{"id":1261,"date":"2015-03-16T20:03:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T20:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tedb-wp.byu.edu\/?page_id=1261"},"modified":"2015-05-15T19:27:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T19:27:38","slug":"blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"Blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Objective<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Students will demonstrate their understanding of blocking\/movement by blocking a scene from <em>The Importance of Being Earnest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Materials Needed<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em> Scripts, Stuart Vaughan\u2019s book <em>Directing Plays: A Working Professional\u2019s Method<\/em>, Projection of <em>The Importance of Being Earnest <\/em>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><em>Earnest<\/em> Scene\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 a few students to share how they beat the script from <em>The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em> that they took home for homework (another lesson plan called &#8220;Beats&#8221; posted on this website). Ask them to share why they have given the scene the beats that they did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instruction: Review what a beat is with the students.<br \/> o A single unit of conflict.<br \/> o Everyone\u2019s beats will be different.<br \/> o Finding beats.<br \/> \u00a7 Look for a change of subject.<br \/> \u00a7 Look for a change in who is leading the scene.<br \/> \u00a7 Look for where somebody enters or leaves.<br \/> \u00a7 Look for where someone finished a problem and starts another in their speech.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lead discussion about Blocking and Movement. Discussion points come from <em>The Stage and the School<\/em>, McGraw Hill, and Stuart Vaughan\u2019s book, <em>Directing Plays: A Working Professional\u2019s Method<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<br \/> o Go over blocking areas of the stage.<br \/> o Movement &amp; Blocking should be established before work on line interpretation is done. Always 1st.<br \/> o Use the whole stage when blocking.<br \/> o Effective stage pictures and levels should be utilized.<br \/> o All gestures and movements should have meaning.<br \/> o Spontaneous reactions from the actors during rehearsals are good too.<br \/> o Actors should not hang onto chairs, tables, skirts, swords, or other actors.<br \/> o Don\u2019t have crosses happen in silence, move on lines.<br \/> o Strength of stage areas, what are the strongest areas.<br \/> o How to write blocking in the script. Drawings.<br \/> o Have script at all rehearsals with a pencil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Modeling: Use the overhead of the scene between Jack and Lady Bracknell from <em>The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em>. As a class go through the first page writing in the blocking on the overhead so the students can see the process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Guided Practice \u2013 Students will now block their script of Jack and Gwendolyn from the play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Assessment<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Blocked scripts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Author&#8217;s Notes<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This is the second half of a two-part lesson. The first lesson is called &#8220;Beats of Acting\u201d and this follows that lesson. Or this lesson can be adapted to stand on its own if the anticipatory set\/hook is changed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will demonstrate their understanding of blocking\/movement by blocking a scene from The Importance of Being Earnest.<\/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\/1261"}],"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=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}