PSYCHOLOGY OF ACTING

From character development through on-camera execution — with finished material to show for it. Directed by a 20 year production veteran and team.

The Objective

Actors need more than craft. They need content, presence and an audience. This starts with character.

Building off the Psychology of Acting class we start with character — Who the person is, what drives them, what they're afraid of, what they're hiding. Actors come in and build their characters from the ground up with the guidance of Aaron's techniques as a 20 year veteran of direction and acting — Once those characters are fully developed, the series gets written around them. Aaron takes what came out of that process and writes the project based on the characters that were actually built in the room. Weaving them into a phycological thriller.

Building off the Psychology of Acting class we start with character — Who the person is, what drives them, what they're afraid of, what they're hiding. Actors come in and build their characters from the ground up with the guidance of Aaron's techniques as a 20 year veteran of direction and acting — Once those characters are fully developed, the series gets written around them. Aaron takes what came out of that process and writes the project based on the characters that were actually built in the room. Weaving them into a phycological thriller.

The Phases

01.

psychology

02.

Character

Building

03.

acting for

camera

04.

final

production

What You Walk Away With

01.

2 scenes

(3-5 min)

02.

short-form

03.

vertical cuts

04.

16:9 Cut

05.

character

secrets

06.

distributed

work

The Series

Dark . character driven . edgy

The production is set in the world of the Ozarks, dark in tone and grounded in character. All the characters built in the room get woven together into the same world. Aaron directs and writes it based on what actually came out of the development process.

Rules:

The way this is set up is actors will be contracted under Sag new media – deferred, this way if this project makes profits at some point the actors will not only receive the footage but get paid for the work. The objective is to make this as fair as possible while introducing a new way of getting actors noticed and with footage in hand.

Why This Matters

Vertical content is where audiences get built right now and building an audience is increasingly how actors get cast. The goal is to train actors and get eyes on them at the same time.

I've watched incredibly talented actors sit in development for years and never break through — not because they weren't ready, but because nobody could see their work. And now the bar is even higher. Casting isn't just watching your tape anymore. They're looking at whether you have an audience, whether people follow your work, whether you exist beyond the audition room. It's the attention economy playing out – I've been on enough sets and in enough casting conversations to know that the actors who move are the ones who are already visible. So we built a system that puts you in position. You develop a real character from the ground up, that character gets placed into a real production, and the content that comes out of it gets distributed. You leave with footage that reflects who you actually are as an actor right now — and you leave with the kind of material that gives you something to build on.


-Aaron Marciniak

I've watched incredibly talented actors sit in development for years and never break through — not because they weren't ready, but because nobody could see their work. And now the bar is even higher. Casting isn't just watching your tape anymore. They're looking at whether you have an audience, whether people follow your work, whether you exist beyond the audition room. It's the attention economy playing out – I've been on enough sets and in enough casting conversations to know that the actors who move are the ones who are already visible. So we built a system that puts you in position. You develop a real character from the ground up, that character gets placed into a real production, and the content that comes out of it gets distributed. You leave with footage that reflects who you actually are as an actor right now — and you leave with the kind of material that gives you something to build on.


-Aaron Marciniak

The Commitment

$500/month

4-6 months (only 10 seats at a time)

Classes begin online and run through the full development process before moving to the Midwest for shoot days. The cycle runs six months, paid in monthly installments, and doesn't begin until all seats are filled and committed (reserved by down payment). $500 a month is the introductory price for the first cycle.

Cycle now open. Start the seat reservation process here

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