CASTING MASTERCLASS WITH DAVE NEWMAN FROM MCSWEENEY NEWMAN CASTING
What you will get:
This class will explore every aspect of self taping, helping you to embrace the opportunity to take control of your audition, reduce stress levels, and ideally help empower actors in the process.
This is an exclusive opportunity to work with Dave in a one full day intensive casting workshop, show him your skills, and learn from one of the most approachable and experienced Casting Directors in the business!
Dave will share insights into the casting process, while simulating a mock audition environment. Dave will provide feedback on your performance, giving you tips and tricks that can help you nail your next audition and answer any burning questions you may have about the industry, casting, and performance.
DETAILS
DATE: 2024 DATES TBA
TIME: 10am - 4pm
WHERE: Bondi Junction
CLASS SIZE: 14 participants
COST: $250 +GST
Acting Mastery is proud to have Dave Newman from McSweeney Newman Casting, to teach his Self-Tape Casting Masterclass!
Over the years, Dave Newman has received many thousands of self-taped auditions – the good, the bad, the ugly and the truly amazing. With so much experience in the Casting Office, Dave knows that great acting happens when it is real, messy, and unplanned!
David has worked in various aspects of the industry for the last 30 years, the last 20 years in casting, including 7 years working with Christine King Casting. Having started his casting career with hundreds of commercial projects he then progressed to work on some of the biggest and most successful feature film & long-form drama projects to shoot in Australia.
He spent 15 months as the Australian Casting Associate on 'The Pacific' (Stephen Spielberg, Tom Hanks, HBO), scoured the country and personally conducting well over 3000 auditions on this project alone. 'The Pacific' won the 2010 Emmy award for Outstanding Casting for a Mini Series, Movie or Special – Dave calls The Pacific his ‘degree in casting’. Dave has been honoured to represent his peers as the President of the Casting Guild of Australia since 2020.
When approaching a self taped audition, the thought process can be overwhelming:
- What do they want?
- Where should I pitch it?
- What should my production values be?
- What if I can’t find a pro actor to read with me?
- They want it in how many days?
- What should I wear?
- Is it good enough?
- What should the background be?
- Should I re-tape it?
- Are the files too big?
- How do I choose which takes to send?
In this class, Dave will address all of these concerns and more, where each student will be given a scene to film in a self-tape environment.
It is the aim of this workshop to reduce the stress surrounding self taped auditions and ultimately encourage the actors to take full advantage of the opportunity, become empowered in the process, and actually enjoy doing a self tape.
