NEXT STOP NY! Acting for TV & Film.

"TODAY'S TECHNIQUE for TODAY'S ACTOR" an Alternative to the Method"

CLASS OUTLINE 

Next Stop NY! Acting for TV & Film was created for those who have a desire to learn the craft of acting. All classes are instructed by Gary Nastu.  

Today's /Technique for Today's Actor: Gary  created his technique" from the teaching of Don Richardson, George Sdanoff, Harry Mastrogorge and Sal Dano. Don Richardson was such an influence on Gary and his technique that his book "Acting without Agony" An Alternative to the Method is required for acting classes ages 14-Adult.   New Actors are introduced to our technique "TODAY'S TECHNIQUE for TODAY'S ACTOR"and learn how to create a believable character in a short time. Learn how to use your imagination so you will be able to feel the emotional life and think the thoughts of the character and not your own. Learn to make and understand the necessary adjustments in your performance for TV & Film. Gary believes acting is a work of the imagination!  

Acting for TV and Film Classes for All Ages: 

Focus on the actor's skills to break down a scene or monologue. You will learn to understand their style and structure. To make the best choices so the scene or monologue will have the desired effect it was meant to have on the audience. Monologues and Scenes are videotaped on Students Phones so students can learn camera techniques. 

Rehearse and shoot your scene work and monologues on camera from your POV. You will learn and understand technical and emotional adjustments required for working in front of the camera in a relaxed and truthful way. Topics include the difference between frame sizes, learning to hit marks, matching and personal business.

On Camera, Self Tape & Virtual Audition assignments: On Camera Virtual Auditioning is going to be the normal way for casting directors to hold auditions. It’s hard to get a callback or book a job unless you get good at this!   Actors are expected to do a good job under tough conditions. These distractions can hurt your audition. An uncomfortable environment, audition pressure and nerves. This will help you get more comfortable so you can do your best work. We will send you a script 2 days before class. You will prepare it just like a real self-tape audition. We will treat it and shoot it like a virtual audition with a casting director live giving you only 2 takes. We will play them back for review.

Self-Tape Audition Homework: You will take the above camera assignment home and send me a self-tape audition just like you received a self-tape audition request. You will learn the dos and don’ts on virtual and self-tape auditions

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Commercial Acting Technique for Teens:  To develop the actor's commercial skills and personality. Actors will learn commercial techniques that will make them competitive. We will focus on dialogue, improvisational and some group scene auditions. Actors will learn about storyboards and to read from cue cards. Actors will learn product handling, reaction work, camera technique and hitting marks. Improvisation techniques that will help them when there is no scripted commercial dialogue, which is very useful in today's market. Gary's training in commercials acting and improvisation comes from an amazing professional source! Gary's teacher and friend Jeff Gerrard, who owns Jeff Gerrard Casting in Los Angeles since 1983 and has cast over 3,500 commercials! Jeff Gerrard is, and has been, the President of the Commercial Casting Directors Association for more than fifteen years.

Gary's Actors have worked in TV, Film and on the Broadway Stage. They have appeared in " EVIL" "Jigsaw" "Akwafina Nora from Queens" Netflix, 'Manifest ""BULL" “Power” I Killed my BFF”, “Nickelodeon”, “Sesame Street”, “Onion News Network”, “As The World Turns”, “Good Morning America”, “Celebrity Ghost Stories",“ Exhume”, “Clutter”, "Two Days”, “The David Dance”, “Chapter 27”, "Isn’t it Delicious”, “Inherit the Wind”, “Dracula The Musical”,  “American Girl”, I Love NY!, "School House Rock", Bounty, Go Gurt, Sudafed, ING Direct, Connecticare Commercials, PSA NYC Anti-Smoking, Hasbro, Friendly’s ,PSA Ebola  and Selah Sue Music Video/Crazy Vibes<>