101 Teacher Training - Week 4

Welcome to Week 4. You’ve made it through the first month. Congrats!

Same as always for homework, except you can be as picky as possible. Their work should start looking really good. Outside of editing, they will have had three weeks with all of the basics. This is also the week we have two self-tapes. For week 4, I only evaluate the assigned self-tape on the Excel spreadsheet, since the other one is optional. For those who do the optional self-tape, I will do a quick written review, mainly focusing on if they found creative solutions and if it hits the Golden Rule (we can see and hear them). This is also the week where we introduce an industry professional to provide the side and to review the early submissions. All month, we’ve been building toward this lesson: early submissions have a distinct apples-to-oranges advantage.

Only review their best take, but also feel free to give acting notes. While the 101 is solely focused on the technical side of self-tape, I will start to focus on story and acting stuff this week.

Any questions? If so email me at scott@talktothecamera.com or call me at 310-499-8037. Let’s get started on your homework.

Click on this LINK to see the Self-Tape 101 homework page.

  1. Click on this LINK to see the week 4 self tapes from our students. This week there are three X-Factor students, including Cameron. The other two show nice improvement and are clicking with their setup, although differently. (Please note, that I was buried for time this week, so their “written” evaluation is “verbal.”)

  2. Click on this LINK to see the week 4 surprise self-tapes. Notice the three X-Factor students. Do not fill out an Excel sheet for them, but do give them a written evaluation based on if they found creative solutions that help them hit the “Golden Rule”

  3. Get your blank Excel and Word documents to do your evaluations and your cheat-sheets to use as you need.

  4. Click on this LINK to watch Week 4 of the October 2021 Zoom workshop.

  5. Email me your evaluations at scott@talktothecamera.com by 6pm (LA time) two days before our class.