“theatron” 'seeing place.

'

One of the oldest and most

popular forms of entertainment.
 myth and ritual found
in dances and mimed
origin performances by
masked dancers
during fertility.

amphitheaters,
locations churches,
for marketplaces, garages,
theater street corners,
warehouses, and
formal buildings
 ELEMENTS OF

THEATER
THE STAGE

The “empty space” where

actors and materials are
placed for the performance or
for viewing of the audience.
PROSCENIUM OR
PICTURE FRAME
STAGE
found in auditoriums and halls and is
the most commonly known

Introduced during the Italian

Renaissance

named after the proscenium arch

which separates the stage from
the audience and from which the
curtain hangs.
•The audience sits facing the stage and the
seats in the house are usually arranged on
levels going increasingly higher towards the
rear, while the stage itself is also designed
to assure better visibility.
 developed by the ancient
Greeks and used for
their play festivals.

•The stage protrudes from the

center of a structure which is
built behind it, and the audience
sits in a semicircle fronting it.
The stage serves as the acting area and the
building behind it as part of the set to
present a palace, balcony, bedroom, throne
room and tomb.
 BOOTH STAGE

used most commonly by traveling

troupes who have no access to a
theater or other performance
venues, and therefore have to
improvise their acting area in the
open air, usually the town or
church square, or any empty lot.
The acting area is located in the center
of a square or circle, and the audience
surrounds it.
The arena stage brings the audience
closer to the actor, and therefore it
becomes more intimately involved in
the action.
ACTORS

The performers of the theater who

“imitate” human experience
before the audience.
 The actors must have certain natural assets:

A good voice that can project well and register

emotional nuance.
A flexible and strong body that can move easily on
stage and withstand the wear and tear of rehearsals,
and sensitive enough to convey unspoken language.
A fairly good memory not only for remembering
lines, but for the retention and recall of impressions
while observing life.
Mimetic skill sin order characters from reality.
A sufficient amount of intelligence and
imagination, and a great deal of common sense.
 PLAYWRIGHT/
SCRIPT

SCRIPT is the written or improvised

text where the lines or dialogues of the
actors, the instructions for lighting and
music are written.

PLAYWRIGHT is the person who

writes the script
 The playwright
has to work out
his plot in terms
of actual action
and dialogue to be
performed and
spoken by actors
within the limited
facilities of the
stage.
 PRODUCTION
DESIGN

Includes scenery and props,

costume and make-up, lighting,
music, sound and other possible
effects used in a theater
production.
 DIRECTOR
The director presents on stage, for an
audience, a play which he has
interpreted and translated into dramatic
action, with setting, sound ad other
devices, and in terms of the emotional
and intellectual concepts of the
authors’ script.

The demands on a director are

not only aesthetic and technical
but also managemental, for he is,
in fact, the leader of the
theater ensemble which should
work harmoniously to put up the
production.
 It is a series of images that are
projected onto a screen to create
the illusion of motion
It is also called movies, films, or
the cinema
It was primarily used for
entertainment
Today, movies can also teach people about
history, science, human behavior, and many
other subjects.

Some films combine entertainment with

instruction, to make the learning process
more enjoyable
The images that make up a
motion picture are all
individual photographs

These images appear rapidly

in succession, the human
eye does not detect that
they are separate images.

persistence of vision, is a phenomenon whereby

the eye retains a visual image for a fraction of a second
after the source has been removed.
These are movies most commonly shown in large
movie theaters

They typically last at least one and one-half

hours and tell a fictional story or a story based
on real events but portrayed by actors.

The Birth of a Nation (1914), Metropolis (1926),

Citizen Kane (1941), Casablanca (1942), On the
Waterfront (1954), The Sound of Music (1965), The
Godfather (1972), Star Wars (1977), Gandhi (1982),
Jurassic Park (1993), and Titanic (1997).
These films create the illusion of
movement from a series of two-
dimensional drawings, three-dimensional
objects, or computer-generated images.

It use images created by artists

•Deals primarily with fact, not fiction.

•Documentaries do not often appear in

theaters, but they are seen regularly on cable
and broadcast television.

•Some well-known documentaries are Nanook of

the North (1922), The Silent World (1956), Harlan
County, U.S.A. (1976), Eyes on the Prize (1987),
and Hoop Dreams (1994).
 Is a sequence of images, literal or
abstract, which do not
necessarily form a narrative.

An experimental film can be

animated, live action, computer
generated, or a combination of
all three.

Five noteworthy experimental films are

the French film Un Chien Andalou (An
Andalusian Dog, 1929), Meshes of the
Afternoon (1943), A Movie (1958),
Eraserhead (1978), and Privilege (1991).
 Made by companies that wish to
publicize their products or generate
a favorable public image.

Educational films are specifically

intended to be shown in classrooms.
Their aim is to instruct, on subjects
from history to driving skills.
The preparation of the
budget by the producer, and
the script, either original or
adapted, by the writer.
THE works with the actors
and confers with the
DIRECTOR art director.

He may call for retakes

if necessary.

he views the rushes – the

processed and printed The film maker,
shots already made. like the theater
director, is
He may shoot within responsible for
the art studio or the final result
within a location. of the
collaborative
effort.
EDITOR
 CREATE YOUR OWN ANIMATED
CHARACTER, IT SHOULD HAVE A
NAME, CHARACTERISTICS
(SPECIAL POWERS IF NECESSARY)
AND IT SHOULD HAVE COLOR.

MAKE YOUR CHARACTER MOVE

(ONE MOVEMENT ONLY) THROUGH
3 TO 5 FLIP PAGES.