Join award winning director Kenny Glenaan for a series of four workshops focusing on the skills of directing actors for camera and how to get the best performances from your actors, following all aspects from finding the right performers in audition to how to work with actors to create the characters and maintain energy and focus in performances for camera.
Four sessions: Starting on 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th Nov, 7pm to 9.30pm at Refractive Hub 3rd Floor, Witherspoon Building , Storie Street, Paisley PA12AR
ABOUT THE TUTOR – KENNY GLENAAN
Film work includes the BAFTA winning Summer; Yasmin; Dirt Road to Lafayette and Gas Attack, which won the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In television: The BAFTA and RTS winning The Cops and Buried for Tony Garnett; Charlie (based on Charlie Haughey); The Ark; Paddington, a TV film about the Paddington rail crash; Magnificent 7, a single TV film about a family on the autism spectrum and amongst others: Case Histories; Spooks; Paranoid; The Paradise; Wired; Acceptable Risk and Being Human. Short documentary, The Right to Life, which was part of the portmanteau feature entitled The Ten Commandments, inspired by the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Theatre work includes Athol Fugard’s A Place with the Pigs; Joe Orton’s Loot; One, Two, Hey! by James Kelman; Asylum! Asylum! and Hughie on the Wires, by Donal O’Kelly, and at the Derry Playhouse – Over the Wire, by Seamus Keenan.
Currently making an ethnographic documentary about the impact of militarism and hegemonic masculinities, on the local communities which surround Faslane and Coulport nuclear submarine bases as part of the final year of a PhD.
WHAT WE WILL COVER
Session 1: Wed 6th November - Presentation/lecture/workshop Acting for Camera/importance of listening, non projections etc. Clips and examples of theory behind acting for the screen and the director actor relationship.
Session 2: Wed 13th November - Everything about auditions. Working with kids, non professional, professionals etc. Participants would have to learn a short scene roughly two pages.
Session 3: Wed 20th November - About Rehearsals. How to work with actors in creating characters.
Session 4: Wed 27th November - Filming the performance and keeping it fresh.
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