{"id":1258,"date":"2015-03-16T20:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tedb-wp.byu.edu\/?page_id=1258"},"modified":"2015-05-15T19:28:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T19:28:26","slug":"beats-of-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Beats of Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Objective<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Students will be able to understand the concept of marking beats in a script by marking a script with beats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Materials Needed<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Overture from <em>Oklahoma<\/em>!, CD player, <em>The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em> Scripts, Stuart Vaughan\u2019s book Directing Plays: A Working Professional\u2019s Method, Overhead of The Importance of Being Earnest scene between Jack and Lady Bracknell, Schanker, Harry H. ed. The Stage and the School. Glencoe McGraw-Hill: Ohio, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Related Documents<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/The-Importance-of-Being-Earnest-Scene.doc\">The Importance of Being Earnest Scene<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Lesson Directions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Ask students to get out a piece of paper. Tell the students you will be playing a short piece of music and you would like for them to write down any change in beat, rhythm, style, feeling that they detect.\u00a0 Explain that you would like them to also note emotional changes: things like fast, slow, sad, happy, energetic, etc. What does the change mean? How is it different? Each unit within changes is a BEAT.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Play the <em>Oklahoma<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">!<\/span> overture, includes dramatic beat changes.<br \/> Discuss how many variations the students found.<br \/> How did the music change?<br \/> What effect did the change have on you?<br \/> Did you stay entertained?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instruction \u2013 Hand out \u201cThe Importance of Being Ernest\u201d script to the students. Lead discussion about beats, write important information for the students to know on the board. Discussion should be from Stuart Vaughan\u2019s book, <em>Directing Plays: A Working Professional\u2019s Method<\/em>. Pages 71-77<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<br \/> \u00b7 Plays are divided into acts, acts into scenes, scenes, into \u201cbeats,\u201d each with its beginning, middle, and end.<br \/> \u00b7 Each beat is a single unit of conflict.<br \/> \u00b7 Share fun story about the origin of the word \u201cbeat.\u201d<br \/> \u00b7 The division of a play into beats is objective, everyone will be different in their choices.<br \/> \u00b7 Finding beats<br \/> o Look for a change of subject<br \/> o Look for a change in who is leading the scene.<br \/> o Look for where somebody enters or leaves.<br \/> o Look at where someone, in own speech, finished with one problem and takes up another.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Modeling \u2013 Get out overhead of scene from \u201cThe Importance of Being Ernest\u201d between Jack and Lady Bracknell. Students should obtain copies of The Stage and the School and turn to page 163. Ask three students to volunteer to be Jack, Lady Bracknell, and Stage Directions. Tell students that we will be beating the scene. They should stop whenever they think a beat is over or a new one is beginning. Anyone may contribute and should indicate they want a change by raising their hand. When the reader is finished with the line they are on stop and discuss where the beat is and why it has become a new beat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Guided Practice \u2013 Put students into groups of two and have them mark the beats in the Jack and Gwendolyn scene you passed out at the beginning. Instruct students that they should finish marking the script on their own for homework if they do not finish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Assessment<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>These scene beats will be used in a follow-up lesson entitled &#8220;Blocking&#8221; &#8211; another lesson plan on this website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Author&#8217;s Notes<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This lesson is the first half of a two-part lesson: this plan is first and the second half is the lesson plan &#8220;Blocking&#8221;. Or this lesson can stand on its own if then applied to another scene\/monologue, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will be able to understand the concept of marking beats in a script by marking a script with beats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}