Tech for Non-Techies: Teaching Technical Theatre in Your Drama Classroom
Created by Josh Hatt
In this course, instructor Joshua Hatt shows you how to unpack your drama standards, articulate what you want your students to know and be able to do. The material explores how to incorporate lights, sound, makeup, staging, and costuming into your drama class at any grade level regardless of your school resources or unit structure. Bells and whistles? Awesome! Barely a classroom? We’ve still got you covered.
This 9 lesson series works from the basics and standards, though lighting, sound, costuming, staging, and makeup design, and culminates with a final project including rubrics, resources, and handouts.
A wise theatre technician once said: “the theatre mirrors life but technical theatre teachers us how to live.” Try to keep that statement in mind as you work through this course and see if we can make you a believer in all things technical theatre.
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0Lesson 0Introduction12:07 FREE PREVIEWLesson 0 introduces the instructor and lays out the outline for the series of lessons.
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1Lesson 1Getting Down to Basics12:07 FREE PREVIEWBe introduced to how tech theatre can transform your drama program and student buy-in. Technical theatre can cover mood, audience awareness, use of color, appreciation of the bigger picture, working as an ensemble.
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2Lesson 2Unpacking the Drama Standard13:53Lesson 2 will walk you through unpacking your drama standard through the lens of technical theatre and allow you to articulate exactly what it is you want your students to know, how you’re going to get them there, and what you need to do in order to be successful.
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3Lesson 3Light the Lights!21:50Whether you have the bells or whistles or absolutely nothing and a tiny budget, you will leave this lesson with resources to use tomorrow and inspiration of how to train your students to be problem solvers while considering how lights can affect mood, tension, and set the tone for a professional theatrical experience.
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4Lesson 4What's That Sound?27:40This lesson will explore how music can affect scene work and how it can contribute to an effective scene while paying particular attention to the overall audience experience.
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5Lesson 5To Costume or Not to Costume25:24This lesson will take students through the design process of planning, executing, and evaluating the effectiveness of work created in costuming.
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6Lesson 6Set the Stage24:07This lesson will cover how to teach students to plan, design, plot, and execute a staging plan.
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7Lesson 7Free Play Makeup Design39:45This lesson will teach you do how to get students to plan, design, plot, and execute a makeup design plan.
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8Lesson 8Putting it All Together20:12This lesson will walk you through the PBL design process and contains rubrics, resources, and handouts for a final project.
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9Lesson 9Recap6:50This final lesson aims to answer any remaining questions on how to best approach technical theatre and make it fit your educational context.
Standards Addressed
Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work - Grade 6
Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work - Grade 7
Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work - Grade 8
Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work - High School Proficient
Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work - High School Accomplished
Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation - Grade 6
Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation - Grade 7
Organize and develop artistic ideas and work - Grade HS Accomplished
Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation - Grade HS Accomplished
Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation - Grade HS Advanced
Refine new work through play, drama processes and theatre experiences using critical analysis and experimentation - Grade HS Proficient
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