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HIGHER DRAMA

DRAMA SKILLS

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IntroductionWelcome to the world of devising!

Devising is a skill that all theatre professionals must learn. In order to create new work, some companies rely on the devising process rather than performing published plays. Companies such as Frantic Assembly, Visible Fictions and DV8 make devising their core work.

In this unit, you will learn how to respond to range of stimuli to explore form, genre, structure & style in order to create an original piece of theatre.

How to use this bookletThis booklet is designed to provide you with a range of tasks that will led to the completion of your folio. You should complete all tasks in the order that they appear in the booklet. You may write or word-process your answers.

If you would prefer to present your folio in a different format, you are free to do so, but you must ensure that your evidence contains the same information that your answers to the tasks in the booklet would contain.

Additional video, photographic and audio evidence is not essential to pass the unit, however, it is very much encouraged to allow you to demonstrate your ability to follow the devising process.

If you need any help at all with any tasks, please speak to or email your class teacher.

Now, let’s get started…

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TASK 1 – RESPONDING TO STIMULI Look carefully at the three stimuli below. In the boxes provided, please make notes of initial ideas for dramas that you could create using these stimuli.

Stimulus 1: “Kiss With A Fist” music & lyrics.

Stimulus 2: “Men Should Weep” images.

Stimulus 2: Quotes about dysfunctional relationships.

Initial Ideas for Stimulus 1Initial Ideas for Stimulus 2

Initial Ideas for Stimulus 3

HIGHER DRAMA TASK 2 – RESEARCHING YOUR IDEAS Once you have a range of basic ideas, you should undertake further research to help you develop them into complex ideas. Some suggestions for your research could be:

Further research into a theme or issue that you want to explore further Further research into Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare Research into people who have benefitted from “The American Dream”

Use the sheets on the following pages to log your research. Be sure to include details of where you sourced your research from.

What research did you do?(You should include details of what specific information you looked into, where you found your research and why you were researching it)

HIGHER DRAMAHow did your research help to develop your ideas for Dramas that could be created?

(You must use vocabulary from the lexicon in your answers)

HIGHER DRAMATask 3: PRESENTING YOUR COMPLEX IDEASThe next step of the process is to communicate your initial ideas for Dramas that your group could create. You have the choice of three different ways to present your ideas to your group:

OPTION 1

Create a poster that provides us with an outline of two complex ideas for Dramas that you could create from two different stimuli (one for each of the chosen stimuli). The poster must contain the following information for each idea:

A brief outline of the plot A brief overview of the characters in the Drama (Name, Age, brief description of

personality) The form of the Drama – with justification of your choice (your two ideas must have

different forms) The structure of the Drama – with justification of your choice The genre and/or style of the Drama – with justification of your choice

OPTION 2

Create a short Powerpoint presentation which could be used to communicate your complex ideas for two dramas that could be created from two different stimuli. The Powerpoint should contain slides that cover the following information:

A brief outline of the plot A brief overview of the characters in the Drama (Name, Age, brief description of

personality) The form of the Drama – with justification of your choice (your two ideas must have

different forms) The structure of the Drama – with justification of your choice The genre and/or style of the Drama – with justification of your choice

You can include a CD, USB or DVD with the powerpoint file or you can print off the powerpoint slides and include them.

OPTION 3

Complete the worksheets on the following pages

HIGHER DRAMAComplex IDEAS WORKSHEETIDEA 1

1. What stimulus have you chosen to develop for this idea?

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2. Briefly describe the plot (basic storyline) of the drama you wish to develop.

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3. Briefly describe the characters that could appear in this Drama. Give details such as their names, ages and a brief description of their personality.

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4. From the list below, circle the form that your Drama will take.

SCRIPTED PLAY IMPROVISED PLAY DANCE-DRAMA MONOLOGUE

PANTOMIME PHYSICAL THEATRE MIME FORUM THEATRE

RADIO PLAY VERBATIM THEATRE MUSICAL

Why would this form suit your Drama? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. From the list below, circle the genre that most suits your Drama.

COMEDY TRAGEDY DOCU-DRAMA HORROR THRILLER FARCE

SATIRE ROMANCE TRAGICOMEDY MELODRAMA

POLITICAL THEATRE COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE

How would this genre help to communicate your Drama to your audience? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HIGHER DRAMA6. Circle the structure that your Drama would take.

LINEAR NON-LINEAR

Why would this structure suit your Drama?

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7. Circle the style that your Drama would take.

