5245 | Foundations of Production Design & Performance (Acting I): 5 credits – grades 9, 10, 11, 12 – Fine & Applied Arts – no prerequisite
This one semester class emphasizes acting skills such as improvisation, scene work, oral interpretation and reader’s theater. Students learn techniques for confidence on stage: relaxation, imagination. At FCHS: This class includes audition techniques, movement, voice, improv comedy, and scene study. This course also gives a brief introduction to theater history and technical theater.
1373 | Performance & Communications (Acting II): 5 credits – grades 9, 10, 11, 12 – Fine & Applied Arts – prerequisite: Foundations of Production Design & Performance (Acting I)
This course introduces students to methods of performance and performance-dependent careers. Though performance is a significant part of this course, further topics include financial awareness, promotion and marketing, and management and leadership. At FCHS: This course builds on a student’s previous theater experience. The class emphasizes in-depth character analysis, scene analysis, advanced scene work, advanced acting techniques, and theater theory.
5225 A | Stage Production Management A (Acting III): 5 credits – grades 9, 10, 11, 12 – Fine & Applied Arts – prerequisite: Performance & Communications (Acting II)
This course introduces students to various areas of management within the stage production industry which include stage manager (working with assistants, actors, and directors), theater manager (advertising, box office sales, public relations), human resources (training, hiring, safety, compensation, law), and financial manager (payroll and budget). At FCHS: This course emphasizes advanced acting study especially towards the rehearsal process and productions.
5239 | Technical Theater Certification: 5 credits – grades 9, 10, 11, 12 – Fine & Applied Arts – no prerequisite
This multi-stage workshop is designed to give students the opportunity to be certified for the operation of specific equipment in the performance halls. Demonstrations of proficiency are required. Further information is available in the theater department of each high school. This workshop is open to students in 9th through 12th grades. At FCHS: This course certifies students for use of all theater equipment, including the fly-system.
5076 | Improvisation: 5 credits – grades 9, 10, 11, 12 – Fine & Applied Arts – no prerequisite
This course is designed to teach students how to identify, define, demonstrate, experiment with, synthesize, and evaluate Improvisational Theater in all its forms and variations.
5075 | Unified Drama (Integrated Drama)- 5 credits – grades 9, 10, 11, 12 – Elective credit – no prerequisite
This is a one-semester course that integrates students with special needs with general education students. Student will work in diverse peer groups to teach social skills and friendship skills in role play and a variety of other creative dramatic formats. Performance projects will include improvisation pantomine puppet and musical performances and composition of original pieces. Class activities will encourage peer collaboration education about disabilities student inclusion and personal empowerment.
5580 | Play & Script Writing: 5 credits – grades 9, 10, 11, 12 – Language Arts – no prerequisite
This course is designed to teach students how to observe, analyze, discuss, outline, plot, write, and revise scripts for the stage and screen, including all terminology and formatting for each style.
5290S1 | Television Production A: 5 credits – grades 9, 10, 11, 12 – Fine & Applied Arts – no prerequisite
TV producers work behind the camera, putting together the different elements of the broadcast and making sure that everything works together smoothly. This course covers the essential components of TV broadcast production, including the use of microphones, cameras, videotape recorder-editors, switchers, and lighting equipment. The basics of editing and chroma key (blue screen) techniques are also introduced. Students gain practical experience producing their own video projects in the studio.
5290S2 | Television Production B: 5 credits – grades 9, 10, 11, 12 – Language Arts – prerequisite: Television Production I
TV producers work behind the camera, putting together the different elements of the broadcast and making sure that everything works together smoothly. This course covers the essential components of TV broadcast production, including the use of microphones, cameras, videotape recorder-editors, switchers, and lighting equipment. The basics of editing and chroma key (blue screen) techniques are also introduced. Students gain practical experience producing their own video projects in the studio.
1374 | Film Studies: Intro to Film Analysis: 5 credits – grades 10, 11, 12 – Fine & Applied Arts – no prerequisite
The focus of the course will be the academic study of film. The goal is for students to become active, analytical viewers of film. To this end, students will be exposed to the elements of narrative filmmaking as well as an overview of the history of film with an emphasis on cinematic classics. Students will read extensively on film craft, history, and criticism. They will also read and analyze a novel that has been adapted for the screen with the purpose of comparing and contrasting the narrative techniques of the different mediums. Students will write in a variety of compositional modes including but not limited to: analytical/interpretive, compare/contrast, research/argumentation, critical reviews, etc. Visual media has become pervasive in American society and there is a need to instruct our students to become critical, discerning viewers of this powerful medium.