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New York University Tisch School of the Arts offers professional training in acting, musical theatre, filmmaking, photography and imaging, dramatic writing and recorded music to current high school sophomores and juniors (rising juniors and rising seniors) during the summer. Students earn six college credits in the four-week residential program in New York City and Dublin. Need-based scholarships are available. Applications are due no later than February 6, 2012.

Acting
The acting program offers conservatory training (28 hours each week). Students train with one of four professional acting studios—the New Studio Music Theatre, New Studio Summer Acting, the Experimental Theatre Wing, or the Stonestreet Acting Workshop.

Classes at the New Studio: Music Theatre includes acting, vocal music, performance, dance, and speech training at the New Studio Summer Acting includes acting, voice, speech, movement, play analysis, and acting for the camera. 

In the Experimental Theatre Wing, students train in contact improvisation, character-based scene work, singing and extended vocal technique, and approaches to creating original work.

The Stonestreet Acting Workshop focuses on screen acting. Workshop classes include screen acting and character, multi-camera screen acting, improvisation and comedy, and voice-overs.

In Dublin, students will be immersed in the performance style and theatrical tradition of Irish storytelling. Students’ training is based on the techniques of Konstantin Stanislavsky and Jerzy Grotowski.

Film and Television
This workshop introduces students to the theory and techniques of developing and producing narrative or documentary projects shot on digital video and edited digitally on a computer with Final Cut Pro. Students work in crews of four to develop directing, shooting, and editing skills as they produce music videos and short videos (three to five minutes in length). In addition, students attend lectures, seminars, and screenings, as well as discussions with industry professionals. Students also learn the basics of screenwriting.

The same filmmaker’s workshop is also offered in Dublin.

Photography
The program in photography and imaging focuses on using photo-based image making for communication, creative expression, and personal exploration. The program is for beginning and advanced students and consists of a rigorous combination of darkroom work; cultural, technical, and historical lectures; critiques of student work; and visits to gallery exhibitions and photographers’ studios.

Students receive an introduction to 35 mm manual cameras, proper black-and-white film exposure, and darkroom printing, as well as color slide film, scanning, basic Photoshop, and digital color printing. Work is exhibited at Tisch galleries and community settings.

Dramatic Writing
Students are introduced to the exciting world of dramatized storytelling through playwriting and screenwriting. Through workshop sessions, students write a partial scripting of a full-length screenplay and complete a 10-minute play. Students are also immersed in the fundamentals of dramatic structure through lecture and discussions, readings of classic plays and screenplays, as well as screenings of movies and important theatrical productions. Student monologues are directed and acted by professional directors and actors.

Recorded Music
Students take two classes: Introduction to Music Business and Fundamentals of Music Production. In these courses students study how music is recorded, produced and distributed to consumers. Students will receive technical training in the audio workstation lab and also learn how music companies are conceptualized, created and grown as well as how new technologies are changing the way we hear music.

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