Screen Training Ireland - Staging For Directors
Name of Course: Staging For DirectorsDate: 15/11/2007
Duration: 3 Days
Venue: Dublin
Cost: €225.00
Application Procedure:
Please apply at www.screentrainingireland.ie by the 2nd of November 2007. For further details please call Gráinne Bennett at 01 4830840.
Participant Profile:
This seminar is aimed at drama directors.
Course Profile:
Staging communicates subtext to the audience and proper staging can stimulate an emotional truth within the actor.
In the three-day Staging Workshop, ten directors will work with scripted material and professional actors in a process of exploration of the multi-faceted tool of staging. Day one is exploring the two-character scene. Day Two explores the three-character scene and Day Three the four-character scene. Also incorporated into the process is the concept and practice of staging for the camera.
Topics that are covered in The Staging Workshop:
- The Three areas of concern in Staging
- Other Characters
- The Environment
- The Self
- The affect on the Audience
- The internal affect on the character
- Hi Speed Directing
- The Circle of Action
- Staging for the Camera
Mark Travis
Mark's television directing credits include The Facts of Life, Family Ties, Capitol and the Emmy Award-winning PBS dramatic special, Blind Tom: The Thomas Bethune Story. In 1990 he completed his first film, Going Under, for Warner Bros., starring Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty. In 1992 Mark opened a consulting and development company for directors, writers and producers. In 1999 he directed the documentary, Earlet and in 2001 he wrote and directed The Baritones (a parody of The Sopranos).
Mark Travis has been represented as a director for many years on the Los Angeles and off-Broadway stages by such critically acclaimed productions as A Bronx Tale.
See the Screen Training Ireland website for more information.