NU-CLEAR PITCH (Voice Production)
Throughout this course, participants will learn the importance of projection, articulation and modulation thus building confidence and improving speech.
BREATHING & PROJECTION
Projection is the voices carring power. The strength and control of the participants breathing muscles affects how the voice is focused and how the vocal power is released. most important point is to be heard when speaking. By implementing activities that focus on voice projection and breathing through the diaphram, correctly, participants voices will be heard, their breathing will flow smoothly and confidence will set in.
ARTICULATION
Articulation require sounds which are shaped, expression, clarity and speech. Participants will be taught how to speak clearly, deliver dialogue in a significant and emotional sense and work on oral speaking by using their articulators effectively.
MODULATION
The modulation of the voice is tone, pitch and volume, varying the projection, pace, pitch, variety and resonance of the voice. It also involves pausing and emphasis to convey the meaning and mood of the text. Working on exercises that cover these points, participants will enhance variation and character to the dialogue they deliver.
COMMUNICATION
Verbal and physical communication exercises are encouraged so participants can understand the difference between verbal and physical, building confidence and converse comfortably with others.
SPEECH AND PRODUCTION
In the final class, participants perform oral speaking with news articles they have been working on throughout the course. Focusing on all aspects they have been taught, after performances participants will receive critique cards and certificates of completion.
STAR-IMPROS
This class is designed for participants to use their creative mind, be quick witted and work as a team when placed under a short time frame. This high energy class focuses soley on improvisation games and has few boundries to enable students to express themselves freely.
CONFIDENCE BUILDING
Confidence is an asset in all aspects of a persons life. This course will enhance skills such as communication, presentation and team building.
COMMUNICATION - Verbal and physical communication exercises are encouraged so participants can understand the difference between verbal and physical, build confidence and converse comfortably with others.
PRESENTATION – Appearance plays another significant role when working with confidence. Attire, eye contact and posture are put into practice to reinforce their importance and have participants using these points in their everyday life.
TEAM BUILDING - Understanding team work makes a happier working and studying environment, builds confidence, participation, communication and trust. Improvisation games are added to this syllabus not only to cover the advantages that team building has to offer –
but also assist with believing in ones self, being witty and knowing how to deal with pressure.
SCRIPT WORK & HOT SEATING
This course is implimented to improve participants presentation, marketing and networking skills. Although very effective in business, this technique is mostly used in acting, to understand your character fully. (History, family, location, age and otherwise) Hot Seating is a great way to further develop your spontaneity and take you out of your comfort zone. It also helps to erase those gaps some of us love to fill in with words such as “Um and Ah”.
SCRIPT WORK 1 - Working with a script, students will have a full understanding of dialogue delivery, script interpretaion, visualisation and creating their own legend (notes) to work on punctuation.
HOT SEATING 2 - Hot seating is added to this course to assist students to get into their characters fully, deliver answers effectively and handle challenging situations in characterisation and life in general through a confident and effective manner.
SCRIPT WORK 1 – Understanding presentation, marketing and networking – script work is structured to integrate all three and allow participants to explore on their own level. Participants will be looking at ways of marketing themselves, networking, writing, preparing, delivering, and performing the material they produce thus giving them a full understanding of how preperation, presentation and delivery of dialogue can help make any career choice.
HOT SEATING 2 - Before you can market and present yourself you need to know about yourself – who you are? What you do? How you can assist? How you can make a difference? and so on.. Hot seating is added to this course to see how much you really know about yourself. We are all aware of who we are, though when we are asked these questions, how do we deliver the answers? Hot seating will help participants answer questions in a professional, confident manner and handle challenging situations.
STAR-TRO
In this workshop, participants will be given the opportunity to explore the basic elements that drama has to offer.
ICE BREAKERS - Encouraging physical interaction and team work, this is a great way to start breaking barriers and insecurities.
STAR IMPROS - will mentally and physically stimulate students by exploring creativity, eloquence and team building.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS - Training students to interact with different personalities, avoiding confrontation and building oral confidence
Play Building: Self devised theatre, intergrating all the above skills leading to an in class presentation.
STAR-TRO 2
Being an expansion of our introductory workshop, STARTRO 2 will give a further insight of the following: Building confidence, improvisation, role playing, voice production, expression, movement, characterisation and communication.
STAR-CLUB
Depending on chosen time frame STARCLUB takes a further insight of what may be known as the “Book of the week” Or “Book of the month”. Stargate staff dissect the books storyline and characters to create an enjoyable atmosphere for students to use their creativity whilst learning.
