Screen Acting Course
Inhabiting the Role: Deepen Your Character for Camera
When
Suitable For
Times
Thursday: 9.30am – 5.30pm
Friday: 10.30am-1.30pm
Key Skill
About This Course
What Happens On The Course?
10.30am – 5.30pm
Mel begins by exploring who you are as an individual performer and what makes you naturally compelling on camera.
You will work on:
- Identifying your unique screen presence
- Bringing your own energy and instincts into a role
- Understanding the difference between your essential self and the learnt text
- Creating performances that feel truthful, alive and authentic
- An individual on-screen session with Mel
10.30am – 5.30pm
Filming continues from Day 1 before moving into practical rehearsal methods for building a richer inner life for screen performance.
You will explore:
- Breathing work for presence and emotional access
- Improvisation techniques
- Psychological gestures
- Physical metaphor
- Mel Churcher’s Elemental Metaphors approach
- Practical tools for preparing screen roles
- Scene allocation for the following filming days
10.30am – 5.30pm
The focus shifts to screen scene study, helping actors deepen character, relationship and emotional truth on camera.
You will work on:
- Building believable character relationships
- Applying technique to scripted scene work
- Playback and reflection
- Self-taping technique
- Audition preparation and screen casting tips
- Confidence, spontaneity and freedom on camera
9.30am – 5.30pm
Participants film the scenes developed throughout the course in a professional screen environment.
You will apply:
- Character work
- Rehearsal techniques
- On-camera performance skills
- Direction and adjustment
- Screen acting craft in a filmed scene setting
10.30am-1.30pm
The final morning is dedicated to watching the filmed scenes together, followed by feedback and reflection.
The morning includes:
- Screening of all filmed scenes
- Constructive feedback from Mel
- Group discussion
- Q&A on screen acting craft, preparation and the industry
- Final reflections on your development across the course
What You'll Love
Course Location
Your Tutor
Mel Churcher
A-List Acting Coach
Mel Churcher is one of the world’s leading Acting and Dialogue Coaches for Film & TV, with a career spanning decades across screen, stage and actor training.
She has worked with acclaimed actors including:
- Daisy Edgar-Jones — War of the Worlds
- Michelle Yeoh — The Lady
- Daniel Craig and Angelina Jolie — Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
- Jet Li — Unleashed
- Keira Knightley — The Hole, King Arthur
- Henry Cavill — The Count of Monte Cristo
- Sam Riley — Control
Her work also spans major theatre institutions including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Young Vic, Manchester Royal Exchange, Birmingham Rep, The Royal Court Theatre and Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, where she served as Head of Voice and Text for twelve years.
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When
Suitable For
Times
Thursday: 9.30am – 5.30pm
Friday: 10.30am-1.30pm
What You'll Love
£780
Earn 40 Points From This Course
To be eligible to apply for Spotlight, Actors Studio operates an internal 500-point curriculum system.
Please note: this point system is an independent training framework developed by Actors Studio and is not a formal requirement set by Spotlight.
Students are required to accumulate 500 points through participation in our courses in order to complete the training pathway required to support a Spotlight membership application. Each course is assigned a specific point value, and courses may be repeated to build additional credits.
Once 500 points have been achieved, students will have completed the training track required to submit their Spotlight application.
