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Theatre, Performing ArtsAuditioning • Actor/Acting Coach/Casting DirectorBestSellerAudition: Series With Michael ShurtleffMichael Shurtleff teaches an approach to acting that helpsstudents learn to locate their own inner strengths and bringthese strengths to bear with maximum energy and force in eachrole and each moment on the stage.In the four programs of Audition: The Video Series, Michael explores the 12 guidepostswith a group of workshop students. Each guidepost is articulated byMichael, then illustrated by the presentation and analysis of brief scenes.Michael probes relentlessly to help his students find the core of each scene andto take emotional risks along the way.SAVE $30 4 DVD Set: F931DVD $369.80Auditioning For The Actor★★★★ Four Stars - Highly Recommended!University of California acting teacher WilliamAnton shows how to evaluate your own strengths asan actor and then how to select material thatsupports those strengths. As actors provide examplesof monologues, prepared scenes, cold readingsand semi-cold readings, Anton critiques their performance.Going beyond do’s and don’ts for theaudition itself he explores pre-audition skills andstrategies that will help an actor to feel preparedand confident. Acting students at any level as wellas working professionals, can benefit from thisstraightforward, easily assimilated plan. 46 min.F613DVD $79.00Audition TechniquesThis video prepares students or other aspiring actors for successful auditions inhigh school theatre, community theatre, university theatre, professional theatreand theme parks. Learn how to analyze and rehearse your monologue/song, preparethe audition, to vocally and physically warm up before the audition, properand improper auditions, to select the right monologue or the right song, coldreadings, prepare your resume and photographs. 70 min.VHS: F977 $119.00 F977DVD $119.00Audition: Part OneRelationship: Michael demonstrates that actors must always ask “Where is thelove in the scene?” even in a scene of conflict, to get to the deepest emotionalcontent.Conflict: “What are you fighting for?“ Michael shows how actors must search outthe conflict in every scene. Without conflict, there is no drama.The Moment Before: Michael and his students explore how to start a secnewith full energy. Something must propel you onto the stage and it must be anaction, not simply an idea or a mood. 30 min.Audition: Part ThreeCommunication and Competition: Getting beyond self-expression to truecommunication: a continuous cycle of messages and responses, energized bycompetition.Importance: Locating the dramatic core. Even a minor character must approacheach scene as if their life will be destroyed if they don’t win.Finding The Events: “What’s really happening in the play?” It’s always a changein relationship and the actor must locate that change and find a way tophysicalize it. 30 min.26F932DVD $99.95Audition: Part TwoHumor: Humor is not jokes; humor arises from pain and enables us to carry onin spite of it. Discover how to search out the humor in even the most tragic scene.Opposites: Whatever your motivation in a scene, your performance should alsoinclude its opposites; the tension in the scene will arise from sudden alterationbetween the opposites.Discoveries: A scene, even an audition scene, can quickly become rote. Michaelshows how to keep “making things happen for the first time” through a constantprocess of discovery. 30 min.F933DVD $99.95F934DVD $99.95Audition: Part FourPlace: Creating a sense of place even on a bare stage. The emotional relationshipto place is more important than the place itself.Game Playing and Role Playing: Games and roles are not insincere or fantasy,they are the structures through which we process reality and relationships.Mystery and Secret: Articulation of role and motive only go so far. At the core of anygreat performance is a core of mystery, of wonder and of the inexplicable. 30 min.F935DVD $99.95AuditioningAllan Miller has taught and directed thousands ofactors including: Barbara Streisand, DustinHoffman, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Judd Hirsch,Dianne Wiest, Peter Boyle, Kirstie Alley, SigourneyWeaver, Ron Leibman, Bruce Davison, RueMcClanahan, Geraldine Page and Jim Caviezel, andhas acted in over 200 films, TV shows and plays.Learn practical advice and techniques on how toachieve a successful audition in any situation,whether it's a cold reading, a warm reading, a preparedmonologue or a call back. Miller directsactors as they give live auditions for him. The mostvaluable section of this tape are Miller's suggestionsfor enduring the rigors of waiting for your name to be called and how to usethe time to "tune up" and build confidence. 43 min.F911DVD $99.00Auditioning For CameraPaul Awad, professional director and acting teacher, guides students throughworkshop exercises created to help actors make the most of their audition time,bring out their unique qualities and give them a solid grasp of the auditioningprocess and the skills necessary to get the part. 35 min.F1121DVD $99.00Auditioning For CommercialsWhat type of commercials are there? How do you read acommercial script? What makes a successful audition?Learn the process of auditioning for commercials and how to put your best footforward. Through a relaxed workshop dialogue with professional director andacting teacher Paul Awad, students discuss and work through exercises designedto give them the techniques and skills neccessary for a succcessful commercialaudition. 35 min.F1120DVD $99.00
