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With the ubiquity of high-budget, pop documentaries featuring unsolved murders, fancy title sequences, and endless meme-able material, making a film can seem daunting and unobtainable. Why not start by examining filmmakers who develop projects with a minimal or absent crew? Join visiting artist Cuyler Ballenger to explore a range of contemporary...

An introduction to fundamental techniques and concepts for filming, editing and producing video content. Through short, hands-on projects, students will develop skills in conceptualization, camera operation, lighting, audio recording, special effects, editing and presentation methods.  The class will also cover terminology and show examples...

Two full days of personalized coaching for actors – for film, TV and theater – with Director / Producer / Acting Coach – Tom Todoroff You will learn how to: strengthen and find your true voice seek your own good opinion be a text detective change the molecules in the room have talent for your talent think like a producer be the acting...

You will film different scenes & short ideas in class, including learning how to produce a film. "Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls" - Ingmar Bergman

You will film different scenes and short ideas in class, including learning how to produce a film. Class Overview: Concept or Script Camera Operation Lighting Technique Pre-Production Guide Anatomy of a Scene Psychology of an Actor Transforming Your Ideas Shot by Shot Production, Budget, Schedule Wrap "Film as dream, film as music. No...

Marc Lapadula, playwright, screenwriter, and film historian, is an award-winning film producer and lecturer. Through the lens of his expertise, we will look at several truly outstanding films that have not only defined the era in which they were produced but have successfully transcended them. As Senior Lecturer at Yale University in the film studies...

STANISLAVSKI METHOD is taught at Next Actor Studio through scenes and exercises in order to make you, the actor, a superior performer in front of the camera and on stage.  Developed by the Russian actor, director, and producer Constantin Stanislavski in the early decades of the 20th century, the "method" asks the actors to look into themselves...

Music is often an integral part of filmmaking, with the power to make images more vivid and to elicit strong emotions and memories. From the darkly dramatic score of “A Streetcar Named Desire” to the soaring notes of the “Star Wars” theme, most of us can remember some particularly moving music from our favorite films. Professor of music composition...

Voice is an important tool for actors as well as public speakers. The proper technique to use it is necessary for creation of a role and success in acting in film, commercial, animation, radio and theatre. This sessions helps with speech, diction, breathing technique, proper projection, inflection, enunciation, speech remedy, muscle use, and much...

Voice is an important tool for actors as well as public speakers. The proper technique to use it is necessary for creation of a role and success in acting in film, commercial, animation, radio and theatre.  This sessions helps with speech, diction, breathing technique, proper projection, inflection, enunciation, speech remedy, muscle use, and...

This class is for students who have zero to very limited experience on-camera, and/or no film acting training.  Class Entails: Understanding the dos and donts of on-camera acting, Technical aspect of film and TV acting, Audition Techniques, Improvisation,  Scene and Monologue Study etc.  Students learn to breakdown...