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The author uses her wide experience as an acting and voice coach an major movies to offer insights into the film acting process. She provides tasks, techniques and tips that are designed specifically for film: there's advice to make the first-time film actor feel at home on set, tips on the casting process, how to cope with auditions, on-camera techniques, schedules and shooting order, as well as specific advice from film crews to help an actor's performance. This practical workbook combines exercises and anecdotes in an informal and accessible style, making it the indispensable guide for anyone wishing to light up the silver screen.

This is a comprehensive consideration of all aspects of the actor's art and craft, as told by the theater's greatest practitioners, from ancient Greece to the 20th century.

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Creativity is a buzz-word in education right now, but it is still seen mainly as the domain of the creative arts. This book shows how creativity can be an approach to and ethos for every aspect of school life and management and all subject areas. Developing a school which enables the students to realise their creative potential is an immense challenge. There is no single formula for transforming a school into an environment which nurtures and develops the creativity of them all, but this book explores some of the practical steps schools can take. Rooted in theory as well as practice, it examines organisation, leadership, approaches to teaching and learning, curriculum design, assessment for learning, professional development and the importance and effectiveness of genuine partnerships. The case studies of successful practice are inspiring. The authors also share some of the pitfalls, challenges, and barriers to creativity they have encountered and offer practical guidance.

Written specifically for trainee and practicing teachers in secondary English and Drama, this book presents a critical analysis of the requirement to teach speaking and listening and theories concerning the nature and the value of oral communication, as outlined in the National Curriculum and Key Stage 3 Literacy Strategy.

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This book is intended to be of value to teachers and pupils in primary and secondary schools. 'Drama' in education may assume many forms, but of all these the improvising of stories occupies a leading place. To provide the teacher with an imaginative anthology Peter Chilver has adapted and re-told some thirty stories: most of these are folks and legends, the remainder are stories developed by classes in the primary and secondary schools from 'situations' taken from newspaper stories. The author stresses that pupils should be encouraged to use, build on, and extend the stories, so that each story is a stimulus from which children proceed to develop their own ideas in their own speech and dialogue.

The use of training techniques originally developed for theatre and improvisation within the workplace has increased enormously in recent years and the proven effectiveness of the approach is finding many enthusiastic followers. Sometimes, actual actors are brought into an organization to act as catalysts within a training/role-play setting, but, increasingly, trainers themselves are using the techniques.

Performance: A Practical Approach To Drama is a textbook that aims to develop expressive and improvisation skills, play building strategies, acting techniques and critical response to live theatre. It has been written to fit any course that focuses on the development and evaluation of performance skills.

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Here at last is THE definitive guide for any teacher either running or involved with a secondary drama department. Based on the experiences of the authors in creating a highly successful drama department at their Beacon school in Birmingham, this book will be an inspiration to drama teacher because of it.