Maranda Trapolsi's Graduation Project: Questions

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Questions

Yesterday, I finally got a chance to talk with Mr. Ringold about my project. He said that I would be able to direct a play next year. So as of now all systems are go. So that's pretty good. Also today I tried out some foundation questions and I have about 10 but I still need to filter them and read through my research to back the questions up. So the only thing I really need to do as of now is read through some of my sources to pick out some good information and filter through them.

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samSeptember 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Excellent. Are you examining all directing techniques, or are their special techniques for students directing students?
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Key Terms

Actor - a person who performs in a play
Audience - the people who go to a theater to see a play being performed
Blocking - the movements and the actions the actor makes on stage
Cast - the group of actors performing a specific play
Casting - the act of putting different actors into different roles in a play, usually based off of an audition
Character - a person in the play who is portrayed by an actor
Company - company is another word for cast
Crew - the crew works behind the scenes, making sets and setting up the stage both before the performance starts and during the performance whenever there is a scene change
Cue - is usually a line said by an actor that prompts the stage crew to either change the lighting, play a sound, or change a scene
Director - the person who tells the actor of a play what to do so that the production is ready to be performed
Dress Rehearsal - when the actors practice performing the play as if they were actually performing it, there is no use of a script, the actors are in costume and perform with all of the sound and light crews, the director keeps all note that they may have until the performance is finished
Playwright - a person who writes a play
Props - anything that an actor will need during the performance ex: pen, book, cups etc
Read-Through - when the actors just read the script without doing any blocking
Rehearsal - a time before the final production where the actors and the director practice performing the play
Run-Through - when actors run through the entire play including blocking usually done without the use of scripts, the director will stop the play and give notes as they see neccessary
Script - the play itself in print of the actor's lines and stage directions
Set - everything on the stage during a performance excluding the actors especially the background
Stage Manager - controls everything behind the scenes including lighting and sound cues
Theater - a place in which a play is performed, usually contains a stage, a backstage, seating area, and a dressing room or an actor's lounge

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