Short Acting Courses
Summer 2010 - Weeks commencing 12 July and 6 September 2010
Intensive week-long courses in professional acting, especially designed to sharpen and broaden your acting techniques. During our week-long summer courses we will help you to improve your basic tools of acting. Morning sessions concentrate on basic acting skills, and afternoons will work on play texts.
Teaching staff are drawn from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and professional actors. These courses are suitable for those aged 17 and above, who have some prior acting experience, and/ or those wishing to pursue their interest in the acting profession. There are no qualifications offered on these courses; a certificate of attendance will be presented on the final day. (Attendance on any of these courses does not constitute an offer onto the School's full time HE courses).
Classical Acting
Classes include:
- Voice
- Movement
- Verse speaking
- Acting
- Improvisation
- Stagecraft
- Received Pronunciation
Modern Acting
Classes include:
- Voice
- Movement
- Acting
- Improvisation
- Sight-reading
- Stagecraft
- Dialects
All classes are held at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Downside Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2XF.
Classes run from Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm.
Accomodation is not provided but local lists are available.
Course fees are £310 for the whole week. Lunch is not included.
On the Friday evening a farewell buffet reception will be provided from 6pm to 7pm.
Senior Bristol Old Vic Theatre School staff will welcome you onto the course and be in attendance on the final day.
Modern Acting Short course –Course Full, Applications closed.
To apply for a Short course, please download the application form below:
SHORT COURSES APPLICATION FORM
Classical Acting Course
12th - 16th July 2010
Modern Acting Course
6th - 10th September
We will acknowledge receipt of your application and will inform you in due course whether you have been selected.
If selected, then you will be given further information on how to secure your place on the course.
If you have any enquiries, please contact Felicity Hazell on felicity.hazell@oldvic.ac.uk
Modern Acting Short course –Course Full, Applications closed.
Acting For Camera Courses
19th - 21st July
26th - 28th July
2nd - 4th August
6th - 8th September
3 days - £300 (£100 deposit required)
Spaces limited to 10 people per week
This intensive 3 day course demystifies the screen acting process, dispelling many age old myths about what makes a great screen actor.
You will be taught how to:
* Technically be a better screen actor
* How the indistry works as a whole
* The roles of the many people who work on set
* How to get more screen time
* The role of the frame
* Review the rushes in the edit suite
* Get to make your own 2 minute film in a mock 'real set' environment with an industry Director (we will send you an edited copy of your scene one week after completing the course).
To apply please contact Felicity Hazell on felicity.hazell@oldvic.ac.uk
Film and Media Training Courses
Areas covered:
* Location Sound Recording for PDs/ APs
* Self Shooting DV Directors/ APs
* Final Cut Pro Editing
* Acting for Camera
* Shooting on Location
* Bespoke Training
* Working Multi-platform
* P2/ XD Workflow
* Location Management and Logistics
When?
2 day Final Cut Pro Editing - Beginners/ PDs/ APs (BOVTS) 13th - 14th July and 13th - 14th September
2 day Tapeless Format Self Shooting for PDs/ APs (BOVTS) 7th - 8th July and 15th - 16th July
1 day Location Management and Logistics (skills2film) 13th July and 17th August
1 day Working Multi-Platform (skills2film) 12th July and 16th August
1 day Shooting On Location (skills2film) 9th August
BOVTS: 0117 973 3535
Skills2Film: 0845 003 7188 www.skills2film.com
All courses will be held at Christchurch Studios, Bristol. A 40% (non refundable) deposit is payable to secure a place on a course.
Courses indicated with (skills2film) must be booked directly with skills2film
All other courses indicated with (BOVTS) should be booked through Felicity Hazell on felicity.hazell@oldvic.ac.uk or call 0117 973 3535 ext 253.
