40 episódios
Violence Design Lab Podcast David Bareford
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The Violence Design Lab is the podcast destination for fight choreographers, theatre directors, stage combatants, actors, teachers of theatre, or anyone interested in the art of stage combat who wants to learn to design violence for theatre. Join me for weekly advice and tips on how to create better designs, act fights more convincingly, and use the power of stage combat more effectively in your directing project!
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#40 Helping Directors Think About Violence
+ a Special Announcement about the Podcast
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#39 Seeing With the Audience's Eye
Sometimes as violence designers we think the fights we've designed are fantastic, but they seem much less amazing in performance. Why does that happen? In this week's episode we talk about watching fights from the audience's perspective, why it can be artistically dangerous to see your fights only from the "first-person-shooter" perspective, and how we can develop our internal "audience eye" to monitor our design.
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#38 Comedy vs. Drama in Stage Combat
While we all agree that comedy should be funny and dramatic scenes should be serious, how does the tone of the scene change your design? Does your stage combat technique change for a comic scene? Should it? And why do more actors hurt themselves in comic violence than the serious stuff? All this more, on episode #38!
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#37 Designing to Music
In Episode #37 of the Violence Design Lab podcast, we're talking about designing fights that coordinate with musical underscoring. Whether you are literally choreographing beat by beat to the score or you need to fill a musical interlude with a fight of a specific duration, we'll discuss some design challenges and solutions to make your violence play along in harmony.
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2:55 The Challenges of Designing Fights to Match the Music
8:57 Managing Directorial Expectations
12:03 Tips to Successfully Design to Music -
Working With Blood
As Halloween approaches, stage blood makes its brief annual appearance into the general public consciousness. On Episode #36 of the Violence Design Lab podcast, we'll go beyond zombie wounds and vampire fangs and talk about the right ways to work with stage blood to place you a cut above the trick-or-treat amateur.
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How to Write a Fight Scene
Episode #35 of the Violence Design Lab podcast is aimed squarely at playwrights and screenwriters. How do you write a good fight scene? How do you make sure that your vision of the fight is the one that gets put on stage? Who controls the choreography?
Do you want to win that fight? Stay tuned!
Contents:
2:42 Purpose of the Violence (Playwright's perspective)
10:39 Purpose of the Violence (Character's perspective)
19:38 Stage directions vs. Fight choreography
25:12 How to Get the Fight You Want