Be a Pro
Learn your Craft
Be the best
Version of YOU
HOLLYWOOD MASTER CLASS
based in Cape Town, ZA
“ACTING IS LIVING TRUTHFULLY IN IMAGINARY CIRCUMSTANCES.”
- SANFORD MEISNER
"THE TRUTH WINS."
- D. DAVID MORIN
TEAM BUILDING
The Hollywood Master Class (HMC), founded and facilitated by Hollywood veteran D. David Morin, offers one-day workshops in Team Building with a Hollywood twist. Run it like a casting session. Throw amateurs in the deep end of the kiddie pool. No prior experience necessary. This intensive workshop on “what to do & how to do it” to work in TV & Film consists of on-camera exercises that translate nicely to build self-confidence, team community, and lots of personal growth. “It’s pretty exciting,” quips Morin, the Hollywood native with forty years of industry experience as an actor, writer, director, and producer. “Team members learn fast and build confidence quickly. Plus, it’s lots of fun as a team building exercise to see your peers fail then overcome! It’s fast, fun, and packed with helpful do’s and don’ts”. It’s the great equalizer.” HMC has been training professionals for over a decade in Nairobi, Cairo, Nelsprit and Cape Town teaching students and executives how to handle themselves like a pro. Most agree the Hollywood Master Class is a life changer. Morin adds, “Our students love us. The training is 100% practical. No one is offering what we offer and I’m an old pro who loves to teach.” Morin’s Hollywood credits are here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0605514/
ACTING
WHAT IS IT? & IS IT FOR ME?
The Hollywood Master Class Acting Workshop is an intensive course for students, models, actors, professionals, or anyone keen on working in TV & Film. We teach you “what to do & how to do it” to do a casting, get a job & handle yourself on a real set. No acting ability is required!
HMC Acting is a 3-hour Hollywood boot camp. We do a proper casting and then shoot a commercial on a “hot set” with boom mics, lights, cameras, a clapper, all to teach you to concentrate & focus.
HMC Acting was founded by Hollywood actor & award-winning filmmaker D. David Morin, who spent 40 years in the trenches of “the industry”. Morin knows every facet of the profession & is passionate about passing on his knowledge.
Our only rule: KNOW YOUR LINES & BE ON TIME!
Visit IMDB for Morin’s Hollywood credits.
DIALECT TRAINING
The Hollywood Master Class seasonally offers American accent training. Most of the movie and TV industry work coming to Cape Town is from Europe, the UK, the USA. and Hollywood.
Netflix and other networks come to Western Cape to shoot for the weather, the amazing film crews, and mostly due to costs. They can hire world class crew and cast for a fraction of the cost of production back home.
Naturally, they are looking for actors who can pull of an accent of their origin, and D. David Morin, the founder of HMC who resides in Cape Town full time is an American expat with years of teaching his American dialect.
“Our American accent workshops are a lot of fun! Everyone is afraid to screw up and make a mistake but by the end everyone gains confidence and gets in a groove,” explains Morin. “I invented ‘word trees’ of similar sounding words and vowels and I am familiar with the traps most Afrikaners fall into. We work fast and cover lots of ground and there are invariably lots of laughs along the way.”
Workshop sizes vary but all students get plenty of repetition. We focus on the problematic consonants and vowels. And help students understand idioms of speaking American.
HMC is keen to train up professionals in the Cinematic Arts who want to learn their craft and handle themselves like a pro. Most agree the Master Class Series is a life changer. Private lessons or voice messages are available.
SCREENWRITING
This intensive workshop on screenwriting, tips and tricks, equip you to work in TV & Film. The course consists of watching movie trailers, movie clips, learning terminology, genre, talking story, structure, formatting, software, treatments, character development, dialogue, pitch decks, one sheets, and much more.
No prior experience necessary.
“It’s exciting,” quips Morin, the Hollywood native with forty years of industry experience as an actor, writer, director, and producer. “Our students learn fast and build confidence quickly. It’s an easy way to see if you really want to do this. It’s fast, fun, and packed with helpful do’s and don’ts. I've written over 1000 pages in every genre and love the medium.
HMC is keen to train up professionals in the Cinematic Arts who want to learn their craft and handle themselves like a pro. Morin adds, “Our students love us. The training is 100% practical. No one is offering what we offer and I’m an old pro who loves to teach.”
Private lessons are also available. And Morin is a proven script doctor for those keen for professional feedback on their work.
Just remember…
IF IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE A SCREENPLAY…IT ISN’T A SCREENPLAY.
Format matters and there are lots of software available to help you with formatting.
Just keep in mind, as one literary agent once said…”I read until the first typo. Then I stop and put it away.”
FILMS
TESTIMONIALS
ABOUT ME
I've been a working actor in Hollywood for over 40 years as well a writer, director, producer, editor, DP, cam op, voice artist, teacher, coach, mentor, and cheerleader. I love the cinematic arts and how the corporate world can profit by its methods. I offer personal on-camera, practical training in several fields, and occssionally on Directing, Producing, and Cinematography. I live in Cape Town.
10 Rules to be a Pro
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Know your lines and be on time!
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no “I’m sorry”, only “got it!”
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know your lines so well if you got hit by a truck you’d say with your next line!
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you must give yourself permission to be an artist, to be an actor!
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give yourself entitlement to belong, to compete, to work as an actor!
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you must answer “who said you could be an actor?” with “I DID!” and mean it!
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always answer everything with GOT IT…emails, texts, agents, calltimes, acting notes!
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no cellphones on set or seen in class. Be a pro. Be present. Watch and learn!
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always look at your scene partner’s eye closest to lens.
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always be early to castings and to set, be glad to be there, be a good example!