1. Directing FOR STAGE, FILM AND TV

2. Film vs. Live Performance  Directing for film is Visual Medium  The director controls where the audience is focusing their attention  The director can edit/make changes to actor’s performances after  Directing for Stage is a Performance medium  Live---can not make changes  Can attempt to focus the audiences attention, but audience can choose to look anywhere

3. Film vs. theatre FilmTheatre

4. Responsibilities  The Director:  Picks and Analyze play(s) (or scripts for film)  Arrive at an initial “Production Concept”  Work with designers  Cast the show with actors  Rehearse  Open

5. Responsibilities  Turn the script into a production  Coordinate the efforts of a team of collaborators  Represent the intentions of the playwright and the expectations of the audience  Inspire the actors to perform their best  Create an environment in which each member of the theatre ensemble can excel  Offer creative solutions to questions and problems

6. What is the Director?  Director is responsible for integrating all the elements of a production: acting, sets, costumes, lights, sound, etc.

7. Rehearsal process First Read Table Work Blocking Rehearsal Run Through-s Tech Rehearsals Dress Rehearsal Final Dress PERFORMANCE

8. Production Process  Design Meetings  Production meetings  Costume fittings  Dry Tech  Paper Tech  Load In  Technical Rehearsals  Final Dress

9. Types of directors  Interpretive directors attempt to translate the play as they think the playwright would want it to be.  Traditional or classic interpration  Creative Directors create “concept productions” based on their unique ideas or interpretations of a play script  More Liberal or creative or free interpration  Think Shakespeare, Greek Tragedies, fairy tales

10. When picking a play the director must consider:  Why this play? What is interesting and/or exciting about it?  What is the play about? What is the dramatic action? What is the story being told?  Figure out how the play works - Genre, Style, Action, Objective, Obstacle, Super-Objective, Beats  What is key in Aristotle’s six parts? (Plot, Character, Idea, Language, Music, Spectacle)

11. Production concept  Production Concept  The primary metaphor, symbol, or concept that is essential to the production of this play  Production meetings serve to bring the production team a central point in the collaborative process

12. Production concept  Production concept is : Brief description of the world of the play as you are going to produce it.  Interpretational focus - What will be emphasized or highlighted?  What are the choices of style for the production? Completes sentences like  – “The play will be set in _______ because ____”,  – “I see the play as being about _______ because”

13. examples

14. A scene takes places in a forest…

16. A director can change the setting  How does changing the time and place of a story—effect the play?  Let’s look at the story of Cinderella

17. Cinderella in Different Settings

18. The fairy tale project  In your groups:  Choose a fairy tale  Share different possible directing concepts  Choose one persons concept—that person becomes the direct Director assign other people the roles of:  Set Designer  Costume designer  Hair and Make up  Props  Lighting and Sound

19. The assignment  The group is responsible for presenting:  The directors concept  2 set designs  2 costume designs  1 hair and make up look  1 sound effect/ back ground music  1 prop  Lighting image

20. images

22. Examples: SET

23. Costumes; hair and make up

24. Lighting and props

25. Musical Project DUE 5/7  Choose a musical made between 1904-2004, you can work alone or with a partner  Research this musical and create a presentation  Presentation should include  The musicals title and who wrote it  A Brief plot synopsis  At video clip from one major song from the show (if two are working together than 2 songs), explain where the song comes in the show and how it affects the plot and its development. Must be from a professional production (no high school or college productions)  Reasons why this musical is significant  Did it win any awards? Which ones and why?