Acting Skills
| Objective: | Students will demonstrate an understanding of acting skills by performing a duo scene. |
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| Subject: | Acting Skills & Techniques |
| Class Level: | Intermediate |
| Main Concepts: | stage directions, objectives and tactics, character development, physicality, vocal use and variety, connection to breath, stage pictures |
| National Standards: | CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions. CONTENT STANDARD 4: Directing by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions. |
| Description: | Lessons were created for an 80-minute class period. |
| Author: | Emily Ray |
Lesson Plans
Students will demonstrate their ability to free themselves of inhibitions by performing a lip synch incorporating movement, facial expressions, energy, effort to let go, and a commitment to their song.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of stage directions by blocking their duo scene and writing the correct notation of their blocking in their script.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of objectives and tactics in a scene by performing a duo scene identifying their character’s objective and implementing 3 tactics to play that objective.
Students will demonstrate an ability to develop a character and a character history by writing a character analysis paper about their character for their duo scene.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of a character’s physical traits by practicing animal mannerisms and applying them to their character in their duo scene.
Students will demonstrate their ability to use their voice by enunciating, projecting, and using at least three vocal varieties in their duo scene.
Students will demonstrate an ability to connect to their breath by participating in exercises and incorporating breath connection into their monologues.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of different levels (height) onstage by incorporating 3 different levels in their duo scene.
Students will demonstrate an ability to be natural onstage by performing a real life interaction in front of the class and incorporating a similar interaction into their duo scenes.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of performance skills by previewing their duo scene for the class and fill out an observation form about what they observed in other scenes pertaining to these skills as well.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of beginning acting skills by performing a duo scene including: being free from inhibitions, stage directions, objectives and tactics, character development, physicality, vocal use and variety, connection to breath, stage pictures and levels, and being natural onstage.