TD Case Studies

Catalog description

This course will through a weekly round table discussion look at examples of real-world experiences involving technical direction concerns, obstacles, and dilemmas. Each week the class will be given a situation or example that occurred in the past during production of a Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera summer season. The students mediated by the instructor will brainstorm and discuss reactions and solutions to these problems. Realizing that often there are many solutions to the same TD problems depending on any given situation, not only will the discussion look at what was done at the time of the example but how other methods might be weighed against those used. Once the group comes to a consensus on the week's issue the students will be responsible for outlining the process to correct the problem, avoid future similar concerns, or alter the contributing situations. This outline might be in the form of mechanical drawings, excel files, word docs, or actual outlines.