Goodman Directing&Acting Studio

https://www.ernestgoodmanstudio.com/action-verbs-app/

Action Verbs Dictionary App The action verbs dictionary created for the purpose of helping film and theater actors and directors. Ideally, the app will be designed for both IOs and Android systems. Right now we deployed the Android version. The app is an thesaurus of most used action verbs by actors.

Dear friends!
We are resuming our workshops. We recently changed the format and length of our workshops. All workshops are in-person held in Los Angeles area (Glendale).
We are happy to offer the following workshop:

DIRECTING ACTORS INTENSIVE – 2 days (5-6 hours total), $500
"Directing Actors Intensive" workshops costs $500. Financing is available.

Directing Actors Intensive workshop includes:
(1) Basic principles of directing actors.
(2) Understanding of Result and General directions.
(3) Examples of the common mistakes of director (20 examples of Result-oriented and General direction).
(4) More than 17 methods of directing gathered from different teachers and practitioners from different countries which show students the effective ways of directing actors. The successful techniques of Constantin Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner and others are presented.
(5) Casting principles.
(6) Rehearsal techniques.
(7) Script breakdown, the director's plan of the movie.
(😎 Most known acting methods and techniques.
(9) The book "The Art of Directing Actors" by Ernest Goodman is provided for each participant.
Call us: +1(818) 641-7583
email: [email protected]
Our new address is 100 North Brand Blvd, suite 322, Glendale, 91203, California, USA.
The personal interview is required: The candidates will be accepted only after interview with the Ernest Goodman. Please contact us as soon as possible to schedule your workshop.

Workshop Schedule:

July 16-17, 2022. Weekend Workshop. 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm.
August 13-14, 2022. Weekend Workshop. 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm.
September 13-14, 2022. Weekend Workshop. 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm.

Check out our website at www.ernestgoodmanstudio.com

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Dear friends:
Please check out my blog about directing actors and acting.

This is from my post:

The SUPER OBJECTIVE is what does your character wants more than anything from life throughout the film or play.
The SCENE OBJECTIVE is what does your character wants more than anything throughout the scene.
Prior to Stanislavski, an actor’s job was to portray a certain emotional cliché on the director’s command. There was a list of specific gestures, facial expressions, body language samples and emotions that the actors had to learn and perform perfectly. Theater was based on Result-Oriented directing, in which the directors asked for a certain final expression from the actor (e.g. “cry,” “laugh,” or “be angry”). Acting consisted of strained line readings with overacted emotions. You can still see this in low-grade movies and TV shows.
This approach leads to dead forms of acting, including fake-looking emotions. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Constantin Stanislavski faced a crisis in the theater and saw the need for a change. As it was discussed in one of my previous posts, Stanislavski recognized three types of acting:
(1) The Art of Performance,
(2) The Art of Living,
(3) The Art as a Craft.
The Art of Performance is an older technique, in which actors were trained imitate various emotions and reactions. But as noted by Stanislavski and his followers, a play or film based on the Art of Performance usually leaves the audience uninvolved and uninterested. Stanislavski brought The Art of Living into the theater, which helped audiences become deeply and personally attached to plays.
The Art of Living is the opposite of the Art of Performance. The Art of Living is not just a depiction of the external manifestations of thinking and feeling, but the creation of a scene by depicting the inner lives of the characters and infusing the characters’ alien lives with the actor’s own human feelings.

Tool # 1 SUPER OBJECTIVE, SCENE OBJECTIVE The most iconic film still from The Godfather with Al Pacino. From Art of Directing Actors book, by Ernest Goodman. “There are no small roles, there are only small actors” ~ The motto of the Moscow Art Theater.

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