The following train is a large-scale culminating mission on your complete class.
Students will type small teams and work collectively to create design ideas for a play in six areas of technical theatre: sound design, lighting design, set design, costumes, props, and hair/make-up. Each group is chargeable for finishing 4 elements:
- an inspiration element
- a analysis element
- a sensible element
- an evaluation element
This is a good way for college students to show what they’ve discovered all through the semester or problem themselves to discover a brand new technical space. Students will achieve a broader appreciation of all of the components that go into making a cohesive theatrical design.
Before you begin: Don’t fear should you’re not a technical knowledgeable! Check out our Technical Theatre part on the Theatrefolk weblog for plenty of technical recommendation. Three good articles to start out with are Tech Exercises for the Non-Technical Teacher, Tips for Success When Tech Isn’t Your Specialty, and Tips for First-Time Lighting Designers.
Instructions:
1. Select a play that your entire class will design for.
2. Divide college students into six teams. Assign every group one of many following areas of technical theatre: sound design, lighting design, set design, costumes, props, and hair/make-up.
3. In this train, you (the instructor) will act as director of the chosen present, and share your total imaginative and prescient/idea together with your design groups (your college students). For instance, Romeo & Juliet underneath the ocean, Alice in Wonderland in outer area, a steampunk Beauty and the Beast, or a movie noir Antigone. Feel free to provide as many or as few particulars as you would like.
If you’d like to provide college students extra creative freedom, attempt one of many following choices:
Option B: Have every group pitch a imaginative and prescient/idea (for instance, Romeo & Juliet within the jungle, Wild West Romeo & Juliet, or Romeo & Juliet within the yr 3000) and permit the category to vote on one.
Option C: Scrap the director concept and have every group provide you with their very own authentic design idea for the chosen play, with out consulting different teams.
4. Once the design idea is settled, every group should full their design tasks, which can encompass the next 4 elements:
a) Inspiration: An inspiration collage or temper board that includes colors, textures, sketches, images, or cutouts that illustrate the idea. (Minimum measurement: 12 inches by 12 inches)
b) Research: A written (or audio/video recording if that works higher on your college students) analysis element on one side of the idea. For instance, if the idea is “in the jungle,” which particular jungle is the group specializing in? What crops and animals are native to the realm? Are there any movies, tv packages, or documentaries set there? Are there any main present occasions or vital historic occasions that occurred there? Tailor the questions as applicable to the chosen design idea. (Minimum size: 1 web page)
c) Practical: A sensible pattern aspect that’s related to the technical design space, akin to a sound playlist, a lighting plot and gel pattern show or a discovered lighting demonstration (dwell or filmed), a scale mannequin set, an authentic costume design or constructed costume, a constructed prop, an authentic hair/make-up design, a designed wig, or a make-up demonstration (dwell or photographed). Students could have their very own ideas as effectively.
d) Analysis: A written (or audio/video) element describing how and why the group made the design selections they did. (Minimum size: 1 web page)
5. Have your college students share their tasks with the remainder of the category, both as group displays or as a fair-style presentation across the classroom.
6. Discuss how every group approached their design work. Do the completely different theatrical areas work collectively as a complete? Why or why not? Do they assist the director’s total imaginative and prescient? What may very well be adjusted to work higher collectively?
7. Each scholar will full and submit a person reflection (discovered beneath).
Click right here for a free reflection and rubric.
Kerry Hishon is a director, actor, author and stage combatant from London, Ontario, Canada. She blogs at www.kerryhishon.com.
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