DRMA 151 - Beginning Acting I

• Employ an increasing range of rudimentary acting skills including the ability to create characters convincing and project one’s self-believably in word and action into imaginary circumstances.
• Demonstrate increasing creativity in outward verbal and non-verbal expression.
• Exhibit less self-consciousness and greater self-confidence in live performance tasks.
• Demonstrate an ability to control personal “tendencies/habits” while employing proper techniques of vocal and physical expression necessary for live performance.
• Analyze and discuss the performances of others in objective language.
• Develop and display a continuing respect for the differing talents and abilities of other artists/performers.
• Apply standard terminology of the acting profession.

1. Planned exercises and improvisational games/activities
2. Acting Terminology
3. Self-Discovery (physical, vocal, mental)
4. Trust
5. Relaxation (losing Self-consciousness)
6. Concentration (remembering what we are doing)
7. Rediscovering Playfulness
8. The Infiniteness of Choices
9. Doing (objectives/intentions)
10. Need for Doing (stakes)
11. Challenges to Doing (obstacles)
12. Do it Another Way (tactics)
13. Performing a short memorized text
14. Listening and Responding to Others