GCSE drama words

Keywords

Improvisation: making it up as you go along, but you have some sort of story line that you follow.

Movement: the way in which you move to enhance the character

Devised: you have a stimulus that your drama piece is based on or based around.

Scripted: you have script to follow and you act it out following stage directions which is in the script.

Physical Theatre: using people to make objects.

Theatre in Education (T.I.E) a performance to try and get a message across (educational piece)

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Facial Expression: a way to show mood/emotion by the face.

Body Language: using body to express mood/emotion.

Gesture: movements to show emotion e.g. hand to wave.

Tone of Voice: enhances the character accent or pitch

Levels: levels to show status within a group(standing is a higher status, sat it a lower status).

Posture/stance: how we stand and hold ourselves (tell, small, hunched over etc.)

Status:how high or low (not physically) your character is within your group.

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Section A - Practical work completed during the course is the devised piece (not scripted) and is normally set up into 4 seperate sections

Section B - Study and performanceof a scripted play is the scripted play which normally has 2 sections.

Drama does have a section C but i am not doing that section.

Section A - Approx. 10 minutes for each section

Section B - approx 20 minutes for each section

This can change to which drama exam you do, but this is for GCSE drama for AQA board.

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