{"id":4592,"date":"2016-02-17T21:31:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?page_id=4592"},"modified":"2016-02-17T21:31:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:31:23","slug":"stage-pictures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?page_id=4592","title":{"rendered":"Stage Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LESSON 5: Stage Pictures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Educational Objective: <\/strong>Students will demonstrate a working knowledge of how to create effective stage pictures, by developing a distinct picture for the beginning, middle, and end of their scenes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Supplies Needed:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Performance space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hook: <\/strong>Have 4-5 students come to the center of the room with you.\u00a0 Explain to the rest of the class that they will need to identify the story fairy tale that these three pictures are telling. Put them in the three tableaus.<\/p>\n<p>1-Cinderella on the floor scrubbing. With step-mom pointing down at her and two step-sisters turning their backs or putting on make-up being hoity-toity.<\/p>\n<p>2-Cinderella in her gown being asked to dance by the prince (perhaps he\u2019s kissing her hand), with the fairy god-mother in the background waiving her wand!<\/p>\n<p>3-The Prince putting the lost slipper on Cinderella as the step-sisters gasp and the step-mom covers her face in shame or shakes her fist in anger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> After you have staged all three tableaus, ask the class: What fairy tale did you see?\u00a0 Can you identify the beginning, the middle, and the end?<\/p>\n<p>If they get stuck on one you may need to have the group go back to that particular position to help refresh their memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They should have gone more in depth with stage pictures in their earlier classes, so here, review the following elements of stage pictures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>pulling focus<\/li>\n<li>power and authority in levels<\/li>\n<li>body positions<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>proximity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remind them that effective stage pictures reveal the relationships of the characters, the story, and may also give us a clue as to who is winning their objective at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Explain that for their scenes they will need to make sure they have created at least three pictures that help tell the story to us.\u00a0 They should show us the beginning, the middle, and the end.\u00a0 Give them examples from one of their scenes or a movie.\u00a0 Pick out the beginning, the middle and the end of it to help them understand how they could break their scenes into 3 parts too.\u00a0 Give them about 7 minutes first to see if they can focus their rehearsal on it.\u00a0 Check their progress and then, if they need more time, extend it to a full10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> After their 10 minutes, have them review what the stage pictures communicate story, relationship, emotion, character, focus.\u00a0 Ask the class to gather to watch the pictures of the other groups.\u00a0 Allow each group to show all three pictures and encourage the other class members to tell the group what they are seeing.\u00a0 This will help the group assess if their pictures are giving the effect they wanted.\u00a0 Coach them, if needed, so that they can fix anything in the picture that is misleading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong> Discuss their experience as a whole.\u00a0 What elements did they see well done?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tell them to finish class by rehearsing and memorizing while using their picture positions.\u00a0 They should mark in their scripts when they will reach or create each picture.\u00a0 They can do whatever they need to in order to move from one picture to the other, but we need to maintain a clear beginning, middle, and end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5:<\/strong> The rest of time needs to be working on memorizing and rehearsals. 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