Workshops

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Dear Friends,

We are excited to announce that we are in the process of developing a new online learning platform. Stay tuned for its launch! We kindly ask you to visit our website again for updates.

Currently, we offer our Directing Actors Intensive workshops in-person in the Los Angeles area, as well as in-person Film Financing workshops.

If you’re a film or theater director, actor or filmmaker looking for workshop where you make serious progress achieving your creative and professional goals in the very important area of DIRECTING ACTORS, join us. Goodman Directing and Acting Studio offers intensive workshops for film and theater directors. This is a comprehensive course with practical and real life examples, and scientific approach. The director will learn how to bring out the best possible performance from their actors and create a memorable and everlasting work of art. Our workshops and book, “The Art of Directing Actors,” by Ernest Goodman presents directing actors as a practical psychology: the art of managing human behavior. Our ultimate goal is quality of education, which is why our classes are small. Every student will work with actors we provide.

Directing actors is our long-time passion. We spent more than 20 years doing research for methods that can bring the best performance from the actors and I have 10 years of experience of teaching those techniques. The methods of directing actors have more than 100 years of history and they have been developed by Konstantin Stanislavsky, Michael Chekhov, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner and others. They are based on the science of human behavior – psychology and psychophysiology.

The director guides the actor by working with him or her to interpret the script, blocking and staging the scenes, working with individual actors to help them deliver their best performance, and many other subtle and not so subtle ways.
Directing actors refers to the process in which a film, theater, or television director guides and manages the performances of actors on set or stage. This involves working closely with the actors to develop and shape their portrayal of characters in a script, ensuring that their performances align with the director’s creative vision for the project. Directing actors can encompass various tasks, such as providing feedback on the actors’ delivery of lines, helping them explore their characters’ motivations and emotions, and guiding them through physical movements and blocking during scenes. Ultimately, the director’s goal is to create a cohesive and engaging narrative by eliciting strong, authentic performances from the actors involved.

Our new film financing workshop

Ernest Goodman, an entertainment lawyer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, offers a Film Financing workshop. This workshop covers the following topics:

  1. Basics of Film Financing: Understanding the Landscape
  2. Traditional vs. Modern Financing Methods
  3. The Role of Entertainment Lawyers in Film Financing
  4. Sourcing and Negotiating with Investors
  5. Pre-sales, Tax Incentives, and Grants
  6. Crowdfunding: Strategies and Best Practices
  7. Structuring a Finance Deal: Terms and Agreements
  8. Risk Management and Investor Relations
  9. Case Studies: Successful Film Financing Campaigns
  10. The Impact of Digital Platforms on Financing
  11. Navigating International Co-Productions and Finances
  12. Securing Distribution Deals and its Influence on Financing
  13. Ethical Considerations in Film Financing
  14. Future Trends: Streaming Services and Beyond

Participants will leave with a comprehensive understanding of the various financing options available and the skills needed to successfully secure funding for their film projects.

How to purchase our workshop?

Please email us or use our contact form. We will reach out to schedule either a Zoom or an in-person interview. An interview is required before you can be placed in a workshop group. Once the interview is complete, you can make a payment using our online payment system.

If you are not satisfied with our workshop, we will refund your payment.

mail us or use a contact form. We will contact you to make an appointment for Zoom or in-person interview. Interview is required before you will be placed in workshop group. You will make a payment after interview using our online payment system.

If you are not satisfied with our workshop we will return your payment.

Types of workshops

There are three types of workshops we currently offer:

(1) Intro to Directing Actors – 3 hours ($300).

(2) Directing Actors Intensive – 8 hours. ($1000).

(3) Film Financing – 8 hours ($1000)

 
Intro to Directing actors includes:
 
(1) Basic principles of directing actors.
(2) Understanding of Result and General directions.
(3) Examples of the common mistakes of director (20 examples of Result-oriented  and General direction).
(4) Five methods of directing actors.
 
Directing Actors Intensive workshop includes:
 
(1) Basic principles of directing actors.
(2) Understanding of Result and General directions.
(3) Examples of the common mistakes of director (20 examples of Result-oriented  and General direction).
(4) More than 17 methods of directing from different teachers and practitioners from different countries which show students the effective ways of directing actors. The successful techniques of Constantin Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner and others are presented.
(5) Casting principles.
(6) Rehearsal techniques.
(7) Script breakdown, the director’s plan of the movie.
(8) Most known acting methods and techniques.
 
 

 

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