2-Day On-Camera Intensive Commercial Workshop

 

Instructed by Janet Milstein, award-winning Acting Coach & best-selling Author!

 

2 Consecutive Saturdays 10am - 2:30pm

Located at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts

777 N. Green Street Chicago, IL 60622

 

Janet B. Milstein has continually coached actors that get cast in film, theater, commercials, industrials, voice-over, and commercial print in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and more!

 

Here are just a few of her student's successes:

FILM:  Stranger Than Fiction, The Break-up, Payback starring Mel Gibson, The Even Stevens Movie, Barber Shop, Barber Shop 2, Soul Food, Chain Reaction starring Keanu Reeves, Just Visiting starring Christina Applegate, One Missed Call starring Edward Burns, The Last Airbender, An American Crime, Blood Deep, Codename: Simon, Malibu's Most Wanted, Serenity,  Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy, The Brotherhood, Mrs. Hobbes' House, Awaken the Dead, Beyond the Soul, Roll, Bounce, Let's Go to Prison, Cover, Chicago Heights, Converging with Angels, RiffRaff, The European Kid, Iris, The Kari Files, Power Singles, Not Scene, The Turndown, Beyond the Soul, Playing Dress-up, Jaded, The New Detective, Pirates, Last Stop, Iodine Ink, Fallen, Turtle, The Big Fish Story, Rough Start, Parallel, Happily After, Two Days in Limbo, Henchmen: At Dr. Death’s Door, and more!

 

TV: Even Stevens, One Tree Hill, One Life to Live, Gilmore Girls, Carnivàle, Web Girl, Timeless: Live in Concert (starring Barbra Streisand), Habla más, The Giggle Club, Prison Break, ER, Roaring 20’s, and more!

 

Commercials: McDonald's, Pepsi, Bounty Paper Towel, Chevrolet, Miller Light, Harris Bank, Footlocker, Jordan’s, State Farm, PSP, U.S. Cellular, Toys R' Us, Virgin Mobile, Denny's Restaurant, Bright Start College Savings Fund, Time Life, Ms. Mary's Restaurant and more!
                

Theatre: The Goodman Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens, Chicago Dramatists, Raven, A Red Orchid Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Second City, The Chicago Theater, Stage Left Theatre, The Artistic Home, Bailiwick Repertory, Teatro Luna, The Birmingham Children's Stockyards Theatre Co, Free Associates, Steep Theatre Co, Sandhill Theatre Co, Village Players, Oak Park Festival Theater, Hubris Productions, The Side Project and more!

Voice-over: McDonald's, Cellular One, Com Ed and more!

 

Commercial/Fashion Print: McDonald's, Sears “Canyon River Blue Jeans”, JC Penney, JC Penney Bridal, Abercrombie & Fitch, Coca Cola, DeVry, Triton College, CNA Insurance, Man Alive, Real Faith in Life Magazine, Hamricks, Proffitt's Department Store, American Girl, Otis Spunkmeyer, Illinois Lotto, .

 

Schools for Acting: DePaul, Loyola University, Columbia College, USC, Miami University, The Chicago Academy for the Arts, William Esper Studio (NYC), University of Iowa, The American Academy for Dramatic Arts, Iowa State University and more!

The Workshop will cover:

- The different types of commercials

   (MOS, Tag Line, One-liners, Dialogue, etc.)

- Slating

- Tips on working with the camera

- Breaking down the copy

- Making strong choices

- Opening actions

- Cold reading tips

Students will:

- Participate in mock auditions with different types of copy.

- Learn how to choose a strong opening action, "other", and problem that the product

  solves.

- Work on their slating.

- Break down copy

- Receive feedback on the impression they make "entering the room."

- Receive feedback on how they handle direction given in mock auditions.

- Leave with an on-camera audition technique they can use for all commercial

  auditions.

Students will receive 8 hours of training:

4 hours on each of the 2 consecutive Saturdays

We will meet from 10am - 2:30pm both days.

Students may want to pack a lunch. There will be a 30-minute lunch break both days.  

 

Please Contact Janet to reserve a seat at the next Workshop. 

 

Contact Janet to Sign up for the next Workshop. 

LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE!

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