Certified Firearms Course for Actors, Producers and Directors!

Please join us for an Intensive and Totally Safe Hands-On Workshop for Actors, Producers and Directors Sunday, August 11, 2024 -- 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM at The Alan Feinstein Studios,13273 Ventura Blvd #212, Studio City, CA 91604

Limit: 12 Students

What's Included:

• 4 Hours of Exceptional Individualized Professional Instruction
• The use of our newest laser pistols, training aids, and all simulator equipment
• A personalized Certificate of Completion (Add the training to your resume!)
• TWO $150.00 Gift Certificates!
• An informative booklet created for you by the instructors
• Exclusive online videos to reinforce and expand upon what you'll learn during the workshop
• And more that we'll announce during the class

• Firearm Safety (Incredibly Important)
• Shooting fundamentals (Stance, Grip, Sight Alignment, Trigger Control, etc.)
• Presenting the firearm (from holster to rounds on target)
• The effects of stress (what your gun-handling character is experiencing)
• [Tunnel Vision, Auditory Exclusion, Loss of Cognitive Thought and Analytical Ability]
• [Time Distortion, Loss of Focus, Loss of Fine Motor Skills, etc.]
• Accurate shot placement: Aiming and Point Shooting
• Reloading/Changing Magazines
• Firing from various positions
• Clearing malfunctions
• Precision shooting
• One-handed shooting - strong and weak hand
• Eye dominance - learn whether you're right eye or left eye dominant (and what that means)
• Shooting on the move including while advancing and retreating
• Shooting positions - standing, kneeling, prone, barricade
• Lots of individual laser pistol firing for accuracy and technique
• Amazing insight into the mindset of law enforcement, criminals, and armed citizens
• Simulation that will evaluate and time your shots, magazine changes, etc.
• And a lot more!

Let’s face it. Virtually everyone in the film and television industry will be involved with projects that include firearms as a part of their story. We all acknowledge that believability is necessary to capture and hold the audience’s attention. Believability is lost when an actor displays an absence of even basic firearms knowledge. Not only is it necessary to know how to properly and safely handle a firearm, we believe that it is the duty of all involved to educate and potentially save the lives of fans who may emulate what they see on the screen.

We are offering a professionally-taught, fast-paced 4-hour course on safe and proper handgun technique for the industry. Everyone attending will participate. Whether you’re an expert marksman or someone who has never touched a gun in your life, you’ll be pleasantly surprised as to how competent you will be by the end of the class. For those who may be thinking, “I don’t want to shoot a real gun,” that’s fine. You don’t have to. In fact, there will be no weapons of any kind at the workshop. Yes, everyone will shoot. And no, there will not be any actual weapons present. We will be using training “pistols” that are incapable of firing a projectile. We will be using plastic handgun replicas and SIRT training pistols which “shoot” a very low-powered red laser dot. Toward the end of the class, you will shoot a simulator that will visually show your speed and accuracy. You’ll be surprised at all you have learned - proper grip, stance, trigger control, sight alignment, aiming, sight picture, accuracy, moving and shooting, and a lot more.

The Bottom Line: At the end of the 4-hour workshop, you won’t be embarrassed using a firearm in your next project; in fact, you’ll be proud when friends and fans see the film and ask, “Wow! How many years have you been shooting? ” The main thing is that you and the film or TV project look really good and you set an outstanding, safe gun-handling example for all who watch.

Not a problem. There will be no weapons at this event, only rubber and low-power laser training "guns." Think you'll never need to hold or fire a weapon on camera? Think again. Odds are that you will do so many times in your career. With well over 60% of feature film and television projects utilizing handguns and other weapons, you need to know how to at least look believable and set a good, safe gun-handling example for those who will watch your finished project. AND, even if you never touched a gun (or prop gun) on set, you have a responsibility, we believe, to look out for your own safety and the safety of the cast and crew. Know what to look for; be aware and you can potentially prevent tragedy by some clueless or negligent person on set. Producing a film or TV project requires a team effort.

PLAYING A COP? Want to know what a deadly force incident REALLY involves -- What it feels like to be fighting for your life and/or the lives of innocent people around you -- The emotional and physiological components that make up such an incident? Now you’ll know! Mr. Carlson will share the experience. “It changes you forever.”

Believability is incredibly important for an actor. “If you believe it’s real, your audience will believe it’s real!” You will be much more believable after this experience! And, now an introduction to Mr. Carlson . . .

