Film Acting Class

Film Acting Fundamentals - I (monthly)
Instructor: Tom Thon <(Click Here to Sign Up) Mon 1 - 4 PM Tue 7-10 PM Limited to 10 students per class Investment $100.00 / Month
This on-going, "on camera" class will provide beginning and intermediate students with the tools to be successful in audition and on the set. It will allow stage actors to transition their skills from live performance to performing for the camera. Each session will be recorded with playback analysis. Students will receive DVD copies of their work at regular intervals. Class size is limited to 10 students for personalized instruction. The class will offer students an introduction to and practice in the following:
Audition Technique Rapid Script Analysis Rapid Character Development Cold Reading Emotional Control Techniques Improvisation Camera Awareness Audition and Set Etiquette Film Set Terms and Vocabulary
Film Acting Fundamentals - II (monthly)
Instructor: Tom Thon <(Click Here to Sign Up) Mon 7 -10 PM Tue 1 - 4 PM Limited to 10 students per class Investment $100.00
This on-going, "-on camera" class will provide intermediate and advanced students the opportunity to hone their audition skills on camera. In addition, on camera scene study will be ongoing with multi camera scene production at regular intervals. Each session will be recorded with playback analysis. Students will receive DVD copies of their work at regular intervals. Film Acting Fundamentals is open to students who demonstrate a clear grasp of the topics covered in Film Acting Foundation 1. Class size is limited to 10 students for personalized instruction. The class will offer students the opportunity to learn and practice the following:
Advanced Script Analysis Advanced Character Development Introduction to Practical Esthetics Camera Blocking Scene Production Crew Definitions Set Hierarchy Left Brain / Right Brain Exercises Imagination Stimulators


About the instructor: Tom has just completed principal photography as Doc Kingston in the feature film Quarantine 2: Terminal with Mercedes Masohn and Josh Cooke. He has also worked with John Houston & Jack Nicholson on Prizzi's Honor, Meryl Streep, Liev Shreiber & Jonathan Demme on The Manchurian Candidate, and with Robert Duval, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Lucas Black on Get Low. Tom was a 2008 Suzi Bass Award nominee as Featured Actor for his multiple roles in Terrance McNally's Some Men at Actors Express. His other stage credits including work at the Alliance Theatre, Horizon Theater and Theatre in the Square.