The Moving Frame – Cinematic Storytelling for the Actor

with Welker White and Damian Young

5-DAY Intensive (In-Person/Berlin)

The workshop aims to provide actors with a safe, supportive, and rich environment to explore key principles in cinematic storytelling.

Early in the week, actors explore a range of original, filmed, ‘short-form’ exercises devised to strengthen moment-to-moment work and truthful behavioural language that reads onscreen. We’ll investigate how visual stories are constructed (on the page as well as in shooting) and how this framework can liberate rather than constrain the actor’s expression.

As the week progresses, we’ll apply these principles to the shooting of short, scripted scenes. Actors will work in pairs through multiples takes, in a range of camera set ups, with particular emphasis on the close-up.

We’ll explore the letting go of previous takes, allowing new stimuli to inform and deepen the possibilities in the work. Actors will come away with tangible tools that enable them to bring more authenticity and veracity to their work on camera.

All recorded work is viewed, analysed, and discussed. All takes from filmed scene work is sent to actors at end of intensive. (Work is left unedited.)