Screen Acting Skills

Name: Screen Acting Skills
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781350093034
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A Practical Handbook for Students and Tutors

By Mr Roger Wooster and Paul Conway and Roger Wooster

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Summary

Screen Acting Skills is an accessible guide designed for actors new to performing on camera. It offers practical exercises and clear explanations to build confidence and competence in screen acting, focusing on both artistic preparation and technical studio protocols. With a jargon-free, often humorous style, it supports actors in workshops and studios, enhancing creativity and providing essential studio know-how through accompanying online videos.
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This book is ideal for young actors seeking their first screen role, drama students, tutors, and workshop leaders who require low-tech, practical exercises to develop screen acting skills. It particularly suits those looking to understand both the artistic and technical aspects of studio work in an approachable format.

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Whether you are a young actor seeking to land your first screen role or a workshop leader looking for relevant exercises that won’t involve vast technical support, this book belongs on your shelf. Many screen actors begin their careers lacking the appropriate pre-shoot preparation and knowledge of studio protocols. This book helps actors new to screen performance to be fully prepared artistically— and technically. Screen Acting Skills augments existing theoretical and academic studies by offering practical, focused exercises that can be explored in low-tech workshop situations.

Written in an accessible, jargon-free, and often humorous style, Screen Acting Skills enables creativity on the workshop floor, allowing young— and older!—actors to access their own talent, and to hone their skills. This book offers students and tutors a straightforward approach to acting for the screen and how to prepare for studio work.

The book is published alongside online videos of workshops with screen acting students.

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Praised for its practical approach, this book includes numerous useful exercises and links to video demonstrations, making it invaluable for actors preparing for their first screen role. National Drama highlights its usefulness as a handy on-set reference, while other reviewers note its unique focus on younger actors and its potential to fill an important gap in screen acting resources.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350093034

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 January 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Methuen Drama

Illustration: 12 bw illus

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Roger Wooster has worked in theatre, radio and television during his career. He went on to work in FE and HE teaching a wide range of performing arts modules including screen and radio acting. During his career he has had the opportunity to observe the different styles of Mike Leigh and Ken Russell at work. He has given papers at many international conferences and has been widely published in a range of academic journals. His Contemporary Theatre in Education was published in 2006 and in 2016 a major study of educational theatre, Theatre in Education in Britain, was published by Methuen Drama.

Paul Conway (PGCE, Diploma in Speech and Drama, Brendan Smith Theatre Academy, Dublin) has spent his career working in film, television, stage and radio as an actor, director, devisor and published playwright. As a young actor he worked on the TV series Inside and was writer-director of The Last Shout for Sahara Films. He has also worked for directors such as Ken Loach, Ken Russell, Desmond Davis and Gerald Stembridge. Since moving into academia he has specialised in teaching screen performance. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the Film and Television School based at the University of South Wales, Cardiff.