Acting Essentials: 5 Steps to Performing the Role
Learn the essential steps to create a captivating character for stage and screen. Perfect for student actors, early career actors, and non-actors looking to enhance their communication skills.
What you’ll learn
- Analyze a Script
- Construct a Character Backstory
- Understand the Character’s Goals and Challenges
- Build the Character’s Physicality & Vocal Qualities
- Understand the Character’s Looks and Props
From script to performance, learn how an actor creates a character from scratch and brings the role to life off the pages of the script.
In this course, you will learn the building blocks for creating a character for the stage and the camera. You will learn how to analyze a script, construct a character backstory, understand the character’s goals and challenges, and build the character’s physicality and vocal qualities.
Each lesson in this course will introduce one step in the character creation process and include a worksheet and an optional activity for you to complete. Each activity builds on the one before, and by the end of the course, you will have built a foundation for a character who’s ready to come alive off the pages of the script.
Performing Art has a powerful and important role in inspiring, educating, and empowering people worldwide, breaking through cultural and language barriers. Whether you want acting to be your full-time, part-time, or side hobby, this course will guide you through the essentials of acting; how an actor creates a character for film and stage.
This is an introductory level course, and if you are new to acting, thinking about acting, or need a refresher after a long time away from acting, this course is for you!
Who this course is for:
- Student Actors
- Early Career Actors
- Non-Actors Interested in Growing their Communication Skills
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