Fundamental Audition Experience

Day and Time: Tues. 6pm-11pm and Wed. 6pm-11pm
Length of Class: 4 weeks, beginning the first week of every month.
Cost: $575 (payable in two installments)
Teacher: Saxon Trainor

The fundamental is an on-camera auditioning class designed for actors who may have previous acting training and experience but are just beginning in the professional world of auditioning for film and television.

In this 10-hours-per-week of instruction, we tackle many obstacles that may come up in your audition:

1. Listening!! – This is a basic problem for actors just starting out. Saxon uses various exercises and techniques that show actors the freedom that can be gained if they just listen.

2. How to use the page- Actors tend to fight against using their script and therefore spend most of their audition up in their head trying to remember the half memorized lines. When this happens you can never be open and available to what is coming from the other person.

3. Imagination: The imagination muscle is key to creating the story that is written on the page. Many actors tend to rely on substitution which leaves them empty when the situation is outside of their personal experience. Saxon spends extensive time over the 4 weeks teaching actors how to create story using their imagination.

4. Entering the room: Many have the experience of physically being in the room but their mind is in a frozen wasteland. Saxon spends a lot of tome working with the actors so they can enter the room as a living, thinking, breathing human beginning.

5. Mindset- In this class you will learn how you can change your mindset to think like a human being not like an actor.

6. Specifics-Learn how not to take things in the script for granted. All the clues you need are on the page. You just have to learn how to find it.

Once the Fundamentals is completed, students interested in continuing to study can take the: ONGOING AUDITION EXPERIENCE.