NATURALISTIC NON-NATURALISTIC

Why would this style suit your Drama?

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IDEA 21. What stimulus have you chosen to develop for this idea? (This should be different

from your first idea)

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2. Briefly describe the plot (basic storyline) of the drama you wish to develop.

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3. Briefly describe the characters that could appear in this Drama. Give details such as their names, ages and a brief description of their personality.

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4. From the list below, circle the form that your Drama will take. (This should be different to the form of your first idea)




Why would this form suit your Drama? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. From the list below, circle the genre that most suits your Drama.

COMEDY TRAGEDY DOCU-DRAMA HORROR THRILLER FARCE

SATIRE ROMANCE TRAGICOMEDY MELODRAMA

POLITICAL THEATRE COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE

How would this genre help to communicate your Drama to your audience? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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6. Circle the structure that your Drama would take.

LINEAR NON-LINEAR

Why would this structure suit your Drama?

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7. Circle the style that your Drama would take.

NATURALISTIC NON-NATURALISTIC

Why would this style suit your Drama?

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Task 4: SELECTING THE GROUP IDEAThe next step of the process is to discuss with your group and agree on an idea to develop further. Use the worksheet below to record this step of the process.

1. Who are the other members of your group?

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2. Give two examples of ideas offered by two other members of the group.

EXAMPLE IDEA 1

OFFERED BY:

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EXAMPLE IDEA 2

OFFERED BY:

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3. What idea did you decide to develop further as a group?

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HIGHER DRAMA4. Why did you choose this idea to develop?

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5. What is the message of the Drama you wish to create?

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6. List the themes/issues that your Drama will include.

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7. What two forms will you choose to explore to tell this story? (circle)




8. What scene/section(s) will you take responsibility for in your Drama?

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Task 5: DRAMA SKILL 1 – VOICE The first Drama Skill you will develop in this unit is “Voice.”

As an actor, you will develop your voice skills to portray your character on the stage effectively. The following skills can be developed when working with voice:

ACCENT PACE VOLUME PITCH TONE

INTONATION REGISTER ARTICULATION PAUSE FLUENCY

CLARITY EMPHASIS

Choose at least four voice skills you wish to explore and complete the worksheet below to explain how you intend to use these skills to portray your character. Remember to justify your decisions.

Voice Skill 1: ________________________

How would you use it? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Voice Skill 2: ________________________


HIGHER DRAMAVoice Skill 3: ________________________


Voice Skill 4: ________________________


Use the space below if you wish to add more than four voice skills:

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HIGHER DRAMATask 6: DRAMA SKILL 2 – MOVEMENT The second Drama Skill you will develop in this unit is “Movement.”

As an actor, you will develop your movement skills to portray your character on the stage effectively. The following skills can be developed when working with voice:

NATURALISTIC MOVEMENT

BODY LANGUAGE FACIAL EXPRESSION GESTURE

EYE CONTACT MANNERISMS POSTURE

STYLISED MOVEMENT

BALANCE TIMING USE OF LEVELS

POSITIONING SPEED USE OF SPACE

RHYTHM STANCE USE OF DIRECTION

Choose at least four movement skills you wish to explore and complete the worksheet below to explain how you intend to use these skills to portray your character. Remember to justify your decisions.

Movement Skill 1: ________________________


Movement Skill 2: ________________________


HIGHER DRAMAMovement Skill 3: ________________________


Movement Skill 4: ________________________


Use the space below if you wish to add more than four movement skills:

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Task 7: DRAMA SKILL 3 – CHARACTERISATIONThe third Drama Skill you will develop is “Characterisation.”

In order to develop your character you should undertake at least three characterisation techniques. You should read the “Character Development” booklet on the National Drama Wikispace to find out more information on different techniques.

If you wish to log your evidence yourself, it is important to state how each technique helped to develop your ideas for using voice and movement to portray your character.

Alternatively, you could fill out the three characterisation worksheets on the following pages.

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CHARACTERISATION WORKSHEET 1 – CHARACTER CARD

NAME: ________________________________________ AGE: _______________

OCCUPATION: ___________________________________________________________

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

FAMILY BACKGROUND: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

PERSONALITY: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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How DID CREATING THIS CHARACTER CARD HELP TO DEVELOP YOUR IDEAS FOR USING VOICE AND MOVEMENT SKILLS TO PORTRAY YOUR CHARACTER:

VOICE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NATURALISTIC MOVEMENt________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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CHARACTERISATION WORKSHEET 2 – WRITING IN ROLE Using the space below, write a diary entry for either the night before, or the night after your performance extract takes place in the play. You should include details of your character’s thoughts and feelings towards the events that take place in the play extract.

