Students will be able to explore various movement techniques by creating a music video.
Class Level:
Beginning Theatre; no prior experience necessary.
Class Length:
lessons developed for 85-minute class periods.
National Core Arts Theatre Standards:
TH:Re8.1.HSI a. Analyze and compare artistic choices developed from personal experiences in multiple drama/theatre works.
TH:Cn11.1.HSI a. Explore how cultural, global, and historic belief systems affect creative choices in a drama/theatre work.
TH:Re9.1.HSI b. Consider the aesthetics of the production elements in a drama/theatre work.
TH:Cr2.1.HSI a. Explore the function of history and culture in the development of a dramatic concept through a critical analysis of original ideas in a drama/theatre work. b. Investigate the collaborative nature of the actor, director, playwright, and designers and explore their interdependent roles in a drama/theatre work.
Big Picture:
Great Art is made through collaboration and analysis.
Enduring Understanding 1:
Collaboration creates strong theatrical work.
Enduring Understanding 2:
A text contains important information in conceptualizing a production.
Enduring Understanding 3:
Movement and energy creates more interesting characters.
Essential Question 1:
How do we use our strengths to work together to make good art?
Essential Question 2:
How does movement and energy affect character work?
Essential Question 3:
How can we use the text to inspire a new telling of the work?
Educational Objective: Students will be able to explore spatial relationship, topography and Laman’s 3 movements by moving on a grid and creating topographical tableaus.
Educational Objective: Students will be able to understand topography and movement energy by creating a music story utilizing Laman’s movements and topography.
Educational Objective: Students will demonstrate collaboration skills by working together to select a piece of music from which to build their music video.
Educational Objective: Students will be able to create a story for their music video by working as a team to create and present a storyboarding concept.
Educational Objective: Students will be able to plan out their music video by working through the details of storyboard, creating and practicing choreography, and making lists of what costumes, props, etc they wish to bring in next class period.
Educational Objective: Students will be able to explore movement techniques, and production collaboration by creating their own music videos and presenting them.
