Los Angeles
Are you spending a fortune on workshops where you receive zero feedback? Or are you getting a little feedback but it doesn’t result in jobs or representation?
Would you like to dramatically improve your audition skills for casting directors, agents & managers in film, TV, stage, & commercials?
Would you like to learn how to:
- Cold read confidently minutes after you receive the script?
- Localize and eradicate your habitual roadblocks?
- Learn to define and make interesting choices - and quickly?
- Create auditions that stand out (for the right reasons)?
- Use a ‘'bad reader'’ to your advantage?
- Survive an ‘'upstager’'?
- Learn how to subvert (or embrace) your ‘'type'’?
DETAILS
"Paul gave an awesome workshop last night. He is so passionate about what he does. He elevated the actors performance last night, right before our eyes! Amazing. "
- Cheryl Nilsen Schaberg
Where: Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center. 11006 Magnolia Blvd. N. Hollywood, CA 91601
When: Saturday May 21st 11:00 am (sharp) until 1:30pm. Please arrive at least 15min early.
RSVP: rsvp_acting4camera.com
Paul Barry (www.imdb.me/paulbarry) is an actor, director, writer and acting teacher with a vast experience of teaching in Australia and from around the world.
He has taught well in excess of two thousand students over the past 15 years and regularly conducts private and group classes here in LA (www.acting4camera.com).
As a professional ‘reader’ in castings for over a decade, Paul has seen thousands of actors audition and through a constant dialog with directors, casting directors and producers, he is highly qualified to offer his opinion on what works and what doesn’t.
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What’s your favorite acting cliché or generalization?
‘'Less is more'’, '‘Really connect’', '‘Stop being indulgent’', '‘Be present’', '‘Acting is 90% listening'’, '‘Go with your gut'’, '‘Be bold'’, '‘It’s all in the eyes’', '‘Don’t anticipate the moment’', '‘Just BE!'’ ? We once heard of a director who instructed a guy in a scene to "“just feel her pain more"”. Ummm…....Now how, exactly, does one do that?
Casting directors, directors and even other actors offer advice they think is useful, but did you know that generalizations actually create more problems than they solve?
Thank goodness though there are actual techniques you can employ that work 100% of the time. Would it relieve you to know the three things all bad acting have in common and how to avoid them? Would it be helpful to anticipate the most common traps in every scene? Would you like to learn how to make a crew love you, without even saying a word? Or have an editor praise you without ever meeting them? What if we told you that it is important to "anticipate a moment" and that sometimes ‘'being indulgent’' can create your greatest performance ever? In short, do you know how to transcend the clichés and produce the goods, take after take?
Great actors know it, so should you.
Acting is DO-ing. Paul Barry will teach you how to DO. With actual, practical, DO-able techniques. From rehearsals to cold-reads to auditions to shoot day. No clichés. No generalizations.
