The Intensive 2012. Exterior filming exercise.
Acting for Camera with John Boylan
Acting styles change with the times and right now acting for television and film is changing dramatically. What’s required today in episodic drama and feature films is the ability to be utterly and completely natural and truthful in front of the camera and this demands enormous confidence in one’s skills. It’s a great and exciting challenge for both new and experienced actors and it requires a new way of focusing and adapting your skills.
Our acting classes at Centre for the Arts embrace this new acting reality and we are 100% committed to preparing actors for it. We’ll work to strip away artifice and help you find your particular way to being honest and entirely comfortable in front of the camera. We’ll use a variety of teaching tools with an emphasis on scene work, drawn from the television series and films of the moment. You’ll learn to effectively analyze a scene and play truthfully within it. All our class work is experiential; you’ll work in front of the camera and your work will be recorded on a DVD for your review
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THE COACH
A well known Canadian actor, acting coach and teacher, John Boylan is founder and Director of Toronto’s Centre for the Arts. A graduate of Canada’s National Theatre School, recent film and television credits include The Kennedy’s, Story of Luke, Don Cherry and Being Erica.
In addition to his ongoing classes at Centre for the Arts, John teaches at Ryerson Theatre School and is a guest tutor at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London. In April, 2011 he taught at George Brown Theatre School and recently delivered a Master Class to members of the acting company at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He has taught at New York University: Graduate Film School, University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theatre, The Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin; Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, The Actors Centre, London, and in Zimbabwe for FIA (International Actor’s Federation). He taught the the first ever on-camera class at The Yale School of Drama.
Additionally he has taught at York University graduate and under-graduate theatre departments; the National Screen Institute; Humber College; Workshops in the Performing Arts, Vancouver; Moving Images Group, Halifax; and Queen’s University. He designed and delivered workshops in the Vancouver, St. John’s and Halifax CBC studios for ACTRAWORKS
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