THE MOMENT

THE MOMENT

 

Imagine:

You chance to meet an acquaintance who you know has recently lost a loved.

Imagine you don’t in any way acknowledge that fact…There may be many circumstances that lead to your making that choice.  Still “the moment” remains there – left vacant like an empty glass.

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The moments that arise in our encounters are inescapable.  How we fill them or do not will be a matter of circumstance and choice.  

 

A moment is a container - a space that contains.  It’s like a vessel made of time.  It is there to be filled – or left empty.  If it is left empty it will still be there…an empty vessel.  A moment missed or ignored.   

A moment is a moment of possibility…of potential…of opportunity…

Moments are not to be ignored.  They are to be explored, examined, questioned and then filled.

Moments exist outside of dialogue.  They may precede and motivate dialogue.  They may occur as a result of something spoken.  But they are not dialogue – they exist on their own.  If you leave them unattended they remain there empty like vacant houses in a neighborhood suffering neglect. 

"MOMENT EXERCISE" for 532 and 476 - Try This!

TELLING THE STORY OF THE SCENE IN MOMENTS

 

I ask a director to tell me the story of his scene. He offers to “summarize”, and he goes back to past events and starts telling the whole movie.  I insist that he tell this scene moment by moment.  Narrate each moment as if it were a silent movie – or in a foreign language. He really is struggling. 

I say that if he can tell the scene as a story made up of moments, he can direct the moments and therefore the scene.  And if he cannot – then he cannot.

 

EXERCISE:

Write a précis:    

Tell your scene as a series of moments.

Do not explain anything.  Do not refer to dialogue or information. 

If something happens through dialogue, express the thing that happens in active verbal terms.  

Thus:  

“Miles tells Jack that Maya is married” would be better expressed as “Miles dismisses Maya as a potential lover.”

Etc.

Try it!

 

When you are done:

Make A List - Of the Moments you have to make happen.

This is your TO DO LIST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

532 DIRECTOR - SCENE - ACTOR - GROUP ASSIGNMENTS

532 Spring 19  SCENES AND ACTORS

 

GROUP A

 

Shaina Ghuraya          Sanford Tasting - Michael Howard

David Hemphill         What Should I Wear  - Galen Williams

Sam Miller                 Who's Your Daddy – Stephen Humes

Erica Sutherlin           Gonna Get You Laid – Oscar Gonzalez

Noam Tomaschoff     61s are Peaking - Lorena Gonzalez

 

GROUP B

 

Urvashi Pathania        Queen of Typos - Charrell Mack

Shicong Zhu               Going to Get My Nut - Kumar Rohit

Grace Lee                   Sanford Tasting – Jalen Stewart

Naeemah Stewart       Gonna Get You Laid - Michael Howard

John Fairchild            Ostrich Farm – Cameron Murphy 

 

GROUP C

 

Emily Maya Mills     61s Are Peaking – Charell Mack

Lida Nasseri               What Should I Wear – Cameron Murphy

Sufian Abulohom       Queen of Typos - Lorena Gonzalez

Weston Porter            Going to Get My Nut – Jalen Stewart

Joseph Picozzi             Put the Wedding on Hold - Stephen Humes

 

 

Reserves looking for a second Scene

Kumar Rohit

Galen Williams

Oscar Gonzalez

476 GROUP AND SCENE ASSIGNMENTS

476 GROUPS AND SCENES

 

Group A

Eli Meyer  - Kuato 

Nathan Vogel  - Macaroons

Colin Mullins – Sea Otter

Pimvenus Clark - Diagnosis

Alissa Marlow – Perfecting the Touch

 

Group B

Yiran Yu   - Diagnosis

Benjy Steinberg – Froggy Style

Dominic Kelly - Macaroons

Erik Fritts-Davis – Green Tea

Sigin Ojulu -  Green Tea

 

Group C 

Davy McCall – Doogie Howser

Don Ohmer -  Froggy Style

Ricardo Pires – Sea Otter

Zach Rist  - Kuato 

Francisco Covarrubias – Doogie Howser

532 AUDITION DEMO INSTRUCTIONS prep for Week Three

AUDITIONS

 

Reads:   Tootsie Scene 26- from website under Classes under Class Materials

 

Lorena  - will be reader for Oscar and Michael Auditions

Charell - will be reader for Stephen Audition

Oscar - will be reader for Charell Audition

Michael

Stephen - will be reader for Lorena Audition

 

Scene Pairs:   Spotting Maya – from website under Classes under Class Materials

Patrick and Galen

Jalen and Kumar

 

After the Audition Demonstration (Class 3) I will assign SDA actors to SCA directors

Assigned actors will attend auditions with their directors for their scenes and read with outside actors

 

532 GROUP and SCENE ASSIGNMENTS

532 GROUPS and SCENES

 

Group A

Ghuraya  - Sanford Tasting

Hemphill  - What Should I Wear

Miller – Who’s Your Daddy

Sutherlin – Gonna Get You Laid

Tomaschoff – 61s Are Peaking

 

Group B

Pathania – Queen of Typos 

Zhu – Going to Get My Nut

Lee - Sanford Tasting

Stewart – Gonna Get You Laid

Fairchild – Ostrich Farm

 

Group C

Mills – 61s are Peaking

Nasseri – What Should I Wear 

Abulohom – Queen of Typos

Porter –Going to Get My Nut

Picozzi – Put the Wedding on Hold