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ACV210 - Extending the Actor's Voice

Using the exercises learned in ACV110 students will gain a deeper understanding of their voices - where their voices are free and expressive and also where there are some restrictions due to stress and tension. Work on increasingly complicated and demanding texts will also help in identifying performance stress patterns. Through exposure to various warm-up techniques students will identify, select and personalize warm-ups that can help to adjust to these patterns in the goal to achieve more effective communication of ideas and emotions.
Pre-requisite: ACV110

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ACV221 - Dance Basics

This course looks at how one goes about finding life in highly choreographed pieces, through an exploration of various types of dance. The concepts of relationships and communication through emotional and physical contact with partners are the principle foci for this course. Prerequisite: ACV120

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ACV230 - Deepening Your On-Camera Work

This course will challenge students to discover a richer set of tools to enable them to take their acting ability to the next level. Through a selection of emotionally more demanding and complex scenes, students will expand their ability to analyze scripts through detailed use of "actioning". Students will also learn how to use historical source material and contemporary character research techniques to expand character depth. A large part of the course will be focused on the relationship between scene partners and honing the actor's listening skills. The student's understanding of the on-set operations will also be extended as they are exposed to basic shooting and lighting techniques.

Pre-requisites:ACV130

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ACV288 - Introduction to Script Writing

This course introduces students to the basic principles in the construction of script. Using texts which serve as examples of different approaches to the development of effective characters, students learn writing techniques to engage an audience while applying the conventions of correct script format for various media (television, film, stage, graphic novels). Suspense, tension and an emotional response are all explored. At the end of the course students will have completed a basic script. 

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ACV300 - Acting on Impulses

The ability to improvise is an essential skill for actors in commercials, in television and film, and for the stage. Improvisation is an art form unto itself and it is also tool used by actors as a means to character exploration and development. In this class students will focus on developing improvisation skills including acceptance of offerings, imagination, spontaneity, physicality, and creation of characters.

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ACV301 - Periods and Styles

This course introduces students to the major periods in the history of performance through a hands-on engagement with selected authors and their texts. The course will focus on these areas: 1) The Greeks  2) Commedia dell'Arte 3) Elizabethan 4) Restoration  5) Realism  6) The Absurdists 7) The experimental methods of Artaud, Grotowski and Brook


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ACV401 - Physical Acting / Fighting

Students will take instruction in "staged fighting" techniques. They will learn how to "speak" in terms of physical sentences, focusing on how characters are drawn into using physical tactics when the verbal will not achieve their goals. Basic choreography will be devised through the integration of text. Students will get a taste of what will be required of them if they work in Action genre film and television projects.


Pre-requisites: ACV120

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GEN001 - General Education Option

According to the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities, ?the purpose of General Education in the Ontario college system is to contribute to the development of citizens who are conscious of the diversity, complexity, and richness of the human experience; who are able to establish meaning through this consciousness; and, who, as a result, are able to contribute thoughtfully, creatively, and positively to the society in which they live and work. General Education strengthens students' generic skills, such as critical analysis, problem solving, and communication, in the context of an exploration of topics with broad-based personal and / or societal importance?. Please contact the School of English and Liberal Studies at your campus to find out more about the variety of General Education courses from which you can choose.

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