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Prep Unit - Director's Notebook Mini (Prep DN)
Link to instructions for DN mini Assignment
Attached are:
.pdf of "The Lottery"
prep rubric sample with instructions
This is the assignment that the link above gets you to:
TASK: You are going to make a short director’s notebook for The Lottery. ***There are 7 pages total to this assignment.***
LAYOUT:
I highly recommend using landscape instead of portrait
This is a vivid, graphic representation of your ideas, so you should use whatever best helps you to get your ideas across: images, mind maps, diagrams, bullet point lists, drawings and/or text
PAGE 1: Cover Page - this should represent your production and include:
Title of Play
Playwright’s Name
Your Name
Date
Optional: image
PAGE 2: Table of Contents. Use the below:
The play text, its context and the ideas presented in the entire play
My artistic responses, creative ideas and explorations for the entire play prior to the forming of
directorial intentions
My directorial intentions for the entire play and the intended impact on an audience
How I would stage one moment of the play
PAGE 3: CONTEXT
HEADING ON THIS PAGE: The play text, its context and the ideas presented in the entire play
CONTENT ON THIS PAGE:
Brief synopsis of play.
Context of the play as we spoke about it today:
***What is the context of the action of the play and the play setting?
As in the example I showed you today, I should be able to glance at this page and know what the context of the play is even without reading too much. This will include:
Ideas in the play: themes & try to get ONE or TWO sentences that encapsulate the ideas of the play
Maybe when and where the play was written - if relevant to the context (the why of why the play was written)
Playwright - **playwright as context for play - no need for biographical information unless it is important to why the play was written
PAGE 4: MY ARTISTIC RESPONSES
HEADING ON THIS PAGE: My artistic responses, creative ideas and explorations for the entire play prior to the forming of directorial intentions
My artistic responses, creative ideas and explorations for the entire play prior to the forming of directorial intentions
CONTENT ON THIS PAGE:
What are your responses to the play when you first read it - this is not your full production idea, but just ideas that you had about the play upon reading it and things about the play that viscerally stand out to you and activate your imagination about the play. This may be characters, themes, settings, etc…
PAGE 5: MY PRODUCTION IDEAS: DIRECTING AND DESIGN
HEADING ON THIS PAGE: My directorial intentions for the entire play and the intended impact on an audience
CONTENT ON THIS PAGE:
This page should be a one page glimpse at your ideas for a FULL production of The Lottery
Create a statement that is ONE to FIVE sentences long that encapsulates your main idea - the essence of the idea that is the center of your production. This is the idea you want to reverberate throughout the production and impact the audience.
Include ideas for both design and staging
What is your overall idea for design (for example: Jane’s rural town or Bennett’s suburban town).
Give a few specific examples of this design. You can give these examples from any category: lighting, sets, props, costumes, special effects, projections, sound
Where will the audience be? What is the relationship between audience and performers?
How does your design and staging create the impact you want on your audience? Staging = movement of the actors and their use of the stage and design elements
PAGE 6: A MOMENT FROM MY PRODUCTION
HEADING ON THIS PAGE: How I would stage one moment of the play
CONTENT ON THIS PAGE:
Explain how you would stage a moment of The Lottery. Choose a moment that best reflects your overall idea for your production.
You may annotate the script directly, if you wish, but this is not required
PAGE 7: WORKS CITED
HEADING ON THIS PAGE: Works Cited
CONTENT ON THIS PAGE:
Works you cite in your director’s notebook. Use MLA 8 which is the Dwight standard.