Acting Skills
- Voice
- Movement
- Gesture
- Facial Expression
- Silence + Stillness
- Verbal + non- verbal language
- Focus
(Villains Make Grand Faces Showing Vast Focus)
Character
- Objective
- Motivation
- Function + Purpose
- Traits
- Status
(Overdramatic Monologues Fry The Script
Movement terminology
Gait- the way you move as a character
Rhythm of movement- the pattern of movement combined with its tempo
Dynamics- the shape and speed of character movem
Physical Variety- the range of moves you’re depicting
tempo variety-the changes in the speed or pace of a performance
What are the purpose/s of lighting design
1- to illuminate the actors on stage
2- potray setting + time of day
3- create mood + atmosphere
What are the 3 parts of the production process
-planning
- development
- presentation
What occurs during the Planning part of production process?
- Read the script
- Dramaturgy
- Annotate the script
- Line memorization
- Initial ideas abt characters and blocking.
What occurs during the “development” phase of the planning process
-Rehearsal
- Trialing characterization techniques
-Experiment w acting skills
- Actor training
- refine choices
what occurs during the presentation phase of the production process?
- Dress rehearsals
- Performances
- Evaluation
What are ALL (yes, ALL!) the types of lights?
Profile spotlight, Floodlight, Par Can, Birdie, Frensel, Follow spot, backlights, LEDs,
what does a profile spotlight do?
Produces a hard edge beam.
What does a floodlight do?
Produces a large wash of light.
What does a Par Can light do?
Simple lantern used in theatre and live music
What does a birdie light do?
Small lantern, often placed on a set or at the front of the stage.
What does a Fresnel spotlight do
Most common light, produces a soft edge beam.
What do Barn doors do?
Put on Fresnel, used to shape light
What do gels do?
Colored film that is placed in front of a lantern to change color of the beam.
Types of light effects.
- gels
- haze/fog/smoke
- gobos
- data projection.
Voice terminology (the new one)
Pitch
Diction
Tone
Timing
Inflection
Breathing
Vocal Variety
Projection
Vocal quality
(Performers Dodge Tumbling Tacos, igniting bright voices, projecting vividly)
Describing lighting
L-ocation, where is the light positioned in relation to the stag/ actor?
I-ntensity, How bright or strong the light is (%)
T-one, color to convey mood + atmosphere
E-ffects, moving lights, gobos, gels, strobe ect.
conventions of epic theatre
-narration
- placards + signs
- disjointed time
- projections
- direct audience address
- song
- multiple roles
- representational costume and props
Sound terminology
D-iegetic sound
E-mtion
F-oley
E-nviroment
N-on-Diegetic sound
S-ound effect
U-nderscore
S-oundscape
(Directors eat fruit every night, singing under stars).
Different Kinds of Dramaturgy
- Context of a play
- Intended meanings of a play
- The backround of a playwright and their intentions in writing the play
- Previous productions of a play
- The theatre style/s of a play
- audience responses to previous productions of the play
what does it mean by “context of the play” for dramaturgy
- Time + Place in which the play was set
This includes historic, social, cultural + political events depicted/ refered to in the play.
Describe Elizabethan Theatre:
-Presentational acting
-Boy’s Playing female characters
-Soliloquy
-play within a play
- Masque (ball/party)
- Eavesdropping
- Minimal Set
- Elaborate costumes
