Students will demonstrate their understanding of Uta Hagen\u2019s The Basic Object Exercises exercise by rehearsing and performing a 2-minute slice of their life.<\/p>\n
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\u00b7 Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen (preferably one per student)<\/p>\n
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Conduct a number of physical exercises (i.e. ab exercises, bicep exercises, squat exercises, etc.). Ask students why athletes perform warm-up exercises (possible answers: for training, to warm-up, to improve craft, etc.) Inform them that just as athletes have specific warm-up exercises, Uta Hagen (renowned actor and director) has created exercises for actors. Transition to the first exercise by reading from Uta Hagen\u2019s book, Respect for Acting. (Detailed instructions below)<\/p>\n
Step 1:
\n\u00b7 As a class, read Uta Hagen\u2019s Respect for Acting, pages 81-86.
\n\u00b7 Throughout the reading, periodically asks students
\no to summarize what they\u2019ve read
\no for examples from their individual lives<\/p>\n
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Step 2:
\n\u00b7 Based on the reading, students must now decide a moment in their daily life when they can apply the principles discussed in the reading
\n\u00b7 Specifically they need to think of something where they\u2019re able to answer the following questions:
\n1. Who am I?
\n2. What time is it?
\n3. Where am I?
\n4. What surrounds me?
\n5. What are the given circumstances?
\n6. What is my relationship?
\n7. What do I want?
\n8. What\u2019s in my way?
\n9. What do I do to get what I want?
\n(For additional examples or further clarification, read pages 91-94 )
\n\u00b7 Once they determine the situation they want to use in their exercise, have students write a detailed description of the occurrence. (They will turn this in after they perform.)<\/p>\n
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Step 3:
\n\u00b7 Once students have had sufficient time to practice the exercise and scene, have them perform
\n\u00b7 To performers: emphasize that they are simply trying to \u201crecreate 2 minutes of their life and bring it to presentation as if for the first time\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u00b7 Once everyone has performed, discuss their process in doing this exercise (Possible questions: what did this exercise do for you? How did it help you? How do you think it can help the performance overall?, etc.)
\n\u00b7 Conclude by emphasizing \u201call technical variations of the ensuing exercises incorporate the elements you have examined in this one. Don\u2019t omit any of them.\u201d (page 94)<\/p>\n
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Participation: 10pts
\nImplementation of Exercise: 5pts
\nWrite up: 5 pt
\nTotal possible points: 20 pts<\/p>\n
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Implementation of Exercise POINT VALUE
\nDescription of Qualifying Standard Points
\nBarely understands the exercise and its application to improving one\u2019s acting ability 1
\nSufficiently understands the exercise and its application to improving one\u2019s acting ability 3
\nUnderstands the exercise and successfully applies it to improve one\u2019s acting ability 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Objective Students will demonstrate their understanding of Uta Hagen\u2019s The Basic Object Exercises exercise by rehearsing and performing a 2-minute slice of their life. Materials Needed \u00b7 Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen (preferably one per student) Lesson Directions Anticipatory Set\/Hook Conduct a number of physical exercises (i.e. ab exercises, bicep exercises, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6148,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1882\/revisions\/6148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}