THE FUNDAMENTALS OF DIRECTING: This is a Fall-semester course for 2nd-year students of all options introducing the fundamentals of the directors craft: text analysis; the work script with column method & blocking notation; determining the purpose of the writing; the concept of Action & Change (beats & transitions); practical use of the Six Aristotelian Elements of Drama; Genre & Style; the Dramatic Question; Levels in the Creative Process; Visual Vocabulary & Staging Tools including planes, levels, values of stage space, body positions; composition; picturization; emphasis; & movement; entrances & exits; the ground plan. Work includes unscripted exercises, then scripted exercises on an open stage & then within a detailed ground plan. Additional goals: to work in a professional manner; to value preparation, analysis & organization.
