ACTING or Filmmaking Mentorship - PRIVATE COACHING
Through this one-on-one mentorship program, students will gain the confidence of telling stories with vital themes to their generation honestly on-screen. Jennifer will tailor each session to your specific needs and goals for your career.
Testimonials
““As a young actress working with Jennifer O’Grady was amazing! She really takes time to get to know her students and how she can help them achieve in the arts. She is very knowledgeable in the world of TV and Film Production, she can really help make a good actor, performer, director and more!”
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““I took classes in film and screen-acting with Jennifer from the age of 11-13 in middle school. These classes really taught me how to put myself out there in a time when I needed help learning how to express myself. I can’t emphasize enough how helpful Jennifer’s classes were. She is a very easy person to learn from. In just one class it becomes very clear that her attitude is to help inspire as much growth in performers as possible. Thanks to her help, I will be studying Drama at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. With the help of her classes, I was able to become a better performer.
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““When I was in high school, I took a screen-acting class to be able to learn more about what I wanted to do and be able to let go from the stress of school. By the end of it, I had learned so much more than I ever expected all because of my teacher, Ms. Jen. She opened my eyes to what being an actress was really like and how you should follow your dreams no matter what. She was also honest with us, which was very important to me. Every time I look back on my experience with Ms. Jen, I am always so glad I decided to take that screen-acting class and had gotten the opportunity to learn from such an inspiring woman.”
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“...We decided that this new interest behind the camera would benefit from him taking lessons in front of the camera. There was an acting school near our home, that’s where we met Miss Jen, our son Colt was about to be transformed. He made friends, real life friends, not virtual gaming friends. Miss Jen was a great role model for him, he was 15 and now in a situation where he could not be his shy self. Shyness brought on by the medication. He began taking an interest in acting, in a few short months our son was a different kid. He signed up for the play Bye Bye Birdie in high school. Performing in front of an audience, singing and dancing. He was not a lead role but became pretty influential in producing, directing, and filming a behind the scenes short film.
Today Colt is in college, studying film making. He has taught himself how to play a variety of musical instruments and developed a talent for singing, all thanks to Miss Jen, I couldn’t just write a nice letter for her because her help with Colt was so transforming. She is truly an inspiration. Colt had friends in high school that had also taken her classes and would routinely comment their wonderful memories and experience with Miss Jen, we concurred every time.”
PAST WORKSHOP EXPERIENCES
Screenwriting : The Significance of Storytelling
Time & Location
Feb 06, 2022, 1:00 PM EST – Mar 20, 2022, 4:00 PM EDT
Via ZOOM
About the event
In this intensive you will learn the step by step approach to visual storytelling from the initial concept to formatting your idea on the page successfully. You will also discover the professional story structures, the characters voice through dialogue, conflict and resolution and editing your script to achieve the perfected draft. This will take the students through the process for a screenplay of 15-20 pages for an entire short film, ready for the next phases of this filmmaking curriculum, which also includes other 5-week intensives on Directing and Producing.
Screen Acting Mentorishp Workshop at RED Digital Cinema Miami
Join us for a creative workshop of mentorship at RED DIGITAL CINEMA in the heart of the Arts District, Wynwood Miami, where we will breakdown barriers to allow your creative imagination to shine in front of the camera! Students will gain the confidence of telling stories honestly on-screen. Each teen will perform their own true-to-life scene to be filmed and screened!
Workshop will cover:
What I Convey and Portray - On-Screen and Off
‘I AM’ Discovery - My Voice vs the Voice of the Character
Interior - form character
Exterior - reveal character
Character Objectives - What is your GOAL
Flaw to Strength
Creating the moment
Beginning, middle, and end of the scene
Give and build with your acting partner
Listening & Responding
Give & Take Energy
Confidence in Casting
Staying in the moment on-camera and on-set
Working together with the director & crew
RED Camera Demonstration "REDucation"
Rehearse & Film each actors True Moment Vignettes
Viewing - with positive, constructive criticism from peers
Making your mark in the industry
Screen Acting & Casting Workshop at Dance Through the Ages
This workshop is not only a creative outlet, but real preparation; Film and TV industry training. A place for breaking down barriers and allowing their creative imagination to shine in front of the camera. Students will gain an understanding that screen acting is not merely performing but rather listening and reacting. They will learn the values of preparation, being, auditioning/casting, acting-on-camera, industry terms, on-set behavior and truly becoming the character.
THE FOUNDATION
Jennifer Joy O'Grady has over eight years of professional experience teaching and training young children, teens to young adults in Acting for TV & Film, Acting for Stage, Screenwriting and Film Production. Jennifer earned her BA in Cinema and Television (Screen Acting Track) at Palm Beach Atlantic University.