Acting for Camera with Alliance Theatre
This course, created in partnership with the Alliance Theatre, teaches students how to perform on-camera acting exercises, sharpen their acting skills take after take, receive individual feedback for their work, learn about close-ups, continuity, and auditioning, and take their first step toward the silver screen. Students will sharpen their on-camera acting skills, develop their film acting technique, create and build relationships, motivate their scenes through positive expectations, and perform scenes on camera.
Put your film acting technique into practice, find out what is expected on a film set, workshop full-length film scenes, and receive direction from experienced professionals.
Please note: students do have graded assignments, assessments, and projects and will receive a final grade in this course. Grades demonstrate a student’s ability to apply their understanding and mastery of concepts taught in this course. Alliance Theatre and Trilith Institute instructors have a wealth of knowledge as they come with expertise in the film and entertainment industry.
Course Note: No Prerequisite Required.
WHAT YOU WILL WALK AWAY WITH
- The opportunity to present your talent in front of leading casting directors, directors, talent agents, and mor
- Eligibility to apply for Trilith Institute’s Creative Excellence Fellowship Grant.*
- Professional Headshots
- Short film audition opportunities
- Opportunities to act in scenes in the Trilith Institute Narrative Directing for Screen course
- 15% off Trilith Institute workshops for 6 months after course enrollment.
- A tour of Trilith Studios!
*Those receiving a grade of 80 (B) or above in the course will receive a “Certificate of Completion.” Complete 3 of the Trilith Institute’s Professional Education Courses, and you will receive the “Trilith Institute Outstanding Achievement in Film Arts.” In addition, if you have completed 3 courses and our Mastering Self-Marketing workshop, you will be eligible to submit an original project for consideration for our Creative Excellence Fellowship Grant, with a potential award of up to $10,000.
Questions? Check out our FAQ page.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR: XAVIER MIKAL
Xavier Mikal is an Actors’ Equity Association actor, director and teaching artist from Baltimore, Maryland. He has his Master of Fine Arts Degree and African American theatre certification from University of Louisville. He also has his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from North Carolina A&T State University. He has taught theatre performance to all age groups and has coached Film/TV acting at AGI Entertainment.
He has many theatre credits including King Hedley II and Martin Luther King Jr in The Mountaintop. As far as TV/film, Xavier was a lead in a limited series, THE PACT as Micah (Telly Award Recipient) and an independent film, ERACEING as Edwin which was shown in The Louisville International Film Fest, Toronto Black Film Fest and San Diego Black Film Fest. He also featured in the film SHIRLEY starring Regina King on Netflix. He believes that cultivating curiosity and critical thinking are the keys to stellar and free flowing performances.
