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Become an Actor With Studios in Mumbai and New Delhi, BARRY JOHN ACTING STUDIO is India’s most sought-after destination for professional acting training. The courses are rigorous and intensive, demanding a high degree of commitment, energy and perseverance. Devoid of academic theory and jargon, Barry John’s system is a progressive series of exercises and projects that are practical and experiential. The courses are carefully designed to equip students with a mature level of physical, mental and emotional skills to meet the demands of professional engagements with film, television and theatre. ‘It’s about picking up on the energy and uninhibitedness of childhood play, deconstructing the negative aspects of school and social conditioning, and knowing who you really are.’ Barry John Diploma in Film Acting A 16-week, full-time program: Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm The BJAS Diploma in Film Acting Course is the most intense and comprehensive training for beginning actors in the country, facilitated by its most respected teacher. It covers all aspects of the actor’s craft through practical exercises and performance projects, culminating in film acting modules and student film-making assignments. Our signature Diploma Course is the 16- and 24-week Diploma in Film Acting Course which includes a wide range of advanced acting exercises, scene work and acting for the camera projects and filmmaking assignments. This BJAS DFA Course is India’s gold standard for acting courses. Beyond the wide range of physical and vocal exercises that enhance flexibility and control, the major projects in the course are: • Childhood Memories as material for the devising of children’s plays. • Dance Drama: telling a story without words. • The Primitive Ritual: exploring the roots of drama using gibberish. • Masks and mime • Street Play: devising and performing a play on a contemporary socio-political issue in ‘nukkad natak’ form. • The Status Exercise: performance of a script that distinguishes social status and animal status. • Script Reading and Scene Work: the analysis of text and the graphing of the characters. • Film Acting: a 7-week module which includes basic film theory and hands-on camera work. Students are involved in three filmed projects and a number of advanced film acting exercises before producing their own short films. Project work involves screenwriting, storyboarding and directing. Students work as a production company with defined responsibilities for ensuring their film’s successful completion. This demanding work prepares the student for the real world of film and television acting. “It’s not just a matter of giving tips or polishing. It’s about turning actors inside-out so that even they are shocked by what they can perform. The worst thing actors can be is boring and predictable.” Certificate in Acting The Certificate in Acting course is a three-month, part-time weekend program offering basic training in key aspects of the actor’s craft. It is useful for beginning actors and for those who are working. The Certificate course is carefully designed to equip students with a mature level of physical, vocal, mental and emotional skills which lay a firm foundation for work in film, television and theatre, using a wide range of physical and vocal exercises that enhance flexibility and control. Course projects are documented on video, and each student receives a digital show reel at the end of the course. ‘Even if you discover that you are not the world’s greatest actor, you will not have wasted your time, for you will have grown, developed, expanded your mind and thoroughly enjoyed yourself. It’s magical!’ In BJAS Young Actors Club and TIE programs Young Actors Club we use drama for the healthy development of the child. & Theatre-in-Education Through energetic drama activities and theatre games, opportunities are created for children to be themselves, to perform and to play. Children are connected naturally to the process through involvement with the characters they create and play. Children expand their mental ability by analysing problems, then seek their own individual solutions. The carefully planned sequence of drama games, role-plays and activities focuses on key areas including Breathing & Voicing, Imagination & Creativity, Movement, Performance Skills, Mime, Language Development and Script-writing. Ice- Breaking and Trust exercises improve the students’ ability to cooperate on creative projects. The Young Actors Club is for ages 8 to 16. Sessions are on weekend afternoons at schools, clubs or community centres. Every Summer the YAC offers workshops at venues throughout Delhi NCR. The in-school Theatre-in-Education program places a drama instructor in the school and are tailored for each school’s needs. Company Theatre The corporate business world has realised that the training of actors and directors bears considerable resemblance to its own objectives in management and staff training. Key issues such as effective leadership, team Filmmaking building communication skills, creativity and personal growth are common to both, Groups but the theatre world has developed ways and means that are more effective and more enjoyable. Our Filmmaking Groups are for graduates of BJAS Diploma and Certificate courses. We help the members BJAS offers its expertise in customised form “production companies” to write, produce, act in, workshops and projects to address the needs of companies in these key human resource direct and edit short films of their own devising. With areas. The workshops may be of a few hours’ BJAS as the executive producer, we help complete duration, a few days or a few weeks, according the films and prepare them for entry in festivals and to the company’s convenience. Long-term competitions. projects may extend over several months and culminate in a full-scale theatrical performance suitable for a company event. Customised Film Workshops FOR FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS Advanced Work Specially designed workshops of variable duration for the bonding of a team of actors, honing of skills, explorations of themes, characters, Sessions for the advanced course are divided into two: first, a focus on an relationships and action of a given script prior to the commencement of improvisational approach to technique and to confronting character. Second, shooting. Workshops are conducted by Mr Barry John and BJAS senior deep work on the Meisner technique, which involves a complete disregard teachers, and are by appointment only. of ‘character’ as an issue. The two approaches offer both contrasting and complementary techniques for students to choose from, and both are rigorously applied to scene work on a variety of scripts. Students build on their ability to customize technique that is aligned with their own individual personalities and strengths. They are empowered to confront roles that they never imagined they could. student’s mind and abilities; the mind of an artist, aware of its role and place in society, its responsibilities and possibilities, its quest for enlightenment. The Barry John Method The Self It is said that whole purpose of education, and of life itself, is to know yourself. It is certainly a crucial project for an The Body reading, script-reading, gibberish improvisations, singing, actor; one that is never completed. For as we grow, we The actor’s primary instrument is the body. It houses chanting, word-games, radio plays, interviews, and the change. performance projects. other vital instruments: the mind, the breath, the voice, Particularly at the beginning of the course, but sustained the feelings and the senses. Together, they are the actor’s The Mind through it, students embark on an analysis of themselves, media of expression and communication. Training the mind is challenging, but if it is transacted and of course, each other person in the group. A progressive Students experience a process of physical development through concrete experiences and practical activities, series of exercises, improvisations and assignments that leads to greater self-awareness, flexibility, control rather than wordy lectures and abstract philosophy, then stimulate an exploration of the ‘luggage’ that they carry and coordination. Lazy, mechanical modes of moving significant development is achievable over four months. with them: memories of childhood and youth, beliefs, and behaving are identified and made transformable. Students learn that the mind is not a singular muscle but attitudes, aspirations, fears, and dreams. Whatever the body’s size, weight and shape, it is primed a repository of multiple intelligences, operations and It is not psychotherapy, but a search to bring to to be technically proficient in skills such as trust, balance, awarenesses, many of which remained inactive during consciousness the reasons for being the way we are. neutrality, rhythm, grace and expressiveness. The body conventional education. Often, they have been repressed Importantly, this lays the foundations for the work on in its interactions with other bodies, with objects, with or abused. character building. Certain aspects of the self may be carried costumes, adornment, and make-up are also explored. Students undergo exercises that have the purpose of over into a role, other aspects may have to be transformed The training of the body is accomplished through a activating dormant or desensitized areas and operations or neutralized. Students confront the challenging paradox progressive series of games, exercises, mime and mask of the mind, and

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