Lauren and Ryan

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Group 1
1. What has this group done well?

showing that someone was murdered, and keeping a straight face through out it all.
2. What, if anything, is confusing about this scene?

how he got murdered?
3. Describe the emotion of the characters/plot.
the didn't seem to have much emotion it seemed like they didn't care the person was dead they just wanted to hide the body
4. Describe the relationship between the characters.
they seemed closed, because it seemed like they were close enough to hide a murder
5. What else could this group have done to improve?

they could have showed more fear in them 

Group 2
1. What has this group done well?
showing the father on the phone with the son while there is a knife to his neck
2. What, if anything, is confusing about this scene?
why does the dad seem so calm about the son being kidnapped
3. Describe the emotion of the characters/plot.
they seemed to calm for what was going on
4. Describe the relationship between the characters.
the father and son seemed closed because they dad was talking to the son
5. What else could this group have done to improve?

the table could have been father away from  where they were kidnapped

Group 3

1. What has this group done well?
Noah did a really good job being in characters and showing he was drunk
2. What, if anything, is confusing about this scene?
how did there argument start, he came out of no where
3. Describe the emotion of the characters/plot.

drunk and mad
4. Describe the relationship between the characters.
they seem to be roommates
5. What else could this group have done to improve?

they could have showed there relationship better on how they know each other

Group 5

1. What has this group done well?
there customs were very good and and it showing that they are up to something bad
2. What, if anything, is confusing about this scene?
what are planning on doing
3. Describe the emotion of the characters/plot.
the seem nervous and scared
4. Describe the relationship between the characters.
they seem close and seem like working buddies
5. What else could this group have done to improve?

they could have talked a little louder and talk a little slower

in class work

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Draw a rectangular stage and label the Audience, Center, Down Left and Up Right 

What do you think it might it signify when an actor comes closer to the audience rather than moving farther away from the audience? 

On a raked stage an actor who is further from the audience is higher than an actor who is closer to the audience. This led to the theatre positions "upstage" and "downstage", meaning, respectively, further from or closer to the audience.

Explain where the audience is in Proscenium Stage vs. a Thrust Stage vs. Theater in the Round?

 Proscenium Stage- the audience is arched around the stage 

Thrust Stage- the audience is on 3 sides of the square stage  

Theater in the Round-audience is completing surrounding the circular stage 

What is the most common type of stage? 

Proscenium Stage

Where is the orchestra often located in a traditional theater?

Under the stage

What is the challenge of performing in a Theater-in-the Round space?

The actors have to make sure that all the audience equally sees what’s going on and not one section of the audience is always facing the back of the actors 

What is the difference between projection and enunciation? 

Projection-The placement and delivery of volume, clarity, and distinctness of voice for communicating to an audience. 

Enunciation- pronouncing your words clearly 

Why are gestures and facial expressions important to actors? What do they do? 

They help the audience feel the mood and emotion of the actors so that they better understand the play.

What is the difference between a prop and a set piece and a costume piece?  Give examples of each.

Props- objects actors use in scenes

Set piece- A piece of scenery that stands independently in a scene. 

What is the difference between a play and a musical? 

play-The stage representation of an action or a story; a dramatic composition. 

Musical- a story written out with lots of music 

What is a sitzprobe?

sitzprobe- a rehearsal where the singers sing with the orchestra

How can music set a tone for a scene? Give an example. 

The type of music being played. Such as fast passed music could be an action scene or a scene that evokes anxiety and sad music can make the scene sad are serious 

What is devised theater? 

Loosely based on improving and the cast collaborates on it

What is a follow spotlight and give an example of when a director or lighting designer might like to use a follow spot? (2 pts)

It’s a spotlight that follows a specific actor during a scene it could be used when an actor is saying something long/monologuing so the audiences undivided attention is on that specific actor and his/her words 

When speaking on stage, even in a stage whisper, actors need to --------- in order for the audience to hear the lines being spoken.

What is the difference between a monologue and dialogue spoken in a scene?

A monologue is where an actor is talking  to himself whereas dialogue is two or more people communication 

What is improv? In improv, why should actors never say "no"?

