Our signature course is The Tools Foundation Workshop, a practical and comprehensive introduction to the art and craft of how to get great performances. Suitable for both the professional as well as the up and coming film director, as well as for anyone who loves great performances and wants to understand what goes into making them, this course comprises over 38 hours of class time. The first half of the course begins with Adrienne giving a lecture on The Tools to a group of eight talented directors, then goes on to an extensive exploration of how to dig into a script and use The Tools to prepare a text to direct. Next, we watch our directors use The Tools to audition a series of actors, and start to observe with our own eyes the improvement of performance through effective direction. Attention is also given to how to assess an actor's audition and what to look for when casting. Actors are then cast into scenes, and directors rehearse with them off camera. In the second half of the course, directors return to present their scenes and we watch Adrienne work her magic, teaching how to use The Tools to improve each actor's performance. Each scene becomes a case study of how to use The Tools on-set, as we watch unconvincing performances become convincingly lifelike, and lifelike performances become electrifyingly powerful. The course concludes with a Q&A, and viewers finish with a sense of new found confidence that they now have an effective and practical technique for getting great performances.