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 and play it back to [...]

“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. I’d much rather be behind camera with brilliant actors.
So it wasn’t the best news when I heard [...]

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 compiled in a large binder, so when it [...]

This is what happens when you don’t get enough extras to show up.