the ON SET workshop
for young actors looking to run a set.
master SCENE DYNAMICS while improving acting skills
Through a series of hands-on workshops and practical exercises, students will gain valuable onset experience in a variety of roles, including acting, writing, and crew specialties.
experience fuels confidence.
Over the course of this 5-day workshop, the students will gain onset experience in a variety of roles, walking away with professionally edited footage to add to their acting profiles along with an IMDb credit as an actor, writer and their crew specialties.
8 students max
Must have previous Chubbuck Technique experience. Students are placed in appropriate level groups. Consultation is required.
workshop schedule.
day 1: re-writes
Professional writers will write scenes for the students before day one, but the actors will make it their own in a series of rewrites and table reads. They will learn the principles of scene dynamics as described by Robert McKee and Jill Chamberlain, by working with these tools - they will be better able to identify these dynamics in future auditions.
day 2: rehearsals
Today is when they put their acting hat on, spending the whole day breaking down the scene, exploring the effect of choices, learning their lines.
day 3: pre-production
Every student will be assigned an additional creative role to play on set when they are not acting. Preproduction day is all about playing that other roles! They will work with industry professionals to create the necessary preproduction elements. Roles are; Make Up/Wardrobe, Director, Social Media Coordinator, First Assistant Director.
day 4: SHOOT DAY
We head over to an indie studio in the valley that has different sets for different locations, and we shoot a movie! The actors will get 2 takes per camera set up, leaving them with valuable knowledge about how to asses a performance and just for the second take based on what happened in the first take (along with all the other takes). We provide worksheets to help students understand what they mentally need to keep track of.
day 5: dailies
We get cozy for a day of watching what we did the day before! Worksheets and notes in hand, we will be able to see how their experience translated on screen - and ideas for adjustments.