{"id":1270,"date":"2015-03-16T20:06:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tedb-wp.byu.edu\/?page_id=1270"},"modified":"2015-05-15T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T19:26:08","slug":"entrances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"Entrances"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Objective<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Students will demonstrate an ability to make an entrance as a character with a given circumstance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Materials Needed<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>List of entrance suggestions (included). Stage area with a door or a facsimile of a door. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Entrance-Scenarios.docx\">Entrance Scenarios<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Lesson Directions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>After all students have arrived, announce that you are going to leave the room and come back in three times. Each time you enter, do so in a different manner (hurried, tired, stealthily, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Step One<\/p>\n<p>Ask students why they think you did that. Discuss the importance of creating a back-story for a character before setting foot onstage. Let students know that to give the illusion of reality, an actor must always know exactly where he\/she had been the moment before. Tell them that acting begins before they set foot onstage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Step Two<\/p>\n<p>Tell students that they will each be given a scene or a location and three different scenarios they will use to make three distinct entrances, such as this:<\/p>\n<p>Scene: College student coming home to his apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Entrance One-You are late for work and have come home to change.<\/p>\n<p>Entrance Two-You just finished a test that kept you up studying all night before.<\/p>\n<p>Entrance Three-It\u2019s snowing outside and you had to walk a mile from campus to home.<\/p>\n<p>Ask actors to take a moment to imagine their circumstances each time prior to entering the stage. Ask for a volunteer to go first.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Step Three<\/p>\n<p>After the student performs, hold a brief discussion with the class. Ask: Did the way the actor entered feel different each time? Was his mood\/agenda clear each time? Which entrance stood out the most for you? Why?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Step Four<\/p>\n<p>Repeat the game until every student has had a chance to perform.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Step Five<\/p>\n<p>Hold a brief class discussion. Ask: Why is something as simple as an entrance an important part of acting? How can we use what we learned by doing this activity as actors?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Assessment<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>As homework, ask each actor to create a one-minute scene that starts with a character coming home. Tell students that the one-minute scene should include the entrance itself and stage business that the student must invent. Ask students to write a one-page description of what had happened to that character that day\u2014prior to coming home that effectively explains his attitude when he arrived onstage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This lesson plan came from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dramanotebook.com\/\">Drama Notebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will demonstrate an ability to make an entrance as a character with a given circumstance.<\/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\/1270"}],"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=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}