Catalog of Critical Creativity Presentation

11.    Potent Quotable—Have students instead of using provide quotes they would find the spine line for one of the characters and through their design show why that is the spine line.

22. Minimalist Poster—Have students create this poster advertising a specific performance or script. Show the main ideas of the script in a simple way.

33. Soundtracking the Moment—Have students create a soundtrack for their monologues. Talk about sound design and how that can change a performance. Do this after they already know how to perform monologues. They could pick a new one or have them do one they already know.  

  4. Chronological Choreography—Depict a timeline for a 10-minute scene in 3 minutes. Focus on the important moments of the script and showcase them using music, movement, and rhythms.

55. Brick-a-Book—Students will create images using blocks, Legos etc. for the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the denouement of a script. Would be really fun to do with a Greek theatre piece tie this into Aristotle and what theatre should look like.

66. Belief Board—Create Pinterest boards for people like Brecht, Stanislavski etc.  

I really like the idea of having students create belief boards for Acting Stylists such as: Stanislavski, Brecht, Uta Hagen, Viola Spolin, Michael Chekhov, Meisner, Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, etc. In the Intention book, they create their own characters and then have them create a Pinterest board for them. But I think it would be a really great way for students to show their understanding of these people and of their methods. However, that means that they would have to have a prior knowledge of who these people are—it can be a basic knowledge and they can do some on their own. They need to know just a basic knowledge to get them started. One thing that they also mentioned that I liked was that we could do an overview of all of them and then have the students build on their Pinterest boards as we go through the different stylings. Or if I wanted just to focus on one of the acting styles we could make a community board that we add to over time. Students could either put their initials at the end of the description of they could each have a number that they are assigned that I can identify them by what they put after the description.

The creative constraints that I would choose to have for this project would be:

·       Collect at least one quote—Not by them, but something that they would agree with

·       One meme

·       One piece of artwork

·       One piece of photography

·       One other object

·       Each pin in the description should be a caption from the Acting Stylist’s perspective.  

Then have students share and comment on each other’s boards.