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EXPLORE THE WORLD OF PEOPLE AND IDEAS 100/200 102/202 105 108 Documentary Songwriting + Acting + Directing Musical Theater A Cappella Public Art Filmmaking Music Composition When actors and directors work from the same Yale is closer to Broadway than you think! Join our Think of your voice as an instrument capable of A giant rubber duck dwarfs boats in Hong Kong’s frame of reference, they deliver powerful musical theater troupe as we sing, dance, act, and direct playing nearly anything: a jazz riff one minute, a harbor. A 15-foot red ball is squeezed under an performances. We will analyze and interpret a scenes from some of the most memorable musical multi-layered hip-hop beatbox the next, and a overpass in St. Louis. City buildings and wall murals variety of scripts, breaking each scene and dialogue productions ever performed. From small Off-Broadway barbershop melody a moment after that. In this are spray-painted by street artists like Banksy or Blu. sequence into beats. In small director/actor groups, revivals to classic hits, our class will investigate the course, while practicing your ability to sight-read, Public sculptures double as thought-provoking you'll both direct and perform selected scenes, with technical aspects of musical theater as well as the developing your sense of pitch, and learning basic installations, and places to gather. Together, we'll use focused attention on line delivery, intent, story, and dramatic relationship between spoken lines and singing principles of music theory, you'll work with a team the sidewalks, buildings, trash cans — even yourselves action. By both performing and directing, you’ll and dancing. We'll analyze classic performances such as of vocal musicians to create a variety of songs with — to install public art that will generate attention, discover how different directors’ perspectives can Les Misérables and Phantom of the Opera, and explore harmony, melody, and rhythm. We'll translate some create a buzz, and change the public space. completely alter the meaning of a script, and how how Broadway hits like Hamilton and Wicked have of our favorite tunes (whether they’re R&B, country, Commissioned to create a piece for EXPLO, you'll Writing for Mobile App Personality + First Aid Training + an actor’s performance can bring a script to life. expanded the genre. By the time we hit the stage at or pop) into a cappella arrangements to create focus on medium, materials, and location to convey Stage + Screen Design Behavioral Psychology Certification Whether you're stepping on stage for the first time Explopalooza with our own final performance, you'll layered musical soundscapes rich in tone and tenor. your artistic intent and build community on Yale’s or looking to hone your chops, you’ll get the dance and sing your way to EXPLO fame. Watch out, And like any band striving to be heard, we’ll take campus. Will your work emphasize the overlooked, opportunity to not only explore the crafts of acting Broadway! our show to the Explopalooza stage — blending unify the student body, or challenge societal norms? and directing, but also stage a final performance solos and riffs into a beautiful vocal orchestra. This summer, the EXPLO campus is your canvas — THIS GUIDE IS FOR that all of EXPLO will be invited to see. 103 how will you use it? Documentary Filmmaking 106 101/201 203 "You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest Songwriting + Music Composition 3D Animation distance between truth and a human being is a story." Turn the last eight bars of Handel’s Messiah into an Narrative Filmmaking Build your ground plane, enter shaded mode, and — Anthony de Mello. Adele-worthy anthem. Sample Queen for a Pharrell Your dream: to tell incredible stories on film that will REFERENCE ONLY get ready to create some dominance. This is 3D From showing how unbridled greedcrumbled a corporate Williams track (which you compose) and write the someday open doors, make headlines, and Logic + Strategy Infectious Diseases + Computer Programming + Beat Making + Animation 101, and we’re here to take you through giant like Enron to discovering the majesty and grandeur of lyrics for a Janelle Monae song (before recrafting it (hopefully) win awards. To get you into the Games Immunology Processing Music Production The courses and workshops listed in this guide were offered the process, of rendering your first digital 3D model the National Parks, the best documentary films take you on for Haim). To write and compose the next instant filmmaking world on the ground floor, you need a during the summer of 2017. While we will offer a similar range frame-by-frame. With Maya — professional 3D a journey that challenges your point of view and expands classic, we’ll experiment with everything from rap story that’s going to capture the imagination and animation software used to create such wonders as how you understand the world around you. Now it's your and pop to country and folk. As we guide you emotions of your audience as much as it does yours. of courses and workshops in 2018, specific options may the 3D pigs in Angry Birds and otherworldly turn to step into the director's chair: What story will you through basic musical notation, music theory, Working in small production teams, you’ll begin by landscapes in Avatar — you’ll create static and tell? This summer, collaborate with a band of fellow compositional structure, and instrumentation, you’ll sketching out your group’s chosen narrative with a change. 