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IB Theatre - Production Proposal (first assessment 2024): TEAM - You are the Director

This guide provides resources for the Production Proposal internal assessment task for IB Theatre (first assessment 2024).

TEAM - Tension, Emotion, Atmosphere, and Meaning

Scene from The Curious Savage, a 2018 West Sound Academy Theatre Company productionYou are the director. TEAM has to be in consideration the entire time you are working.

TEAM translates to tension, emotion, atmosphere, and meaning. When you make choices you need to consider the message these will send or the reaction they might incite.

A director makes each of these aspects by using performance and production elements.

Performance elements: movement, blocking, voice, gesture, facial expression.

Production elements: lighting, set design, sound, costume, colors.

Look on this page for links to eBooks and videos on directing.

A Day in the Life of Sol Abiad, a Theatre Director

(6:13) Sol Abiad is a creative thinker, theatre director, and university lecturer. Practicing experimental theatre in Dubai, her days call for going beyond routine. Journalists from My Dubai, My City, spend a day with her in the playing space.

Sol has 20 years of experience performing and directing. She is dedicated to experiential learning and ensemble work, using progressive improvisational theatre for interpersonal skills development and training in the arts sector.

Lekan Lawal, Assistant Director of Derby Theatre's production of Cinderella

(1:56) Lekan Lawal talks about being the assistant director of Derby Theatre's production Cinderella and what you need to be an assistant director.

Demonstrating Directing - Digital Theatre+

Demonstrating Directing - Digital Theatre+

Key Concepts in Modernism: The Director - Digital Theatre+

Key Concepts in Modernism: The Director - Digital Theatre+

Spotlight on: The Director - Digital Theatre+

Spotlight on: The Director - Digital Theatre+

The Director's Creative Process - Digital Theatre+

The Director's Creative Process - Digital Theatre+

How to Stage a Play - Digital Theatre+

How to Stage a Play - Digital Theatre+

Wise Children Key Scene: The Direction

Wise Children Key Scene: The Direction - Digital Theatre+

Fifty Key Theatre Directors - EBSCO Academic eBooks

Directing - a Handbook for Emerging Theatre Directors - EBSCO Academic eBooks

         

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