Kids-On-Camera

Acting in Film, TV & Commercials

Fall Session:
August 29 - November 14, 2010!

Fun & Professional Training: The Academy will train your teens with the On-Camera skills they must have to work as actors. Students participate in fun exercises, including improvisations, roll playing, imagination games, mock auditions and on-camera acting, in small classes. Class meets on Sundays from 1:30 PM to 3:30 pm.

Our Kids-on-Camera classes are designed for Children from 7 to 11 years old, with little or no on-camera training. Students play imagination games and fun improvisations and explore varied acting, improvisational, auditioning and on-camera techniques that form a foundation from which to begin working in commercials and then build upon, with training in Television and Film.

The curriculum applies imagination, improvisation, and standard acting skills to the needs and requirements of working on-camera with an emphasis on audition situations, in a very fun, non-competitive, and pressure free environment. Students learn to focus on believability while remaining conversational, recognizing style and gaining audition security. This course will also teach students the required skills for cold reading. They will learn acting techniques tailored to the technical demands of the camera - i.e. acting in C.U. vs master shots, "hitting marks", etc. Students will focus on character development, script analysis and listening (action/reaction) skills through imagination games and improvisation.

¨ Introduction to the Camera: (The Basics — Camera technique, shot types, Frame size, etc.)

¨ Audition Technique: What works, what doesn’t and why, how to dress, what to say

¨ Understanding "The Business" (Unions, Resumes & Industry Publications, Contracts, Agents & Managers). Parents invited to attend.

Academy Pres. Scott Rogers coaching actor Corey Sevier
on the set of 20th Century Fox-TV's "North Shore".

James McCarthy (Media Coach, Childrens Acting Teacher) - James earned a Masters in Education from Harvard University, with a special emphasis in training individuals for performance. James' innovative approach to media training and public speaking has earned praise from college presidients, internationally recognized scientists and civic leaders. He has significant teaching experience at every level of the educational system, and was a co-founder of Flint Hill School in Oakton, Virginia. James has extensive television, stage, writing, directng and composing credits. James has taught drama to children throughout Oahu under the artist-in residence program for the D.O.E. He has also taught acting to adults and teens for many years. James can currently be seen starring with Keifer Sutherland in the feature film To End All Wars.

Jeanne Rogers (Director of Children’s Education) — A New York actress Jeanne, was trained at the world renowned Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York, where she studied under legendary acting teacher, Sanford Meisner.

A professional actress for 30 years, Jeanne performed in leading roles opposite many well-known actors such as Nick Nolte, Don Johnson, Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross, Ted Lange, Michael Learned, Margaret Hamilton and many others.

Jeanne has had extensive experience in teaching children’s drama classes, on a regular basis, at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Temple Emanu-El, Marianas Bahai School in Guam and the non-profit Free Arts Clinic in Los Angeles. Jeanne currently teaches drama at the Honolulu Waldorf High School, in Kahala.