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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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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 11: Final Rehearsal

by Lindsay Price

This is it! The final rehearsal before students perform. Students focus on getting those last few lines word perfect, reflect on where they are, and do final run throughs.
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Part of Scene Work: Part 2, Student Self Staging Unit

Session 12: Performing the Scene

by Lindsay Price

Students perform their scene and complete a post-performance reflection.
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The Problematic Use of Brownfacing in Film

by Quincy Young

Students will view examples of Brownface in film and use critical thinking skills to annotate a text about the issues of Brownface in the film West Side Story. Students will then produce a written reflection on why the use of Brownface in the 1961 film version of West Side story is problematic and offer their opinion on why it perpetuates a negative stereotype of the Latinx community. Includes options for distance learning delivery.
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Part of Virtual Acting for the Camera Unit

Differences Between Stage Acting and Film Acting & Vocabulary

by Ruthie Tutterow

Students will be able to identify some of the major differences between acting for the stage and the camera. They will also be able to understand and use vocabulary that is specific to working on film sets and acting for the camera.
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Part of Virtual Acting for the Camera Unit

Exercises in Acting for the Camera

by Ruthie Tutterow

Students will watch some of a workshop in acting for the camera and do some exercises that help them practice some of the differences between stage acting and film acting.
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Part of Virtual Acting for the Camera Unit

Finding Your Quality

by Ruthie Tutterow

After discussing the essence and quality of their favorite actors, students will record themselves having a conversation. Then they will transcribe their conversation and perform it as a script. These “scenes” will be recorded. Students will then be assigned to describe the “quality” of a fellow student.
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Part of Virtual Acting for the Camera Unit

Commercials

by Ruthie Tutterow

Students will act in and direct a commercial. They will break down a script into shots to “cover” the script. They will also format a script into video and audio. Actors will need to hit marks, make a point concisely, and hit the time format of the commercial. They should use the acting techniques for film as much as possible. Students will also need to think creatively to work in socially distant circumstances.
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Part of Acting for the Camera Unit

Differences Between Stage Acting and Film Acting & Vocabulary

by Ruthie Tutterow

Students will be able to identify some of the major differences between acting for the stage and the camera. They will also be introduced to terms used on film sets and for acting for the camera and be ready to use those terms in upcoming projects.
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