Introduction

Screenskill specialises in training and coaching for film and television production.
(ie. professional development for screen actors, directors and writers).

Our teachers are industry practitioners with years of wide ranging experience in all aspects of screen production.

Screenskill provides a range of short specialist courses:

• Acting for the screen
• Directing for single camera production
• Directing for multicam production
• Screen language for Writers and Directors
• 'To-Camera' and Voice-Over techniques
• Joint workshop sessions for actors and directors
• Location shoots for actors, directors, designers and crews (i.e. professional in-service)

The current range of courses is upgraded regularly. See: Upcoming Courses

What Do Actors Learn?

Workshops Cover

• Scene work on camera with critical feedback
• The abilities required by a screen actor
• Developing self-confidence
• How to work both technically and intuitively
• How to use subtext   - identifying a scene's critical incident
• Scene analysis, using subtext to identify 'actions, references and beats '
• Improvisation for screen actors
• Improvisation and rehearsal
• How to sustain staging for shots, also continuity during rehearsal and filming
• How editing works and its relationship with acting

What Do Directors Learn?

The main focus is on developing key techniques eg, production protocols, script analysis, budgeting, staging and devising shots, and what to say to actors to stimulate creative performances and sustain achievement.

Workshops Cover...

• Script analysis
• Rehearsal
• On camera scene work with actors
• Providing and receiving critical feedback from tutor
• Scene analysis using subtext to determine actions and beats
• Devising staging and camera coverage
• How to use the concepts of genre and mise en scene.
• Script analysis to identify a scene's dramatic structure and obligatory moment
• Suppoting actors to sustain their intuition