98 Entertainment Studies Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 ENTERTAINMENT Entertainment Studies Certificates STUDIES Gain the Skills to Take Your Career to the Next Level 98 Acting 99 Cinematography 100 Development 100 Directing 101 Post-Production 101 Producing 102 The Business & Management of Entertainment 103 The Music Business 104 Music Production 105 Film Scoring Inside Stanislavski: Art & Craft of Applications for the Screen Actor X 407.42 Theater 4 units Entertainment The great Russian actor, director and teacher Konstan- For more information call (310) 825-9064, email tin Stanislavski had a method that combined physicality [email protected], or visit and spirituality when building a character as the shorter entertainment.uclaextension.edu. route to finding its inner life. Learn these practical techniques of Stanislavski to perform with confidence Space is limited; early enrollment is highly and depth. Exercises are supplemented with discussion recommended. Visitors are not permitted at of Stanislavski’s concepts, philosophy, and ethics. Most some courses. For online course technical modern acting methods are grounded in the Stanislav- requirements, see page 4. ski system and understanding the basics of this system helps the actor understand and study other acting Interested in becoming a director? Want a career as a movie techniques. Topics include action vs. emotion; using producer or executive? Are you interested in behind-the-scenes Acting imagination to create real emotions; relaxation and concentration; emotional memory; and building a positions such as director of photography? Acting Techniques: The Fundamentals character through physicality and voice. At the end of Enroll in one of our 11 Entertainment Studies Certificates. X 407.5 Theater 4 units the course, you will have acquired techniques to learn In this introduction to acting, learn fundamental perfor- how to deal with stage fright; how to approach a role All of the Entertainment Certificates offer a broad overview mance techniques and exercises, including relaxation, and inhabit it from the initial research to the physical concentration, sense memory, emotional recall, impro- embodiment of the character; and how to avoid bad of the industry, as well as specialized skills, training, and the visation, character tasks, and text analysis. Students acting habits such as faking emotion or overacting. contacts you need for success. then apply these techniques by rehearsing and per- Enrollment limited. Internet access required to retrieve forming monologues and two-character scenes. course materials. Film & Television Certificates: In-class partner work and weekly assignments are Reg# 266324CA Fee: $695 required. Enrollment limited. Internet access required • Directing • Entertainment: to retrieve course materials. Westwood: 211 Extension Lindbrook Center ✷✷Thu 3:30-6:30pm, Jun 30-Sep 8 General Studies Reg# 266319CA • ✷✷Sat 2-5pm, Jul 30, 12 mtgs Acting Fee: $695 No refund after Jul 6. • The Business & Management Westwood: 201 Extension Lindbrook Center • Development ✷✷Mon 3:30-6:30pm, Jun 20-Aug 29 Eric Scott Gould, actor, director, screenwriter, and of Entertainment producer. As an actor, Mr. Gould has performed in more ✷✷Sat 2-5pm, Jul 23 • than 50 stage productions in New York City, Los Ange- Producing ✷✷Sat 2-5pm, Aug 6, 12 mtgs • Independent Producing les, and regional theater. On television, he has appeared (no mtg 7/4) • Cinematography No refund after Jun 23. on shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO), Offered entirely online! Numb3rs (CBS), The District (CBS), Diagnosis Murder Ernesto González, actor whose credits include (CBS), Another World (NBC), and recurred on Without co-starring roles in TV shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Music Certificates: Live, Professional Friend, Lean Genie, and Discovery’s A Trace (CBS) for the first four seasons. Reg# 266325CA Top 10 Criminals. Mr. Gonzáles has also performed in • Independent Music • Music Business regional theater, commercials, and TV series including Fee: $695 Westwood: 211 Extension Lindbrook Center Production Livin’ N Noho and Yet 2 Be Named. He has extensive • Film Scoring professional performance experience in improvisation as Thu 7-10pm, Jun 30-Sep 8 an alumnus of the Improvisation Conservatory program ✷✷Sat 2-5pm, Aug 13, 12 mtgs at The Second City Chicago and the Professional Actor No refund after Jul 6. Improvisation program at The Groundlings Los Angeles. Eric Scott Gould, for credits see page 98. Plus, enjoy maximum flexibility—start anytime, with no Reg# 266320CA admissions requirements. (Exceptions apply to the Film Fee: $695 Scoring Certificate.) Westwood: 201 Extension Lindbrook Center Mon 7-10pm, Jun 20-Aug 29 Take the next step