London Film School, offer full-time MA Degree courses in both Film Making and Screewriting.

"We want our actors to be relaxed, confident and focused when performing, yet also spontaneous, and receptive to new ideas."

LFS alumni such as Mike Leigh and Michael Mann, as well as director Christopher Guest, are just a few of the numerous film-makers who use improvisation as a means of gaining strong performances from their cast. However, there are many different ways of using the craft of improvisation. This course will give you a strong practical insight into some of these methods.

Course Outline

This intensive 2-day course will give you improvisation techniques to gain the very highest quality of work from your actors.

The course will examine the use of improvisation in the following key areas:

• The building of characters and scenarios from SCRATCH.
• Developing pre-existing characters and character relationships. Particular focus will be on the concept of "Status", and how it can be used to explore character and intensify performance.
• Using improvisation alongside pre-existing script.
• Improvisation during the final stages of rehearsal, and during shooting itself.

There will also be an exploration of how improvisation can be used to free up actors (particularly inexperienced ones) from delivering stilted, "wooden" performances, and to break actors out of habitual, "unspontaneous" work.

The course will give the director a new set of clear, practical techniques to develop their working relationship with actors at all stages of the rehearsal and filming process. It will be of particular benefit to those directors who have limited experience of working with actors.

The course will be highly practical in nature - although there will be full notes issued, and time set aside for feedback, the majority of the course will be spent workshopping the numerous techniques - expect to spend a lot of time out of your seat.

Fee:£180

Maximum Participants: 12

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Instructions

Please complete the Application Form and the Ethnicity and Disability monitoring form and email them to : Carolyn Atherton:
workshops@lfs.org.uk

Resources

• Application Form
• Ethnicity and Disability monitoring form

email or post them together with the following:

• Personal Statement
• CV

Postal Address:
Workshops Admissions, The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9UB, UK

Email:
Carolyn Atherton: workshops@lfs.org.uk

Telephone us:
+44 (0)20 7836 9642

Fax us:
+44 (0)20 7497 3718

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Funding

Skillset Screen Bursaries allow freelancers and employees in the UK's film and TV industries to train for less. Visit: www.skillset.org/film/
funding/bursaries for details and contact Hal Sinden directly for eligibility criteria hals@skillset.org