Emphasis is on creating characters common or unique to television and film. Students must now go beyond their immediate experiences to find the character conceived by the writer. Students are encouraged to take risks, and make difficult choices. Through improvisational exercises students begin to differentiate aspects of character status, appearance, background, speech, life experiences, etc. Students portray at least four contrasting roles, from the extensive film/TV library of the ACTeen director. Class discussion defines particular problems, themes and audition problems inherent in a variety of on-camera material — soap opera, situation comedy, episodic TV, feature films, etc.

*** This course may be taken on a continuous basis as Advanced Film Scene Study.