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Movement class helped me learn more about what different styles of theater there are, and what goes into playing different time periods and characters.

In this course, I got to learn a bit more about character designs with makeup, such as animals, age, and injuries. This is especially helpful when in a live-action show in the theater or on a Hollywood blockbuster set.

In this course, I learned a bit more about theatrical philosophies and how people approached them. The biggest ones included Stanislavski (realism), Meisner (observational), and Chekov (reactionary).

In this course, I learned more about what goes into script-building and writing stories to be played on stage, on the radio, or for Hollywood. All the skills I have learned from this course should help me out with creating my own stories for the audio drama.

Also during this course, I learned how to work as a stage manager and what goes into it. With this experience, I have gained a clearer understanding and greater appreciation of what goes on behind the scenes. I hope to take up a similar job someday if I cannot pursue being an actor.

In this course, we learned more about theatrical history and what parts still linger on in today's world. For example, we still have the influence of the ancient Greeks with their masks and character creating. Taking from the French Neoclassical era, we have a more romantic and big approach to how we work around the storytelling aspect. The Commedia de'l Artte from 16th century Italy helps with improvisation and acting out a story to the audience, like a fairytale, with a certain character trope. The Shakespearean approach combines many of these aspects together, and they still carry on into today's world.

This course dove into the theatrical side of lighting and set designs. Survey of Theater Design helped me gain a clearer understanding of how set designs were made and how they can influence the scene or show's mood and setting.

In this course, I got to dive a bit more into set design and learning more about how to build sets and creating costumes. Now I have a clearer understanding of how these parts of a show can make it more enticing to the audience.

For this course, I learned how to annunciate a bit more and how to project in a theatrical show. Voice and Articulation is excellent to have when you are in a VA setting, and I got to learn that in Francesca's final semester as an instructor before she moved onto work on a master's program in Savannah, Georgia.