Tips: Ideas for Directors

Tips: Ideas for Directors
Author: Jon Jory
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-09-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Until very recently, directing wisdom was passed on in the form of "tips". Continuing this tradition, you will find them ranging from the way set a scene to directing the actor on the way to laugh. The tips are clear, concise, evocative, and constructed to give you a better day in rehearsal and performance. A buffet of ways to improve immediately that you'll refer to over and over again!

Tips on Auditioning

Tips on Auditioning
Author: Jon Jory
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN: 9781575258959

Intended for younger actors, Jon Jory has created a comprehensive book that addresses everything you need to know when auditioning for stage, film, television and even for training programs. Jory offers practical advice on how to fulfill those hopes and defuse their fears with his very clear ¿Tips¿ format that is concise and readable-including 75 new audition pieces with his own directorial insights.

Directing Actors

Directing Actors
Author: Judith Weston
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1996
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9780941188241

Demonstrates what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, what directors do wrong and more.

From Survive to Thrive

From Survive to Thrive
Author: Debbie LeeKeenan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781938113369

Theory meets practical tips in this guide for leaders of early childhood programs

Strategies, Tips, and Activities for the Effective Band Director

Strategies, Tips, and Activities for the Effective Band Director
Author: Robin Linaberry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 100037260X

Strategies, Tips, and Activities for the Effective Band Director: Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension is a resourceful collection of highly effective teaching strategies, solutions, and activities for band directors. Chapters are aligned to cover common topics, presenting several practical lesson ideas for each topic. In most cases, each pedagogical suggestion is supported by excerpts from standard concert band literature. Topics covered include: score study shortcuts; curriculum development; percussion section management; group and individual intonation; effective rehearsal strategies; and much more! This collection of specific concepts, ideas, and reproducible pedagogical methods—not unlike short lesson plans—can be used easily and immediately. Ideal for band directors of students at all levels, Strategies, Tips, and Activities for the Effective Band Director is the product of more than three decades of experience, presenting innovative approaches, as well as strategies that have been borrowed, revised, and adapted from scores of successful teachers and clinicians.

Presentation Zen

Presentation Zen
Author: Garr Reynolds
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2009-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0321601890

FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.

Notes on Directing

Notes on Directing
Author: Frank Hauser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2008-09-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 080271708X

An accessible edition of a classic guide to film and theater directing offers insight into the craft's unique challenges from managing personalities and anticipating problems to working with a script and the key elements of staging, in a primer that also features life lessons gleaned by the co-authors throughout their careers. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers

Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers
Author: Jacqueline B Frost
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2021-03-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000359859

Packed with gems of wisdom from the current 'masters of light’, this collection of conversations with twenty leading contemporary cinematographers provides invaluable insight into the art and craft of cinematography. Jacqueline Frost’s interviews provide unprecedented insight into the role as cinematographers discuss selecting projects, the conceptual and creative thinking that goes into devising a visual strategy, working with the script, collaborating with leading directors such as Martin Scorcese, Spike Lee, and Ava DuVernay, the impact of changing technology, and offer advice for aspiring cinematographers. Interviews include Maryse Alberti, John Bailey, Robert Elswit, Kirsten Johnson, Kira Kelly, Ellen Kuras, Edward Lachman, Matthew Libatique, John Lindley, Seamus McGarvey, Reed Morano, Polly Morgan, Rachel Morrison, Rodrigo Prieto, Cynthia Pusheck, Harris Savides, Nancy Schrieber, John Seale, Sandi Sissel, Dante Spinotti, Salvatore Totino, Amy Vincent and Mandy Walker. Filled with valuable information and advice for aspiring cinematographers, directors, and filmmakers, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the art and craft of cinematography.