We are delighted to have retired law enforcement lieutenant Dale Carlson as our VIP special guest trainer for this very special training event. Mr. Carlson is an amazingly talented and highly qualified (expert) firearms instructor. He is also a FFL (Federal Firearms Licensed) dealer. After 24 years of service, Dale retired as lieutenant from an Orange County municipal law enforcement agency. He served another 5 years working for a federal agency. He has over 30 years’ experience in tactical firearms and use-of-force training, including handgun, shotgun, and tactical rifle as well as electronic and chemical weapons. He is certified by the State of California as an instructor in all these devices and is an expert in concealed carry.

In addition to firearm sales and DROS registrations, his specialties include home and personal defense threat assessment and consultation, training on defensive weapons including Taser Electronic Control Devices, chemical agents (pepper spray), firearms, CCW, predator resistance, sexual assault and women's defense tactics. He also provided certified CCW course instruction for Orange County Sheriff, Riverside County Sheriff, and Ontario Police Department. He holds California DOJ Handgun Safety Course Instructor Certification, DCA/BSIS Firearm Instructor certification, Taser ECD Civilian Instructor Certification, and multiple California P.O.S.T. Weapons Instructor Certifications.

Dale Carlson got his start as a police officer in 1987, becoming a use of force instructor.

Understanding that teaching proper and safe use of firearms within the entertainment industry is imperative, Mr. Carlson is looking forward to joining us. We are grateful that he is willing to share first-hand deadly force experience with you and to help you to understand and experience the emotional and physiological impact that such incidents produce.

Rock Riddle will be your host and lead instructor. His additional entertainment industry qualifications include over a third of a century and 150,000+ hours' professional experience in the film and television industries. The IMDB STARmeter ranks him within the upper 3% of entertainment professionals worldwide.

Rock's background includes: Publicist and President of APS Entertainment/Hollywood Success Marketing & Public Relations, of course, as well as SAG Franchised Talent Agent and Agency Co-Owner, Personal Manager, Producer, Casting Director, Stunt Person, Talk Show Host, Film and Television Actor, Color Commentator, and Amazon.com #1 Best-Selling Author ("How to Become a Magnet to Hollywood Success") - not to mention his legend status as the original "Mr. Wonderful" of professional wrestling and 4-time Hall of Famer.

Rock's greatest talents include (1) his mastery in the marketing of entertainment industry professionals and (2) his amazing ability to motivate, inspire, and teach actors how to achieve and go beyond their dreams.

On April 21, 2007, Rock was presented with the prestigious Reel Honoree Award, an award which is presented once a year to an individual who has made a difference in the entertainment industry. Past recipients of this award include Sylvester Stallone, Charles Bronson, James Cagney, David Carradine, Robert Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney and others. Rock has dedicated the majority of his life to helping people achieve and live their dreams in the entertainment industry, and he is very proud of this honor.

Bobbie has been training with excellent instructors for ten years. She obtained her CCW permit early in her training and she's very good. That's her in the video (click above).

Bobbie will be our "Safety Officer" for the class. She will be assisting, correcting mistakes and helping anyone who wants or needs more individual attention.

Your health and safety is very important to us. For this event, air in the theater is continually purified by two Medical Grade H13 True HEPA Air Filtration/Purification System with ionizer and UV Virus Eliminator. In order to provide the most effective individual training, The class is limited to 12 students.

We were delighted to have a number of film producers and directors not only observe but also actually take classes with us. Producer-director-actor Al Burke has observed 4 classes so far and found at least two actors for his film and television projects. Mr. Burke, schedule permitting, will be joining us for this event. At lease five feature film and television producers have attended these classes. Our friend producer-actor Kevyn Major Howard ("Rafterman" in "Full Metal Jacket") dropped by unexpectedly at a class (photo above) and stayed for nearly an hour afterward talking with the actor, producer, and director "students." (IMDB ranks Kevyn Major Howard in the upper 1/3rd of 1% of entertainment industry professionals worldwide!) So there are usually fringe benefits attached to attending in addition to learning to look great safely with firearms on camera!

We will do a brief introduction and begin at exactly 10:00 am (earlier if everyone is there and seated). We'll be moving around, so please dress comfortably. It's going to be an amazing event and experience! See you there.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Alan Feinstein Studio, 13273 Ventura Blvd. #212, Studio City, United States