TV coaching school begins in city soon
2/12/1963 Auckland Star
The Auckland Television Workshop is about to launch a comprehensive coaching scheme-this country's first TV training school-which will include acting, product ion and the technical side of the business.
It will begin next week with three six-month courses, prepared with the assistance of overseas TV consultants.
A fourth course, covering script-writing, is to be established later.
Mr David Burke-Kennédy, president of the Auckland TV Workshop, said today that when a second TV channel is opened there could be a lack of trained writers, actors, producers, cameramen and technical staff.
"We believe that this first serious attempt at establishing a television school could eventually provide the necessary people for another channel," he said.
As part of the training scheme, a television acting school is to he formed for South Auckland, based in Howick. The South Auckland "school" will later include technical and production courses, prepared by the workshop's director of photography, Mr Alex Fraser.
At the central Auckland school, technical members will learn filming techniques and will later film subjects suitable for television, using 16 m.m. equipment.
Potential actors will learn the special techniques required for television, and a smaller group wi1l receive training in TV interviewing.
Up till now, the workshop's activities have been confined largely to lectures, discussions, and some film production which allowed only a few to take part.
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