direct.vtheatre.net/final

biomechanics.vtheatre.net/finals

google.com/group/directing

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2008 --

Summary

tests + midterm mise-en-scene (film) test:

OPTION A: SETTING AND PRODUCTION DESIGN
Demonstrate through detailed description of and discussion about specific shots, scenes, and sequences the role of setting and production design in the selected film. Show how the mise-en-scene works in each particular shot, scene, and/or sequence, placing your analysis of each specific moment in the context of the overall visual, narrative, and/or generic pattern of the film.

OPTION B: COSTUME AND MAKE-UP
Demonstrate through detailed description of and discussion about specific shots, scenes, and sequences the role of costume and make-up in the selected film. Show how the mise-en-scene works in each particular shot, scene, and/or sequence, placing your analysis of each specific moment in the context of the overall visual, narrative, and/or generic pattern of the selected film.

OPTION C: LIGHTING AND COLOR
Demonstrate through detailed description of and discussion about specific shots, scenes, and sequences the role of lighting and color in the selected film. Show how the mise-en-scene works in each particular shot, scene, and/or sequence, placing your analysis of each specific moment in the context of the overall visual, narrative, and/or generic pattern of the selected film.

OPTION D: ACTING: STAGING AND MOVEMENT
Demonstrate through detailed description of and discussion about specific shots, scenes, and sequences the role of acting (staging and movement) in the selected film. Show how the mise-en-scene works in each particular shot, scene, and/or sequence, placing your analysis of each specific moment in the context of the overall visual, narrative, and/or generic pattern of the selected film. Film Directing

Summary

2005 -- Wedding Anton Chekhov *

Channeling Chekhov Boston Production * "Three Farces and a Funeral" American Repertory Theatre

"RM: How would you describe the spirit of these vaudevilles?

RB: I think there's a lot of pain underneath the lightness. I invented a line for Chekhov in one of the interludes in which he defends his use of farce. He says, "Farce is an explosion of pain in comic form." I think that Chekhov might have described farce in the same way.

RM: What do the farces reveal about Chekhov's attitude towards marriage?

RB: He was frightened of marriage his whole life. In one of the connecting interludes, I have Olga comment on the fact that relationships between the sexes seem to be a source of strife for Chekhov. In the farces, sexual relationships are all arguments and battles - comic versions of Strindberg. In his new biography, Donald Rayfield makes Chekhov out to be a rather cold person in regard to the demands women made on him. But what Rayfield views as frigidity, I see as Chekhov's attempt to escape responsibilities." 2005: Oedipus UAF *

Notes

"Conceptual photography" by Mikhail Gorden (c)

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War on Comedy

Finals: Acting I, II & Fundamentals of Directing -- scenes!

Fri. May 2, 2003 -- on stage, public presentation 5-7 PM

[ the order could be different ]
1. The Philadelphia: Ratchel, Randy, Peter -- director Alicia
2. The Music Man: Kate and Zack
3. Darren -- Honie and ...
4. Chip -- Mia, Sarah and ...
5. The Nerd: Jeff -- Tim, Zach
6. 1000 Babes: Bo -- Rose, Jeff
7. Carey --
8. Noses Off: Abrah --
9. The Importance of Being Earnest: Joel --
and more...
* Actors, Directors -- bring your paperwork!

Free: all are welcome!

Theatre UAF -- www.uaf.edu/theatre

Check out all our Fall 2003 classes online -- www.uaf.edu/theatre/courses

Fall Auditions -- Sat. Sept. 13, 2003 10 AM (second weekend of the new semester)

written exam:

THR331 Fundamentals of Directing FINAL EXAM: Name ______________

I. Script
PRINCE FORTINBRAS 
Let four captains
Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royally: and, for his passage,
The soldiers' music and the rites of war
Speak loudly for him.
Take up the bodies: such a sight as this
Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
[A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off]
Give your directorial justification for the finale of Hamlet: why Fortinbras closing the play? How would you stage it?
II. Acting/Directing Theory
Terminology
III. Mini-Essay
Director's Production Journal ()

Review of the UAF main stage show (director's POV)

* Project proposal for "Winter Shorts" (samples) -- SDA

Tests:

* Genre TRAGEDY -- 2005 class project: Screen montage for Chorus in "Oedipus.05"

Montage & Collage from Photoshop * MONTAGE -- (mŏntäzh´, Fr. môNtäzh´), the art and technique of motion-picture editing in which contrasting shots or sequences are used to effect emotional or intellectual responses. It was developed creatively after 1925 by the Russian Sergei Eisenstein; since that time montage has become an increasingly complex and inventive way of extending the imaginative possibilities of film art. In still photography a composite picture, made by combining several prints, or parts of prints, and then rephotographing them as a whole, is often called a montage or a photomontage.

Cut & Paste: history of photomontage *

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/cutandpaste/dada.html

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO I AM?

Do I know who I am?

Will I ever know...

My name is Oedipus...

I am ...

I was ...

He was...

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"Photomontage is a term applied to a technique of making a pictorial composition from parts of different photographs"... -- take a few more steps further! http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTphotomontage.htm

[ this project to be joined by the Set Design class ]

CHECKLIST :

directing group page :

Director's Book (contents) 
due -- Public scenes presentation

1. Text (scene) -- director' script (with YOUR stage directions)

2. Concept (proposal): including design ideas

3. Composition (Scene) Analysis: genre, plot (exposition - climax - resolution), situation, message (Aristotle)

4. Character(s) analysis (5Ws) -- Roles Concepts for actors.

5. Floor plan (set)

6. Prop list/plot

7. Costumes ideas

8. Director's Journal -- Rehearsals logs, eGroup posts, notes (to actors)

9. "Post Mortem" : evaluation (actors) and self-evaluation

10. Appendix: Research Materials (images, articles, etc.)

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... from acting2:

final scenes checklist :

1. script/scene [ text & dramatic structure breakdown; exposition-climax, resolution, conflict and etc. ]

2. character analysis [ 5Ws ]

3. role design ideas [ objective-obstacle ]

4. floor plan (blocking)

5. costume (details) and prop

6. your journal notes [ about playwright and play, rehearsals' reflections ]

7. self-evaluation and grading your partner/director

... what should be posted on YOUR PAGE @ acting2 group? FINALS