Join us for a spooktacular event!

Come to Vinegar Hill Theatre dressed in your best Halloween costume; spooky or sparkly, ghoulish or glamorous, all costumes and characters are welcome! When students arrive, expert makeup artist Lindsey Paulette will help to complete their looks while Light House Teaching Artists work with students to bring their characters to life in front of the camera. Throughout this workshop, students will learn about the role of a special effects makeup artist on a film set. Makeup will be provided.

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Acting for Camera

Details: Tuesdays and Thursdays, March 5 - April 25

Age: Middle and High School Students, 8 - 10th grade

Location: Vinegar Hill Theatre, 220 W Market St

Tuition: $

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FAY E. CUNNINGHAM’s career has spanned over 46 years, teaching at the elementary, middle, high school, and college levels. Twenty-three of those years were spent in directing and coaching theatre and forensics at Albemarle High School. She also coordinated numerous film festivals with her drama students. Her drama and forensics students won numerous awards annually at the local, regional, state, and national levels. She has been a recipient of various awards, including Teacher of the Year which was awarded by The National Speech and Debate Association. On separate occasions, Fay was chosen as the Forensics Teacher of the Year and later as the Theatre Teacher of the Year by the VAFTDC (Virginia Association for Forensics, Theatre, and Debate Conference). She has also been awarded scholarships to study at Stratford-upon-Avon and at The Globe Theatre.

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Light House Studio 220 W Market St, Charlottesville, VA 22902.

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Phase I- Using the Physical Instrument & Creativity

March 5 - Storytelling and Artwork, using music as stimulus; bodies moving through space as a form of art

March 7 - Observing silent movies-What acting techniques were used? Notice what little dialogue [inter titles/captions] is needed in telling the story--be brief with words.

March 12 - Pantomiming daily routines, using detailed/specific movements to create pantomime stories, then perform them.

March 14 - Film the pantomime stories; these will be refilmed and discussed later on in the session for comparison.

March 18-22 - No classes

Phase II- Using the Vocal Instrument and Screenwriting

March 26 - The use of voice in film; begin generating ideas for a 2-4 minute film; writing of a screenplay(scene) with storyboard [format, theme, characters, plot, brief dialogue, etc.]

March 28 - Finish writing scenes and read throughs with feedback

April 1-5 - No classes

April 9 - Continue how to use the voice in their created screenplays; refilm the pantomime scenes and compare- What was different? Acting, staging, effective use of movement, etc.