This ten week course introduces actors to the Meisner Technique and its application with script and camera work.

Camera Course

As an actor, it is your job to arrive prepared to set, to give a truthful and moving performance. No amount of special affects or tricky editing can bring out an actors truth on screen and learning how to give a director/casting director what they need and when they need it is a craft that takes training and experience. Our screen acting course is specifically designed to give actors the skills required to do the job consistently at an international level of acting.

At the core of this screen acting course are the underlying principals of the Meisner Technique as well as the classic structure of story and character breakdown. The course is broken up into three levels which build upon each other, allowing students to understand and develop one step at a time. The course is on-going and over the three levels these are the subjects we will be covering:

  • Story:
    • Spine
    • Scene objective
    • Plot points
  • Shape
    • Story beats
    • Character beats
    • Scene Arc
    • Character Arc
    • Pace: sizes and speed
    • Blocking
  • Character:
    • Spine
    • Overall Objective
    • Actions/Doings
    • Obstacles
    • Physicality
  • Style
    • Playing genres
    • Character
    • Story
  • Text
    • Undercurrent: what is beneath the surface (words)
    • Understanding moments between lines
  • Relationship
    • Circumstance
    • Character
    • Environment
    • Text
  • Techniques for:
    • Cold reading
    • Screen tests
    • Monologues
    • Commercials

Admission into the course is through audition only at the price of $45. At the end of every ten weeks you will get a show reel shot on a broadcast quality camera (conditions apply) at no charge, in a professionally set up TV Studio.

We will pay for some of your acting classes!
A discount of $190 will be given to any student that is accepted into our professional screen acting course when they also enroll into our Meisner acting technique classes. Please note that the acting technique class is specifically pinpointing the technical acting floors in your work for both screen and stage. It is the core work that must be strengthened in order to give a moving performance

Why our school?

Directional style acting classes VS Technique style acting classes

Technique style acting classes teach you a true step by step approach to acting. Step by step means A comes before B, B comes before C, C comes before D etc, not a mumble jumble, bits and pieces, scattered technique, that leaves actors confused without a full instrument. Example: a guitar with a two strings. The Meisner Technique works in an orderly manner to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Directional style acting classes are more ‘director driven’ than process driven. What I mean by this is, is that if you have an audition that you have already rehearsed and it is at a level where it needs to be shaped then hiring a director to shape it for you would be a good option. This can be done through a private one-on-one session. However, if taken as an on-going class I truly believe that directional-style acting classes are nowhere near as beneficial on a day to day, week in week out basis as the focus is not on developing a process that enables actors to work on their whole instrument, it is designed for that big audition or call back.
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Actors Pulse Productions – Theatre, Film and TV

The Actors Pulse is a cutting edge acting school with a current and on-going production arm that is up and running for all our graduates and selected students to be part of. Within this company are the following sections:

  • Theatre Productions (PGT)

We are currently in the embryo stages of starting up the following:

  • Film Productions
  • TV Productions

As students advance through our course, opportunities to work on professional stage and film productions will become available allowing a supportive environment for actors to gain experience on the job.

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