2 weeks and the last fourth week students will be read introductory lectures and 2 courses: ‘Acting career as a business’ and ‘Hollywood as the synthesis of art and business, and the place of an actor in it’. The fourth concluding week will be devoted to shooting Demo Reels.
Students of the acting course will also be engaged in shooting student films of students enrolled in the program ‘Hollywood as the synthesis of art and business’.
The third week of training will culminate in the production of 2 actor’s demo reels (tragedy and comedy) created by each student. For creating a demo reel the actors break up into 3 (or more) groups, 2-4 people in each. On the 4th and 5th day they engage in the shooting process, in the course of which each group of actors acts in the demo reel, while the others assist them. Then the groups swap. This way the students acquire experience of working on the set, and end up having 2 ready demo reels of their own, that they will later be able to use as their actual presentation material.
Important information: for working on creating a Demo Reel students have to have at least 2 ready sketches (drama, comedy) in written form in English. The actual Demo Reels, at the student’s wish, can be filmed in Russian or in English.
As an option students are offered an extensive entertainment program for the week-ends: tours of LA, visiting the legendary concert hall ‘Hollywood Bowl’, concerts, exhibitions, museums, film premiers, etc.