NYFA Guest Article on Acting, IBC, Independent Film Week, POP Montreal, Are Event Highlights in Sept
Acting: A Personal Expression - or Collaboration, Serving an Audience?
Guest article by New York Film Academy Staff
The performing arts - acting, dance, music - like all art forms are subjective in their definition. It's hard to describe what art is in any context, and for actors on stage and film there may never be a single standard of what is good or great.
But we can look at some standard definitions of art to begin to understand what constitutes great acting. Thespis of Icaria in ancient Greece - from whom comes the word thespian - is regarded to be the first actor. Before him, a chorus was engaged to tell the story on stage, but in one performance Thespis stepped out of the group to speak alone. From that moment, skills in vocal projection, physical expression and an emotional facility, born of imagination, came to define the actor.
Audiences clearly have approved, all these thousands of years later. Entertainment by way of the performing arts is one of the world's largest industries, a melding of art and commerce that has no commercial equal. Because of this commercial driver in entertainment, anyone pursuing a career in any role within the theatrical arts - not just actors but directors, editors, costume designers, makeup artists (roll the credits - the list is extensive) - has to keep in mind both the art and the commercial components of the whole package. Without an audience, the art is of lesser [monetary] value.
Glenn Kalison, chair of the Acting Department at the New York Film Academy's (NYFA) Acting School, speaks about this as the "actor's dilemma." He discusses the comprehensive art of storytelling through film as necessarily a collaboration of many players: "Storytelling, such as that involved in filmmaking, involves trust that many independently moving parts are being guided to a common end that serves a story."
By this, Kalison explains how the actor is taught to access his or her own emotions in order to play a character. But the actor must necessarily communicate something to an audience. He tells students, "What you feel and what others see are two very different things. This is often a confusing point for beginning actors who insist that they felt the appropriate emotion response for a given scene - but we didn't see it!" Only when that trust in the other "moving parts" - production designers, cinematographers, audio engineers, gaffers, grips, screenwriters and of course, directors - influences the actor's performance is the storytelling successful. "Good actors know the difference," he notes.
Put another way, the character in a moving soliloquy (think Hamlet, Macbeth or Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby") may appear to be completely alone in the world. But there are at least 100 other people involved in making that scene happen, putting it in front of an audience and truly making it work. It's always collaboration - as Thespis, who really was part of a chorus, may have known all along.
NYFA has campuses and courses in New York, Orlando, Los Angeles, Beijing, Paris, Florence and Sydney, among other locations, as well as its film school online. Students can take individual workshops or enroll in one- and two-year Conservatory programs or Associates, Bachelor's and Master's degree programs.
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The annual International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) event for professionals involved with the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide, opens in Amsterdam, running till September 11. This year's conference keynote delivered by will.i.am of band Black Eyed Peas, will be about creativity and technology, delivered in his ceremonial capacity as Intel's Director of Creative Innovation. The conference presents the best of technology for all professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and media content worldwide, including the latest 3D rigs, integrated cameras, streaming video services and cloud based production. There is once again expected to be IBC Connected World, an exhibit for anyone needing to understand the impact of wired and wireless broadband on the industry, and the IBC Production Village, a unique chance to experience first hand the latest digital imaging equipment in front of a fully-specced professional studio set.
There are expected to be free 2K, 4K and stereoscopic 3D demonstrations at the IBC Big Screen, and a convention-wide invite to attend the IBC Awards, a gala event celebrating industry achievement. The IBC Production Village is fashioned after a professional standard studio set with a host of the latest technology to explore, including: sinaCam Camera Head HDC-1-CAM, 3D Rig, Digital Film Camera, 16mm, GY-HM790E Camera and GY-HM600E Camera, Canon XF305 and Canon EOS 5D MkIII, more. The Future Zone provides a glimpse into the future of tomorrow's electronic media with a collection of concepts and prototypes that exist only in the world's leading broadcast research and development labs, or as academic papers, until they are demonstrated at IBC.
