
This lecture contains the following information:
How to master your:
Articulation
Audibility / Projection
Breathing techniques
Relaxation
and Resonance in order for the audience to enjoy your performance.
This lecture contains all the principles of Modulation for example:
Tone color
Pitch
Pace
Pausing
Phrasing
Inflection
Volume
Intonation
Emphasis
This lecture will introduce you to stage planning for the following genres:
Poetry undramatized
Poetry dramatized
Prose dramatized and undramatized
Monologues
Stage Plays
This lecture will introduce you to the different dress code and props for:
Poetry
Dramatized Poetry
Dramatized Prose
Monologues
In this section you will learn how to use the different pauses in poetry to let the audience understand what the intention of the Poet was when he or she wrote the poem.
In this section you will learn how to apply the different pauses to a specific poem so that the phrasing will compliment the poem.
Now let us look how a free style and a lyric poem must be performed.
The art of performing a dramatized poem is to use different techniques and movement for the audience to enjoy.
In this lecture you will learn in detail what characterization is.
Let us now look at the acting techniques when we perform an undramatized prose.
The characterization for a dramatic monologue can be extremely intense.
Performing a monologue from a Play can be quite challenging. Let us look at the techniques.
Mime is a difficult genre to master. Your movements must be very slow and over exaggerated for the audience to follow.
Improvisation must be creative when plotting the scene.
Make sure you have a beginning, a climax and and an end when you perform your scene.
There is a difference between a persuasive and an informative speech. This lecture will introduce you to the format of a persuasive speech.
Acting is not only to go onto the stage and perform what you had in mind. In all genres there are different techniques to apply. For example:
Poetry, Prose, Monologues, Mime and Improvisation have all their own do's and don'ts if you want to impress either your adjudicator, audience or succeed in your audition.
This course is a must if you have the desire to take part in all genres of the dramatic arts in a professional manner.
Teachers will benefit from this course as a subject to improve their students acting skills.
Parents can use this course to assist their children when entering for Eisteddfods and competitions.