On Camera Auditioning Workshop Intensive
Topic 1:   Introduction to Auditioning for Television/Film/Commercials
Basic Film/Television Terminology. Fundamental Auditioning Concepts. The Business of the Business. Name Slates. Eric Morris Process Acting Exercises: "The Instruments". Important to actors and models!

Topic 2:   Slates: Name Slates - Quick Slates - Character Slates
Unless an actor can learn to do a good job with the variety of slates he or she will be called upon to do, they will never progress up the ladder towards better speaking roles. Important to actors and models!

Topic 3:   The Full Slate
The one form of slating that can be a complete audition unto itself is the Full Slate. Workshop members will do a Full Slate on camera in this segment. Important to actors and models!

Topic 4:   Improvisational Auditions
Increasingly, the ability to improvise character and situations has become an extremely important audition requirement in television and film.

Topic 5:   Monologues
For anyone who ever expects to win serious speaking roles, monologues are an absolute necessity. Here, the class reviews the elements of good theatrical and comedic monologues, helping the student to determine what types of monologues he or she will have to learn.

Topic 6:   Cold Reading for Television Commercials
Cold Reading skills are MANDATORY for anyone who ever expects to win speaking roles in television, film or commercials. This class offers basic reading concepts and then zeroes in on the specifics of cold readings for television commercials. This is an obvious area for actors, but many models want to be in commercials as well.

Topic 7:   Cold Reading for Television/Film
As indicated, cold reading techniques specific to winning television and film opportunities.

Topic 8:   Sense of Life
One of the more important and least understood auditions. An interview styled audition - important both to actors and models!

Topic 9:   Animated Voiceover Auditions
How to audition for television and film animation projects. Includes palatting, imprinting, duplication and reading techniques.

Topic 10:   Six Choices
This is normally included in advanced acting classes but is very helpful in creating a character to either be played or auditioned for. Employs Strassberg techniques.

Final:   Three-Stage Audition
This serves as something of a final for those who have taken the entire course - and as a gauge for what needs to be worked on for those who have not. It is a full audition with three parts selected from among the different types of auditions taught throughout the series.

***The attendee may also opt to tape auditions for current projects with which Casting America is in contact. Generally, it will be $25.00 for each audition for which the student asks to be taped. Projects will be posted at the start of each class.