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Part of Pre-Lighting Design Unit

Exercise 5: Notating and Communicating Your Concept

by Kerry Hishon

This exercise takes the concept creation ideas explored in a previous exercise and has students notate their lighting plans on a script.
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Part of Pre-Lighting Design Unit

Optional Video Exercise

by Kerry Hishon

Use this optional exercise to show students a video about the role of a lighting designer in a professional setting.
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Part of Pre-Lighting Design Unit

Unit Reflection & Rubric

by Kerry Hishon

A reflection and rubric is included for final assessment of the work completed in this unit.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 1, Tools of Scene Work Unit

Session 1: Introduction

by Lindsay Price

Students create a situation from a picture and examine the given clues to help fill in the gaps. Students then examine the clues in a contentless scene, fill in the gaps, and create their own scenario to perform.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 1, Tools of Scene Work Unit

Session 2: Show and Tell Characterization

by Lindsay Price

Students will use “Show and Tell” to create a detailed background for their contentless scene character and improvise a personal interview with that character.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 1, Tools of Scene Work Unit

Session 3: Thou Shalts of Virtual Staging and Performance

by Lindsay Price

Students will participate in a demonstration to explore the rules of virtual staging and performance and why they are important. They will perform a Bad Idea/Good Idea skit for the class to demonstrate their understanding of the concept.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 1, Tools of Scene Work Unit

Session 4: Environmental and Personal Conflict

by Lindsay Price

Students will play a drama game and participate in an exercise to explore how conflict affects their active tactics. Students apply conflict to a scene for performance.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 1, Tools of Scene Work Unit

Session 5: Stage Business

by Lindsay Price

Students will participate in an observation activity and play “What Are You Doing?” to explore how stage business affects performance. In this session, you will coach students through a scene with stage business, then they will apply stage business to their own performances.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 1, Tools of Scene Work Unit

Session 6: Contentless Scene - Preview Day

by Lindsay Price

Students review what they have studied in this unit as well as how to give and use constructive feedback. Students will pair up with another scene group, then perform for each other. Students will use the Preview Worksheet to help guide and assess their previews and critiques.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 1, Tools of Scene Work Unit

Session 7: Final Performance

by Lindsay Price

Students will perform and be evaluated on the contentless scene that they have prepared during the unit.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 1: Script Analysis - The Basics

by Lindsay Price

Students will begin their staging journey by compiling the basics. They will read the scene and identify some general knowledge that will help them play the scene.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 2: Script Analysis - Close Reading

by Lindsay Price

When analyzing a script, you want students to do a close reading, multiple times, and mine the text for as much information as possible. It’s important to know who your character is, why they act the way they do, and, most importantly, how you can physicalize all your newfound knowledge. At the end of each read, students identify possible staging ideas for their character and for the plot.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 3: Script Analysis - Scoring

by Lindsay Price

The last script analysis step is scoring. To score a scene means to divide the dialogue into beats and then add action words for each beat. Scoring gives students a roadmap for staging.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 4: Staging the Scene - Beats and Action Words

by Lindsay Price

Students will take their script analysis work with beats and action words and apply it to their scene. Students will also start to think about how they will have to adapt staging to a virtual environment.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 5: Staging the Scene - Character Physicalization

by Lindsay Price

Students will continue working on staging techniques by exploring character physicality.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 6: Staging the Scene - Adapting Blocking Notation

by Lindsay Price

Students will solidify blocking notation that can be used in a virtual environment.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 7: Memorization Techniques

by Lindsay Price

The sooner students memorize their lines, the more fun they are going to be able to have with the scene. It’s hard to become a character, fully realize blocking, and make the scene one’s own with a script in hand. Acting begins when lines are memorized. This session will focus on practicing a variety of memorization techniques. They will be applied to Section 1 of the scene.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 8: Staging the Scene - Character Physicality (2)

by Lindsay Price

Students will revisit character physicality choices and solidify that they are a part of their staging. Additionally, there are some exercises to further explore character physicality. Encourage students to continue to visualize and practice bringing characters to life as they work on their scene.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 9: Purposeful Action

by Lindsay Price

Students have been through their scene multiple times with specific blocking choices. They have been working on memorization and character physicality. In their rehearsal today, students will review their blocking choices with a specific objective of making every action in the scene purposeful and theatrical.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 10: Removing Actor-Driven Movement

by Lindsay Price

The rehearsal period is coming to a close, and it’s almost time to present. In this rehearsal, students will share their scene with another group with the specific focus of examining it for actor-driven movement rather than character-driven movement: shuffling your weight back and forth between your feet, playing with your hair, vaguely gesturing with your hands, etc.
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