Founded in 1976, and highly regarded and anticipated with a reputation and ability to generate "Oscar-buzz", the Toronto International Film Festival opens the Thursday night after Labour Day (the first Monday in September in Canada), lasting for eleven days, or September 16. The Oprah Winfrey produced 'Precious', which won the 2009 People's Choice Award at the festival, went on to win two Oscars at the 82nd Academy Awards while The 'King's Speech', the winner of the 2010 People's Choice Award at the festival won four Oscars at the 83rd Academy Awards. In 2010 TIFF opened a new headquarters at the intersection of King Street and John Street, in a facility called the Bell Lightbox. The facility provides extensive year-round galleries, cinemas, archives and activities for cinephiles. New this year, the Festival is partnering with the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs to offer extended Q&As of five films where the film's director will be joined by a subject/regional expert relevant to the film. Filmmakers of Mumbai is this year's featured city. And the Festival brings in a NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) jury to award the best Asian film of a first or second-time feature director.
The Americana Music Conference in Nashville features panels, seminars and other avenues of learning, presenting an educational music industry forum. The event covers the interests and needs of artists, managers, labels, radio stations, publishers, agents, promoters, retailers, legal and business affairs executives, merchandisers and new media professionals. At this time, the awards show is sold out. The purchase of a conference registration will place you on a waiting list for one ticket to the Americana Honors and Awards show. The show does not guarantee anyone a ticket. Badges will, however, provide access to all sanctioned daytime conference music, panels and parties, plus priority access to all evening showcase performances. Americana is music that honors and is derived from the traditions of American roots music. It is music inspired by American culture traditions which is not only represented in classic man made, roots based sounds, but also through new and contemporary artists whose music is clearly inspired by these great traditions. The event patron -- The Americana Music Association -- is a professional trade organization whose mission is to provide a forum for the advocacy of Americana music and to promote public awareness of the genre. Pre-conference reception opening, €A Taste of Australia€, at the Bluebird Cafe on September 11 and closing event Stagemothers presents The Aussie BBQ, September 16.
In its fifth year, with 12 film categories and a 10,000 production award, Limelight is paving the way in identifying emerging British film makers. The East London event is an extension of Limelight Film Awards, which is the annual red carpet short
Guest article by New York Film Academy Staff
The performing arts - acting, dance, music - like all art forms are subjective in their definition. It's hard to describe what art is in any context, and for actors on stage and film there may never be a single standard of what is good or great.
But we can look at some standard definitions of art to begin to understand what constitutes great acting. Thespis of Icaria in ancient Greece - from whom comes the word thespian - is regarded to be the first actor. Before him, a chorus was engaged to tell the story on stage, but in one performance Thespis stepped out of the group to speak alone. From that moment, skills in vocal projection, physical expression and an emotional facility, born of imagination, came to define the actor.
Audiences clearly have approved, all these thousands of years later. Entertainment by way of the performing arts is one of the world's largest industries, a melding of art and commerce that has no commercial equal. Because of this commercial driver in entertainment, anyone pursuing a career in any role within the theatrical arts - not just actors but directors, editors, costume designers, makeup artists (roll the credits - the list is extensive) - has to keep in mind both the art and the commercial components of the whole package. Without an audience, the art is of lesser [monetary] value.
Glenn Kalison, chair of the Acting Department at the New York Film Academy's (NYFA) Acting School, speaks about this as the "actor's dilemma." He discusses the comprehensive art of storytelling through film as necessarily a collaboration of many players: "Storytelling, such as that involved in filmmaking, involves trust that many independently moving parts are being guided to a common end that serves a story."
By this, Kalison explains how the actor is taught to access his or her own emotions in order to play a character. But the actor must necessarily communicate something to an audience. He tells students, "What you feel and what others see are two very different things. This is often a confusing point for beginning actors who insist that they felt the appropriate emotion response for a given scene - but we didn't see it!" Only when that trust in the other "moving parts" - production designers, cinematographers, audio engineers, gaffers, grips, screenwriters and of course, directors - influences the actor's performance is the storytelling successful. "Good actors know the difference," he notes.