Voice Workout For The Actor“★★★★ Four Stars - Highly Recommended!”- Video Rating Guide For Libraries“An excellent 30 minute whole-body workout. Unlike exercisetapes, this program is appropriately low key and relaxing,since it is meant to prepare - not tire - the actor for performance.”- Stage DirectionsVoice expert Susan Leigh provides the actor with a completevoice and body warm-up. The sequence includesfull-body relaxation and stretching, followed by exercisesfor pitch and resonance, clarity, dynamic vocal control andtongue twisters.This popular program can be used in a group setting orby the individual and serves as an effective preparationfor classes, rehearsals and performance. Use three tofour times per week for maximum effectiveness. 33 min.VHS: F615 $79.00 F615DVD $99.00Advanced Workout For The ActorDevelop improved breathing and vocal projection in thisexcellent follow up to Voice Workout For The ActorIn this sequel to the popular Voice Workout For The Actor,Susan Leigh focuses on the mechanics of breathing andvocal projection. Beginning with a remarkably effectiverelaxation sequence, Susan leads the viewer througha series of simple stretching, Yoga and rib awarenessexercises leading gradually up to a controlled vocalproduction. This tape can be used by the beginning actorto develop breath and projection skills or by theexperienced actor as a fresh approach into solving oldproblems. 40 min.VHS: F616 $79.00 F616DVD $99.00BestSellerVoice SkillsDevelop your speaking and singing voice to it’smaximum potential with this easy to use step-by-stepprogram taught by acclaimed voice teacher and vocalcoach Eric Vetro. Discover the secrets to creating acommanding and powerful voice. Learn superior breathcontrol & vocal support. Develop better pitch andprofessional tone quality while discovering vocal power& versatility. 45 min.F1265DVD $99.00Voice Skills - Level IIEric Vetro brings you to a higher level of vocal development. Learn to master thetechniques that professional singers, speakers and actors use. Teaches voicestrengthening and development for compelling performances, how to improveyour speaking and singing voice and how to cultivate healthy habits to protectand maintain your voice. 47 min. F1266DVD $99.00Voice Skills - Level IIIEric Vetro shares the techniques and vocal exercises he uses with his all-starclientele in Hollywood and on Broadway. This program teaches you how to maximizeyour voice’s flexibility and endurance, expand your vocal and dynamicranges to their maximum capacity and how to dazzle your audience with acaptivating style and beautiful voice. 38 min. F1267DVD $99.00A Voice Of Your OwnBy Patsy Rodenburg“Patsy Rodenburg engages the heart, themind and the body.” - Richard EyreAn instructional program that teaches you how to balancethe body, free and warm up your voice, center thebody, develop a greater range, get rid of tension, keep thevoice healthy, develop efficient breathing, speak so thatpeople want to listen and support your voice. 60 min.VHS: F3284 $59.95BestSellerTheatre, Performing ArtsVocal Coach/Theatre Director • Stage Production, Vocal TechniquesCreative Drama & Improvisation“An excellent introduction to the art ofimprovisation and a welcome addition toall high school and college acting classes,as well as theatre groups.” - Video RatingGuide For LibrariesHost Rives Collins of Northwest University leads a livelygroup of students through a dozen theatre games andimprovisational exercises. Collins emphasizes spontaneousresponse, visualization and especially divergentthinking. These exercises give invaluable tools for warmup, rehearsal, self-exploration & character development.110 min.VHS: F648 $119.00 F648DVD $119.00Blocking A Scene: Basic Staging With Actors★★★★★ Five Stars!Michael Joyce and two student directors demonstrate the basic steps in blockinga scene. They begin with script analysis, dividing the scene into working units,while providing practical tips for laying out and developing a floor plan. Eachstudent director tackles the same scene but with a different approach while Joyceanalyzes the blocking process and discusses alternatives. The work demonstratedin this video is based on a scene from Shaw’s Candida. 70 min.VHS: F617 $148.00 F617DVD $158.00Performing Shakespeare★★★★★ Five Stars!“This video is a nuts and bolts building block to support theacting curriculum.” - Video Rating Guide For LibrariesKathleen Conlin, Director of the Ohio University school of theatre, presents aunique and highly physical series of exercises that move from exploration ofspecific words and phrases through the development of completeShakespearean scenes. This detailed process enables actors to merge visceral,physical, vocal and imaginative work with the demands of complex text. 75 min.F618DVD $148.00The Theatres Of Asia: An IntroductionThis program is of special interest not only to dramateachers but to teachers of social sciences, culturalstudies and languages. The best of Professor DavidGeorge's private and unique collection of slides on Asiantheatre is now, for the first time, available on video.Accompanied by a commentary, which places the major forms of bothAsian classical and folk theatre in their cultural context, this video introducesAsian theatre through the roles it plays in the lives of Asian people and itsspecial relationship to young people. 50 min.Speaking of CreativityHow To Be Creative - As Told by the CreatorsHosted by Stacey StoneNine extraordinary individuals who have excelled in theirfields reveal the secrets of their creativity. This programteaches how sensory awareness affects the creativeprocess, what creativity feels like and recurring themes- personal and professional. 48 min.Features:Joel Asher, Dori Atlantis, Richard Bruland, Fu-DingCheng, Gordon Hunt, Jon Lawrence Rivera, Maria Royce,Mimi Seton, Stacey Stone & Charlayne Woodard.F1174DVD $69.95F986DVD $149.00Order: 1-800-262-8862 Fax: 1-310-574-0886 Email: sale@firstlightvideo.com www.firstlightvideo.com 27
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