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Use the following slides to revise all Use the following slides to revise all you have learnt this half term.you have learnt this half term.

Dramatic pause!!

When something dramatic happens in real life or in plays & films, there is often a sudden silence. It usually comes just before or just after the event.

Imagine the silence if you told your strictest teacher,

‘I haven’t done my homework.’

Think of Westerns when a stranger arrives at a saloon. The piano stops, the bar tender stops washing glasses and there is a deadly silence. Will there be a shoot out?

Playwrights use a DRAMATIC PAUSE -a sudden silence to focus the audience’s attention & highlight a particularly important moment. It makes the play/ film more interesting.

SPLIT FOCUS SCENES• How can we make the audience change their focus from one scene to another?• Freeze-frames [still image] • Clear CUE LINES• Lights [as the light goes down on one scene it comes up on another]

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Proscenium Proscenium Arch – [picture Arch – [picture

frame]frame]

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PROMENADE

Have you ever been to a theatre with any of these stage designs?

NAME THEM

If it’s easier to put on a play when the audience sits on 1 side, WHY WHY might a director choose a different stage design?

the theatre is built that way

director wants a challenge The play might suit a different style

It makes it more interesting for the audience

It makes you feel closer to the action [ more involved]

Can you think of any problems?

Audience can’t see all

the action or maybe hear all the speech

Actors have to focus not just on acting but on trying to let the audience see the action & not be put off by their

closeness

Set designers have to work out how to change scenes without a curtain shutting or having long

blackouts

BLOCKING =

PUT ACTIONS TO THE PLAY

MASKING =

GETTING IN THE WAY OF AN ACTOR OR

SIGHTLINES =

WHAT THE AUDIENCE CAN SEE

Can you guess what sort of play this set [scenery] is designed for?

ANTIGONE

[GREEK PLAY]

Can you guess what sort of play this set [scenery] is designed for?

•GOOD LUCK!!!