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Dec 05, 2024
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DRA 250 - Directing Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: General Foundational training in preparing a clear and dynamic production of a play for the stage. This course will cover skills from generating cohesive and inspiring ideas to collaborating with a production team and actors. Attendance at a theatrical performance required. Prerequisite OR Corequisite: DRA 125 Competencies
- Analyze the director’s foremost role as the audience’s advocate
- Distinguish the purpose of producing theatre
- Prioritize the necessity of the audience’s participation in theatrical productions
- Establish an ability to remove judgement that impedes effective storytelling of assigned plays
- Distinguish common use terminology in the professional field of directing
- Break down foundational industry-standard terminology used by directors
- Illustrate the effective use of directorial terminology in various professional settings
- Characterize common practices of the director throughout a professionally oriented project
- Break down the essential expectations of the director
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to clearly navigate an entire production process from beginning to end
- Produce effective examples of working metaphor
- Characterize what makes a working metaphor effective
- Generate examples of working metaphors in the context of studied dramatic literature
- Interpret at least one play with focus on directorial concept
- Read the play from a directorial point of view with attention to detail
- Characterize all elements of the play as they could apply to a clear and dynamic play on the stage
- Incorporate one’s own directorial production vision into the play
- Create a directorial prompt book
- Organize the play alongside all directorial research in a comprehensive manner
- Produce examples of preparatory blocking
- Synthesize preparatory work in the form of a directed scene from a play
- Construct clear and dynamic staging
- Perform a scene from a play that has been thoroughly conceptualized
- Defend directorial choices in context of the written play
- Evaluate the effectiveness of one’s own preparation
- Assess the effectiveness of one’s own performed work
- Develop an ability to constructively receive feedback
- Critique the effectiveness of the work of a director of a staged play with constructive criticisms
- Evaluate the processes by which directors gain employment in the current market
- Distinguish patterns of employment for directors prior to achieving steady employment as a director
- Produce a directorial resume
Competencies Revised Date: AY2023
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