This is broken down into stages :
- Group session of reading.
- Discussing the storyline and creating ideas
- Character focus and storyline.
- Performing in class
This is great fun and encourages students to enhance their creativite mind when reading books.
STAR-DAY
Being an expansion of our introductory workshop, STAR-DAY will give a further insight of the following: Building confidence, improvisation, role playing, voice production, expression, movement, characterisation and communication.
STAR-X
Cross Curricular Drama. A syllabus is created to suit all areas of the curricullum. Examples: History, Science, English etc. Drama will be used as a tool to reinforce students understanding of the topic. Some examples, Vicious vikings, What’s the true story behind Breaker Morant, human body-germ warfare, Book Studies- Was Humpty Dumpty pushed? And much more… Our Stargate team can also provide follow-up ideas from each drama session.
TRESTLE MASKS
Trestle masks are used in this 2 hour workshop to teach participants the physical and visual apects of acting. Illusion is of primary importance in mask work. Students must enable the audience to forget the actor through the creation of the convincing character. Learning the points below, students are able to create characters and expand their knowlegde whilst having fun!
BREATHING – Students will be taught the technique of how to breath through a mask. This is very important to avoid feeling of closuphobia or unconfortableness.
CREATION OF THE MASK – Making sure the mask look as realistic as possible when it is on. (ie: Bringing hair forward to cover edges, making sure that the actors eyes aren’t seen through the mask; this breaks the illusion)
MASKS WITH EXPRESSION – All tressle masks have a form of expression, students are taught how to work with that expression by focusing on movement to suit the character.
IN REVERSE – Students will work with the masks in creating different expressions of movement behind the masks given. (ie: A student given a happy tressle mask will learn how to express sadness to change the whole image of the character.
FOCUS– The mask has it’s own line of focus. This will differ with each student depending on hieght and face. Students will learn how to find their focus point. STAR-M&M
Mime and Movement take participants to a special field that the arts have to offer. This is fantastic for concentration and observation. Mainly looking at movement and technique, students are encouraged to build a characters storyline without the use of dialogue. Participants perform at end of class.
STAR-PIX
This term course finely selects a number of issues from in “The Learning Arts Statement”. Over the term students will be provided with opportunities to explore and connect the four learning outcomes of the arts, (Arts ideas, skills and processes, responses and arts in society). Star-pix syllabus is as follows on a weekly basis:
- Building The Bond – Team building and games, including Parachute games
- Menagarie Of Methods – Techniques and skills
- Sense Of Stage – Stage Direction
- Montag’e Of Movement – Movement and coordination
- Varying Our Voices – Voice Production
- Beating The Bullies – Bullying
- How About Health – Health issues
- Understand And Unite – Family
- Coping And Control – Peer pressure
- Natures Nasties – Environment
Please Note: Any selected issue can be expanded to deliver a full term of learning. We can gladly create a syllabus to suit your schools needs.
STAR-DEL
Participants will be taught the important elements of dialogue delivery. Teaching voice, clarity and projection to name a few, this workshop will make the less confident student be heard.
PHYSICAL THEATRE
As a basic introduction to Physical Theatre –participants will experiment characterisation and movement with music. Great for the creative mind and learning process.
STAR-PRO
Star-pro fully focuses on School Productions. Students are given one hour of the week for a ten-week period where Stargate Actors Academy works with the students to bring forward an end of term performance. The production can be generated through the schools curriculum OR Stargate Actors Academy.
- Vocal Production and Breathing Technique
- Improvisation
- Script Work and Hot Seating
- Role Play
- Expression (Emotional Recall)
- Movement (Physical Theatre)
- Characterisation
- Dialogue Delivery
- Performance
FACE 2 FACE (MASK COURSE 2)
As an expansion of our Trestle Mask course, Face 2 Face is a 20 week course which will encourage students to explore their creative mind and experience a new face. This course entails:
- Making masks
- Working with masks learning technique and movement
- Written and performed monologue/grading
- End of production performance
SCRIPT INTERPRETATION
This eye opening workshop shows how one script can be portrayed in so many different ways. In groups, participants will be encouraged to use their own creativity by performing a scripted piece how they perceive it to be.
PLEASE NOTE:
Stargate have stated the minimum time frame in the description of some headings. If you wish to expand the class time - we would be more than happy share more of our knowledge and implement that to the package.
For more information please contact Sharon on 0417 966 637, (08) 9317 4282 alternatively you can email sharon@star-gate.com.au
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