eHandbook: Technical Companion to Drama
Brian McGuire
128
Sep 09
978 1 84070 841 7- Ideal for KS3, GCSE and beyond
- Includes cartoons and accessible text
- Convenient digital format
This important resource helps students build on their drama knowledge and understanding, particularly of the technical side of drama. The material can be used on its own or to complement the original eHandbook: Drama.
A whole school resource
The eHandbook: Technical Companion to Drama is suitable for KS3, GCSE, A-level, GNVQ Advanced and Performing Arts projects. The advice relates to classroom, studio and production work.
An ideal companion to work in drama
The student is addressed directly and the text and humorous cartoons make it very accessible. The eHandbook includes:
- definitions and cartoon illustrations for more drama skills and techniques
- performance tips
- more examples of written work.
Wide coverage of key technical issues
Concentrating on the technical aspects of drama, the companion addresses:
- Lighting
- Sound
- Costume
- Properties
- Set design
- Stage management
- Performance tips
- Drama skills and techniques
- Written work.
Accessible to all
The eHandbook: Technical Companion to Drama is provided as a PDF, which means that it can be shared across your school network and printed out as required. Priced at less than £1 per student, it also makes an extremely cost-effective addition to your department’s resources.
Contents
Introduction
1 Lighting
- Fading in/out
- Lighting without lanterns
- Finding your light
- Houselights
- The lanterns
- Safety chain and 'G' clamp
- Barn doors
- Using colour (cinemoid)
- Gobos
- Strobe lighting
- Cyclorama
- Lighting the actor
- The follow spot
- Uplighting
- The control desk
- Patching
- Planning the lighting for an improvisation/play
- Lighting the cue sheet
- Lighting worksheet
2 Sound
- Music
- Sound cues
- Equipment
- Microphones
- Feedback
- Foldback
- Sound control desk
- Other ways of creating sound
- Sound cue sheet
- Sound worksheet
3 Costumes
- Styles of costumes
- Responsibility
- Time and cost
- Colour in relation to the set
- Comfort and durability
- Period
- Other points
- Organising yourself
- Costume sheet example
- Costume sheet
- Costume worksheet
4 Properties
- Stage and personal properties
- Personal properties sheet example
- Personal properties sheet
- Properties sheet example
- Properties sheet
- Properties sheet - Onstage
- Properties sheet - Offstage
- Properties worksheet
5 Set design
- Rostra and levels
- The box set
- Sightlines
- Stage areas
- Style of staging
- Set design worksheet
6 Stage management
- Stage manager's job
- Set construction/striking the set
- Costumes and properties
- Communication
- Organising play copies
- Assistant stage manager/crew/runners
- The prompter
- Production sheet
- Stage management worksheet
7 Performance tips
- In position
- Fidgeting
- Acknowledging others in the acting area
- Mistakes
- The performance run
- Saying thank you
- Blocking in
- Using upstage hand
- Blocking in for the round
- Telephone conversations
- Thank you list
8 Drama skills and techniques
- Giving witness/making point of view
- Secret role-play
- Bringing to life
- His/her thoughts
- Good angel/bad angel
- Solo thinking
- Amplifying
- Turning through the audience
- Docudrama
- Split staging
- Narrating
9 Written work
- Writing a script
- Performing rights
- Producing written work
Useful words
About the author
Brian McGuire is a deputy headteacher at Bedford High School in Leigh, Lancashire. He has a great deal of experience as an Arts/Drama consultant and as a senior examiner for Drama. He is recognised as one of the country's leading authorities on Drama.
Price details
- £50 for 50 licences.
- Additional licences 75p each.
Get in touch
For more information, please call 01223 350555 or email info@pearson.co.uk.