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How DID writing in role HELP TO DEVELOP YOUR IDEAS FOR how your character might react to the events that happen in your play extract?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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CHARACTERISATION WORKSHEET 3 – Hot Seating You should carry out a Hot-Seating exercise during a rehearsal and answer the questions below at the end of the session.

List five examples of useful questions that you were asked whilst being hot-seated.

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What new information did you find out about your character as a result of being hot-seated?

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How DOES THIS NEW INFORMATION AFFECT YOUR PORTRAYAL OF YOUR CHARACTER? You should mention voice skills, movement skills, your character’s interaction with others and their reactions to events in the play extract.

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Task 8: Annotated scriptWhen you are being blocked by your director or are directing other actors, you should take notes on your script to remind yourself of where actors will stand & move and how to use their voice & movement to deliver their lines. This process is called “annotating the script.” You must include a copy of an annotated script for your section of the drama.

The annotated script must contain the following information:

Voice Notes (using vocabulary from the lexicon) Movement Notes (using vocabulary from the lexicon) Areas of the Stage where you character is standing/moving to. The areas of the stage

are outlined below:

Up-Stage Centre

(USC)

Centre Stage

(CS)

Down-Stage Centre

(DSC)

Down-Stage Right

Down-Stage Left

Centre-Stage Right

(CSR)

Centre-Stage Left

(CSL)

Up-Stage Right

(USR)

Up-Stage Left

(USL)

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REMEMBER – The areas of the stage are decided by taking the ACTOR’S PERSPECTIVE when they are looking at the audience i.e. it is the Actors’ right and left, not the audience’s.

Task 9: REHEARSAL LOGSIn order to demonstrate your ability to rehearse effectively, using acting skills, you must include rehearsal logs from your process. You must include at least four Rehearsal Logs in your evidence. These rehearsal logs should cover various stages of rehearsal including:

The beginning of the process i.e. Blocking stage A rehearsal from the early stages of the process A rehearsal from the middle of the process A rehearsal from the final stages of the process e.g. dress rehearsal

You should use the template on the National Drama Wikispace, or alternatively, you can use the worksheets on the following pages.

Down-Stage Centre

(DSC)

Down-Stage Right

Down-Stage Left

AUDIENCE

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Rehearsal Log 1 Name:

Date:

Location of rehearsal:

Rehearsal Targets/Purpose:

What we did:

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What went well? Why?

What challenges did we come across? How did we overcome these?

What are our next steps?

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Rehearsal Log 2Name:

Date:



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What we did:



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HIGHER DRAMARehearsal Log 3

Name:

Date:



What we did:



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HIGHER DRAMARehearsal Log 4

Name:

Date:



What we did:



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HIGHER DRAMATask 10: FINAL

EVALUATIONNow that you have performed your extract, it is time to complete your final evaluation. You should write in detail, with use of vocabulary from the lexicon where necessary.

1. What was the title of you devised drama?

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2. What was the message of your devised drama?

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3. Who were the target audience of your devised drama? Why?

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4. What stimulus did your group choose to devise from?

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5. Summarise why you chose this stimulus for this performance.

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6. Describe two problems or challenges you faced when creating your character and the solutions you found. You should include decisions made regarding your character’s voice and movement.

Problem Challenge 1: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Problem Challenge 2: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Solution 2: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. Briefly describe your performance concept. What were you trying to communicate to the audience? (This answer may include a description of your character’s personality & relationships and how you wanted to use voice and movement to portray them).

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8. How successful were you at communicating this concept? Justify your answer.

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9. Thinking about your final performance of your devised drama. Describe two areas of strength with regards to your acting. You should include voice and/or movement skills in your answer

Area of strength 1: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Area of strength 2: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HIGHER DRAMA10. Describe two areas for improvement in your final acting performance. You should

mention voice and/or movement skills in your answer.

Area for improvement 1: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Area for improvement 2: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

11. Think about the performance of one other actor in the final performance. Describe one strength and one area for development in that actor’s performance. You should mention voice and/or movement skills in your answer.

Name of Actor: ______________________________________________________________

Area of strength: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Area for improvement: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HIGHER DRAMAADDITIONAL EVIDENCE (OPTIONAL)

Use the space on the next few pages to stick in any photographs or additional evidence of your process.

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