Directing Actors - Jerry Coyle´ workshop

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
311MDAC credit 3 English winter

Subject guarantor

Name of lecturer(s)

Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ

Department

The subject provides FAMU International

Contents

Mr. Coyle´s workshop offers actors and directors a safe and inspiring environment to risk, develop and grow.

He teaches directors and actors a quick and efficient way to communicate with each other. Through simple and effective sensory exercises, right before the camera rolls, he allows the actors to find their authenticity, freedom and creative courage. He provides directors with new tools to communicate with the actors, helping the actors achieve successful scenes, which are organic and truthful. Being on the other side of the camera is useful for every director. As a result of his workshop, directors begin to see actors and the acting process in a different light.

Two cameras, three monitors and a switcher will allow the teacher to show action and reaction shots. Students (directors/actors) will run the cameras for each other. The action will be recorded onto two or three TV monitors using a switcher.

Learning outcomes

The aim of the module is to give students of directing as much on-camera time as possible.

Prerequisites and other requirements

None

Literature

None

Evaluation methods and criteria

100% participation

Note

Numbers of FAMU students limited. DAMU acting students involved!

About Jerry Coyle:

Jerry Coyle has been teaching the advanced courses in acting for film and TV at the Weist-Barron School for Television & Film in New York City for over thirty years.

He has conducted and directed acting workshops and seminars at many universities throughout the U.S.A. including the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University; the University of California at Irvine; Kent State University, Ohio; Montana State University, Bozeman and the Actors Conservatory at the Dorset Theatre Festival in Dorset, Vermont

Schedule for winter semester 2024/2025:

Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
13.12.2024 10:00–17:00 Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ Room No. 2
Lažanský palác		 parallel1
14.12.2024 10:00–17:00 Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ Room No. 2
Lažanský palác		 parallel1
15.12.2024 10:00–17:00 Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ Room No. 2
Lažanský palác		 parallel1

Schedule for summer semester 2024/2025:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

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