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Keep it Real , Know what you are trying to achieve , but don't sell, Let your personality shine,Make your own choice,Do your Homework, Rehearsal with a Partner, Have Fun at Be That Kid Productions

WEEK ONE AND TWO:

ACTING/ WORKING IN COMMERCIALS

1- Film and stage -Two side of the Same Coin
2- Why Actors Need Commercials
3- What is a Television Commercial
4- The Development of Film -Acting Style
5- The Approach
6- Listening/Sensing
7- The Character
8- Focus and Concentration
9- Energy
10- The Emotions
11 - Spontaneity

WEEK THREE AND FOUR:

ACTING FUNDAMENTALS FOR COMMERCIALS/ WORKING ON THE ROLE

1- Communicating Without Words
2- Acting is Behaving
3- Acting Technique Lean and Mean
4- Preparation
5- Facts and Conditions
6- Imagination
7- Learn the Role - Not the Lines

WEEK FIVE AND SIX:

COMMERCIAL ACTING TECHNIQUES / TOOLS

1- The camera
2- How to recognize commercial form
3- Acting Style in Commercials
4- The MOS
5- The One-Liner
6- The Character Spokesperson
7- The Slice-of-life scene
8- Shakespeare and the Spokesperson
9- Rhythm and Change
10- Dynamics
11- Movement
12- The Need
13- Selectivity
14- Personalization
15- Animate and Inanimate Object Images
16- The Nonsense Exercise
17- Comedy and Drama from the Actor's Point of View
18- Cold Reading and Auditions
19- Working with the Director
20- Working from the Outside In - Or not
21- In a Nutshell

WEEK SEVEN AND EIGHT:

GETTING BOOKED/ THE MACHINERY OF FILM AND TAPE

1- Unexploded Landmines
2- Being Ready
3- Interview and Auditions
4- The Language Barrier
5- Day One on the Set
6- The Motion Picture Studio and The Sound stage
7- Some Specifics of Film
8- Shooting a Scene
9- The Television Studio
10- The Multiple-Camera Show
11- Stunts

THE FILM /TAPE CAREER

1- Beginning Your Career
2- Film and Television Unions for Actors
3- The Star
4- Exercises for Acting for the Camera