Introduction to Theater Performance One Semester (Offered First Semester) Prerequisites: None This course is designed to develop performance skills in both public speaking and stage presentations. Students will explore the development of a message and carefully analyze existing speech and dramatic materials. Script and character analysis, along with the study of acting techniques, will be used to enhance each student’s talent and understanding of public performance. Students will develop speeches of demonstration and persuasion based on the study of theater history, as well as performances from theater and film. Text: Audition by Michael Shurtleff (ISBN 0-553-27295-0) Music Production One Semester (Offered First Semester) Prerequisites: None The Music Production elective is an experience designed to inspire students who desire to combine their interests of music and technology. Students will meaningfully create and respond to music using industry-standard programs and recording equipment. Students will finish this course with a portfolio of their own composed, mastered, and recorded audio works including a podcast, film score, remix, and original composition. This course is technology-based and limited to nine students. Musical Innovation & Leadership One Semester (Offered First and Second Semesters) Prerequisites: None The purpose of the Musical Innovation & Leadership elective course is to expose students—both musician and non-musician—to a wide scope of leaders in music, in order to discover important contributions to innovation within the music industry, and how these discoveries and leaders helped form the music industry into its current shape. Students will investigate and experience a multitude of genres, composers, musicians, instruments, time periods, and types of music. Through these experiences and alongside analytic listening and viewing, students will discover how music is universal and ever changing. Units include movie soundtracks and composers, Broadway, the evolution of song old and new, the music making process and music production, visual art connections to music, instruments and artists from around the world, and the music of Detroit. Students will discover and exercise their own musical identities to help guide class discussion and individual and group project work throughout the course.
Advanced Digital Photography One Semester (Offered First and Second Semesters) Prerequisites: Digital Photography OR Creative and Performing Arts Department recommendation In this course, students will build upon the skills acquired in Digital Photography, focusing on advanced photography techniques and the use of Adobe Creative programs to produce a professional and consistent series of photographs.
Directing for Stage and Screen One Semester (Offered Second Semester) Prerequisites: None
This course will investigate the process of directing and managing live event film and performance events. Students will develop a deeper appreciation for theatrical literature as they analyze and prepare to direct selected scenes and materials for presentation in this class. Starting with storyboarding, and computer generated video, students will produce a 30-second commercial. Students will also study the historical development of directing and management through readings and assignments dealing with theatrical personalities. As a final project, students will prepare to direct a one-act play for possible presentation to the school community. Text: Directing for the Stage by Terry John Converse (ISBN 1-56608-014-2)
Introduction to Film One Semester (Offered First Semester) Prerequisites: None
All art forms tell a story, but perhaps no art form inundates our senses more than film. In less than three hours, films transport us back in time, whisk us across the sea, and boldly take us into the future. In this one semester class, students will engage in an introduction to film studies. Through excerpts from Giannetti’s classic textbook, Understanding Movies , and through the viewing of several films, students will see how a series of film clips are arranged to deliver a comprehensive visual narrative. Students will be encouraged to look past the “story” of a film and discover the visual and musical art forms central to most narrative films. Essays, cinematic lab reports, quizzes, tests, and a final exam will measure student achievement. Films may include The Godfather , Coppola; Citizen Kane , Welles; Rear Window , Hitchcock; and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Lee. Text: Course pack provided by instructor
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