Ron Burrus Studio - Levels of Study

Level Two:

Now that the tools learned through doing in Level One and a vocabulary of an acting craft have been instilled, it is the aim of Level Two to offer classes that require the application of what has been learned. It is the repeated use of these skills that transform them into a process that becomes second nature for the actor.

SCRIPT/CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:

A systematic approach for the actor to uncover the acting construction of a specific character within the writers' script. The work is divided into two parts, SCRIPT - part one is finding the whole first and then the placing in sequence the individual pieces that make up this whole. Part two is summing up the CHARACTER into a dominating, personality color and then finding all the various shades of character traits that fill out this portrait of a human being.

FILM WORKSHOP:

Putting into practice all material covered in Script/Character Breakdown from the final audition for the role and then the actual shooting of scenes from the beginning, middle and end of character development.

Los Angeles offers all the above classes. New York offers the FILM WORKSHOP only as an individual class open to all advanced actors within the city - the other classes are only within programs of study ranging from two to four years.

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