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TERM FOUR. Open to Full Time Graduates at the Film & TV Studio.
Monday's I 7:00am - 5:00pm I 10 Week Duration I Commencing Monday 29th of June, 2015
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Course Outline
TERM FOUR is an extension of the training students have received during the Full Time Program. This graduate module will see the continuation of the same intensive training, with a focus on digging deeper into technique, scene and character work, with a handpicked group of trainers over a 10 week period. This program will encompass 10 hours each week and will round out the term with in-studio simulated screen tests led by some of Melbourne's most current and in-demand casting directors and producers.
We are thrilled to be working again with our Full Time Program alumni and to welcome back trainers of such calibre to the studio. The training will be highly focused and of course, targeted for your experience level. As always, our studio's focus is to align training with the realities and requirements of this industry and as such, the final weeks have been designed to allow the actor's hard work to be implemented in an industry scenario. We invite any Full Time Program alumni who are serious about their craft and skills to join us for this term; that will see them stretched and their performances strengthened. Limited places are available now. We cannot wait to get started!
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Week One
The program will first welcome Lyndelle Green into the studio; working on hand picked scenes for each graduate that have been cast by Lyndelle, in order to push each actor individually and break down the barriers, leading them to organic and realistic performances using the tools of the Chubbuck Technique.
Lyndelle is one of the studio's most popular trainers and a core trainer in the Full Time Program. A passionate acting coach with almost 20 years experience in the Performing Arts Industry; Lyndelle has worked as Head of Drama at various senior schools across both Queensland and NSW, directed many successful musicals and Rock Eisteddfods and also marked the Higher School Certificate in NSW. Lyndelle’s expertise has often been called upon for speaking appearances at industry conferences, and as a director for theatre companies in both Sydney and Brisbane. Recognition for Lyndelle’s coaching work with students at Macquarie University
came when she won the ‘Vice Chancellor’s Award for Innovation in Learning’. Lyndelle trained as an actor with QUT’s Andrew Buchanan, at NIDA, and at The Actor’s Centre. She also trained in Los Angeles with Scott Sedita, at The Second City in Hollywood and at the Ivana Chubbuck Studio. As an actor herself, Lyndelle has appeared in film and on television, as well as making regular appearances on stage for a wide variety of theatre companies. Lyndelle has also worked in the corporate environment running specialised training workshops. As an acting coach and tutor, Lyndelle has trained actors at Brent Street Studios, The Australian Theatre for Young People and Screenwise Film and Television School,
among others. Lyndelle underwent extensive training at the Ivana Chubbuck Studio in Los Angeles, emerging as an accredited teacher of the Chubbuck Technique. Lyndelle is one of very few actor-trainers endorsed by Ivana Chubbuck.
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Week Two
This week will see the actors joined by voice specialist Alix Longmann; working in-depth and with her unique approach to voice training with our graduates. Alix scored her first professional role as a teenager in an early Bruce Beresford film, The Getting Of Wisdom. She continued her training in theatre, dance and singing whilst getting her BA and Dip Ed in English Literature, Music and Drama from Monash University, Melbourne. Alix then worked extensively as an actress, singer, comedienne and writer for film, television drama and sketch comedy (The Comedy Company),
theatre, musicals, radio and cabaret as well as mounting her own successful one-woman shows. Concurrent to her busy performing career on stage, film and television, she was the head of the Drama and Singing Departments at The Dance Factory in Melbourne, and during her time there she developed her own highly successful ‘Vocal Confidence Seminars’ for speech and singing. Her unique teaching method assisted students and professionals from all areas of the Performing Arts and has given vocal confidence to countless more outside the Arts in every walk of life. In 1994, Alix left Oz and travelled to New York where she developed her stand up comedy and co-wrote and produced a comedy show for radio. Since returning to London in 1995, Alix performed in numerous musicals and theatre both on and off the West End, including
Les Miserables and Prisoner Cell-Block H – The Musical with Lily Savage as well as film, cabaret and radio. She featured in the Cannes 2004 Entry film, Mothers & Daughters and was invited by old friend and colleague, Craig ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Revel Horwood, to perform in Grange Park Opera’s South Pacific. In 2010, Alix trod the boards again in the role of Meg in UK premiere of
Hotel Sorrento by Hannie Rayson and was also dialect coach for the production. Alongside an exceptional ability to improve anyone's vocal confidence, one of Alix's other passions is writing and collaborating on new original scripts and supporting undiscovered artists. She played an integral role in the development of Rocliffe (www.rocliffe.com)
a production company and forum for 'new' writing for film, television, radio and theatre where she donated her experience in acting and directing alongside script development for four years. Alix has been a vocal and dialect coach throughout Australia and the UK, assisting such actors as Anton Lesser (Game of Thrones; Pirates of the Caribbean) and Alun Armstrong (Eragon, Van Helsing) in their voice work for stage and screen.