toward the career you’ve always wanted! ✷✷Sat 2-5pm, Jul 9 ✷✷Sat 2-5pm, Aug 20, 12 mtgs (no mtg 7/4) No refund after Jun 23. Ernesto González, for credits see page 98. For More Information (310) 825-9064 | entertainment.uclaextension.edu Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 Entertainment Studies 99 Improvisation Techniques for the The Actor’s Tool Box: Actor: A Course in Spontaneity Creating Emotional Truth X 407.78 Theater 4 units X 409 Theater 4 units Gain experiential understanding of improvisational act- Gain acting tools and techniques to help you create Cinematography Portfolio ing and develop a strong improvisational perspective true-to-life characters with emotional depth. In this essential to scripted work. Through theater games and workshop, you learn how to draw emotional material improvising scenes, develop tools to make you more from an array of tools that are both external and internal Development trusting of your own impulses and more generous with to the actor. Those tools include sense memory, relax- your fellow actors. Learn to go for active choices to play ation, imaging, voice and body work, and improvisation Under the guidance of cinematog- Throughout the course, you gain at the top of your intelligence and at the service of the techniques. Sense memory involves reliving sensations rapher Jason Knutzen, learn how to the technology and software skills scene. Actors also experience that the best comedy experienced through your five senses and helps create showcase your artistic vision and to assist you in the post-production comes out of listening and responding honestly, not a more truthful life for your character. Relaxation tech- abilities to potential employers, aspect of putting together your “going for jokes.” Enrollment limited. Internet access niques help the actor loosen up and access sense required to retrieve course materials. memory. Imaging techniques involve the use of imagi- directors, and producers. reel, including editing, color cor- Reg# 266322CA nary people or objects to access emotions; voice and rection, compression and distribu- Fee: $695 movement techniques help sharpen your body as an tion, and adding music. You also Westwood: 204 Extension Lindbrook Center instrument; and improvisation increases your capability learn to create and manage your Tue 7-10pm, Jun 21-Sep 6, 12 mtgs of being “in the moment.” All these tools are explored online presence, and put your best No refund after Jun 24. in a supportive environment through weekly exercises. Toni Attell, Emmy-nominated actor, comedian, and mime At the end of the class, you perform a scene or a foot forward towards a meaningful whose background includes a variety of work in theater, monologue using the techniques explored throughout career in cinematography. film, and television. Ms. Attell has opened for Jay Leno, the class. Enrollment limited. Internet access required Steve Martin, and Robin Williams, and has guest-starred to retrieve course materials. Page 100. on numerous television dramas and sitcoms. Reg# 266327CA Fee: $695 Acting for the Camera I Westwood: 202 Extension Lindbrook Center X 410.3 Theater 4 units ✷✷Sat 10am-1pm, Jun 25-Jul 9; Jul 23-Aug 20 Learn to get comfortable in front of the lens. Exercises ✷✷Sat 10am-5pm, Jul 16; Aug 27, 10 mtgs begin with on-camera interviews so that students can No refund after Jun 29. Felix Pire, actor, producer, writer, and director, who has view their screen images in playback. Instruction various media sources. Enrollment limited. Internet appeared in featured roles in such films as 12 Monkeys Visualization and Exposure focuses on understanding technical and emotional access required to retrieve course materials. adjustments required for working in front of the camera directed by Terry Gilliam, Phat Girlz, Dear God directed X 478.27B Film & Television 4 units in a relaxed and truthful way and developing intimacy by Garry Marshall, and It’s My Party directed by Randal This advanced course is designed to deepen the Reg# 266224CA cinematographer’s understanding of the principles and with the camera. Topics include the difference between Kleiser. On television, he’s been a series regular on Fee: $695 frame sizes and learning to hit marks. Hone your acting CBS’s Matt Waters, and performed guest-starring roles methods of visualization on-set and in pre-production Westwood: 204 Extension Lindbrook Center techniques through scene-study guidelines and sensory on ABC’s Gideon’s Crossing and NYPD Blue, NBC’s The with particular emphasis on digital exposure and pre- Wed 7-10pm, Jun 22-Sep 7, 12 mtgs and moment-to-moment exercises, as well as mono- Rerun Show, and Prison Break on Fox. visualizing lighting design and execution. Instruction Dana Shelayne Kroeger, cinematographer who has