Improv is where you come up with the script on the spot and you should never say any because it leaves the actors in a spot where they cant come up with creative material after someone says no. it cuts off the scene. This is why in improv you always say yes and 

If you forget what to say while rehearsing scenes, you say “line,” and the stage manager, director, or whoever is on a book will prompt you. During an actual performance, what should you do?

You should stay calm, try to remember your last lines exemphfi ease

What is motivation and why is it important to character development?

motivation-the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.

This is important in character development  because it tells us why we are following a story at a certain point in time

What is the given circumstances of a scene?

refers to the “who, where, what, when, why, and how”

What words are usually written in italics in a script and refer to blocking, emotion, or other elements besides lines?

Stage directions

 Why might a director ask actors to consider and/or invent a backstory for their characters?

So that the actors can “Be” the character and produce real emotions based on the character 

 In order to be best seen by the audience, a director may ask actors to alter the way they are standing or positioned by asking them to --------------------.

What pace should actors generally use when speaking lines (except under special circumstances)? 

Medium pace speaking, comedy usually are faster paced 

What is a common problem that inexperienced actors have regarding the pacing/tempo of lines?

They usually pick up the pace and talk too fast 

How are costumes used in creating character? Use a specific example of a character you have seen and how costumes were used to communicate something about the role to the audience.

The usually personify the charter- ex. An outgoing charter would probably wear very colorful colors and wacky clothes 

 What is blocking? Where should blocking get recorded (written down) while rehearsing? 

Blocking is the precise staging of actors to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera.

Some plays require actors to contribute some original lines, often as filler. What is this called when actors put in original lines not written in their scripts?

improv/ ad lib

Reaction is just as important as delivering lines. Why?

It helps the audience know what to react to when a scene is confusing 

Where are the wings and the backstage on a proscenium type of stage?

Behind the curtains 

What is a curtain and a cyclorama in a traditional stage? Why don't we have those in the Black Box?

It blocks parts of the stage during transition scenes or to change the size of the stage. Black boxes don’t have curtains because they are meant to be reconstructed so you can use other things in place of a curtain

What is a prologue and an epilogue in a play?

prologue-a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work\

epilogue-a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.

What is a flashback?

It is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

Who is Constantin Stanislavski and why is he important to modern-day theater?

Constantin Stanislavski is a Russian actor and director and he is important because He was a cofounder of the Moscow Art Theater, where his productions achieved the zenith in 20th-century naturalism.

What are Uta Hagen's 9 Questions that actors should ask themselves about their 

characters and scenes?

• WHO AM I? ...
• WHAT TIME IS IT? ...
• WHERE AM I? ...
• WHAT SURROUNDS ME? ...
• WHAT ARE THE GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES? ...
• WHAT IS MY RELATIONSHIP? ...
• WHAT DO I WANT? ...
• WHAT IS IN MY WAY?

Explain what a goal and an obstacle is in acting and how they create tension.

The goal in acting is what the actors are trying to accomplish and the obstacles are the things that stop them from accomplishing their goals this creates tension because you want to see them solve the obstacles to get to their goal

Explain the difference between a protagonist and an antagonist.

The protagonist is the main character, often a hero. The antagonist is the character who opposes the protagonist, often a villain.

What is an overture in a musical?

 usually the orchestral introduction to a musical work (often dramatic), but also an independent instrumental work.

Explain the difference between a producer, technical director, director, musical director, and stage manager in professional theater.

A director the person who oversees the entire process of staging a production.A stage manager is responsible for the running of each performance. A technical director is a  possesses the highest level of skill within a specific technical field. A musical director is the person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. A producer is a person who oversees film production.

What is a raked stage?

an actor who is further from the audience is higher than an actor who is closer to the audience.

What is type casting?

Is when you cast a person and they always play the same the same kind of roll 

Who is Lorraine Hansberry and what is she famous for?