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Weeks Three and Four
We welcome Film & Television Studio International national trainer Karen Davitt to the studio; who will be working with our graduates on the work of Stanislavski and impulse. Karen Davitt graduated from the VCA in 1987 and has had a broad ranging artistic career, as a performer, musician, designer, director, writer, puppeteer, and visual artist/prop maker. Karen has performed in film, TV and theatre, including long running lead roles on Blue Healers and Skirts and also MDA, Stingers, Wildside, Mercury, Country Practice, House rules, The Tribe, State Coroner, and the Man From Snowy River.
Theatre work includes plays for The Melbourne Theatre Company and The State Theatre Company of South Australia, including Under Milkwood, Romeo and Juliet, Volpone and Bigmouth. Feature films include, Quigley, The Ripper, Lucky Break and Ned Kelly and the miniseries Stark by Ben Elton. Karen has also trained at the Phillippe Gaulier school in London, and worked with The Phillippe Genty Company, Dogtroupe Amsterdam, and on the long running Irish television puppet series Rimini Riddle in Dublin as well as creating design, prosthetics, puppets and special effects for projects such as Kath and Kim
and The Lord of the Rings. Karen's own projects include design and artistic director of Lovely Day (winner of AFI and Yoram Gross Awards). Karen has worked as a dialogue coach for film and television and has been teaching since 2001 at the VCA Drama, and VCA Film schools, as well as other institutions in Australia and overseas.
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Weeks Five and Six
During these two weeks, actors will be joined by one of our most requested trainers; Damian Walshe-Howling. Damian is well known to our graduates as he has directed our last two Melbourne showcases and continues to impress with his no-nonsense approach to breaking down scenes and objectives within character work. Damian Walshe-Howling is a multiple-award winning actor and director, best known for his role of Benji Veniamin in the original Underbelly Series, for which he won the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the 2008 AFI Awards. He also received a Silver Logie Nomination for Most Outstanding Actor for Underbelly and an AFI Award Nomination
for Best Actor in a Guest Role in a Television Series for The Secret Life of Us. His other credits include: Old School; Janet King; The Time of our Lives; Bikie Wars – Brothers in Arms; Terra Nova; The Reef; East West 101; Rescue: Special Ops; What Ever Happened to That Guy?; Macbeth (M); Satisfaction; All Saints; Blue Heelers; Stingers; Ned Kelly; Marshall Law; He Died With a Felafel in His Hand; Halifax f.p.; Neighbours and many more. Always in the highest of demand, we are thrilled to be able to have secured Damian for Weeks Five and Six of this program.
