• Embraces two major closely-related Acting Techniques which we use to help our students “live truthfully” under imaginary circumstances: the “Meisner” technique, which involves fully immersing oneself in the moment of a character and experiencing all sensations as the character would, and the “Method” technique, in which one uses their own experiences as springboards into the emotional life of the character

• In addition to acting in student films, acting students will have intensive technique classes taught by professional actors. Students will have the opportunity to work in groups as well as one-on-one training sessions with their teachers

• Suitable for students between 13-18 years old

• Time:
     2 weeks, 2019 dates:

Jun 23 - Jul 06, 2019  ,
Jul 14 - Jul 27, 2019

3 weeks :
Jun 23 - Jul 13, 2019 ,  
Jul 14 - Aug 03, 2019
 

Fee:  $22000 HKD/week, including:

• 20+ hours minimum acting tuition / week

• extracurricular activities

• night time social activities

• 1 day of excursions

• school boarding

• 3 meals

• study materials

$500 HKD application fee for:

• Completion of all registration forms ​required by the New York University

• Completion of all forms required by the government of home and host country (additional fees as per home country for issuance of USA visa if your passport carrying country is not visa fee)

• Issuance of school letter, enrollment letter, place of accommodation letter, and confirmation of care of minor letter in the USA as required by the Immigration of the USA

• Forge friendships with like-minded and academically motivated young people interested in the same field

• Formal end of summer graduation party

• Boarding school with 24 hours live-in staff supervision

• Accommodated in comfortable single or twin rooms of same gender

• Dedicated team of program directors and counsellors to ensure that students are looked after pastorally, culturally and socially during their programme 24 hours a day

• Grounds of Acting -
  Begins by introducing basic acting exercises that foster psycho-physical awareness of the basic grounds of acting involved in scene work: such as active imagination, “as if,” immediacy/partnering, presence, breath, and kinesthetic awareness, among others. Many instructors will use Meisner repetitions for this purpose, although there are many approaches that may be utilized. Physical and vocal warm-ups will be employed most mornings, incorporating fun or instructive games that vary day to day

• Safe Space -
  Safe space means that any activity or work done in class stays in class. A lot of things we do in acting class may be abstract, partly because they are steps in a long, evolving process: learning to be an actor. If actors have to worry about “looking silly” or “what others will say during lunch,” they are unable to fully commit to the exercises and let their creativity reach its full potential. This is why we protect each student’s work and their own creative space by committing students to a “safe space” company agreement. Students are asked to not talk about another student’s work or process outside of the classroom

• Scripts and Casting -
  Lead and supporting roles are distributed evenly to ensure each student has ample time on camera. Actors receive their script and character descriptions the night prior to shooting at the evening filmmaker / actor production meeting. Actors are asked to review their script that evening but memorization of all lines is not expected

• Weekly Showcase -
  Every Friday night the student films will be screened for the whole camp at our weekly showcase. The actors will have the opportunity to see themselves appear on the silver screen, often for the first time

• Click HERE for Sample weekly timetable plus excursions (for reference only)