This new and unique workshop explores today's demands for absolute realism in film acting. Giles Foreman, who directs the workshop, has worked as an acting coach on film sets around the world, submitting the results to on-screen analysis. The overview thus obtained reveals that in most countries, ‹acceptable stage acting› is the recognized norm – a kind of stage training with which domestic audiences are familiar and which therefore meets with their approval. Caught up in such an outlook, actors tend to take this sort of ‹theater› style as the realistic acting now demanded of them for the film screen. Hence, when auditioning for international movies, their chances are minimal because they lack the tools and stylistic understanding necessary to land the part. Frustration ensues...
This workshop is meant to help you iron out your acquired acting habits. We will be examining the total realism required of film players today, focusing on the various possibilities for its attainment. The workshop program includes a certain degree of theoretical input, together with a great number of practical exercises which are then to be subjected to on-screen analysis. Although a basic understanding of English is a prerequisite, the actual training scenes are open to being performed in English, French or German.
Giles Foreman
is one of the leading acting specialists in the UK and owner of the Giles Foreman Centre of Acting, London.
He has worked as an acting coach at the Drama Centre, London, and the Deutsche Schauspiel Akademie, among others, and on many movies, including ruhestörung, romeos, grounding and pédaleur de charme.
He regularly coaches a wide range of actors before and during shoots and, most recently, he worked on immortals with Daniel Sharman.
