June-July 2014 Photos

2014 Northern Beaches Local Business Awards: Wednesday July 2 at Dee Why RSL Club

Screen Actors Workshop director Alan Nurthen and coordinator Vera Polianskaia at the 2014 Local Business Awards

Screen Actors Workshop coordinator Vera Polianskaia

Alan and Vera at the 2014 Northern Beaches Local Business Awards.

Voice, Articulation and Movement Master Class: Course Component 4, June 1, 2014 with movement tutor Natalia Ladyko

Movement tutor Natalia Ladyko instructing the students

Natalia performing an exercise with one of the students

Natalia working through an exercise with one of the students

Natalia working the students hard

Natalia demonstrating an exercise

Natalia performing an exercise for the class

The students working on an exercise

Natalia performing a lifting exercise with one of the students

Natalia observing the students at work

Natalia explaining a new exercise to the students

Natalia demonstrating an exercise

Natalia giving constructive feedback after an exercise

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Wooden Acting

When an actor’s performance is described as “wooden,” what does that mean? Basically it means that the performance is forced, in other words, the feelings and emotions are “acted,” not felt. Good acting is living in the moment and truthfully experiencing what the character is feeling emotionally from moment to moment. Wooden acting can be […]

Finding the right acting tutor

The first step in commencing your budding acting career is to find the right acting school and, most importantly, the right acting teacher for you. If you want to learn stage acting then you have a wide choice of institutions. If you want to study screen acting, the choices are limited. But the most critical […]

Truthful Acting

Truthful acting means just that. It means don’t ACT for the camera but instead have an experience! Feel what the character is feeling from moment to moment and immerse yourself fully into the role. The camera is a great bullshit detector and if you’re “acting” then the camera will immediately read the performance as phony […]

Commitment

It’s one thing to apply for a full-time acting course after completing high school when you have plenty of free time and access to resources such as Hex, Austudy or Abstudy. But what if you’re a mature age student? How can you learn how to act while juggling a full-time job and family commitments? If […]

Learning Lines

Whether for stage or screen you must learn your lines. There is no excuse. As veteran British actor Bill Nighy says: “You must know your lines inside out and back to front.” If you don’t know your lines then you are not connected to either the moment or to the other actor(s). There are numerous techniques […]