I'm pleased to announce that the University of Washington will launch a certificate program in
Directing for the Stage and Screen in Fall 2012:
http://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/Directing-for-Stage-Screen.html This program offers training to aspiring and growing Directors and Artistic Directors, and will be taught by directors Allison Narver (former Resident Director of
The Lion King and former Artistic Director of The Empty Space Theatre) and John Jacobsen (host of
The Artist Toolbox).
Format:
• Non-credit certificate program with 3 required courses
• One course each quarter (F/W/Sp), 30 hours of instruction per course, for 90 hours total
• Monday evenings, UW Seattle campus
• Tuition: $689 per quarter
Courses:
Fall: Principles of Directing
• Creative and administrative work of a director
• Distinctions between stage and screen
• Text analysis of a play: plot, character, environment, motif; beats and transitions
• Stanislavsky, Meisner coaching techniques
• Physicalization: physical story and action
• Pre-production research
Winter: Intermediate Directing
• Historical periods and styles (to launch student creative Winter quarter portfolio work)
• Auditions and rehearsal with actors
• Staging and Composition: picturization, two-dimension stage configurations, 3-dimensionality, perspectives, angles, blocking, and movement
• Working with and hiring artistic staff, including dramaturgs, assistant directors, and directors of photography
• Introduction to theatre technology, elements of design, and stage management: sound & lighting design
• Mounting a production
• Traditional film and cinema verite methods
• Guest artists from the local arts community
Spring: Advanced Directing
• Advanced directing problem-solving techniques: theories of directing (instructor-led or student research presentations)
• Group organizational dynamics
• Production budget challenges, grant-writing, and other funding
• Technical aspects of directing for film
• Directing for film post-production: understanding editing, dailies, assembly, and cutting
• Directing on location or in site-specific venues
• Touring shows: creative, logistical, and promotional aspects
• Founding a theatre and/or film company; independent production
• Role of an artistic director; mission statement
• Guest speakers/performers from the local arts community
• Capstone student portfolio review: Director presentations including script analysis and main idea, goals and needs of all collaborators, administrative planning, visual research and picturization, selected staging planning, plus optional items (mission statement, grant-writing application, videotaped directed scenes for review)
Program dates and information are posted on our website. Please check there for more information, or contact our advisors at 206-685-8936, 888-469-6499,
info@pce.uw.edu.