2018 options will be published later in the fall. dynamic objects, design simple shapes like filmmakers to shine a spotlight on an issue that speaks begin drafting your own arrangements and original rough story treatment — who are your principal polygons and spheres, and learn how to transform to you. Together, you'll observe, film, and interview the compositions. We’ll explore how different artists characters? What is your story about? — before those shapes into natural-looking 3D forms. people at the center of your story, collecting the raw approach lyric writing — from Bob Dylan’s activist writing, editing, and storyboarding your script. As Working with color and texture, you’ll experiment footage for your documentary. As you collectively learn anthems to Jay-Z’s lyrical narcissism to Taylor Swift’s you film, direct, light, shoot, and edit your short film, with rendering digital objects in different materials, lighting, audio, and basic editing techniques — and inspired pop — and you’ll compose your own verses you’ll learn how to use professional equipment and Conflict Negotiation + International Economic Philosophy Science of like glass, metal, and wood. By playing around with understand the importance of storyboarding and shot and lyrics. As you match words to music, you’ll leave editing software, optimize shot design, and get the Mediation Development of Physics Extreme Sports point, ambient, and directional light and shadows, composition — we'll explore the best ways to frame your with inspired, original songs you’ve developed most out of your location, props, and actors. Through you’ll discover how the ways you perceive an object narrative from beginning to end. So make your final yourself — and the foundations of a songwriting it all, you’ll get a peek into the production process affect how you interact with it. As you begin to edits and watch the credits roll — your investigative opus voice to launch your musical career. that goes into making a narrative film — with you understand the complexities of modeling objects in is ready to shake up the airwaves! behind the lens. three dimensions, you’ll get a sense of what it takes 107 to build highly-detailed digital models, and will 104 Drawing have a foundation on which to further explore the Improv Comedy field of 3D animation. From the energy of movement caught in a quick Do you have a talent for making people laugh? Think gesture drawing to the more polished feel of a you're in line to become the next Kate McKinnon or studied piece, drawing is both challenging and fun. Jimmy Fallon? If so, then we’ve got a banana peel — er, This course is a great introduction to basic concepts Anatomy & Startup Model Behavioral an improv studio — waiting for you. You'll learn how to of art. We will choose from a wide array of subjects Physiology Entrepreneurship United Nations Neuroscience best express your inner comedian by studying as we develop our skills by rendering perspective, characterization (think the Upright Citizen’s Brigade), tone, line, form, light, and shadows. We'll work stage positioning, and other strategies that will keep any extensively in pencil and charcoal, and we will audience rolling in the aisles. You’ll discover the art of discover the compositional tricks and drawing thinking on your feet and pulling from your acquired techniques of masters such as Leonardo da Vinci bag of tricks to turn anything as mundane as a trip to and Michelangelo, as well as contemporary artists. the grocery store into comedy gold. While our focus will At the end of this course, you'll have the opportunity 2017 Courses be on making the audience (and each other) laugh, the to show off your work in the EXPLO Art Show. and Workshops emphasis of the course will be on developing confidence in performance and the ability to improvise at Yale alone or with a group. 204 206 Beat Making + Music Production Illustration It’s your library of sound, your beat machine, your Imbue a simple three-line drawing with incredible sonic boom. Drum by drum, we’ll help you build a levels of emotion, like Picasso or Matisse.