Master The Art of Acting  Workshop (3 DAYS)

Please call to reserve your spot! 573-581-5592 -

You may mail your payment to : Presser Performing Arts Center PO Box 845  Mexico, Mo 65265  or you may pay at the door.  $50.00 per person,  16 yrs and up

Workshop March 9-11

Master The Art of Acting is a workshop designed for actors whose professional acting training and experience is limited. In this intensive three-part workshop, actors move through a plethora of learning experiences encompassing all aspects of the professional acting world from auditioning to headshots to landing an agent to performing on camera as well as on stage. “Acting” is a term that might hold more relevance if it were referred to instead as “Being”. It is an organic process that is viscerally born and emergent from one’s soul. It is the art of accurately and truthfully portraying the moment-to-moment, beat-by-beat life that unfolds in any given scene. It simply cannot be faked. A common teaching and directorial prompt used in Hollywood to help unproven actors understand the process is “think the thought and the audience or camera reads it.” Truthful acting is not about memorizing lines. It is not about indicating emotion. It is about listening, feeling and reacting. During the workshop actors perform individually, in pairs, and in small groups in short performances from a variety of genres and formats working in scenes from actual scripts from motion pictures, television programs, short films and plays. Training encompasses working both on camera and on stage including auditioning, blocking & movement, voice, scene analysis, character development, sense-memory-recall, connecting, timing, and physical “business”. Get ready to “roll up your sleeves” and get down to what real “Acting” is about!

Sam Dalton

The workshop is conducted by Hollywood veteran actor/writer/director Sam Dalton (SAG/AFTRA/AEA). Mr. Dalton’s acting credits include the role of Mr. Gurntz in the original Paramount motion picture Footloose and a recurring role on the NBC daytime series Santa Barbara. Other credits include co-starring parts in numerous network and cable movies-of-the-week, prime-time dramas and situation comedies. When he’s not acting in motion pictures and television programs, Mr. Dalton serves as an Adjunct Professor of Film at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in Nashville, Tennessee.

$50.00 per person

AGES: 16 years and up

FRIDAY – 6:30-9:00 pm

Headshot, Agents & Demo

Auditioning, Cold Reading & Choices

 SATURDAY – 9:00AM-4:00PM

Scene Analysis

Blocking, Movement & Business ,Sense Memory & Moment-To-Moment

SUNDAY – 10:00 AM – NOON

Character Development  Voice & Timing

Questions & Answers

IT’S NOT ABOUT THE LINES

It’s About Listening, Feeling & Reacting  It’s Emotional Truth & Vulnerability It’s BEING!

World Premier of the film

KOMU Coverage of Film Camp

Channel8FilmCamp film clip

Channel 13 news article

Mexico Ledger Coverage of Film Camp article by Kim Long

 Adam’s List

screening is

Saturday August 13, 7:00 pm

at Presser Performing Arts Center 

 The Film Camp Students at Presser Performing Arts Center have spent the past 2 weeks writing the script, learning professional film gear operations, developing skills behind the camera, casting professional actors, shooting scenes, location scouting, learning lighting principles, collaboration, confidence, and communication skills.

The results of their labor is a festival-level film that will premier here and then go on to film festivals.  We would like your support to encourage our young filmmakers in this accomplishment.
The movie is free!

  
 
           
Film students for 2011:  Brent Arnold, Kaitlyn Brashear, Colin Cosby, Sadie Frazier, Abigail Gooch, Dylan Kaufman, Jacob Lauer, Autumn Malcomson, Austin Patillo, Luke Shackelford, Haley Shipp

Camp Directed by Sam Dalton , Assistant Director: Roger Brallier, Technical Trainer: Evan Brace, Production Manager: Lois Brace

Camp dates July 30 -August 11  (13 days, Sat & Sun included)(Sunday August 5, 1:00-6:00 pm)

2 weeks,  9am – 4pm  

This camp is directed by Sam Dalton – Writer/producer/director/acting teacher

Sam Dalton is experienced in all phases of film and television creation and production on both sides of a camera. He is the founder and director of “Actors Asylum”, a nationally recognized professional acting and film/video production training facility, creator, producer and host of Family Adventures and Boomer Adventures, both television travel program series, producer and host of Scrunch, an award winning nationally syndicated children’s television program. Mr. Dalton has been a professional actor and teacher for many years and is the executive writer, producer and director of the Illusion Factory, an entertainment, promotion, and Public Relations Company located in Los Angeles, responsible for the on-going development of multiple entertainment programs, infomercials and commercials.

ages 14 and up
tuition: $250.00
sibling discounts and scholarships available

Presser Performing Arts Center

Instructor: Sam Dalton

sam@boomeradventurestv.com

Program Description

The art of filmmaking (including writing, cinematography, directing, and editing) is part of a business that requires hard work, dedication, and perseverance throughout one’s career, especially if one is to achieve a modicum of success. A high level of degreed proficiency in the craft is necessary for high school students whose college and future career interests lie in any aspect of the entertainment business. What do you do?  Where do you go following high school? Who do you contact? What do you need to know? What is it like to attend film school at Watkins?  This “hands-on” course takes a no-nonsense approach to the realities of becoming a professional filmmaker (including most careers within the discipline i.e. producer, director, AD, cinematographer, script supervisor, writer, editor, sound tech, grip), especially in Southern California.

This is a no-nonsense filmmaking course that is designed to give high-school students hands on experience
in the art of filmmaking from concept to completion compacted into an intensive three-week, Monday
through Friday 9:00am to 4:00pm schedule. Students are expected to comport themselves as though
attendance, participation, discussion, and assignments during the Pre-college Program/Film Track at
Presser Performing Arts Center are part of a full-time college-level filmmaking course, if not part of an industry-related summer job or internship. Students are expected to be on time, do the work, turn in the assignments, and participate in class.
Students work in collaboration as a team to create and produce a short-length digital film (10-15 minutes)
in length, of their own design and execution, from concept to story development to script writing to preproduction to production to post production and distribution. Through this process, students acquire
comprehensive knowledge of the duties required and gear used to produce motion pictures and television
programs. Students rotate through all the typical positions that are incumbent in the process of creating
their project film including writing, directing, videography/cinematography, script supervision, lighting,
and sound. In addition to a screening of the completed film that is open to industry professionals as well as
the general public, the completed film is submitted for consideration to several Film Festivals. A
DVD of the completed film is also distributed to each student enrolled in the course.

THIS IS NOT A COURSE FOR MAKING “YOU TUBE” VIDEOS!

Enjoy the Big SCREEN feeling of the “old” time movies!

All movie admissions $1.00

Movies are subject to change

All movies begin at 7:00 pm