• Mon 3:25pm–6:15pm — MAIN D1400

Acting is foundational to most dramatic live action and animation media creation. This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to acting, improvisation, and technical basics for students working with film, media arts, animation, performance and/or interdisciplinary forms. The course highlights the creative impact of performance and its capacity for transformation and puts the student in the role of actor as creator. Through immersion and experience as actors, students will explore improvisation, physical movement, body language, and voice development to generate character creation and development. Students will learn and apply language and techniques to create and improve performance, audition and rehearsal procedures. Teaching methods include lectures, demonstrations, class exercises, workshops, scene study and games.