eHandbook: Technical Companion to Drama

Brian McGuire

Pricing

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PDF on CD-ROM

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 on CD-ROM, which means that it can be shared across your school network and printed out as required. Priced at less than £1^+VAT per student, it also makes an extremely cost-effective addition to your department’s resources.

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^+VAT for 50 licences.
Additional licences 75p^+VAT each.

Get in touch

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