Mel Churcher’s Intensive Course:
19, 20 & 21 OCTOBER  | 14 PARTICIPANTS | £350 |  This is a one time fee and is inclusive for all the sessions in this course

This course will help you find freedom in screen work and when preparing self-tapes. These days, actors are expected to be very self-reliant. Auditions usually start as Zooms or self-tapes; working on a TV series often means engaging with multiple directors, as well as dealing with little or no rehearsal; film work is long, tiring, and many directors offer little guidance.

Self-tapes means finding your own way in! This course offers new thoughts, ways and preparation exercises that enable your unique charisma to shine through in any role you play: how to fuse your individual essence with your role’s; how to put in new muscle memory for your role that allows you freedom and confidence; how to tap into, and release, your powers. This course takes an individual approach that is suitable both for actors coming to screen work and old hands.

SCHEDULE

Pre-course: Participants to send Mel a really short intro video (fine on phone selfie camera) – say your name (clearly), a few things about you, and anything you hope to take home from the course. These must arrive to Mel by the Wednesday of the week prior to the course. A scene (to look at and learn) will be sent before the course. All scene work is recorded, and sent at the end of the course.

Day 1: Keeping the Life: 11.30 am—6.30 pm (1 hour lunch): intro; differences between stage and screen; the trap of learned lines; Is screen work small? What is a ‘character’? Work on screen.

Day 2: Being a Text Detective: 11am—6pm (1 hour lunch): warm up, toolbox and screen work. Each actor will get time to work within the group. The group sees work live on screen, and it’s recorded for participant to watch later.)

Day 3: The Big Picture: 11am—6.30 pm (1 hour lunch): further scene work. Any remaining work and questions.

BIO

Mel Churcher is an international screen acting and voice coach. She’s worked on around 100 major film and TV productions, as well as at the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court, Royal Exchange and Regent’s Park Open Air. She’s coached wonderful actors along the way, including Gerard Butler, Henry Cavill, Daniel Craig, Benedict Cumberbatch, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jack Lowden, Mads Mikkelsen, Milla Jovovich, Angelina Jolie, Keira Knightley, Jet Li, Rachel McAdams, Lena Olin, Stellan Skarsgård, Benedict Wong and Michelle Yeoh.

Mel’s three books are: Acting for Film: Truth 24 Times a Second (Random House), A Screen Acting Workshop (Nick Hern Books) and The Elemental Actor (Nick Hern Books). Mel also runs workshops around the world. A full list of productions Mel’s worked on at imdb.me/melchurcher

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