Cohen prepo6/10/2023 ![]() So that’s been really nice.”Įarly rehearsals at CFA looked similar to any SOT production, with tape on the floor representing the boundaries of the set. “Versus now, on Art House, the stage manager deals with all that. “On my student film sets, I’m the one making sure, are the actors gonna come? What time should we start? And what are we gonna serve them for lunch? I’ve had to worry about all those things myself,” Canter says with a smile. And the camera operators have to feel it out, and then we can go from there.” “But in the first few rehearsals I realized quickly, oh, wait! I actually don’t know anything that we have to see. “At first I thought, I’m gonna have every scene storyboarded, kind of like what I’m used to. “Everything I’ve directed up until this point has been something that I’ve written and come up with myself, so it’s a very different experience,” Canter says. Schneider had already picked Canter to direct Art House before his student film-coincidentally titled Artboy- all but swept the 2023 Redstone Film Festival with top finishes, alone or tied, in almost every major category: best film, best screenplay, best cinematography, best sound design, best editing, and best actor. Director Eli Canter (COM’23, Paul Schneider, COM professor of film and television and department chair, and Tim Palmer, a COM professor of the practice in cinematography, discussing camera blocking during a rehearsal for Art House at CFA. “We started with nothing, so it was tough to wrangle 15 people’s opinions of what should happen.”Īrt House director Eli Canter (COM’23) and some writers attended the annual School of Theatre season auditions last September, where acting students demonstrated their talents in hopes of getting cast in productions during the year. “In the real world, you know, someone has written a pilot somewhere, and the network buys it and turns it over to the staff and says, OK, let’s work on this,” Braudis says. When two men in welding masks carry a metal sculpture into the house, Barb glares and asks, “Daft Punk?” (Spoiler: It’s not the headgear-friendly rock duo.)Īdam Lapidus, a COM assistant professor of film and television who has written episodes of everything from The Simpsons to Full House, ran the writing staff with Bill Braudis, also an assistant professor of film and television, whose credits include Dr. ![]() Gags came and went, as did characters, while the best survived to the final shooting script. Eventually there were table reads with the cast. By last fall the writing staff was hard at work, with about 20 students from COM and the School of Theatre undergraduate playwriting program. We’re hoping this will be the impetus for more work together.”ĬOM Students working on the show could get academic credit through a class created for Art House, while it was one of the scheduled productions at CFA for which students there could get credit. ![]() “We were looking for different means of expression in which our students could perform, collaborate, and travel their artistic journeys,” says Mickey. “We’re taking a step off into the unknown.” Art House is the first collaboration between the College of Communication Department of Film and Television and the College of Fine Arts School of Theatre. “There’s nothing for us to fall back on in terms of what other universities have done or anything else,” Schneider says. Paul Schneider, COM professor of film and television and department chair, and Susan Mickey, CFA professor of costume design and director of the School of Theatre, started talking about a collaboration two years ago. Even if it’s not the same, I still feel like I’ve learned a lot.” A first-time collaboration ![]() I just feel kind of ready to-hopefully-step onto a set in the future. But Acsa Welker (CFA’23), who plays Barb, says, “Honestly, it feels like the perfect learning space, because it’s kind of the best marriage of the two forms. Halfway between live theater and a single-camera show like The Office, few multi-camera sitcoms have been produced these last few years. An elaborate three-room set and a live audience gave it that Hollywood feel. Hop on this beat with me!” Rapper Lil’ Bub in Art HouseĪ traditional three-camera sitcom shot before a live audience-like I Love Lucy and All in the Family- Art House was taped over several nights at the Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre in late April. ![]()
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