Auditioning on Camera

Practice Makes Perfect
Auditioning on Camera

Presented by the Actors Centre and John Melainey

Please note: 6 Participants with previous experience can take part in this session whilst the others in the room are observers.

For the last fifteen years, John Melainey has been running Film TV and commercial casting sessions on a part time basis for Hubbard Casting. Many of the actors he saw during these castings often made the same mistakes each time they auditioned. Their poor sight-reading skills, the way they prepared and their unawareness of how they came across on camera led John to devise a workshop to remedy these short comings.

This taster session will introduce John's technique as taught at the Actors Centre. The studio set up is similar to the conditions found at an actual casting for film or Television. Participants are given a variety of duologue scenes and guided on how to prepare, and then shown the three step sightreading technique which enables them to keep their head out of the script. Each actor is videoed during their reading whilst being observed on the monitor by the rest of the class. Each individual actors on camera reading is recorded on their own DVD enabling them play it back as often as they wish at their leisure.

These workshops enable actors to practice and improve their interview/casting abilities on a regular basis and thus improve their chances of a successful outcome.

John has been an actor for 30 years and as well as teaching on various other acting courses and running castings for the Hubbards,
he holds two, separate three and a half hour workshops at the Actors Centre every Tuesday afternoon and evening to learn, practice and review TV and Film auditioning and sight-reading skills. ‘Practice Makes Perfect' but practice between auditions, not during them when a mistake can lose you work.  

Room : 143  | Time: 16.30 – 17.30