| Directing Actors for the Camera

Learn the language that leads to effective performances.

Spend a week with one of Hollywood’s most in-demand coaches and find out why Catlin Adams is the ‘secret weapon’ of many A-list stars and directors.

This week-long workshop will focus on scene analysis, exercises, and techniques to take directors deeply into the dynamics of directing actors. Throughout the week, students explore and rehearse scenes with a team of actors.

What does an actor need from a director in order to deliver the best performance? How do directors and actors embrace the freedom to risk that can lead to breakthroughs?  Preparation sets the stage for compelling and inspired work. Only when you’ve done the work of fully investigating your story and characters can everything else fall into place. Confidence. The willingness to make fear your friend. It’s not magic. It’s a craft.

Through scene study, character investigation, exercises, rehearsals, improvisation, and review of on-camera work, participants will arrive at a richer understanding of their material and craft, learn to be present in the moment, and communicate constructively.  By the end of the week, you will understand the common language that leads to honest and powerful work.

The workshop will also examine how to identify a character’s core, the value of incorporating physical tasks, and much more.  Once participants have explored a scene, it will be put on camera for analysis and discussion.

While this workshop is focused on directing, writers and cinematographers wishing to learn powerful tools that will equip them with a more profound way to understand character and performance are also welcome to participate.