Directors approach their art from a variety of backgrounds, and rarely have the opportunity to develop their skills in a professional classroom environment. The SRS Directing Class is designed to fill this gap, offering an intensive eight-week program focused on the essential elements of directing.
What You Will Do in Class
- Text Interpretation: Gain experience in analyzing and understanding scripts to bring out their meaning and intent.
- Directing Actors in a “Shoot” Situation: Practice guiding performers during simulated filming sessions, honing your communication and leadership skills on set.
- Running Rehearsals and Leading Table Work: Learn how to organize and conduct rehearsals efficiently, including the collaborative process of table work to explore the script with your cast.
- Communicating with Actors from Diverse Backgrounds: Develop techniques for engaging with actors regardless of their previous experience or training, ensuring clear and effective direction.
- Directing to “Need” Rather Than “Want”: Focus your direction on the essential motivations and requirements of a scene, rather than superficial desires, to create more cohesive storytelling.
- Movement Theory for Camera and Stage: Explore the principles of movement in both stage and screen contexts, understanding how blocking and choreography influence story.
- Concept Development: Delve into the process of conceptualizing your vision for a project, shaping the overall direction and style of your work.
- The Pitch: Learn how to present your ideas compellingly, preparing you to pitch your vision to producers, actors, and collaborators.
- And Much More: The course covers additional topics essential to the art and craft of directing, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.
Meet Your Teacher:
Stuart Rogers has been a director, writer and acting teacher for over thirty years. He has sold screenplays and television shows to major studios. As a director he has won awards at over thirty film festivals and every play he has directed in Los Angeles over the last twenty years has, at the very least, received a critics pick in the LA Times. Stuart’s acting students have won Emmys, Tony, Golden Globes and Academy Awards.