A teacher-facing reference guide listing major theatrical movements, their core aesthetics, key theorists, and suggested anchor plays for student research. Updated to include Elizabethan, Restoration, and Realist styles.
A reference guide for students showing standard theatrical drafting symbols for furniture, architectural elements, and stage curtains.
A vertical drafting template for creating front elevations of set designs. It includes height markers for common flat sizes and a clear ground line for accurate measuring.
A technical drafting template for creating ground plans. It includes a 1/4" scale grid, marked Center Line and Plaster Line, and a legend area for students to define their symbols.
A reference guide for students explaining the key components of a proscenium stage and fly system, including essential technical drafting terms.
A revised two-page student handout for 'Refugee' tableaux. This version resolves layout overlaps between headers and directions on page 2, clears redundant wording, and provides a cleaner organizational structure for brainstorming and staging.
A revised two-page student handout for the 'Refugee' tableau activity. This version removes the pre-filled pivotal moments and provides a blank brainstorming grid for students to identify their own character and key scenes.
A teacher facilitation guide for the Rights and Reels lesson, including a 25-minute pacing guide, key talking points on music licensing and case studies, and an answer key for the student guided notes.
A follow-along guided notes sheet for students to use during the Rights and Reels presentation, featuring fill-in-the-blanks, checkboxes, and a drafting area for their portfolio copyright statement.
A comprehensive slide deck for photography and filmmaking students covering copyright basics, the "Steamboat Willie" public domain expiration, festival music licensing, and portfolio protection.
A high-level model analysis essay on the film 'Charade' titled 'The Many Masks of Peter Joshua', accompanied by a comprehensive grading rubric. The essay explores identity, visual artifice, and genre subversion, providing a benchmark for student performance.
A structured guided viewing worksheet for students watching 'Charade'. It includes a pre-viewing genre analysis, an identity tracker for Cary Grant's character, sections on visual symbolism (fashion and color), and deep-dive questions on trope subversion and the 'unreliable ally' motif.
A set of sophisticated presentation slides designed for a lecture on the film 'Charade'. It explores genre alchemy, the motif of fluid identity through Cary Grant's character, the role of Givenchy fashion as narrative armor, and the subversion of classic film tropes.