Category: Drama

5/29

What roles do you think we need?

How can we consolidate these?

How many roles are there in Law and Order: Fairy Tale Unit in terms of thespians?

How can we consolidate the thespian roles to make this play feasible?

Sign ups for each role (behind the scenes and on stage).

5/30

Vote for different roles using Google Forms.

Get into newly assigned groups and choose specific roles and characters.

 

Director

Ashtin

Kaileigh (Stage)

 

Stage crew/Design

Sireena

Angie

Cassie

 

Makeup/Costume

Brianna

Paola

Erika

 

Sound/Lighting

Armando

Andy

5/31

Auditions! Vote for character roles.  Fill in blanks.

Assign final project.

cast list

6/1

Work on final projects

5/21

Watch Creature Shop: Heads Up and Answer corresponding questions on the worksheet.  Puppetry fun!

5/22

Present RANTS

5/23

Finish Rants and watch Simpsons 09 14 episode with corresponding VOICE questions analyzing sounds effects, music, and character voices.

5/24

Go through 5 choices of plays in small groups, rotate one play at time.  Vote on play.

Play decision: LAW AND ORDER: FAIRY TALE UNIT

5/25

Who is doing what in the play!?!

Brainstorm what roles are NEEDED and then Read selected scenes in small groups.

Your RANT needs to be TYPED and MEMORIZED.

Format!  Remember when we did monologues?  How about scripts?  Your formatting MUST match the requirements for scripts.  You should know how to do this!

Thirty seconds to one minute.  Stop asking me if you wrote enough.  Say it out loud and have a table partner time you.
Lastly:  HAVE FUN!

FORMAT

Left – 1 ½ inch Right – 1 inch

Top – 1 inch Bottom – 1 inch

Use TABS or software for proper format.

[press tab six times OR center] Characters name in CAPS

GINA

[press tab two times] (how the line is said…………………….)

(sarcastically whispers)

Dialogue goes from margin to margin……………………………………………….

[press tab one time] Direction of action…………………………………..

VERONICA runs across the stage frantically searching for her glasses.

Title Page:     CENTER

TITLE IN CAPS

Pages must be numbered. Place number in upper right hand corner of page.

Length 1 page equals about 1 minute. A One Act Play should be 45 to 55 pages.

A Ten Minute Play should be approximately 9-10 pages.

Print: 12 pt font Courier New

 

PRESENT ON FRIDAY 5/18

Telephone conversations presentations

20 minutes to finish up telephone project for tomorrow

http://www.nyee.edu/patient-care/otolaryngology/voice-swallowing/therapy/vocal-warm-ups

Divide 12 warm-ups into four groups.  Rotate students through them.

THE SITUATION

Within a particular time/place there are different languages.

We speak differently for different occasions.

(tone and vocabulary change)

Hallway vs. classroom

THE ROLES

It also depends on your role and purpose in the action.

We speak differently depending on our role.

Student – asking a question

Teacher – lecturing on a concept

THE RELATIONSHIPS

It also depends by how the characters feel about each other.

We speak differently depending on how we feel about the person we’re talking to.

Teenager hates older cousin

Teenager loves older sister

Telephone Conversations Voice Project

5/9

Work on Project

 

 

VOICE VOCAB

TEMPO/PACE
PROJECTION
SILENCES/PAUSES
INTONATION
TONE
EMPHASIS
ECHO
INSTRUMENTS/SOUND EFFECTS
CHARACTER VOICE

Choose a phrase to alter using different qualities of voice

Complete set model build.  Due THURSDAY with in class presentation.

Write-Around Activity

Sit in groups of THREE.  Get out one piece of paper and one writing utensil.

Roles: Writer – Time Keeper – Idea Assistant
Rotate every 3 minutes

1. Suddenly, before he could…
2. The door slammed shut behind…
3. Just before the bell rang…
4. Water was seeping through…
5. Ever so slowly, the shadowy figure…
6. Everywhere she looked, Sue saw…

Read out loud

Can continue with reflections on stories, OR with groups of 8, one piece of paper for each person.

SET PROJECT

Work on your set model.  Due Next week!

4/2

What should the set do?

• Set the style and tone for the whole production
• Create a mood
• Give clues to the time and place of the action
• Allow characters different options for action/movement

How are sets designed?

• Designer reads and re-reads the script
• Note the time of day, location, season, historical period and any set changes needed
• Meeting with the director and entire design team to be sure all aspects work together
• Dimensions/ floor plans of the stage to be used
• Sketch of the set
• 3-D model of the set

Go over how to make a scale drawing, so it can translate to a scale model

Measure classroom and create scale drawing of classroom in groups

4/3

Go over mistakes and misunderstandings of scale drawings

Do more examples

Start set choice scale drawing

4/4

Review scale drawings

Scale drawing/start model