TECH DESIGN

Students will demonstrate their ability to think and work as designers as they interpret and create set designs for a particular scene of a play.

Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements of technical theatre design by completing projects in each element, creating a group skit demonstrating technical elements, and a final written test.

Students will demonstrate their mastery of sound and the creation of sound by adapting and performing a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream using live sound effects.

Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the use of sound in a production by designing the sound for the production "You Can’t Take It With You".

Objective: Students will demonstrate their scenic painting skills by painting various surfaces and creating a final project incorporating the skills they have learned.

Educational Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to design and executing old age makeup, stylized makeup and wound makeup.

Description: This is a three-lesson mini-unit that was taught the couple days before a beginning Stage Tech class went into the auditorium to learn how to hang lights, work the light board, and gel the lights. While it is not a full-length unit, these three lessons could be inserted into a Stage Tech class at any time when the class is not building, etc.

Students will be able to demonstrate the understanding of lighting principles by designing a light plot for a production.

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of dramaturgy by selecting a script and creating a casebook of supplemental materials and research for that show.

UNIT OBJECTIVE: The students will demonstrate their directing skills by creating a director’s book and directing a one-act play of their choice.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their ability to design a set by compiling and presenting a set design project for a scene.

Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of costuming by designing the costume for one character in a play or musical and by presenting a research project.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the elements of design and the design process by creating/presenting a finished set design model.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of basic color theory and the effects on the audience of color on stage by completing a color wheel, identifying emotional connotations/communication of color on stage and creating a basic color scheme for the play The Rainmaker.

Objective: The students will demonstrate their ability to communicate certain traits of a character through the design of a costume by designing a costume for a Shakespearean character.

UNIT LEARNING GOAL: Students will be able to design and implement character makeup for stage productions.