On Camera Scene Study

THE WORKSHOP

Séamus' on-camera scene study intensive is designed and proven to provide working actors with an effective, clearly defined system for creating specific, high-stakes, inspired scene work. This objective is achieved with great economy to meet the challenging demands of today’s industry.

With his unique approach to script analysis, Seamus helps actors explore Stillness, Presence and a highly evolved, technique for inhabiting Beats and Actions. Ultimately, actors participating in this workshop leave with a solidified and elevated connection to their craft, refreshed confidence in their ability to deliver exceptional work within the audition process, and ultimately on the working set.

Active Participants explore this effective technique by taking on a carefully selected role, from first read to a fully realised scene on camera.

Observers are not just passive onlookers, but are actively engaged in the text analysis, practical exercises and feedback sessions. The observer fee is a flat rate (independent of attendance days). Observers may also attend the Open Studio Training Day on  APR, 17.

Actors are first guided through the scenes which have been carefully chosen for them in advance, applying a complex but accessible system of script analysis with an emphasis on psychological actions. We then move into "inhabiting the analysis," further exploring character thinking and motivations, through the vigorous process of sinking into the individual "causal thinking" beneath each action which defines each beat. We also begin applying a working tool known as pic-pressions (pictures, infused with sense-data), which participants are trained in using to fortify their choices, often with profound results.
Ultimately actors participating in his workshops leave with a solidified and elevated connection to their craft, and a refreshed confidence in their ability to deliver exceptional work on set.

With the first two days being as dense as they are with new, layered, detailed input, participants are given a chance to work privately on Day 3, processing all they've taken in, often meeting with their scene partners or synthesising their new working tools with those they already have. Upon return, on Days 4 and 5, the scenes are rehearsed as the group strengthens and further elucidates these new working elements. The actors' ever-deepening understanding of the stories and each character continues, but now with the added element of the camera and monitor. The scenes are captured under Seamus' direction and then played back for the actors' to receive constructive, incisive feedback on their work.

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