How to Hold an Audition

by | Sep 10, 2007 | Coffee & Celluloid

Each year The Film School holds two open auditions. It’s a really good idea. Anyone can come in. They fill out a form with their information and acting experience, get a head shot, and act out a scene that’s recorded. This is inputted into a database and...

Acting for the Camera

by | Sep 30, 2007 | Coffee & Celluloid

“Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.” -Stanislavski In the spring semester we had a few acting workshops to prepare us for our F2s. Acting isn’t exactly my favorite thing in the world, and one of my directing weak points....

Making a Scene

by | Oct 26, 2007 | Coffee & Celluloid

For the past couple of week’s we’ve had to pick a scene from our F3, rehearse it with our ATL members, then act it out in front of the class for our directing and acting teachers to see how the scene plays. Then the following week we record the performance...

Thoughts on Directing After Directing

by | Sep 1, 2008 | Coffee & Celluloid

Pensive Directing I’ve only briefly mentioned the production of my thesis (the fictional one), and after having about a month to think it over, and finally seeing the dailies four weeks after filming (monthlies?), I have an idea of where I stand with the...