She was a was a playwright and writer. She wrote A Raisin in the Sun,  was the first black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics' Circle award.

essay pre-writing

1.  I see a daisy losing its pedals with the ground cracked underneath it.
2. This scene represents a broken heart.

working with Ryan and Connor 

Thesis/intro
this card shows the end of a relationship
Outline
 Paragraph 1: the scene  represents a heartbreak at the end of relationship
 Paragraph 2:the pedals falling off are for the memories  she is trying to forget
 Paragraph 3:the cracked floor represents the broken heart
 Paragraph 4: the darkness of the background of the card shows the dark sate on mind she is in
 Paragraph 5:the leaf of the flower is showing how the man is trying to pulling her back into his life

in class writing

                                                        A blue background with big water drops dropping out of the sky. Some  seem huge but others seem so tiny. A water drop is like a container that wraps an island. The island is surrounded by lots of water, even part of the island is in the water.  Green forests, flowery hills, small white houses with red roofs rest on the island. Apple trees that fill the woods, flowers that cover the grass, many houses next to one another that look like palaces. 

A man who calls himself a prince, lives alone on this island.  I mean who wouldn't call them self a prince if they are all alone. This prince built himself a huge palace right next to the woods. One day the prince felt very lonely, and tired of being bored all the time. He went to take an adventure to explore the edge of the world. He started his adventure off by chopping a piece of wood to make a wood boat and a pair of oars. He strove hard to paddle, however, just when he felt that he was about to reach the edge of the world, he gasp in fear. He was going to get destroyed . After all those years of living on a tiny island alone he realized his world was a drop of water. After a long fall, it finally fell to the ground, the boat shattered into a million pieces. He looked up and realized how many similar raindrops were falling out of the sky. In the end he had not escaped the broken fate. Just like people in real life, the destruction of water droplets is like the destruction of peoples dreams, eventually it gets broken into pieces and dropped to the ground 

paragraphs

Dark purple walls with flashing yellow stars, a dark blue table with flashing yellow dots. A orange cat that seems to be hungry, and a little orange fish that is swimming around in a fish bowl that looks like a snow globe.
    On a sunny Saturday  family gets up to get ready for their  day, the husband starts the coffee and the wife makes pancakes. The kids sit on the couch and fight about who gets to pick the show they watch. A cat that sits on the window sill and takes in the sun. The husband leaves for work while the wife gets the kids ready for camp. The wife starts packing the lunches and the kids go get changed. They grab all there bags and head out the door. The cat that was sitting in the window watches as they pull away. He sits and stares for a little to make sure they don't come back.
     He hops off the window sill and starts walking around. He finds a toy and starts playing with it, he's swigging at it and jumping on it till he got tired. He walks to his water bowl where he found that his owners forgot to fill it, so he jumps on the counter trying to find a cup of water left. Just when he found a cup there was nothing left in it so, so he jumps back down and starts walking around, when all of sudden he spelt something fishy. He goes into the little boys room and see a bowl of water sitting on his dresser, he jumps up and sees something moving he dips his head in and starts drinking the water. then he got hungry and loved the smell of fish. There had to be a plan to get the bowl knocked over so he took his paw and pushed the bowl off the dresser. When he looked down he saw a little orange things flopping around on the ground. He jump down right on it and ate it very fast. He then was full and tired so he took a nap on the little boys bed. The kids and husband came walking through the door and the little boy went to his room. All of a sudden the husband heard the little boy from the kitchen scream "THE CAT ATE MY GOLDFISH".

10 action verbs

1. I got my cast off
2. I went to Ryans for New Years.
3. I baked brownies for my family.
4. I drove to Starbucks every morning.
5. I opened presents at my aunts on Christmas Eve.
6. I played with my dogs.
7. I bought gifts for friends and family.
8. I went to my friends houses to hang out.
9. I watched movies with my brother and his friends.
10. I drove around and listened to music.

a cat is sneaking up on a fish tank.
before the cat went to the fish tank it had to plan a way to be sneaky so the cat didn't see it.
after the cat snuck up on the fish tank it jump up and reached its paws in and grabbed the fish.

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3. cat, fish
4. purple, yellow, green, black orange, white, blue, brown,
5. background seems happy
6. cat hissing, water splashing,
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