Beginner Acting

Screen Acting Techniques: Finding Your Frame

Explore the fundamental elements of screen performance and create believable and authentic characters.

Screen Acting Techniques: Finding Your Frame

Course Fee

$725 $653

Duration

5 days, 30 hours

Age Requirements

18+

Screen Acting Techniques: Finding Your Frame (22 February 2026)

Kensington

Feb 22, 2026 - Mar 22, 2026

$725
$653
Sessions
DateTime
22 February 202610:00 AM - 1:15 PM AEDT
22 February 20262:00 PM - 5:00 PM AEDT
1 March 202610:00 AM - 1:15 PM AEDT
1 March 20262:00 PM - 5:00 PM AEDT
8 March 202610:00 AM - 1:15 PM AEDT
8 March 20262:00 PM - 5:00 PM AEDT
15 March 202610:00 AM - 1:15 PM AEDT
15 March 20262:00 PM - 5:00 PM AEDT
22 March 202610:00 AM - 1:15 PM AEDT
22 March 20262:00 PM - 5:00 PM AEDT

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Screen Acting Techniques: Finding Your Frame

Overview

Jumpstart your screen acting journey with NIDA Open. Explore the fundamental elements of screen performance and create believable and authentic characters. Apply the basics of the Stanislavski system of acting and engage in the technical demands of screen as you rehearse and shoot scenes from film and television.   

Components  

  • Explore fundamental acting skills in voice, physicality and improvisation for the screen.   
  • Introduction to script analysis and character development.   
  • Explore the importance of camera angles, eyelines, and marks. 

Prerequisite 

This course is classified as Beginner.

NIDA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we learn and tell stories, the Bidjigal, Gadigal, Dharawal and Dharug peoples, and we pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present.