iRubric: Acting: Scene Work I rubric

*Student is fully invested and 100 % honest in their acting.
*The character is living truthfully (and fully) in them and through them each moment. *Expertly demonstrates this unique character in this situation. *Level of investment in character conveys an honest and truthful depiction. *Engaged in the "magic if," endows setting, partner, props, event.
(Owned the words.)

*Student is not 100 % invested and honest in their acting 100 % of the time. *For the most part, the character is living in them and through them, but at times they are living behind the character on some level (or) *They are honest but the character isn't fully actualized and alive all the time.
*Demonstrates the character in this unique situation.
(knew lines and meaning of.)

*Student shows commitment to participating in the experience. *They may be alive on some level but they are still hiding behind the character, or character lacks depth of truth. *May lack moments of deeper connection to character and situation (and/or) emotional moments in scene. (knew lines but paraphrasing and adlibs may occur, or actor forced to go into head to find line.)

*Any emotional investment in character and situation is inconsistent and mostly ineffective.
*Unable to bring a level of honesty and truthfulness to characterization. *Lacked authentic expression of character in this situation. (Actor doesn't have full grasp of meaning, or needs promptings.)

*Successfully identified objective, obstacles and actions/tactics.
*Clearly and consistently plays the action identified in analysis. *Actions were fully developed, and appropriately colored. *Clarity of adjustments & inner monologue.

*Successfully identified Goals, obstacle and tactics/actions in analysis and a large majority were played with appropriate intensity, or with clarity of purpose.
*Adjustments made and majority clear or invested

*At times the goals, obstacle and tactics/actions were unclear to the viewer; we didn't always know what you wanted.
*Actor needs to clarify actions and increase commitment to them.
*Adjustments not always clear.

*General and inconsistently plays obstacles tactics, or actions of character.
*Actions played with a lack of necessary intensity.*Lacks specificity of action
*Lacks specificity of adjustments.

*Expertly uses block ing to bring clarity to action and add interest to the piece. *Student fully committed to the movement and it always reflects purpose.*All move ment is character and situation appropriate and aids the story.
*Reveals subtext.

*Student uses blocking in a way that adds interest to the piece. *Student's movements reflect purpose and were, for the most part, fully committed to movement. *All move ment is character and situation appropriate and aids the story.
*Clarified subtext

*Student's movements usually reflect purpose.
*Not all of the blocking is motivated.
*Actors didn't commit 100 percent to their movements.
*Movement didn't always help support or reveal character, text, or subtext.

*Student's blocking is generally without purpose.
*The execution of rehearsed blocking is forgotten
*Student moves randomly, wanders without purpose during the scene.

*Truly listening with eyes, ears, and mind to the other character and allowing what partner says/does in the moment to shape their characters response. *Fully alive in the moment.

*Acting is listening generated a large majority of the time.
*Eyes,, ears, and mind are fully engaged in the act. Usually adjusting lines and behavior to partner stimuli.

*Listening but not always responding to stimuli from partner in the moment.
*Sometimes cues may seem to be the spark for speaking (or) lack of adjustment in the moment.

*Plays the text in a vacuum.
* Waits for cue and then speaks.
*True island acting.