INTERMEDIATE PREPARATION

Screen Acting | Years 11-14 | One Year Course

This course introduces specific acting terminology and refines techniques in improvisation. Students learn about and build skills in making choices and making changes in acting. Students are introduced to constructive critique to help begin recognising barriers, habits and challenges, and apply ‘changes and choices’ as tools towards overcoming these.

COURSE CONTENT

SEMESTER 1

Introduces specific acting terminology and refines techniques in improvisation. Introduces ‘changes and choice’ through improvisation. Introduces 6th W – Wants. Revises and adds to scene creation tools with the 5 P’s (people, place, problem, props and physical purpose). Encourages students to identify their own goals for the semester, as well as to begin approaching acting as a craft.

SEMESTER 2

Builds upon the actor’s abilities to demonstrate choices and changes in improvisation and apply these improvisation skills to story and character. Actors work as a team to create and develop short films using the 5 P’s and explore changes in character through the story. Actors create the story in Term 3, then in Term 4, it’s production term! Actors perform in one film and work behind the camera on the other as crew. The films are shown on the big screen at Premiere Night in March the following year.

After completing Intermediate Level Prep students graduate and move into Intermediate Year 1, bypassing the placement audition process. 

2024 ILP CLASSES

MALAGA

Tuesday ILP 5-7pm, Instuctor: Jack

Course Structure

Weekly 2-Hour Classes in 4 10-Week Terms

Term fees $400 / term

  • Terms 1-2: Regular class expanding improv toolbox, exploring story structure.
  • Term 3: Begin final story ideas and rehearsals for Term 4.
  • Term 4: ‘Production Term’ – each week the students film their end-of-year film.

*Because of this we can accept new enrollments as late as Term 3 but not in Term 4.

Zombie Movie: The Movie

2022 ILP Screen Acting end-of-year-film.

Spy Test

2022 ILP Screen Acting end-of-year-production.

The Golden Goose

2021 ILP Screen Acting end-of-year-production.

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