Organizational Patterns
Chapter one will include the introduction to my research question: What school at the undergraduate and graduate level has the most hours for the undergraduate and graduate degree in stage management? As well as its signicance to the fact there is no ranking created for higher level schools offering stage management.
Secondly, I will include the problem related to my research question. This chapter will also include the purpose of this paper, which is what higher education is offering the most hours that in terms will prepare students for a career in stage management. I will also explain the scope and limitations, which are the areas I decided not to cover in order for me to reach an answer to my research question. …show more content…
The first approach is the scholarly sources that set the basic support for the theatre curriculums of colleges in helping prepare students for a career in theatre. The second approach is to the sources for the creation of a list of skills and knowledge a student needs to become an effective stage manager.
Richard Schechner’s journal article is about students that are majoring in acting and directing are not going to be able to find jobs based off of the education they received from their college. He states that “if they were to prepare for the ‘“real world,”’ most students actors would fail to get casted.”
On the same account student directors will go a while without being hired as directors for productions. Instead they will have to work other small jobs. Therefore, he strongly believes it is important to prepare students on what exact jobs they will get. Rather than fill them with courses that students will only end up as historians in the theatrical …show more content…
He exclaims the personal relationship you have with the theatre staff will make a significant difference.
Linda Apperson book focus on the pre- production, the rehearsal, and the actual performance. She writes for new people to theater to give them a basic understanding of the role of a stage manager. Her definition of a stage manager is, “the stage manager is responsible for making sure everything relating to a particular production happens when and how it is supposed to happen, and conveying all pertinent information about time and place to all parties involved.” Explaining that the stage manager is to make sure the director concept is happening the way they want it to.
The training that people have in preparation of becoming a stage manager is important. Each higher education program is different, but mostly similar programs of studies. The type of course are all the same, however, the emphasis are more on some than others. Therefore, where a student goes to school or what they have to do to get their diploma is not as important as the experience they
Chapter one will include the introduction to my research question: What school at the undergraduate and graduate level has the most hours for the undergraduate and graduate degree in stage management? As well as its signicance to the fact there is no ranking created for higher level schools offering stage management.
Secondly, I will include the problem related to my research question. This chapter will also include the purpose of this paper, which is what higher education is offering the most hours that in terms will prepare students for a career in stage management. I will also explain the scope and limitations, which are the areas I decided not to cover in order for me to reach an answer to my research question. …show more content…
The first approach is the scholarly sources that set the basic support for the theatre curriculums of colleges in helping prepare students for a career in theatre. The second approach is to the sources for the creation of a list of skills and knowledge a student needs to become an effective stage manager.
Richard Schechner’s journal article is about students that are majoring in acting and directing are not going to be able to find jobs based off of the education they received from their college. He states that “if they were to prepare for the ‘“real world,”’ most students actors would fail to get casted.”
On the same account student directors will go a while without being hired as directors for productions. Instead they will have to work other small jobs. Therefore, he strongly believes it is important to prepare students on what exact jobs they will get. Rather than fill them with courses that students will only end up as historians in the theatrical …show more content…
He exclaims the personal relationship you have with the theatre staff will make a significant difference.
Linda Apperson book focus on the pre- production, the rehearsal, and the actual performance. She writes for new people to theater to give them a basic understanding of the role of a stage manager. Her definition of a stage manager is, “the stage manager is responsible for making sure everything relating to a particular production happens when and how it is supposed to happen, and conveying all pertinent information about time and place to all parties involved.” Explaining that the stage manager is to make sure the director concept is happening the way they want it to.
The training that people have in preparation of becoming a stage manager is important. Each higher education program is different, but mostly similar programs of studies. The type of course are all the same, however, the emphasis are more on some than others. Therefore, where a student goes to school or what they have to do to get their diploma is not as important as the experience they