Hands On Stage and Screen Combat Fighting

Roll up your sleeves and get down and dirty as you learn how to stage and shoot dynamic, exhilarating fight scenes

About this Event

About the Course

TRUE EDGE: Screen and Stage Combat

Are you ready to fight?

This is the course, where you roll up your sleeves and get down and dirty.

This workshop is designed for Actors, Directors, Crew and anyone with an interest in how exhilarating fights are put together and shot dynamically.

You’ll leave with a very particular set of skills, skills acquired over a very long career by the True Edge team. Skills that will make you a nightmare to be sat next to watching any action, as you’ll now know all the tricks of the trade… anyway, enough quoting Liam Neeson.

Sign up today as places are limited and be prepared to work, and play, hard.

What Will You Learn?

Day 1: The Basics

• Safety, safety, safety
• The tenets of Dramatic Combat
• Throwing a basic slap, punch and kick
• Distance management is your best friend
• How reactions tell different stories
• Victim controlled moves and the power of consent
• Different angles and a trick of the eye
• How to fall
• The block; understanding casting of the energy
• Sequencing a series of moves

Day 2: The Shoot

• Dissecting some of our favourite fights
• Looking at weapons.
• Devising / Choreographing an action sequence of our own
• Work Hand Held
• Work with the Gimble
• Understanding Steadicam
• Using The Smart Phone
• Creating the right tone for your fight

Who Should Attend?

Producers, directors, screenwriters, actors, crew – anyone who needs and / or wants to know how to stage an effective combat action scene.

About True Edge

are one of the leading fight and stage combat companies in the UK. They’ve been providing fight choreography, training, and weaponry since the mid-2000’s.

Some of their most recent and notable credits include; The Mirror and the Light for the RSC in the West End, Disney’s Aladdin also in the West End, Jitney at the Leeds Playhouse transferred to the Old Vic and the Jungle in the West End and Off-Broadway.

Their recent Screen credits include The Courtship – NBC, Big Zuu’s Eats – Dave, the forthcoming feature film Cerebrum – Lakeside pictures and a regular slot on 8/10 cats does countdown, where they choreograph and perform stunts in front of a live Television Audience.

True Edge takes pride in trying to be ahead of the curve in its practice; examples are an interactive website www.trueedge.co.uk, high production value fight reels and cutting-edge training within the BADC. Their results speak for themselves, with thousands of actors now having trained through their system with impeccable results.

As for the future, True Edge has started training students in the UAE. They have a phone App in the works. And they’ve stepped into producing films, with their short; Parousia currently doing the festival circuit.

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