Cut ShortCut-Theatre Workshop for Beginners

Acting,direction,production

all under one roof

A Workshop

Program Schedule

 1 -INTRO AND ENHANCEMENT

a.Personality Reconstruction

Removal of hesitation with a whole new process of development.

b. Basic elements of acting covered

i.VOICE

Actors on stage perform to sell an idea or product to their audience with their voice,

facial expression and gestures. They demonstrate their enthusiasm with showmanship

not just by reading their speech or delivering a carefully memorized one in a dreary

monotone, but in a passionate rendition that will trigger the same response from their

audience.In public speaking, it is the voice that should be most of all commanding. It

should be clear and loud enough to be heard by the farthest of audience in the room or

hall where you are speaking. Nothing is more frustrating for an audience than having to

strain their ears to hear a speaker who whisper, mumble or stutter and having to pucker

their foreheads to try to understand their perplexing diction.

Your listeners expect and deserve to hear and understand you.

ii EXPRESSIONS

Unless you're just doing voice acting, and even then (because people can hear a smile),

facial expression is a vital part of acting.

An audience absorbs every part of your performance; what you're saying, how you're

saying it, and what you're doing.

facial expression affects how your words are interpreted. they can be the visual

representation of your words, or can be a contradiction of what you're saying. if you

say, 'i'm angry' with a smile, people will know that you're not really angry. or you're being

sarcastic etc. etc. facial expression gives the performance levels.

iii Body language

How good a person is at body language? As you can probably guess, there’s quite a

range. My sense is that what works best as a rule is method acting, in which the actor is

conjuring up the same emotions the character is feeling, usually (as I understand it) by

connecting with events and memories from the actor’s own life. For instance, if I were

playing the part of an athlete who had just lost an important game, I might conjure up my

recollection of losing in the finals of the school spelling bee in 4th grade by misspelling

“chief” (I had trouble with “i before e” for quite a while, partly because of my last name).

Method acting appears to work in part because some of the body language the character

would be showing comes out as a natural expression of the actor’s emotions.

Regardless, a better awareness of body language can help create stronger

performances.

c.STAGE VS CAMERA

Root level differenes between stage and amera ating with different excerises for both

Actors just beginning to learn their craft are not as heavily concerned with finding the

solid difference between stage and film acting. However, as you start to take your career

to a professional level, you'll need to to differentiate between the two and find which style

best suits your niche.

When performing on stage, it is important to remember that your objective is to

accurately tell a story to an audience. While your main focus will be on your scene

partners, you must remember that facing your back to an audience is not an effective

way of delivering your character. Unlike film, you must project your voice much louder

than you would on film.The concept of acting is fairly similar with both styles in that you

want to stay true to your character and their circumstance. Whether you hit your mark on

camera or your line on stage, you need to know the difeerence between theatre and

films.

 2 INTENSE REPAIRING

a.Production

Production management is a sub-division of stagecraft. The production management

team (consisting of a production manager and any number of assistants) is responsible

for realizing the visions of the producer and the director or choreographer within

constraints of technical possibility. This involves coordinating the operations of various

production sub-disciplines (scenic, wardrobe, lighting, sound, projection, automation,

video, pyrotechnics, stage management, etc.) of the presentation.In addition to

management and financial skills, a production manager must have detailed knowledge of

all production disciplines including a thorough understanding of the interaction of these

disciplines during the production process. This may involve dealing with matters ranging

from the procurement of staff, materials and services, to freight, customs coordination,

telecommunications, labor relations, logistics, information technology, government

liaison, venue booking, scheduling, operations management, mending delay problems

and workplace safety.

b.Direction

A director or stage director is a director/instructor in the theatre/film field who oversees

and orchestrates the mounting of a production (a play, short film,an opera, a musical, or

a devised piece of work) by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production. The

director's function is to ensure the quality and completeness of production and to lead

the members of the creative team into realising their artistic vision for it. The director

therefore collaborates with a team of creative individuals and other staff, coordinating

research, stagecraft, costume design, props, lighting design, acting, set design, stage

combat, and sound design for the production. If the production he or she is mounting is a

new piece of writing or a (new) translation of a play, the director may also work with the

playwright or translator. In contemporary theatre, after the playwright, the director is

generally the primary visionary, making decisions on the artistic concept and

interpretation of the play and its staging. Different directors occupy different places of

authority and responsibility, depending on the structure and philosophy of individual

theatre companies. Directors utilize a wide variety of techniques, philosophies, and

levels of collaboration.

c.Action

ACT WITH THE FLOW OF THE WIND

An actor lives his /her own character with the joint efforts of the director.