Courses
FAGS3026 My Acting Career (3 units)
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
This course will focus on students' attention to their own acting career and their planning in the global screen industry. The workshops will review their ability and knowledge in acting, with special emphasis on how to apply their work to interviews, presentation and creative meetings. This course focuses rigorously on how to apply a proactive and creative approach to planning an acting career, enabling one to improve one's skills in self-reflection and presentation, and apply creative thinking to deliver a persuasive portfolio.
This course addresses how to translate the actor's artistic pursuit as an artist into a convincing team player in the screen industry. Students will learn to receive criticism and make improvement, develop their ability to make strong brave choices when they interact with other creative people especially the producers and directors. Through exercises for varied texts, they will develop a profound understanding of their career potentials.
This course will focus firstly on the actors' understanding of their own physical type, vocal range, class, accent, social type/range and its impact on others. These are examined alongside an intensive exploration/understanding of one's own individual quality. Students will take part in mock interviews with directors of film. The feedback should enable them to transform and improve. The student will review their portfolio outcomes and go through workshops for enhancement, which will examine and explore methods and approaches to bring the character to life in creative ways.