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24 Cards in this Set
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The use of costume, mask and/or make up |
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The use of space and/ or levels |
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The use of set and/ or props |
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The use of movement, mime and/ or gesture |
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The use of spoken language |
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The use of voice |
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The use of lighting |
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The use of sound and/ or music |
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Action/plot/content |
Element The story, the characters and/ or the theme(s) of the drama |
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Rhythm/pace/tempo |
Element The rate at which the action moves along and the extent to which this changes |
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Contrasts |
Element For example: Stillness vs activity Silence vs noise |
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Characterisation |
Element The means used to portray a role using vocal and physical skills |
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Symbols |
Element The representational use of props gestures, expressions, costume, lighting, and/ or setting. For example: blue lighting to represent night-time , a white costume to represent innocence |
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Conventions |
Element Using techniques such as slow motion, freeze-frame, audience asides, soliloquy, establishing one part of the space as one location and a different part of the space as another location |
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Climax/anti-climax |
Element Building and/ or releasing tension in the drama and/ or a sense of expectation |
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Forms |
Element The way a story is told, the characters are portrayed and/ or the themes are depicted |
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Still image/ tableaux |
Explorative strategy One person acts as a sculptor and creates images by positioning individuals in the group in relation to one another to create a still image. |
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Hot seating |
Explorative strategy A technique used to deepen an actor's understanding of a role. The individual sits in a "hot seat" and has questions fired at them that they have to answer from the point of view of the role they are enacting |
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Cross- cutting |
Explorative strategy Creating a scene or scenes and then reordering the action by cutting forwards and backwards to different moments |
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Forum theatre |
Explorative strategy A scene is enacted and watched by the rest of the group. At any point observers or actors can stop the action to ask for help or refocus the work. Observers can step in and add a role or take over an existing one. |
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Marking the moment |
Explorative strategy Having created a piece of drama work, individuals identify a significant moment in the piece. This can be done in discussion, marked by freezing the action, using captions, inner thoughts spoken out loud,using lighting to spotlight the moment ETC... The moment will represent significance for the individual in terms of revealing an understanding, an insight or evoking a feeling about the issue or idea being explored |
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Role play |
Explorative strategy An individual pretends to be someone else, by putting themselves in a similar position and imagining what the person might say, think and feel |
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Narrating |
Explorative strategy Providing a spoken commentary, that accompanies stage action, or a story being related by a character |
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Thought tracking |
Explorative strategy Stopping individuals during an in-role activity and asking them to reveal their inner thoughts at a particular moment |
