Location:
The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, 39 West 19th Street, New York, NY.
Learner Outcomes:
Students will analyze and translate information about a character from a screenplay into an organic, three dimensional, person that lives truthfully in the circumstances of the story.
Instruction:
Analyze a screenplay, incorporating scenes with dialog, scenes without dialog, and what information can be gleaned from descriptive scene settings and character descriptions. Students are assigned scenes to analyze for class discussion as well as perform a scene from the screenplay.
Credit recommendation:
In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category or in the upper division baccalaureate degree category, 2 semester hours in Theatre, Drama, Communications, or Radio and Television (6/09).
