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Presented by: Lisa Pelikan – 

Held online via Zoom: 

Camera 3: Skill Integration for Film (Essentials) 

Geared towards both continuing (prior students of Ms. Pelikan) and beginning (new students of Ms. Pelikan) film actors:

Continuing film actors with some film experience will work at an advanced level. This is an opportunity for the working actor with film experience to stretch, renew and risk. This is the class for actors who are ready to step onto the soundstage and begin filming. We will practice everything you need to own after the director calls, “Action!” Relationships with other characters in the screenplay, your space, the film crew, and above-the-line personnel will become more intentional. How do we become Present on film? How do you create location with a green screen? How does the quiet of the set become your friend? Let’s integrate your imagination, voice, body, and acting techniques to allow your most truthful work to be seen by the intimate eye of the camera lens. Let’s find freedom, joy, and presence in the technical world of film. We will practice the art of bringing-it-all- together. We will incorporate self-filming as an integral component of this course. Actors will experience creating work through the practice of filming themselves, in class and at home. Required: Previous experience working with Ms. Pelikan.

Beginning film actors will start with learning the steps needed to prepare to work on a professional film set. We will focus on your preparation for filming. You will learn the skills you need to have prepared before you step onto the soundstage of a feature film. Everything you need to know prior to the director calling, “Action!” These are the same tools you need to have mastered for an audition or self-tape. You will practice exercises that will allow you to experience finding the ease to move forward into the profession and the Art of film acting. Required: Beginning film actors must set a zoom meeting with Ms. Pelikan prior to their first class. Please email her (lpelikan@hbstudio.org) as soon as you have registered and are ready to begin!

Lisa Pelikan brings her years of professional film, television, internet, and theatrical acting experience together with certifications in Fitzmaurice Voicework® and Laban Movement Analysis to hold this course for fellow actors seeking deeper truth in their work and full integration of themselves as artists. Let’s practice Being Present in the moment with all your skills. Let’s bring your imagination, breath, body, voice, spacial- awareness, and acting techniques together for the camera, the director, the camera operator, your fellow actors, and the outside world. In this ongoing class we will create a safe space, learn from our failures, and support each other in taking risks and growing as artists. We will demand respect for the work and each other.

You will receive zoom files of your on-camera footage at no extra charge.

Expected rehearsal time outside of class: 3+ hours/week. Beginning film actors may need additional time. Please be aware that the demands of time for this class will depend on your own commitment to growth as a film artist. Ms. Pelikan will match you in your commitment.

Online Teaching Statement from Instructor Lisa Pelikan: “Holding our class on Zoom is a beautiful opportunity to find a deeper experience of how, and what, the camera sees in close-up. Being Present in the room is very different from Being Present on film.”

Sign up for either Part A or Part B independently (5 weeks each), or join both for the full 10-week term. You may join Part B without taking Part A:

This advanced scene study track is geared to the particular circumstances of working with the camera on film or video and assumes you are already well grounded in acting technique, text analysis, and contemporary scene work. The class will address the adjustment you must make to the intimacy and immediacy of film, so you become accustomed to doing your best detailed, honest, layered work under the watchful eye of the lens. You learn to manage the tough realities of the film or television job, developing strategies for applying your own technique to the demands of the set. We consider angles, lenses, distances, continuity, and your relationship to the composition of the scene. You learn to work more quickly and more intimately, and to prepare effectively for a performance situation in which it is little or no rehearsal and scenes often occur out of sequence. You learn to respect and understand the financial, technical, and time considerations that govern film production, and cultivate the absolute discipline required to meet them.

You will receive video files of your on-camera footage at no extra charge, included within the cost of the class.

ACTING WITH THE CAMERA 2 INSTRUCTORS:
Fred Weller

HB Studio offers both online classes and in-person classes at the Studio. Before your first class, please review the information outlined on the relevant page(s). Class titles below indicate which are running online vs. in person. 

Most classes run for 10 weeks. Some classes are offered in two 5-week parts (Part A & Part B), and you can sign up for either part independently or register for both parts for $15 off. You can register for Part B without taking Part A:

This Level 1 acting class provides an introduction to the technique of living truthfully in front of the camera. You explore the fundamental elements of a grounded acting technique as they relate to the level of intimacy the camera demands. As you practice in front of the camera, you learn to stay open and work freely without hiding or acting for the lens. You develop the ability to listen and connect truthfully with a partner, letting that interaction guide your impulses. You discover the relevance of Uta Hagen’s exercises for on camera work – building the 4th wall, creating place, connecting with sensory aspects of the environment – and begin to understand the level of preparation, specificity, and simplicity the camera demands.

You will receive video files of your on-camera footage at no extra charge, included within the cost of the class.

When choosing an Acting with the Camera 1 class, please refer to instructors’ teaching statements, found on their faculty bio pages, for greater detail about each one’s approach to meeting the course goals. Every instructor brings their own methods and experience and teaching styles vary. You are encouraged to read about and audit the classes of each instructor to find the right fit for you:

ACTING WITH THE CAMERA 1 INSTRUCTORS:
Magaly Colimon | David Deblinger | Julissa Roman

HB Studio offers both online classes and in-person classes at the Studio. Before your first class, please review the information outlined on the relevant page(s). Class titles below indicate which are running online vs. in person. 

Most classes run for 10 weeks. Some classes are offered in two 5-week parts (Part A & Part B), and you can sign up for either part independently or register for both parts for $15 off. You can register for Part B without taking Part A: