DRMA 260 Acting for Stage and Digital Film I (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Formerly THTR 260
Course Description
Introduction to the methods employed in acting for the contemporary stage and digital film.
Course Content
a. Cultural Influences on character development
b. Sociocultural Influences on character development
c. Historical/cultural heritage on character development
d. Concepts of actor evaluation
e. Concepts of performance techniques
f. Creative expression/performance
g. Training of the voice, mind and body for beginning acting
h. Appropriate vocabulary to apply the concepts of beginning acting
I. Imaginative, expressive, and technical skills in the performance process
j. Practical tools for preparing roles for film and stage
k. Understanding the discipline of the beginning actor
l. Focus and control of the actor’s instrument
m. Stage movement and pantomime to express thought, feelings, and actions
n. Stanislavski’s system for character study
Student Outcomes
1. Employ stage movement and pantomime consistently to express thoughts, feelings, and actions.
2. Improvise a situation using emotional and sensory recall.
3. Develop and practice effective voice and diction to express thoughts and feelings for stage and digital film.
4. Define and give examples of theatrical and digital film conventions (time, setting, fourth wall, visual elements).
5. Analyze a character from a script, describing physical, intellectual, emotional, and social dimensions.
6. Portray believable characters when applying acting concepts, skills and techniques for stage and digital film.
7. Describe and analyze the interdependence of all theatrical elements.
8. Demonstrate safe use of the voice and body.
9. Improvise, write, and perform monologues, scenes, and vignettes to convey intended meaning to the audience for stage and digital film.
10. Examine historical and cultural influences on theatre and analyze the roles of live theatre, film, television, and electronic media in American Society.
11. Use appropriate theatre vocabulary to apply the concepts of evaluation.
12. Describe career and vocational opportunities in theatre and describe the training, skills, self-discipline and artistic discipline needed to pursue them.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze and synthesize information and ideas in order to construct informed, meaningful and justifiable conclusions.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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