Industry workshops

INDUSTRY WORKSHOPS

Please use the booking system to secure your place on our workshops.

We must maintain a strict cancellation policy. In some cases we are able to move places to future workshops.

Please note that all of our workshops adhere to CDG guidelines. These are workshops and are not auditions for our Casting Directors or their projects.

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SCREEN ACTING FOUNDATIONS AND CASTING FUNDAMENTALS

WITH GEMMA HANCOCK

Previous Emmy-Nominated Casting Director and Acting Coach. Worked on: Casualty, Father Brown, Sister Boniface Mysteries, Doctors, Silent Witness, The Bill. 2010 Nominee for Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie or Special for Emma.

Step into the room with casting director Gemma Hancock for two intensive days that will change how you approach the camera. With over 20 years in the industry, Gemma will take you behind the scenes of the casting process and show you how to make every self-tape and audition count.

You’ll work on camera, receive personalised feedback on your performance, and get individual advice on your casting, Spotlight profile, CV and showreel clips.

Best of all, you’ll leave with professionally shot and lit 4K footage of your work, sent to you free of charge.

FAQs

Our workshops and how they are run will always be led by the industry professional and how they can best offer value.
However, we will ensure that every member of the workshop performs and is seen by the industry professional. We will ensure that each person has their time for feedback/re-direction and we will always make sure that there is time for questions.
For most workshops, all actors are required to learn and prepare a scene that will be sent before the workshop. We aim to send these out with at least 5 days notice of the workshop.
In some workshops, we offer the space and time for Spotlight Doctors and individual casting advice, in which case you might want to come prepared with a printed Spotlight CV or specific questions to ask. This will be made clear to you before the workshop.
Cancellations made 10 days before the first day of the workshop begin will eligible for a 95% refund. I only withhold the transfer fees that I am charged from the booking system.
Cancellations made within 10 days of the first day of the workshops will only be eligible for a 50% refund.
No refunds will be available within 2 days of the workshop.
We must maintain a strict cancellation policy to ensure that all of our Industry Professionals are paid fairly for their commitment and time and we need to be able to deliver on our promise to them. In some circumstances, we are able to move places across to future workshops. Please get in touch if this might be an option for you.
We are committed to offering regular industry workshops and so chances are that if you can’t make this workshop that you might be able to make a future workshop.
We recommend that you sign up to our mailing list. We only send out emails when we have courses and workshops available to book.
Yes. After the workshop, if you request your footage, this will be sent to you for no extra cost.
All footage is recorded in 4K using cinema quality cameras.

LOCATION

BN1 Arts Centre

Vantage Point

New England Road

Brighton

BN1 4GW

FEEL LIKE YOU NEED A BIT OF ON SCREEN PRACTICE FIRST?

Find out about our weekly screen acting workshops.

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We offer professional, dedicated training for actors every week at the same venue we hold our casting directing workshops. Our ethos is all about respect, honesty and hard-work.

We challenge our members each and every week and train them to develop a fundamental understanding of what makes a strong screen performance. We offer regular time in front of the camera, in depth analysis of script and performance and honest, genuine feedback that isn’t sugar coated.

Do you feel confident that you know how to use your eyes to tell stories? How to break a TV/Film script down into beats? How to adapt performance for genre? How to play a committed, truthful objective that is effective for camera? How to intensify your stakes without overacting? We guarantee that you’ll walk away from our workshops with a greater understanding of the answers to these questions and MORE.

We also offer our actors free help, advice when it comes to getting agents, changing agents, getting onto Spotlight and landing their first TV/Film job. We also offer exclusive TV/Film auditions and opportunities with industry contacts who come straight to us for actors.

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