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*Depending on
which semester you have stagecraft class, your major project will be
either the fall play or the spring musical.
Course
Description: In this class, you will participate in nearly every backstage
aspect of the theatre. This is a hands-on course, and participation in
everything you are asked to do is vitally important.
General
outline of semester: (may be altered due to semester length)
1- Safety
2- Participate
in the design, construction, painting, finishing, and strike of current
semester’s show. This will take approximately half of the semester, and
there is always an unnegotiable deadline to meet.
3- The other
half of the semester will deal with coverage of the following topics:
-tools
and lumber
-types of
theatres
-set design
-production
staff
-set
construction
-lighting
-set painting
-sound
-stage rigging
-props
*The Spring
semester will seem backwards to you, because we will do everything first,
and then go back and learn, step-by-step, the textbook way to do that
which we have already done. This is because the show in the Spring is at
the beginning of the semester, rather than at the end, like in the Fall.
Grading:
(90-100=A, 80-89=B, 70-79=C, 60-69=D, Below=F)
- Daily Participation (in
whatever you are needed to do) [worth up to 10 points]
- attendance (absences/tardies)
prompt attendance is expected -
All absences, excused or otherwise, will have a negative effect on the
student's participation grade, because there is no possible way to
recreate the events that happen with the entire class during a 90-minute
period. A student who is not present, is not participating.
(Lectures, demonstrations, group activities, set construction/painting,
video-watching, etc., are missed when a student is absent.) This
will not have a noticeable impact on the grade of the student who
occasionally misses, only the grade of the chronically absent student.
- attitude and initiative
(Citizenship grade)
- skills and written tests
- some worksheets and
paperwork
**Some evening work may be
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