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Weeks Seven and Eight
In the final two weeks before going on to work with industry casting professionals; we welcome Danielle Carter back to the studio. Danielle will work with our graduates on the art of screen testing in preparation for their time with industry casting directors and producers in Weeks Nine and Ten. Danielle has a degree in acting from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and Diploma of Education from the University of Western Sydney (UWS). She has worked extensively in theatre, film television and radio. Some of her credits include: THEATRE - My Wonderful Day and Absurd Person Singular (Ensemble Theatre); The Cove – 8 short plays by Daniel Keene (Dog Theatre); Status Update
(Explorations La Mama/La Mama Season); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Works); and for the Original Shakespeare Company, Shadow Passion (Chapel off Chapel), Europe (Victorian College of the Arts [VCA] Director Season), Still (La Mama/Malthouse), Face to Face (Ensemble), The Quartet from Rigoletto (Cue/Ensemble), All Things Considered (Marion St), Property of the Clan (Theatre 20/20), Away and Hypothalamania (Sydney Theatre Company [STC]), and the national tour of Dags. TELEVISION - Mal.Com, City Homicide, Satisfaction, Underbelly, All Saints, Elephant Princess, Stingers, Salem's Lot, The Secret Life of Us, Blue Heelers, Lost World, Halifax fp, Something in the Air (Series 1 and 2),
Beast Master, Fearless, Flipper, Murder Call, Tales of the South Seas, Medivac (Series 1 and 2), GP, Heartland, Home and Away, Neighbours and Richmond Hill (Series 1). FILM - Knowing, Eustice Solves A Problem, The Blue Lady, The Fortune Teller, A Few Things I Know About Her, Kid in a Bin and Sweet as a Peach. She has written a book for actors published by Currency Press called Racing against Time – the actors handbook for film and television, has directed the rollicking play for St Martins Youth Theatre – Motor Mouth and Suck Face
- an apocalyptic love story and has been the on set acting coach for numerous television shows as well as teaching at Australia’s top Acting Institutions including Film & Television Studio International.
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Weeks Nine and Ten
These final two weeks will be the culmination of work from the previous 8 weeks, where scenes will be handpicked and cast by Craig McMahon (Creative Director of Film & Television Studio International) in order to show our actors in the best light possible. Actors will then perform these scenes for notable casting directors and producers who will provide feedback and talk them through the casting process as they have experienced it and in their own words. Previous casting directors and producers that have worked with the studio include: Jane Norris (Casting Director: The Slap, Gallipoli, Rush), Nathan Lloyd (Casting Director: Wentworth, Offspring, Party Tricks, Upper Middle Bogan),
Alison Telford (Head of Casting for ABC Television), Lou Mitchell (Casting Director: The Dr Blake Mysteries, The Underbelly Files, City Homicide), Angela Heesom (Casting Director: Wolf Creek, Wolf Creek 2, Danger 5), Thea McLeod (Casting Director: Neighbours, Better Man), Leigh Pickford (Casting Director: Wonderland, Packed to the Rafters), Nikki Barrett (Casting Director: Pirates of the Caribbean, The Great Gatsby, Holding the Man, Mad Max: Fury Road), Kirsty McGregor (Casting Director: Animal Kingdom, San Andreas, Noah, The Rover, Devils Playground), Dave Newman (Casting Director: The 34th Battalion, Red Dog, Terra Nova), Andy Walker (Producer:
Please Like Me, The Kettering Project) and Jo Porter (Producer of Wentworth and Neighbours among other credits and Head of Drama for Fremantle Media).
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Condition of Entry
This program is only open to graduates of the Full Time Professional Acting for Television Program at Film & Television Studio International.
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Course Fee
PAYMENT OPTIONS
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Pay in Full: $1,690.00 (GST Inclusive)
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Direct Debit: $130.00 x 13 weeks.
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Term Dates
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Monday 29th of June, 2015
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Monday 6th of July, 2015
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Monday 13th of July, 2015
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Monday 20th of July, 2015
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Monday 27th of July, 2015
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Monday 3rd of August, 2015
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Monday 10th of August, 2015
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Monday 17th of August, 2015
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Monday 24th of August, 2015
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Monday 31st of August, 2015
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Book Your Placement Now - TERM FOUR.
To enrol, simply book via our website. It will automatically be sent to enquiries@filmtv.com.au. We will then process your application. If you send your application form and all placements have been filled we will be in touch to notify you. If you have any further queries, please don't hesitate to contact us directly on 1800 FILMTV (1800 345 688).
*All applications are processed on a first in first served basis. Once your placement has been confirmed, you will recieve a full week by week breakdown on what to expect from your program, together with further course materials which are sent to you via email.
Melbourne Studio I 390 Clarendon Street I South Melbourne I VIC 3205 I www.filmtv.com.au
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