Creative writing *intensively*, with proper workshops, talks and instruction from published authors of science fiction, fantasy, romance, genfic, etc. stories, various kinds of exercises to get us writing like shopping list stories, write a story with a sad ending from this picture, write a story from this first line, etc.
Drama. I do it now, pretty much full time, and I LOVE IT, but I really could've used the confidence back then. I needed the push to stop being shy and just be myself. *cue violins* When I was a young orphan...
Now if people think I'm weird, they can blame it on me being a drama student. >X3 Bwah.
Reviews, scriptwriting, dramaturgy, oh my! All the researching and analysis that goes into the translation from text to stage is mind-bendingly boring, but the end product is...fantabulistic.
Maybe concentrate on one play? Can they perform it too? I loved drama in school...
Maybe they could spend half their time researching it; how the playwright has delivered his/her message, how the characters are depicted, what makes us think that X person did Y, what life was like for the playwright at the time he/she wrote the story, why do they think the playwright wanted to write about this topic/these people.
And half their time working on putting it on. Even some sort of reading in front of the rest of the class, if you don't have the resources and time to get basic costumes & a basic set together. Or just present a few scenes.
In drama classes we did some fun things like answering interview questions in character, improvising scenes that aren't in the play, making up a backstory for the characters, and so forth. Is fun and helps you understand the characters better.
And rehearsals do take up a crapload of time. We're soon to start rehearsing a play that we're putting on in May, but it's going to be a tight squeeze.
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on 2005-03-21 11:15 am (UTC)Creative writing *intensively*, with proper workshops, talks and instruction from published authors of science fiction, fantasy, romance, genfic, etc. stories, various kinds of exercises to get us writing like shopping list stories, write a story with a sad ending from this picture, write a story from this first line, etc.
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on 2005-03-21 11:20 am (UTC)Now if people think I'm weird, they can blame it on me being a drama student. >X3 Bwah.
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on 2005-03-21 11:34 am (UTC)Drama's a good idea
on 2005-03-21 11:45 am (UTC)Maybe they could spend half their time researching it; how the playwright has delivered his/her message, how the characters are depicted, what makes us think that X person did Y, what life was like for the playwright at the time he/she wrote the story, why do they think the playwright wanted to write about this topic/these people.
And half their time working on putting it on. Even some sort of reading in front of the rest of the class, if you don't have the resources and time to get basic costumes & a basic set together. Or just present a few scenes.
In drama classes we did some fun things like answering interview questions in character, improvising scenes that aren't in the play, making up a backstory for the characters, and so forth. Is fun and helps you understand the characters better.
Re: Drama's a good idea
on 2005-03-21 12:10 pm (UTC)And rehearsals do take up a crapload of time. We're soon to start rehearsing a play that we're putting on in May, but it's going to be a tight squeeze.
You could do warm-ups, too. Those are way fun.