Put another way, the character in a moving soliloquy (think Hamlet, Macbeth or Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby") may appear to be completely alone in the world. But there are at least 100 other people involved in making that scene happen, putting it in front of an audience and truly making it work. It's always collaboration - as Thespis, who really was part of a chorus, may have known all along.
NYFA has campuses and courses in New York, Orlando, Los Angeles, Beijing, Paris, Florence and Sydney, among other locations, as well as its film school online. Students can take individual workshops or enroll in one- and two-year Conservatory programs or Associates, Bachelor's and Master's degree programs.
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The annual International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) event for professionals involved with the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide, opens in Amsterdam, running till September 11. This year's conference keynote delivered by will.i.am of band Black Eyed Peas, will be about creativity and technology, delivered in his ceremonial capacity as Intel's Director of Creative Innovation. The conference presents the best of technology for all professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and media content worldwide, including the latest 3D rigs, integrated cameras, streaming video services and cloud based production. There is once again expected to be IBC Connected World, an exhibit for anyone needing to understand the impact of wired and wireless broadband on the industry, and the IBC Production Village, a unique chance to experience first hand the latest digital imaging equipment in front of a fully-specced professional studio set.
There are expected to be free 2K, 4K and stereoscopic 3D demonstrations at the IBC Big Screen, and a convention-wide invite to attend the IBC Awards, a gala event celebrating industry achievement. The IBC Production Village is fashioned after a professional standard studio set with a host of the latest technology to explore, including: sinaCam Camera Head HDC-1-CAM, 3D Rig, Digital Film Camera, 16mm, GY-HM790E Camera and GY-HM600E Camera, Canon XF305 and Canon EOS 5D MkIII, more. The Future Zone provides a glimpse into the future of tomorrow's electronic media with a collection of concepts and prototypes that exist only in the world's leading broadcast research and development labs, or as academic papers, until they are demonstrated at IBC.
Founded in 1976, and highly regarded and anticipated with a reputation and ability to generate "Oscar-buzz", the Toronto International Film Festival opens the Thursday night after Labour Day (the first Monday in September in Canada), lasting for eleven days, or September 16. The Oprah Winfrey produced 'Precious', which won the 2009 People's Choice Award at the festival, went on to win two Oscars at the 82nd Academy Awards while The 'King's Speech', the winner of the 2010 People's Choice Award at the festival won four Oscars at the 83rd Academy Awards. In 2010 TIFF opened a new headquarters at the intersection of King Street and John Street, in a facility called the Bell Lightbox. The facility provides extensive year-round galleries, cinemas, archives and activities for cinephiles. New this year, the Festival is partnering with the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs to offer extended Q&As of five films where the film's director will be joined by a subject/regional expert relevant to the film. Filmmakers of Mumbai is this year's featured city. And the Festival brings in a NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) jury to award the best Asian film of a first or second-time feature director.
The Americana Music Conference in Nashville features panels, seminars and other avenues of learning, presenting an educational music industry forum. The event covers the interests and needs of artists, managers, labels, radio stations, publishers, agents, promoters, retailers, legal and business affairs executives, merchandisers and new media professionals. At this time, the awards show is sold out. The purchase of a conference registration will place you on a waiting list for one ticket to the Americana Honors and Awards show. The show does not guarantee anyone a ticket. Badges will, however, provide access to all sanctioned daytime conference music, panels and parties, plus priority access to all evening showcase performances. Americana is music that honors and is derived from the traditions of American roots music. It is music inspired by American culture traditions which is not only represented in classic man made, roots based sounds, but also through new and contemporary artists whose music is clearly inspired by these great traditions. The event patron -- The Americana Music Association -- is a professional trade organization whose mission is to provide a forum for the advocacy of Americana music and to promote public awareness of the genre. Pre-conference reception opening, €A Taste of Australia€, at the Bluebird Cafe on September 11 and closing event Stagemothers presents The Aussie BBQ, September 16.
In its fifth year, with 12 film categories and a 10,000 production award, Limelight is paving the way in identifying emerging British film makers. The East London event is an extension of Limelight Film Awards, which is the annual red carpet short
